Samuel Kingsley

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Samuel Kingsley

Born April 1954
Occupation Businessman
Known for Managing director, Edward McNeil Limited; trustee, Glasgow Jewish Community Trust

Glasgow businessman and communal fundraiser

Samuel Kingsley (born April 1954) is a Glasgow businessman and a trustee of the Glasgow Jewish Community Trust. He was managing director of the packaging firm Edward McNeil Limited (now Broomcroft Limited), and in 2002 was campaign chairman of UJIA Scotland, the Scottish arm of the United Jewish Israel Appeal.[1][2][3]

Business

Kingsley was a director of Edward McNeil Limited (SC029797, incorporated 31 December 1953) from before 20 December 1988.[4] The Herald described the firm as "owned by Samuel Kingsley" and as "a fourth-generation packaging business that has traded since 1919".[2] In May 2016 Macfarlane Group announced that it had acquired the packaging business of Edward McNeil for up to £1.8 million.[5] The company was renamed Broomcroft Limited on 3 May 2016; its registered office is Caledonia House, 89 Seaward Street, Glasgow G41 1HJ, and Kingsley has been registered as a person with significant control ("significant influence or control") since 9 November 2016.[4]

Company Number Role Dates
Broomcroft Limited (formerly Edward McNeil Limited) SC029797 Director; person with significant control director from before 20 December 1988; PSC from 9 November 2016
Broomcroft Investments Limited SC245947 Director; person with significant control (75% or more of shares) director from 18 March 2003
Broomcroft Investments (No.2) Limited 16149276 Director from 23 December 2024
Fertalx Limited SC087237 Director; person with significant control (25–50% of shares) director from before 21 March 1989
McNeil Direct Limited SC111756 Director resigned 4 September 2007
EML Packaging Limited SC233800 Director from 5 July 2002 (company dissolved)
Tayleigh Limited 01754575 Secretary 7 February 2011 to 25 May 2023

Sources: Companies House appointments and company records.[6][1][4][7] The other person with significant control of Fertalx Limited is Anthony Max Caplan.[8]

Birth and marriage

The ScotlandsPeople index of statutory births records the birth of a Samuel Kingsley, male, in 1954 in the registration district of Pollok, Glasgow, which is consistent with the April 1954 birth date that Companies House gives for him.[9][1] The index of statutory marriages records the marriage of Samuel Kingsley and Carolyn Anne Groden in 1987 in the registration district of Eastwood and Mearns.[10] A Carolyn Anne Kingsley, born October 1967, has been a director of Broomcroft Limited since 14 November 2016.[4]

UJIA Scotland

In October 2002 a UJIA Scotland announcement of its Glasgow annual dinner on 26 October 2002, with the former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Shaul Mofaz as guest of honour, quoted "UJIA Scotland Campaign Chairman Sam Kingsley".[3]

Glasgow Jewish Community Trust

Kingsley is one of eight trustees of the Glasgow Jewish Community Trust listed on the Scottish Charity Register in October 2026,[11] and is named among the trust's trustees in April 2024 in Ken Smith's history of the trust, More Than a Helping Hand (2024).[12] As "Samuel Kinglsey" he is listed as a member of the trust's Finance Committee in a standard security over 222 Fenwick Road, Giffnock, G46 6UE recorded on 18 March 2016.[13]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Companies House, Samuel KINGSLEY: appointments, accessed 27 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Herald, "Macfarlane Group continues acquisition spree", May 2016, accessed 27 October 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Indymedia UK, reproduction of a UJIA Scotland announcement of its 2002 annual dinner, October 2002, accessed 27 October 2026.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Companies House, BROOMCROFT LIMITED (SC029797): officers and persons with significant control, accessed 27 October 2026.
  5. ↑ Macfarlane Group, "Acquisition of Edward McNeil", RNS announcement, 3 May 2016, accessed 27 October 2026.
  6. ↑ Companies House, Samuel KINGSLEY – appointments (secretary of TAYLEIGH LIMITED, 01754575; correspondence address Caledonia House, 89 Seaward Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G41 1HJ), accessed 30 October 2026.
  7. ↑ Companies House, BROOMCROFT INVESTMENTS LIMITED (SC245947): persons with significant control and FERTALX LIMITED (SC087237): persons with significant control, accessed 27 October 2026.
  8. ↑ Companies House, FERTALX LIMITED (SC087237): persons with significant control, accessed 27 October 2026.
  9. ↑ ScotlandsPeople, statutory registers index (births), 1954, Pollok, ref 644/18/383, accessed 28 October 2026.
  10. ↑ ScotlandsPeople, statutory registers index (marriages), 1987, Eastwood and Mearns, ref 650/486, accessed 28 October 2026.
  11. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Glasgow Jewish Community Trust, SC013684, Scottish Charity Register, accessed 27 October 2026.
  12. ↑ Ken Smith, More Than a Helping Hand: The History of the Glasgow Jewish Community Trust (Scottish Jewish Archives Centre with the Glasgow Jewish Community Trust, 2024).
  13. ↑ Registers of Scotland, Land Register title sheet REN156640 (County of Renfrew), Securities section, entry 1, recorded 18 March 2016.
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