Sir Francis Samuelson, 3rd Baronet

Sir Francis Arthur Edward Samuelson, 3rd Baronet JP (26 February 1861 – 3 January 1946) was an English industrialist.

Early life Samuelson was born on 26 February 1861. He was the second son of Sir Bernhard Samuelson, 1st Baronet and, his first wife, Caroline Blundell. After his mother's death, his father married Lelia Mathilda ( Serena) Denny, daughter of Chevalier Leon Serena and the widow of William Denny of Dumbarton. Among his siblings were Sir Henry Samuelson, 2nd Baronet, MP for Cheltenham and Frome, Godfrey Blundell Samuelson, MP for Forest of Dean, and Sir Herbert Walter Samuelson, chairman and treasurer of University College Hospital.

He was educated at Rugby School and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts. Muriel Gertrude Samuelson (b. 1893), who married Col. Bassett Fitzgerald Wilson, son of Maurice Fitzgerald Wilson, in 1915.

His wife died from injuries suffered while her hair was being dressed with a petroleum hair wash, which caught fire. Sir Francis died on 3 January 1946. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only son, Francis.