Pacifico, David [known as Don Pacifico]
(1784?–1854)
- David Steele
Extract
Pacifico, David [known as Don Pacifico] (1784?–1854), merchant, was a Sephardic Jew of Italian descent. Accounts of his early life, founded on his own conflicting statements, vary considerably. The child of parents married at the Bevis Marks Synagogue, London, in 1761, he variously gave his birthplace as ...