Career
At the age of 15, in 1898, Lyle-Samuel started work as a clerk at Lloyds Bank. He remained with the bank until 1902. He was then employed as assistant organizer to a temperance movement at the City Temple. However he worked there for only a few months and then returned to Birmingham where he was employed on two newspapers until 1905. He then went into business first opening a hotel bureau and later began publication of a women’s magazine but both these enterprises failed.
Lyle-Samuel had ambitions to be a lawyer and studied law at Cambridge. He was admitted to the Middle Temple in January 1908. He travelled extensively in America, residing there from 1913–15. He returned to Britain to serve in the European War but was several times rejected for service. However he was later accepted and served as a Lieutenant until 1917, when he was invalided out. The following year Lyle-Samuel was appointed as Hon Secretary of the English Speaking Union soon after its establishment in 1918.
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