Bernard Waley-Cohen
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.[1]
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 of the City of London for Portsoken ward from 1949 to 1984; a Sheriff of London in 1955–56; Lord Mayor of London in 1960–61; and one of the Lieutenants, City of London, from 1949 to 1991. He was a director of the Palestine Corporation, founded in 1922 by a number of British businessmen to promote economic development in the British mandate of Palestine.[1] Waley-Cohen was a member of the College Committee of University College London from 1953 to 1980 (being Treasurer in 1962–70, Vice-Chairman in 1970 and Chairman in 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.[2]
Waley-Cohen married the Hon. Joyce Constance Ina (1920–2013), daughter of Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan. 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[3]
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.
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