Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1st Baronet (13 January 1778 – 27 April 1859) was a financier and one of the leading figures in the Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom, who became the first British Jew to receive a hereditary title.[1]
Isaac Goldsmid
Baronet
Tenure
1841–1859
Known for
Financier and one of the leading figures in the Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom
Isaac Goldsmid was born in London on 13 January 1778.
Careeredit
He began in business with a firm of bullion brokers, Mocatta & Goldsmid (estab. 1684), to the Bank of England and the East India Company. He became a partner in Mocatta & Goldsmid and amassed a large fortune. Isaac Goldsmid was made Baron da Palmeira by the Portuguese government in 1846 for services rendered in settling a monetary dispute between Portugal and Brazil.[2]
Moreover, he assisted by his capital and his enterprise to build some of the railways in southern England and also the London docks.[2]
He helped to establish the University College Hospital in 1834, serving as its treasurer for eighteen years, and also aided in the efforts to obtain reform in the English penal code.[2]
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^Huntingford, Diane (February 2009). (PDF). The Schools at Somerhill. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2010.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Goldsmid s.v. Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Bart.". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 214.
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