List of British Jewish nobility and gentry

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.[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 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

Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading

Marquessates

Earldoms

Viscountcies

Hereditary Baronies

Life Peers

David Young, Baron Young of Graffham

Gentry

Sir Moses Montefiore, 1st Baronet

Baronets

Scottish Feudal Baronies

Knights

See also

References

Citations

  1. Kessler & Wenborn, p. 443
  2. Rubinstein, p. 457
  3. Rubinstein, p. 854
  4. Rubinstein, p. 293
  5. Rubinstein, p. 688
  6. 1 2 Rubinstein, pp. 825-826
  7. Rubenstein, p. 959
  8. Rubinstein, p. 639
  9. Rubinstein, p. 163
  10. Rubinstein, p. 913
  11. Rubinstein, p. 457
  12. Labour mourns the death of stalwart Baroness Birk, Herald Scotland
  13. Rubinstein, p. 470
  14. 1 2 Rubinstein, p. 428
  15. 1 2 3 Rubinstein, p. 498
  16. Rubinstein, p. 845
  17. Green, Chapter 5
  18. Rubinstein, p. 690
  19. Rubinstein, p. 342
  20. Rubinstein, p. 634
  21. Jackson, p. 208
  22. Green, Chapter 5

Sources

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