Bernard Waley-Cohen

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Sir Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen, 1st Baronet (29 May 1914–3 July 1991), was a British-Jewish businessman. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1960.

The son of Sir Robert Waley-Cohen, Waley-Cohen was Alderman, City of London Portsoken Ward, 1949-84; Sheriff, City 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, much of which later became Israel. 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. Their children are Rosalind Burdon (married to the NZ businessman and former politician Philip Burdon), Stephen Waley-Cohen, Joanna Waley-Cohen and Robert Waley-Cohen. Their grandson, the amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen, hit the sports' pages in 2007 when he came 5th on his father's horse Liberthine in the Grand National.