Bernard Waley-Cohen

Sir Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen, 1st Baronet (29 May 1914 – 3 July 1991), a British businessman, was Lord Mayor of London in 1960. He was educated at Clifton College where he was a member of Polacks House.

The son of Sir Robert Waley-Cohen, Waley-Cohen was 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.

He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1957 and made a Baronet, of Honeymead in the County of Somerset, in 1961. Waley-Cohen married the Hon. Joyce Constance Ina, daughter of Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan (1920-2013). Their children are

• Rosalind Burdon (married to the NZ businessman and former politician Philip Burdon),
• Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen,
• Joanna Waley-Cohen and
• Robert Waley-Cohen.

Their grandson is the amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen.

References

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Who was Who

External links

• Obituary in New York Times