Samuel Joseph, 1st Baronet

Sir Samuel George Joseph, 1st Baronet (15 August 1888 – 4 October 1944) was the 615th Lord Mayor of London.

Early life Samuel George Joseph was born on 15 August 1888, the son of Abraham Joseph and his wife Sarah (Gluckstein), the daughter of Samuel Gluckstein, the founder of Salmon & Gluckstein tobacco merchants.

Career Samuel Joseph made a name for himself when in 1908, together with his cousin, Sydney Gluckstein, he acquired C. W. Bovis & Co., then a local builder, and expanded it into a major construction business. It was said that he was a 'genius for organisation'.

During World War I, Samuel Joseph went off to France to fight in the British Army, as a captain in the Royal Irish Regiment. On his return he personally supervised a building development at Sussex Square in London for Winston Churchill. He died in 1944 aged 56.

In 1909, his daughter Julia married Sir Samuel Gluckstein, solicitor and politician.