Sir Bernhard Samuelson, 1st Baronet, PC, FRS (22 November 1820 – 10 May 1905) was an industrialist, educationalist and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1859 and from 1865 to 1895.

He was exporting engineering machinery and became manager for a Manchester firm of Sharp, Stewart & Co.[citation needed] Samuelson bought a small factory in Banbury that was manufacturing agricultural equipment in 1848.

In 1865 he was elected for Banbury again, but his defeated opponent Charles Bell petitioned against his return on the grounds that he was an alien.

He chaired committees on scientific instruction, railways and patents and was a member of the Royal Commission for the Paris Exhibition in 1878.

[4] After Caroline's death, Bernhard married Lelia Mathilda, daughter of Chevalier Leon Serena and the widow of William Denny of Dumbarton.

A volunteer nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachments, she died of an illness contracted on duty on 18 June 1915.

[citation needed] A stone memorial and tomb to Bernhard Samuelson was erected by his eldest son: it lies hidden and overgrown in Hatchford Wood, close to Ockham, Surrey, and bears the motto of the second baronet.