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British Jewish Nobility and Gentry

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  • Sir Victor Gollancz (1893 - 1967)
    Victor Gollancz (/ɡəˈlæns, -ˈlænts/; 9 April 1893 – 8 February 1967) was a British publisher and humanitarian.Gollancz was often noted as a supporter of left-wing causes. His loyalties shifted between ...
  • Rabbi Dr. Sir Hermann (Khaim) Gollancz (1852 - 1930)
    Hermann Gollancz (1852 – 15 October 1930) was a British rabbi and Hebrew scholar. Gollancz was the first Jew to earn a doctor of literature degree from London University and the first holder of the deg...
  • Sir Israel Gollancz (1863 - 1930)
  • Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett (1948 - 2018)
    Robert Henry Mond, 4th Baron Melchett, also simply Peter Melchett (born 24 February 1948, died 29 August, 2018), son of the British Steel Corporation Chairman the 3rd Baron Melchett and Sonia Melchett ...
  • Rt Hon Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, OM, KCB, FRS (1904 - 1993)
    Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, OM, KCB, FRS[1] (30 May 1904 – 1 April 1993) was a British public servant, zoologist and operational research pioneer. He is best remembered as a scientific advisor to...

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The British title system consists of two, sometimes overlapping entities, the peerage and the gentry. The peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles which is constituted by the ranks of British nobility. Under this system, only the senior family member bears a substantive title (duke, marquess, earl, viscount, baron). The gentry are untitled members of the upper classes, however, exceptions include baronets, knights, Scottish barons and Lairds.

The history of the Jews in Britain goes back to the reign of William I. The first written record of Jewish settlement in England dates from 1070, although Jews may have lived there since Roman times. The Jewish presence continued until King Edward I's Edict of Expulsion in 1290. After the expulsion, there was no Jewish community, apart from individuals who practised Judaism secretly, until the rule of Oliver Cromwell. While Cromwell never officially readmitted Jews to Britain, a small colony of Sephardic Jews living in London, was identified in 1656 and allowed to remain. The Jewish Naturalisation Act of 1753, an attempt to legalise the Jewish presence in Britain, remained in force for only a few months. Historians commonly date Jewish Emancipation to either 1829 or 1858 when Jews were finally allowed to sit in Parliament. The first Jewish knight was Sir Solomon de Medina, knighted in 1700, with no further Jews being knighted until 1837, when Queen Victoria knighted Moses Haim Montefiore; four years later, Isaac Lyon Goldsmid was made a baronet, the first Jew to receive a hereditary title. In 1885 Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild became the first Jew to receive an hereditary peerage.

Peers

Marquessates

'Marquess of Reading'

Earldoms

'Earl of Beaconsfield'

Viscountcies

'Viscount Bearsted'

Hereditary Baronies

'Baron Melchett'

'Baron Swaythling'

Life Peers

  • David Young, Baron Young of Graffham
  • Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil
  • Alma Birk, Baroness Birk
  • Andrew Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree
  • David Freud, Baron Freud
  • Anna Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell
  • Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron
  • Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith
  • Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman
  • Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson
  • Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
  • Michael Levy, Baron Levy
  • Maurice Peston, Baron Peston of Mile End
  • Beatrice Plummer, Baroness Plummer
  • Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks
  • Samuel Segal, Baron Segal
  • Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota
  • David Triesman, Baron Triesman
  • Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg
  • Robert Winston, Baron Winston
  • Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson
  • Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf
  • David Young, Baron Young of Graffham
  • Alan Sugar, Baron Sugar
  • Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie
  • Cyril Salmon, Baron Salmon

Gentry

Baronets

'Rothschild Baronets of Tring Park'

  • Sir Anthony de Rothschild, 1st Baronet
  • Sir Nathan Rothschild, 2nd Baronet, later created Baron Rothschild 'Montefiore Baronets of East-Cliffe Lodge in the Isle of Thanet'
  • Sir Moses Montefiore 'Montefiore Baronetcy of Worth Park'
  • Sir Francis Abraham Montefiore, 1st Baronet 'Wolfson baronets of St. Marylebone in the City of Westminster'
  • Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet
  • Leonard Wolfson, 2nd Baronet, created a Life Peer on 13 June 1985 with the title Baron Wolfson, of Marylebone in the City of Westminster 'Goldsmid baronets of Saint John's Lodge'
  • Sir Isaac Goldsmid, 1st Baronet
  • Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet
  • Sir Julian Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet 'D'Avigdor-Goldsmid baronets of Somerhill in the County of Kent'
  • Major-General Sir Henry Joseph d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet
  • Major-General Sir James Arthur d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet 'Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons Baronets, of Broom Hill in the Parish of Tunbridge'
  • Sir David Salomons, 1st Baronet*
  • Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, 2nd Baronet 'Magnus Baronetcy of Tangley Hill in Wonersh in the County of Surrey'
  • Sir Philip Magnus, 1st Baronet
  • Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet 'Sassoon baronets of Kensington Gore'
  • Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, 1st Baronet
  • Sir Edward Albert Sassoon, 2nd Baronet
  • Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet 'Sassoon baronets of Bombay'
  • Sir Jacob Elias Sassoon, 1st Baronet
  • Sir Edward Elias Sassoon, 2nd Baronet
  • Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, 3rd Baronet 'Tuck baronets of Park Crescent in St Marylebone'
  • Sir Adolph Tuck, 1st Baronet*

Scottish Feudal Baronies

'Barony of Craigie'

  • Rabbi Robert Owen Thomas

Knights

  • Sir Solomon de Medina (knighted 1700)
  • Sir Ellis Kadoorie (knighted 1917)
  • Sir Elly Kadoorie
  • Sir Michael Kadoorie
  • Horace Kadoorie