List of British Jewish politicians

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. List of British Jewish politicians This list is Jewish people by birth but not necessarily Jewish people by religious belief and declaration, a list that includes people of Jewish descent who served as politicians in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states or who were born in the United Kingdom and had notable political careers abroad.

British MPs

British Members of Parliament listed chronologically by first election date (in brackets)

Pre-1900

Name Party Elected Lost Seat or Retired/Stood down MP's Seat Highest Office Held Honours
Sir Edward Brampton Yorkist Convert to Christianity. Godson of King Edward IV, fought during the War of the Roses for which he was knighted.
Sampson Eardley (ne Gideon), 1st Baron Eardley of Spalding Tory 1770, 1780, 1784, 1796 1780 (sought other seat), 1784 (sought other seat), 1796 (sought other seat), 1802 (retired) Cambridgeshire, Midhurst, Coventry, and Wallingford Baptised Christian in childhood; made a baronet (1759), 1st Baron Eardley in Irish Peerage (1789), FRS (1789). Son of Jewish banker Sampson Gideon, assumed surname Eardley in lieu of Gideon 1789.
Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, 1st Baronet Tory 1802, 1807, 1812, and 1820 1806 (declined to run again), 1808 (unseated for procuring illegal votes), 1819 (unseated for bribing voters), and 1829 (stood down to permit Sir Robert Peel to run for a seat) New Romney, Evesham, Barnstaple, and Westbury Converted to Christianity (1802); made a baronet (1805); appointed High Sheriff of Devon(1810)[1]
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Conservative 1837 1876 (Retired) Buckinghamshire Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1868 and 1874–1880 Family converted to Anglicanism during his childhood. First person of Jewish descent to lead a British political party (the Conservatives) and to serve as Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal. Made Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC and FRS.
Lionel de Rothschild Liberal 1847 (admitted 1858) 1874 (Lost) City of London [2] First practising Jew to be elected MP
Sir David Salomons, 1st Baronet Liberal 1851 and 1859 1852 (Lost) and 1873 (Died) Greenwich Lord Mayor of the City of London (1855) Created Baronet in 1869 and first Jewish Sheriff and Lord Mayor of London
Mayer Amschel de Rothschild Liberal 1859 1874 (Died) Hythe High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire [3]
Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet Liberal 1860 1878 (Died) Reading [4] First Jewish Barrister
Frederick David Goldsmid Liberal 1865 1866 (Died) Honiton [5] Father of the below
Sir Julian Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet Liberal 1866, 1870 and 1885 1868 (Lost), 1880 (Lost) and 1896 (Died) Honiton, Rochester and St Pancras South [6]
Sir George Jessel Liberal 1868 1873 (Lost) Dover Solicitor General for England and Wales (1871–1873) and Master of the Rolls (1873–1883) (Died) [7] Knighted and made a FRS
Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell Conservative 1874 1885 (Went to the House of Lords in 1886) City of Durham Solicitor General for England and Wales (1880–1885) and Lord Chancellor (1886) and (1892–1895) Family converted to Anglicanism. Created Baron Herschell in 1886 and was also created GCB, PC, QC[2]
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff Conservative 1874 1885 (Left on a special mission) Christchurch (1874–1880) and Portsmouth (1880–1885) [8] Was Created GCMG and GCB
Arthur Cohen Liberal 1880 1888 (Left house) Southwark (1880–1885) and Southwark West (1885–1888) Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "first professing Jew to graduate at Cambridge"
Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright Conservative 1880 1895 (Went to the House of Lords) Greenwich (1880–1885) and Liverpool East Toxteth (1885–1895) Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (1885–1888) and Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (1888–1892) [9] Created Baron Pirbright, also PC, DL, JP, FRS
Sir Samuel Montagu, 1st Baronet Liberal 1885 1900 (Left house) Whitechapel [10] Created Baron Swaythling in 1907
Sir Edward Sassoon, 2nd Baronet Liberal Unionist Party 1899 1912 (Died) Hythe (The Times, May 25, 1912)
Sydney Stern, Baron Wandsworth Liberal 1891 1895 (Lost) Stowmarket JYB 5657 (1896-7) p102 Created Baron Wandsworth in 1895
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff Conservative 1892 1910 (Retired) Belfast East [11] Founder of Harland and Wolff

1900-1939

1940-1973

1974 -

Peers

Other

"His beloved daughter Eleanor, however, who acted as his secretary, considered herself Jewish, took interest in her ancestors, and had a warm appreciation for the Jewish workers in the East End of London." Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Marx, Karl Heinrich.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, 1st Baronet" retrieved February 6, 2013
  2. ↑ Jewish Encyclopedia
  3. ↑ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, 4 July 1952
  4. ↑ Jewish Heraldry "As noted above, Sir Nathaniel Rothschild was the first Jewish peer in 1885. Later peers include Rufus Isaacs (baron 1914, viscount 1916, marquis of Reading 1926), Samuel (viscount Bearsted in 1925), Herbert Samuel (viscount Samuel 1937), Montagu Samuel-Montagu (baron Swaythling in 1907), Jessel (baron Jessel in 1924), Mond (baron Melchett in 1928), Samuel (baron Mancroft in 1937), Nathan (baron Nathan in 1940), Silkin (baron Silkin in 1950)." Accessed 28 November 2006.
  5. ↑ "the first Jewish Labour candidate, Captain Haden-Guest": Jewish Chronicle March 11, 1966, page 8
  6. ↑ Jewish Heraldry see Arthur Samuel
  7. ↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish leader"
  8. ↑ Jewish Chronicle July 25, 1941, p.12, "Jews in the Navy"
  9. ↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "of Jewish parentage"
  10. ↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of Jews who had emigrated from eastern Europe"
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Guardian, Saturday October 23, 1999
  12. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Harry, as he was always called, united both in blood as well as name the vitality, attitudes, and temperaments of two Jewish banking dynasties"
  13. ↑ Flade, Roland. The Lehmans: From Rimpar to the New World: A Family History, 2nd Enlarged Ed., 1999; reviewed by the American Jewish Historical Society. Accessed 14 Nov 2006.
  14. ↑ American Jewish Year Book, 1989
  15. ↑ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, September 8, 1989, p.18
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  17. ↑ Spectator, 2/12/1989 p5: "Sir Anthony ... is a representative of the enlightened haute juiverie"
  18. ↑ Jewish Chronicle, October 18, 1974, p.5: List of Jewish MPs
  19. ↑ The Spectator Mar 20, 1999; online here [1]
  20. ↑ Jewish Chronicle, 7 Dec 2006, p.5: "The Jewish Conservative MP for Ilford North"
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Politics: "Four women were among the first ten Jews to be made life peers: Dora Gaitskell, Beatrice Serota, Alma Birk and Beatrice Plummer"
  22. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son and elder child of Samuel and Anna Jacobson, a Jewish couple"
  23. ↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of Jewish parents"
  24. ↑ Jewish Chronicle, April 13, 2007, p.6: "a Jewish suffragette, councillor and socialist"

Bibliography

  • JYB = Jewish Year Book (annual)
  • "Obituary: Sir Edward Sassoon". The Times, Saturday, May 25, 1912; pg. 11; Issue 39908; col C.
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