Barnato, Barnett Isaacs [Barney] (1852–1897), diamond merchant and financier, born on 5 July 1852 at Aldgate, London, was the second son of the five children of Isaac Isaacs, shopkeeper, and Leah Isaacs (said to be related to the master of the rolls, Sir George Jessel...
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Barnato, Barnett Isaacs [Barney] (1852–1897), diamond merchant and financier
Colin Newbury
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Barnato, Barnett Isaacs (1852–1897)
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Barnett Isaacs Barnato (1852–1897) by Warren © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bischoffsheim, Henri Louis [Henry Louis] (1829–1908), financier
Pat Thane
Bischoffsheim, Henri Louis [Henry Louis] (1829–1908), financier, was born in Amsterdam, the younger of the two sons of Louis Raphael Bischoffsheim (1800–1873), banker, and his wife, Amélie, née Goldschmidt. His grandfather, Raphael Nathan, had migrated to Mainz in the eighteenth century from Bischofsheim...
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Cassel, Sir Ernest Joseph (1852–1921), merchant banker and financier
Pat Thane
Cassel, Sir Ernest Joseph (1852–1921), merchant banker and financier, was born on 3 March 1852 in Cologne, Germany, the youngest of the three children of Jacob Cassel (1802–1875) and Amalia, née Rosenheim (d. 1874). Jacob Cassel had a small banking business, founded by his father, ...
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Cassel, Sir Ernest Joseph (1852–1921)
Maker: Anders Leonard Zorn
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Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel (1852–1921) by Anders Leonard Zorn, 1909 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Davis, Sir Edmund Gabriel (1861–1939), mining financier and art collector
Ian Phimister
Davis, Sir Edmund Gabriel (1861–1939), mining financier and art collector, was born on 3 August 1861 at Tintern, Gardiner's Creek Road, Toorak, Melbourne, Australia, the second of the four children of Samuel Davis, merchant, and his wife, Josephine, daughter of Jacob Bensusan. He had two brothers and one sister. At the age of eight ...
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Dellal, Jack (1923–2012), financier and property dealer
David Brewerton
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Dellal, Jack (1923–2012), financier and property dealer, was born on 2 October 1923 at 31 Sandileigh Avenue, Withington, a prosperous Manchester suburb, the son of Salman Aboudy, otherwise Solomon, Dellal (1880–1940), businessman, and his wife Charlotte, formerly Beher, née Shashona (1888–1970), both Iraqi Jewish emigrés who had arrived in ...
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D'Erlanger, Sir Gerard John Regis Leo (1906–1962), airline company director and financier
Peter G. Masefield
revised by Robin Higham
D'Erlanger, Sir Gerard John Regis Leo (1906–1962), airline company director and financier, was born at Hall Place, Bexley, Kent, on 1 June 1906. He was the only son and the elder of the two children of Baron Emile Beaumont D'Erlanger (1866–1939), international banker and chairman of ...
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Eveske, Elias l' (d. in or after 1259), financier and leader of the Jewish community in England
Robert C. Stacey
Eveske, Elias l' (d. in or after 1259), financier and leader of the Jewish community in England, was the eldest of the several sons of Benedict l'Eveske of London. Born before 1200, he became a prominent figure during the 1220s, and by the 1230s was firmly established as one of the leading members of the ...
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Gideon, Samson (1699–1762), financier
Edgar Samuel
Gideon, Samson (1699–1762), financier, was born in February 1699 at London Wall, in the City of London, the second son and one of five children of Rowland Gideon (or Abundiente) (c.1655–1722), a West India merchant of London Wall, and his second wife, ...
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Goldsmid, Abraham (1756–1810), merchant and financier
S. D. Chapman
Goldsmid, Abraham (1756–1810), merchant and financier, was born in the Netherlands on 17 December 1756, the youngest son in the family of four sons and three daughters of Aaron Goldsmid (d. 1782), a merchant, and his wife, Catherine de Vries. His father migrated from ...
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Goldsmid, Benjamin (c. 1753–1808)
See Goldsmid, Abraham
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Goldsmid, Sir Isaac Lyon, first baronet (1778–1859)
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Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, first baronet (1778–1859) by unknown artist Collection University College London; © reserved in the photograph
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Goldsmid, Sir Isaac Lyon, first baronet (1778–1859), financier and Jewish communal leader
Geoffrey Alderman
Goldsmid, Sir Isaac Lyon, first baronet (1778–1859), financier and Jewish communal leader, was born in London on 13 January 1778, the eldest of the six children of Asher Goldsmid, a bullion broker, and his wife, Rachel, née Keyser. Asher's father, Aaron, had settled in ...
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Joel, Isaac Barnato (1862–1940), financier
See Joel, Solomon Barnato
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Joel, Solomon Barnato (1865–1931), financier
Maryna Fraser
Joel, Solomon Barnato (1865–1931), financier, was born on 21 December 1865, at 8 Sandys Row, Spitalfields, in the East End of London, the youngest of three sons of Joel Joel (d. 1893), cigar manufacturer and publican, and his wife, Catherine, daughter of ...
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Joel, Solomon Barnato (1865–1931)
Maker: Bassano
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Solomon Barnato Joel (1865–1931) by Bassano, 1914 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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King, John [formerly Jacob Rey] (c. 1753–1823), moneylender and radical
Todd M. Endelman
King, John [formerly Jacob Rey] (c. 1753–1823), moneylender and radical, was born in London, the son of Moses Rey, a Jewish street trader of Gibraltarian or north African origin; he was named Jacob. He was educated at the charity school of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews and then, in 1771, apprenticed by the school to a Jewish merchant house in the ...
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Kissin, Harry Aaron, Baron Kissin (1912–1997), businessman and financier
John Orbell
Kissin, Harry Aaron, Baron Kissin (1912–1997), businessman and financier, was born on 23 August 1912 in Danzig, Germany, the son of Russian Jewish parents, Israel Kissin, grain merchant, and his wife, Reusi, née Model. He was brought up in Danzig and studied law at ...
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Lewis, Samuel (1838–1901), moneylender and philanthropist
Gerry Black
Lewis, Samuel (1838–1901), moneylender and philanthropist, was born on 14 May 1838 at 1 Lower Hurst Street, Birmingham, the elder of the two children of Frederick Lewis (b. c.1801), a dealer, and his wife, Sarah (c.1805–1872). They lived in impoverished slum conditions, and in 1841 his father was imprisoned for debt. On this, and on many other occasions, the family were rescued by benefits provided by the ...
