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Dawood, Nessim Joseph (1927–2014), translator, Arabic scholar, and Middle East consultant  

Clive Holes

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15 February 2018

Dawood, Nessim Joseph (1927–2014), translator, Arabic scholar, and Middle East consultant, was born Nessim Yosef David Yehuda in Baghdad on 27 August 1927, the sixth of seven children of Yosef David Yehuda and his wife, Muzli, née Twaig. His father had been a Jewish Iraqi officer in the ...

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Jervas [Jarvis], Charles (1675–1739), portrait painter and translator  

Edward Bottoms

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Jervas [Jarvis], Charles (1675–1739), portrait painter and translator, was born in Clonliske, Shinrone, King's county, Ireland, the son of John Jervas (d. 1697) and Elizabeth Baldwin. According to George Vertue, by the mid-1690s Jervas was living in London, where he stayed and studied with ...

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Postan [née Keppel], Cynthia Rosalie, Lady Postan (1918–2017)  

revised by Edward Miller

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14 January 2021

See under Postan, Sir Michael Moïssey

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Schiff, Sydney Alfred [pseud. Stephen Hudson] (1868–1944), novelist, translator, and patron of the arts  

Michael H. Whitworth

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Schiff, Sydney Alfred [pseud. Stephen Hudson] (1868–1944), novelist, translator, and patron of the arts, was born in London, the illegitimate child of Alfred George Schiff (c.1840–1908), a stockbroker, and Caroline Mary Ann Eliza Cavell, née Scates (1842–c.1896). Caroline...

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Schreiber [Guest], Lady Charlotte Elizabeth (1812–1895)  

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber (1812–1895) by William Walker, pubd 1852 (after Richard Buckner) Glamorgan Record Office

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Schreiber [née Bertie; other married name Guest], Lady Charlotte Elizabeth (1812–1895), translator, businesswoman, and collector  

Angela V. John

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Schreiber [née Bertie; other married name Guest], Lady Charlotte Elizabeth (1812–1895), translator, businesswoman, and collector, eldest child of Albemarle Bertie, ninth earl of Lindsey (1744–1818), former army general and tory MP for Stamford, and his second wife, Charlotte Susanna Elizabeth, née Layard (1780–1858)...