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List of British Jewish nobility and gentry
The British nobility consists of the peerage and the gentry. The peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles, granted by the British sovereign. Under this system, only the senior family member bears a substantive title (duke, marquess, earl, viscount, baron). The gentry are generally untitled members of the upper classes, however, exceptions include baronets, knights, dames, Scottish feudal barons and lairds.
The history of the Jews in Britain goes back to the reign of William the Conqueror. The first written record of Jewish settlement in England dates from 1070, although Jews may have lived there since Roman times.[1] 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 Naturalization Act 1753, an attempt to legalise the Jewish presence in Britain, remained in force for only a few months. Practising Jews were finally allowed to sit in Parliament after the passage of the Jews Relief Act 1858, which was a significant step on the path to Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom.
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 Montefiore. Four years later, Isaac Goldsmid was made a baronet, the first Jew to receive a hereditary title. In 1885, Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, became the first Jew to receive a peerage title.
Peerage titles
 Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
Marquessates
Earldoms
Viscountcies
Hereditary baronies
Extant
Extinct
 David Young, Baron Young of Graffham
- David Alliance, Baron Alliance
- Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil
- Alma Birk, Baroness Birk[12]
- Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne
- Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen
- Bernard Delfont, Baron Delfont
- Terence Etherton, Baron Etherton
- Andrew Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree
- Stanley Fink, Baron Fink
- Daniel Finkelstein, Baron Finkelstein
- David Freud, Baron Freud
- Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell
- Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron
- Dean Godson, Baron Godson
- Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith
- William Goodhart, Baron Goodhart
- Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman
- Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner
- Lew Grade, Baron Grade
- Michael Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth (Jewish father)[13]
- Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
- Richard Harrington, Baron Harrington of Watford
- Richard Hermer, Baron Hermer
- Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne
- Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson
- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits[14]
- Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone
- Keith Joseph, Baron Joseph
- Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie[15]
- Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby
- Michael Levy, Baron Levy
- Peter Mandelson, Baron Mandelson (Jewish father)
- Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin
- Claus Moser, Baron Moser[16]
- David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury
- Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger
- Monroe Palmer, Baron Palmer of Childs Hill
- David Pannick, Baron Pannick[17]
- Maurice Peston, Baron Peston of Mile End
- Beatrice Plummer, Baroness Plummer
- David Puttnam, Baron Puttnam (Jewish mother)[18]
- Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi
- Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks
- Cyril Salmon, Baron Salmon[19]
- James Sassoon, Baron Sassoon
- Samuel Segal, Baron Segal
- Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota
- Emanuel Shinwell, Baron Shinwell
- Israel Sieff, Baron Sieff
- Marcus Sieff, Baron Sieff of Brimpton
- Samuel Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich
- Alan Sugar, Baron Sugar
- David Triesman, Baron Triesman
- Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg
- Gordon Wasserman, Baron Wasserman
- Arnold Weinstock, Baron Weinstock
- Robert Winston, Baron Winston
- David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale
- David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Tredegar
- Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson[20]
- Simon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise
- Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf
- David Young, Baron Young of Graffham
- Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman
Other hereditary titles
Baronetcies
Extant
Extinct
 Sir Moses Montefiore, Bt
Scottish feudal baronies
Other non-hereditary titles
Knighthoods
Honorary knighthoods
- Daniel Barenboim, KBE
- Michael Bloomberg, KBE
- Naum Gabo, KBE
- Lou Gerstner, KBE
- Alan Greenspan, KBE
- Sol Kerzner, KCMG[35]
- Henry Kissinger, KCMG
- Ralph Lauren, KBE[36]
- André Previn, KBE
- Arthur Rubinstein, KBE
- Mortimer Sackler, KBE[37]
- Raymond Sackler, KBE
- Stephen A. Schwarzman, KBE
- Steven Spielberg, KBE
- Simon Wiesenthal, KBE
- James Wolfensohn, KBE
See also
References
Citations
- ^ Kessler & Wenborn, p. 443.
- ^ a b Rubinstein, p. 457.
- ^ https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/lord-reading-takes-israeli-citizenship/
- ^ Rubinstein, p. 854.
- ^ Rubinstein, p. 293.
- ^ a b Rubinstein, pp. 825–826.
- ^ Rubinstein, p. 688.
- ^ Rubinstein, p. 639.
- ^ Rubinstein, p. 913.
- ^ Rubenstein, p. 959.
- ^ Rubinstein, p. 163.
- ^ Labour mourns the death of stalwart Baroness Birk, Herald Scotland.
- ^ "Interview: Michael Grade". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
- ^ Rubinstein, p. 470.
- ^ a b c Rubinstein, p. 498.
- ^ [1] Archived 17 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jewish Chronicle
- ^ "David Puttnam reveals the secrets of the trade". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- ^ Rubinstein, p. 845.
- ^ a b Rubinstein, p. 428.
- ^ "No. 20684". The London Gazette. 18 December 1864. p. 5885.
- ^ "Rothschild baronets". Debrett's illustrated baronetage and knightage. 1880. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
- ^ Jackson, p. 208.
- ^ Rubinstein, p. 634.
- ^ a b Green, Chapter 5.
- ^ Rubinstein, p. 690.
- ^ "No. 26019". The London Gazette. 31 January 1890. p. 545.
- ^ "No. 28220". The London Gazette. 2 February 1909. p. 826.
- ^ Rubinstein, p. 342.
- ^ Bowcott, Owen (21 August 2019). "Former top judge lambasts Grayling and Truss in memoir". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
- ^ "Jewish Kremlin critic faces 'absurd' new charges by Russian prosecutors". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ "Bill Browder: 'With Navalny murdered, I'm now Putin's enemy number one'". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ "No. 60534". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 2013. p. 25.
- ^ Williams, Richard (12 April 2020). "Sir Stirling Moss obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ Sol Kerzner, bahamaspress.com.
- ^ "2017 Honorary Awards" (PDF). Government Digital Service (U.K.).
- ^ Dr Mortimer Sackler receives honorary KBE, telegraph.co.uk; accessed 17 September 2015.
Sources
- Kessler, Edward; Wenborn, Neil, eds. (2005). A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations. University of Cambridge Press. ISBN 9780521826921.
- Green, Abigal (2012). "5: Rise, Sir Moses". Moses Montefiore. USA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674048805.
- Jackson, B. S., ed. (1979). "Notes". Jewish Law Annual. 2. Leiden, Netherlands.
- "Labour mourns the death of stalwart Baroness Birk". Herald Scotland. 31 December 1996. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael; Rubinstein, Hilary L. (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230304666.
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