Harry Warner as the Edison Trust), which charged distributors exorbitant fees. In 1910, the Warners sold the family business to the General Film Company for "$10,000 in cash, $12,000 in preferred stock, and payments over a four-year period for a total of $52,000". After they sold their business, Harry and his three brothers joined forces with independent filmmaker Carl Laemmle's Independent Motion Picture Company, and began distributing films from his Pittsburgh film exchange division. In 1912, the brothers earned a $1,500 profit with the film "Dante's Inferno". In the wake of this success, Harry and the brothers broke with Laemmle and established
Harry Samuel parliament with a 1778 majority in the Norwood constituency, a seat he then held until he retired as a MP at the 1922 election. He was appointed a member of the Privy Council in 1916. He was also a Freeman of the City of London and a member of the Cooper's Company. In 1878, he married Rose Beddington. They had four children: three sons and one daughter. His daughter Nora married Percy de Worms (1873–1941). He died on 26 April 1934 at Villa Alexandra in Monte Carlo aged 80. Harry Samuel Sir Harry Simon Samuel (1853–1934) was an English Member