Disraeli and Gladstone

   

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Aaronson, Lazarus Leonard 1894-1966 Poet and academic
Abady, Jacques 1872-1964 Mechanical engineer, barrister, and politician, Mayor of Westminster (1927–8)
Abdela, Jacob Elia C1837-1907 Shipping merchant, President of the Manchester Talmud Torah, member of the Society of Gemeluth Chasidim
Abelson, Joshua 1873-1940 Orthodox rabbi and scholar, Minister of Cardiff (1895–9), Bristol Hebrew Congregation (1899–1907), and Leeds Great Synagogue (1920–40)
Abraham, Abraham C1799-1863 Translator and optician, President of Liverpool Jewry’s Philanthropic Institute and Hebrew School, uncle of John Simon
Abraham, Joseph C1814–1867 Politician and communal leader, President of Bristol Hebrew Congregation (1853–4), Bristol town councilor (1861), Mayor of Bristol (1865–6)
Abraham [Braham], Leonora Lucy 1853–1931 Operatic soprano and writer
Abraham, Philip 1804–1890 Writer and educationist, father of Leonora Lucy Abraham
Abraham, Roy Clive 1890–1963 Scholar and colonial administrator
Abrahams, Abraham 1897–1955 Journalist and poet
Abrahams [Sussman], Abraham 1801–1880 Hasidic shochet and scholar, first notable Polish Hasid to settle in Britain (1837)
Abrahams, Barnett 1831–1863 Dayan and educationist, first Anglo-Jewish minister to hold a British university degree, son of Abraham (Sussman) Abrahams
Abrahams, Israel 1858–1925 Scholar and academic
Abrahams, Sir Lionel Barnett 1869–1919 Civil servant, economist, and historian
Abrahams, Louis Barnett 1839–1918 Writer and teacher
Abrahams, Moses 1853–1925 Mayor of Grimsby (1901)
Abrahams, Moses 1860–1919 Author and minister of the Leeds Jewish community, son of Abraham (Sussman) Abrahams
Abramsky, Yehezkel 1886–1976 Lithuanian-born orthodox rabbi and dayan, declined appointment as Chief Rabbi of Palestine in succession to Abraham Isaac Kook
Adler, Celestine (Lehfeldt) 1821–1891 Second wife of Nathan Marcus Adler, mother of Elkan Nathan Adler
Adler, Elkan Nathan 1861–1946 Author and collector of antiquities, son of Nathan Marcus Adler and Celestine (Lehfeldt) Adler
Adler, Henrietta (Nettie) 1868–1950 Social worker, politician, and author, daughter of Hermann Adler
Adler, Henrietta (Worms) 1800–1853 First wife of Nathan Marcus Adler, mother of Marcus Nathan Adler and Hermann Adler
Adler, Herbert Marcus 1876–1940 Barrister and educationist, son of Marcus Nathan Adler
Adler, Hermann 1839–1911 Chief Rabbi (1891–1911), son of Nathan Marcus Adler and Henrietta (Worms) Adler
Adler, Jacob Pavlovitch 1855–1926 Yiddish theatre actor and memoirist
Adler, Jankel [Jakub] 1895–1949 Painter and printmaker
Adler, Marcus Nathan 1837–1911 Actuary and communal leader, son of Nathan Marcus Adler and Henrietta (Worms) Worms
Adler, Michael 1868–1944 Orthodox minister, military chaplain, and writer
Adler, Nathan Marcus 1803–1890 Rabbinical writer and Chief Rabbi (1845–90)
Aguilar, Emanuel Abraham 1824–1904 Composer and pianist, brother of Grace Aguilar
Aguilar, Grace 1816–1847 Novelist, poet, and historian, first Jewish historian of Anglo-Jewry
Aguilar, Henry 1827–1902 Captain in the Royal Navy, brother of Grace Aguilar
Alex, Ephraim 1800–1882 Dentist and communal leader, founder and first president of the Jewish Board of Guardians (1859)
Alexander, David Lindo 1842–1922 Barrister and communal leader, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (1903–17), member of the League of British Jews, grandson of David Abarbanel Lindo
Alman, Olga [Gertrude] (Ginzburg) C1886–1961 Russian-born co-founder of the Federation of Women Zionists (1918)
Alman, Samuel 1877–1947 Musician, composer, and writer of liturgical works
Amshewitz, Asher 1824–1903 Orthodox rabbi and scholar, one of the first three scholars-in-residence at the Judith Montefiore College (1867), father of J.H. Amshewitz
Amshewitz, John Henry [J.H.] 1884–1942 Artist, illustrator of works by Israel Zangwill
Angel, Moses C1821–1898 Educator and writer, headmaster of the Jews’ Free School (1842–97), first co-editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1841–2)
Ansell, Moss C1821–1872 First Jew to hold a government office in Britain, Chief Clerk in the Court of Chancery (C1842–72), recipient of the Freedom of the City of London (1856)
Aria, Eliza (Davis) 1866–1931 Author and journalist, sister of Julia Frankau
Ascher, Isidore Gordon 1835–1914 Scottish-Canadian novelist and poet
Ayrton, Hertha (Marks) 1854–1923 Electrical engineer and feminist, winner of the Royal Society’s Hughes Medal, stepmother of Edith Zangwill
Belisario, Miriam Mendes C1820–1885 Writer, teacher, and lexicographer
Benisch, Abraham 1811–1878 Hebraist, editor, and journalist, editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1854–69, 1875–8
Benjamin, Elizabeth Abadi 1874–1966 Head of the girls’ section of the Jews’ Free School (1879–1907)
Blind, Mathilde (Cohen) 1841–1896 German-born poet, writer, and feminist
Bresslau, Marcus Hyman C1808–1864 Prussian-born Hebraist, editor, and journalist, Baal Korah for the Western Synagogue, editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1844–48)
Cohen, Julia (Waley) 1853–1917 Founder of the Union of Jewish Women (1902)
Cohen, Nathaniel Louis 1844–1913 Governmental advisor and communal leader, husband of Julia Cohen
Cuffe, Ellen (Bischoffsheim) 1857–1933 London-born Irish politician and philanthropist, president of the Gaelic League, first Jewish senator in Ireland
Deutsch, Emanuel 1829–1873 German-born writer and scholar
Disraeli, Benjamin 1st Earl of Beaconsfield 1804–1881 Author, statesman, and Conservative politician, served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868, 1874-80)
Edelmann, Zevi Hirsch 1805–1858 Russian-born Hebraist and scholar
Farjeon, Benjamin 1838–1903 Novelist and playwright
Franklin, Jacob Abraham 1809-1877 Optician, actuary, and newspaper proprietor and editor, founder of the Voice of Jacob (1841–8)
Frankau, Julia 1859–1916 Novelist alias Frank Danby
Goldsmid, Anna Maria 1805–1889 Writer, translator, and philanthropist, daughter of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid
Goldsmid, Augustus 1818–1874 Barrister, nephew of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, nephew of David Salomons
Goldsmid, Sir Francis Henry 2nd Baronet 1808–1878 Politician, barrister, and communal leader, Liberal MP for Reading (1860-78), first Jew to become an English barrister, son of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid
Goldsmid, Frederick David 1812–1866 Politician and communal leader, Liberal MP for Honiton (1865–6), son of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid
Goldsmid, Sir Frederick John 1818–1908 Author, army officer, and civil servant in India, Director General of the Indo-European Telegraph, nephew of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid
Goldsmid, Henry Edward (Moses) 1812–1855 East India Company official, married into the Goldsmid family
Goldsmid, Sir Isaac Lyon 1778–1859 Financier and communal leader, founding member of the West London Synagogue (C1840), son of Asher Goldsmid
Goldsmid, Jessie Sarah 1816–1888 Sister of Frederick John Goldsmid, wife of Henry Edward (Moses) Goldsmid
Goldsmid, Louisa Sophia 1819–1908 Feminist and philanthropist, niece of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, wife of Francis Henry Goldsmid
Gordon, Samuel 1871–1927 Bavarian-born novelist and dramatist
Harris, Emily Marion C1844–1900 Novelist, poet, and educationist
Harris, Isidore 1853–1925 Writer and historian
Hartog, Marion (Moss) 1821–1907 Poet, author, and educator, co-founder of the first Jewish women’s periodical, the Jewish Sabbath Journal (1855), sister of Celia (Moss) Levetus
Henry, Emma (Lyon) 1788–1870 First published Anglo-Jewish woman poet
Henry, Lucy 1852–1923 Writer and granddaughter of Emma Lyon Henry, niece of Michael Henry
Henry, Michael 1830–1875 Editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1868–75), son of Emma (Lyon) Henry
Joseph, Delissa 1859–1927 Architect and communal leader, designed synagogues such as Hampstead, lay leader of the New West End Synagogue
Joseph, Lily Delissa (Solomon) 1863–1940 Painter and women’s suffrage campaigner, pioneer cyclist,wife of Delissa Joseph, sister of Solomon J. Solomon
Leverson, Ada Esther (Beddington) 1862–1933 Novelist and friend of Oscar Wilde, granddaughter of John Simon
Levetus, Celia (Moss) 1819–1873 Writer of Jewish historical fiction, co-founder of the first Jewish women’s periodical, the Jewish Sabbath Journal (1855), sister of Marion (Moss) Hartog
Levy, Amy 1861–1889 Writer and poet, second Jewish woman to attend Cambridge University and the first at Newnham College (1879–81)
Lindo, David Abarbanel 1772–1852 Communal leader and scion of the Lindo family, father of Abigail Lindo, uncle of Benjamin Disraeli
Lindo, Elias Haim 1783–1865 Scholar and author, nephew of David Abarbanel Lindo
Lousada, Emanuel Baruh 1783–1854 West Indies merchant and developer of Sidmouth, High Sheriff of Devon (1842–3), son of Isaac Baruh Lousada
Lousada, Jane (Goldsmid) 1783–1870 Daughter of Abraham Goldsmid, wife of Emanuel Baruh Lousada
Lucas, Alice (Montefiore) 1851–1935 Poet and translator, founder and president of the Jewish Study Society, sister of Claude Goldsmid Montefiore
Lucas, Helen (Goldsmid) 1835–1918 Philanthropist and communal leader, daughter of Frederick David Goldsmid
Lyon, Abraham Septimus [A.S.] 1804–1872 Diarist and brother of Emma (Lyon) Henry
Lyon, Sarah (Lindo) 1823–1906 Diarist and wife of A.S. Lyon
Magnus, Lady Katie (Emanuel) 1844–1924 Author and teacher
Magnus, Sir Philip 1842–1933 Academic and politician, husband of Katie Magnus
Marks, David Woolf 1811–1909 First minister of the West London Synagogue of British Jews (1840–93)
Meldola, David 1797–1853 Minister of Bevis Marks (1828), first co-editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1841–2)
Merton, Hannah Moses (Cohen) 1816–1898 Diarist and homemaker
Mitchell, Joseph d. 1854 Proprietor of the Jewish Chronicle (1844–54)
Mocatta, Abraham 1797–1880 Bullion broker and stockbroker, grandson of Abraham (Lumbrozo) Mocatta (the founder of Mocatta & Goldsmid)
Mocatta, David 1806–1882 Architect and first Jewish member of a profession in Britain, son of Moses Mocatta
Mocatta, Isaac Lindo 1818–1879 Author of tracts on Jewish moral teachings and social questions, son of Moses Mocatta
Mocatta, Moses 1768–1857 Bullion broker, Hebraist, and communal leader, president of the Board of Deputies (1829–35), son of Abraham Lumbrozo Mocatta
Model, Alice 1856–1943 First woman appointed to the Jewish Board of Guardians, founder of the Jewish Day Nursery
Montagu, Lilian Helen (Lily) 1873–1963 Writer and Reformer, co-founder of the Jewish Religious Union (later the Liberal Jewish Synagogue)
Montagu, Samuel Baron Montagu of Swaythling 1832–1911 Financier, Liberal MP for Whitechapel, founding President of the Federation of Synagogues (1887), father of Lily Montagu
Montefiore, Charlotte 1818–1854 Writer and philanthropist, founder of the Cheap Jewish Library, niece of Sir Moses Montefiore
Montefiore, Claude Goldsmid 1858–1938 Scholar, author, and Reformer, co-founder of the Jewish Religious Union (later the Liberal Jewish Synagogue), grandson of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid
Montefiore, Lady Judith (Cohen) 1784–1862 Writer and philanthropist, author of the first Anglo-Jewish cookbook, wife of Moses Montefiore
Montefiore, Sir Moses Haim 1784–1885 Businessman, philanthropist, and communal leader
Nathan, Isaac 1790–1864 Composer, musicologist, and writer
Newman, Selig 1788–1871 German-born Hebraist and writer
Polack, Elizabeth fl. 1830 First Anglo-Jewish woman dramatist, related to Solomon Polack
Polack, Elizabeth fl. 1830 Anglo-Jewish woman poet
Polack, Joel Samuel 1807–1882 Pioneer settler in New Zealand, son of Solomon Polack
Polack, Maria fl. 1830 First Anglo-Jewish woman novelist, daughter of Ephraim Polack, related to Elizabeth Polack
Raphall, Morris Jacob 1798–1868 Orthodox rabbi and author, editor of the Hebrew Review and Magazine of Rabbinical Literature (1834–6), rabbi of the Birmingham Synagogue (1841–9)
Rothschild, Sir Anthony de (1st Baronet) 1810–1876 Financier, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire (1861), son of Nathan Mayer and Hannah (Cohen) Rothschild
Rothschild, Charlotte von 1819–1884 German-born socialite, wife of Lionel de Rothschild
Rothschild, Constance de (Lady Battersea) 1843–1931 Socialite, philanthropist, and temperance activist, founder of the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls, Women and Children (1885)
Rothschild, Hannah (Cohen) 1783–1850 Sister of Judith (Cohen) Montefiore, wife of Nathan Mayer Rothschild
Rothschild, Baron Lionel Nathan de 1808–1879 Banker, politician, and philanthropist, first Jewish MP in the House of Commons, Liberal MP for the City of London (1847–68)
Rothschild, Lady Louisa (Montefiore) de 1821–1910 Philanthropist, founding member of the Union of Jewish Women (1902), wife of Anthony de Rothschild
Salomans, Sir David 1st Baronet 1797–1873 Politician, businessman, and communal leader, Sheriff of London (1835-6), Liberal MP for Greenwich (1851-73), Lord Mayor of London (1855), son of Levy Salomons
Salaman, Nina (Davis) 1877–1925 Hebrew scholar and poet
Salaman, Redcliffe 1874–1955 Geneticist and communal leader, husband of Nina (Davis) Salaman
Salomons, Philip 1796–1867 Businessman and communal leader, High Sheriff of Sussex (1852), son of Levy Salomons
Samuel, Moses 1795–1860 Writer, translator, and Hebraist
Sidgwick, Cecily (Ullmann) 1854–1934 Novelist alias Mrs Andrew Dean
Simon, Sir John 1818–1897 Politician, barrister, and Reformer, Liberal MP for Dewsbury (1868–88)
Simon, Rachel (Salaman) 1823–1899 Writer, wife of Sir John Simon
Sola, David Aaron de 1796–1860 Minister of Bevis Marks (1818–60)
Solomon, Abraham 1824–1862 Painter, brother of Rebecca and Simeon Solomon
Solomon, Rebecca 1832–1886 Painter, sister of Abraham and Simeon Solomon
Solomon, Simeon 1840–1905 Painter, brother of Abraham and Rebecca Solomon
Solomon, Solomon Joseph 1860–1927 Painter, founding president of the Maccabean Society (1891)
Wolf, Lucien 1857–1930 Journalist, co-founder of the Jewish Territorial Organisation (1903), co-founder of the League of British Jews (1917)
Vallentine, Isaac 1793–1868 Founder of the Jewish Chronicle (1841), the Jewish Association for the Diffusion of Religious Knowledge (1828), and the Jews’ Orphans Asylum (1831)
Vogel, Sir Julius 1835–1899 London-born politician, first Jewish prime minister of New Zealand
Zangwill, Israel 1864–1926 Author, critic, and activist, co-founder of the Jewish Territorial Organisation (1903)