Ezekiel, Solomon (1781–1867), tinsmith and writer on Jewish matters, was born at Newton Abbot, Devon, on 7 June 1781, probably the grandson of Abraham Ezekiel (d. 1799), a silversmith who had come from the Rhineland about 1745 and settled in Exeter, where he had founded a synagogue in 1763–4. ...
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Tregelles, Edwin Octavius (1806–1886), ironmaster and Quaker minister, was born on 19 October 1806 at Falmouth, the youngest of the seventeen children (eight being twins) of Samuel Tregelles (1766–1831), merchant and rope maker, and Rebecca (1766–1811), daughter of Thomas Smith (1725–1792), London silversmith and member of the Quaker banking firm of ...
