Cohen, Sir Benjamin Louis, first baronet (1844–1909), politician and Jewish communal leader, was born on 18 November 1844 at South Street, Finsbury, London, the eighth of nine surviving children of Louis Cohen (1799–1882), founder of the City firm of Louis Cohen & Sons...
Article
Cohen, Sir Benjamin Louis, first baronet (1844–1909), politician and Jewish communal leader
Sharman Kadish
Article
Montagu, Edwin Samuel (1879–1924), politician
Chandrika Kaul
Montagu, Edwin Samuel (1879–1924), politician, was born on 6 February 1879 at 12 Kensington Palace Gardens, London. He was the second son of Samuel Montagu, the first Baron Swaythling (1832–1911), a millionaire banker and later Liberal MP, and his wife, Ellen (1848–1919), daughter of ...
Image
Salomons, Sir David, baronet (1797–1873)
Maker: Charles Turner
In
Sir David Salomons, baronet (1797–1873) by Charles Turner, pubd 1837 (after Mary Martha Pearson) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Article
Salomons, Sir David, baronet (1797–1873), banker and politician
Geoffrey Alderman
Salomons, Sir David, baronet (1797–1873), banker and politician, was born in London on 22 November 1797, the second son of Levy Salomons, a stockbroker whose family was of Dutch Ashkenazi Jewish (German and Polish) origin, and Matilda de Metz, of Leiden.
At the age of twenty-six ...
