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Moses Montefiore
Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London. Born to an Italian Sephardic Jewish family based in London, after he achieved success he donated large sums of money to promote industry, business, economic development, education and health among the Jewish community in the Levant. He founded Mishkenot Sha'ananim in 1860, th…
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business · British financier and Jewish activist (1784–1885) · journalist · philanthropist · financier · banker · entrepreneur · also Moses Montefiore, Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st and last Bt., Sir Moses Montefiore, Montefiore
Born 24 October 1784 · Died 28 July 1885 · Q733118
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1885· 1 entry
Died 1885-07-28.
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1873· 1 entry
The year of his 89th birthday, a local newspaper mistakenly ran his obituary
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1860· 2 entries
The first Jewish settlement outside the Old City of Jerusalem
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Built the first Jewish residential settlement and almshouse outside the old walled city of Jerusalem, which today is known as Mishkenot Sha'ananim
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1855· 1 entry
Purchased an orchard on the outskirts of Jaffa that offered agricultural training to the Jews
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1854· 1 entry
His American friend Judah Touro, also a Sephardic Jew, died after having bequeathed money to fund Jewish residential settlement in Palestine
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1846· 2 entries
(where he was received by the Tsar) and 1872; to Morocco in 1864 to intercede in an accusation of blood libel in the city of Safi, and to Romania in 1867
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In recognition of his services to humanitarian causes on behalf of the Jewish people
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1845· 2 entries
Career landmark: High Sheriff of Kent (1845–1846).
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Served as High Sheriff of Kent, and in the next year Montefiore was made an honorary colonel in the British Army
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1840· 1 entry
To liberate from prison ten Syrian Jews of Damascus arrested for blood libel in a case known as the Damascus affair; to Rome in 1858 to try to free Jewish youth Edgardo Mortara, who had been seized by the Catholic Church
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1839· 1 entry
1849, 1855, 1866 and 1875, and provided much data about the people
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1837· 1 entry
Career landmark: Sheriff of the City of London (1837).
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1836· 1 entry
Montefiore became a governor of Christ's Hospital, the Bluecoat school, after assisting in the case of a distressed man who had appealed to him to help his soon-to-be-widowed wife and son
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1835· 1 entry
Enabled the British Government to compensate plantation owners under the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 and abolish slavery in the Empire
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1831· 1 entry
Montefiore purchased a country estate with twenty-four acres on the East Cliff of the fashionable seaside town of Ramsgate
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1829· 1 entry
Prompted his recollection of the death of his beloved grandmother Esther Hannah Montefiore (1733 – c
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1827· 1 entry
Montefiore became a strictly observant Jew
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1824· 1 entry
Was among the founding consortium of the Alliance Assurance Company (which later merged with Sun Insurance to form Sun Alliance)
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1815· 1 entry
Again bought a broker's licence, and briefly operated a joint venture with his brother Abraham until 1816
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1812· 2 entries
Moses Montefiore married Judith Cohen (1784–1862), daughter of Levy Barent Cohen
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Montefiore became a freemason, joining the Moira Lodge, No
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1803· 1 entry
Entered the London Stock Exchange, but lost all of his clients' money in 1806 in a fraud perpetrated by Joseph Elkin Daniels
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1784· 1 entry
Born 1784-10-24.
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