Family and Education
Lyle-Samuel was the son of the Reverend George Samuel, a Baptist Minister of Christ Church, Aston in Birmingham. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He married his first wife Eva, a lady from Antigua in 1906. For whatever reason, this marriage was not a happy one, with financial difficulties causing the couple to separate. Eva Samuel also suffered with mental health problems and died in what was described in reports of the day as a ‘pauper lunatic asylum’. Lyle-Samuel assumed the additional name of Lyle by deed poll upon his second marriage with Julia G. Lyle of Springwood, Tenafly, New Jersey. Mrs Lyle had apparently been a nurse at a New York hospital where she had cared for an elderly millionaire. They married and Mrs Lyle soon became a rich widow. Lyle-Samuel had three children. One son, Winstone, died in a bobsleighing accident at St. Moritz in 1929 aged 23.
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