Sir (Benn) Jack Brunel Cohen (1886–1965) by Bassano, 1948 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Cohen, Sir (Benn) Jack Brunel (1886–1965), campaigner for former servicemen, was born at Ethelstone, Alexandra Drive, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, on 5 October 1886, the sixth son of nine children (one of whom did not survive infancy) of Louis Samuel Cohen (1844/5–1922) and his wife, ...
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Pereira, Isaac (c. 1658–1718), army contractor, was born in the Netherlands to Portuguese Jewish parents, being the third of four sons of Jacob Pereira (1629–1707), a jeweller, and his first wife, Ribca de Paiva (b. 1631), who married in Amsterdam...
