Samuel Leo Schuster
(circa 1830-1884), Merchant and army officerSitter in 1 portrait
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 13 April 1861
NPG Ax52432
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Sue Young
13 November 2015, 12:04
Merchant and army officer...' son of Leopold Schuster '... married Lady Isabella Emma Elizabeth Keane (FitzMaurice), the eldest daughter of Thomas FitzMaurice 5th Earl of Orkney...' Leopold Schuster (1791-1871) '... was a German-born British cotton trader turned merchant banker, best known as the Chairman of the London and Brighton Railway and then the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, and part of the consortia which bought The Crystal Palace...' Thomas FitzMaurice 5th Earl of Orkney (1803-1877) '... was the son of John FitzMaurice, Viscount Kirkwall and grandson of Mary FitzMaurice, 4th Countess of Orkney. The British Prime Minister, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, William Petty FitzMaurice (d. 1805) was his great uncle...'