Bernard Waley-Cohen
Sir Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen, 1st Baronet was a British businessman. He was the 633rd Lord Mayor of London, elected in 1960.Biography
The son of Sir Robert Waley Cohen and Alice, 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.
Waley-Cohen married the Hon. Joyce Constance Ina, daughter of Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan. They had four children:
Their grandson is the amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen.Arms
