Lunacies & Suicides

LUNACIES & SUICIDES

On this delicate topic I hope that the following information is not too disturbing. If anyone wants me to show them the source for any of this information I would be glad to provide it. Not all the deaths listed here were necessarily suicides, but most were.

  • Walter Samuel hanged himself;
  • Samuel Dutch, whose daughter Fanny married Walter Samuel, hanged himself;
  • Shriever Wolf [Shriener Wolf] (whose three daughters married three Samuel brothers) was admitted to a lunatic asylum in Liverpool on 8 September 1859 and he died in that institution on the 6 December 1859.
  • Jonas Reis, who married Walter’s sister Marian, died by drinking a bottle of Laudanum;
  • Frank Haider was admitted to Bethlehem Asylum, later dying in Bethnal Green Asylum. His daughter Mabel married Lawrence Lawrence, the son of Alfred and Alfred and Emma (Wolfe) Samuel.
  • Percy Lawrence (Jewellers Assistant) was admitted to Bethlehem Asylum in April 1894 after jumping out of a window. Percy was the son of Alfred and Emma (Wolfe) Samuel. Arthur Montagu Reis signed his surety on admission.
  • Dennis Edwin Samuel (son of Edwin Louis Samuel) killed himself by throwing himself in front of a train;
  • Sydney Montagu Samuel was locked away in a lunatic and died there on his 34th birthday;
  • Bessie Mayer, the mother of Pessa Ida Mayer who married Sir Stuart Montagu Samuel, was locked away in various institutions;
  • Percy Harcourt Reis, the grandson of Jonas Reis, fell or jumped in front of a train;
  • Percy’s wife (and first cousin) Laura (Swallow) Reis died at Holloway Sanatorium for the Insane;
  • Their son Dr Ivor Reis was knocked over while crossing a road, survived, but was never the same again.
  • The husband of Ivy Gertrude Reis, Henry Charles Samuel (1879 – 1933), drank poison;
  • Jacqueline Morrison daughter of Harold Samuel, chairman of Land Securities Investment Trust, was found dead at her home. Police found two hypodermic syringes in the bedroom where Mrs. Morrison was found and some empty bottles which were thought to have contained pills. There is no suspicion of foul play.

Ralph Henry Samuel killed himself (a member of the “other” Liverpool Samuel family).