Adrian Christopher Ian Samuel CMG CVO (20 August 1915 – 26 December 2010) was a Royal Air Force pilot, British diplomat, and director of chemical and agrochemical trade associations.
Ian Samuel was educated at Rugby School and St John's College, Oxford.
He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1938 and served brief postings in Beirut, Tunis and Trieste before volunteering for the Royal Air Force in 1940.
He served in 206 Squadron of Coastal Command, and was pilot of a Flying Fortress that sank German submarine U-169 in March 1943.
[1] After the war Samuel returned to the Diplomatic Service with postings at Ankara, Cairo and Damascus.