Bernard Waley-Cohen
{{Short description|British businessman and Lord Mayor of London}}
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Sir Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen, 1st Baronet (29 May 1914 – 3 July 1991) was a British businessman. He was the 633rd Lord Mayor of London, elected in 1960.{{cite news|title=Bernard Waley-Cohen, Ex-London Mayor, 77|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/06/obituaries/bernard-waley-cohen-ex-london-mayor-77.html|work=The New York Times|agency=Associated Press|date=6 July 1991}}
Biography
The son of Sir Robert Waley Cohen and Alice (née Beddington), Waley-Cohen was educated at Clifton College where he was a member of Polack's House. He was an Alderman City of London for Portsoken Ward, 1949–84; Sheriff of London, 1955–56; Lord Mayor of London, 1960–61; one of the Lieutenants, City of London, 1949–1991. He was a director of the Palestine Corporation, founded in 1922 by a number British businessmen to promote economic development in the British mandate of Palestine. Waley-Cohen was a member of the College Committee of University College London, 1953–80. He was Treasurer 1962–70, Vice-Chairman 1970 and Chairman, 1971–80. In former times, as Alderman, he sometimes sat as sole Justice in the Mansion House Justice Room.
He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1957 and made a Baronet of Honeymead in the County of Somerset, in 1961.{{cite book|last1=Rubinstein|first1=William D.|last2=Jolles|first2=Michael|last3=Rubinstein|first3=Hilary L.|authorlink1=William Rubinstein|authorlink3=Hilary L. Rubinstein|title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History|date=2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-4039-3910-4|page=1001|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJc8afOZV0QC&pg=PA1001}}
Waley-Cohen married the Hon. Joyce Constance Ina, daughter of Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan (1920–2013). They had four children:
- Rosalind Burdon (married to businessman and former New Zealand politician and Cabinet Minister, Hon Philip Burdon)
- Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen
- Joanna Waley-Cohen
- Robert Waley-Cohen{{cite news|title=Lady Waley-Cohen|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10250857/Lady-Waley-Cohen.html|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=18 August 2013}}
Their grandson (son of Robert) is the amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen who won the 2022 Grand National riding Noble Yeats. A 50/1 odds outsider, it was described as a fairytale win.
Arms
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|escutcheon = Quarterly: 1st & 4th Argent on a chevron Gules cottised Azure between in chief two roses of the second barbed and seeded Proper and in base a buck's head couped also Proper three annulets Or (Cohen); 2nd & 3rd Argent a chevron Azure cottised Sable between in chief two eagles displayed of the last and in base on a mount Vert a hind trippant Proper (Waley).
|crest = 1st a buck's head couped Argent attired Or holding in the mouth a rose slipped Gules the neck encircled by a wreath of oak Proper between four barrulets Gules (Cohen); 2nd out of a bush of fern a hind's head Proper in the mouth a rose Argent stalked and leaved also Proper (Waley).
|motto = All for the Best{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=2000}}}}
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