Francis Abraham Montefiore

Sir Francis Abraham Montefiore, 1st Baronet (1860–1935) was an English communal Sephardic leader and Zionist.[1][2]

Life

He was born on 10 October 1860, the son of Joseph Mayer Montefiore of Worth Park and his wife Henrietta Francisca Sichel;[3] his father was President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, he was born .[4] He attended Wellington College in 1875/6 and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1879.[5][6]

Coat of arms of the Montefiore baronets of Worth Park; the three banners have inscribed "Jerusalem" in Hebrew[7][8]

In 1886 Montefiore took up the revived baronetcy, of East Cliff Lodge (1846), previously held by Sir Moses Montefiore who had died in 1885.[1][4]

Montefiore became High Sheriff of Kent in 1894, and of Sussex in 1895.[4] He supported Theodor Herzl and Ḥibbat Zion.[9] He was chairman of the executive committee of the English Zionist Federation and represented the English section at Zionist congresses. He was also elected chairman of Elders of the Spanish and Portuguese congregations.[4]

Death

Sir Francis Abraham Montefiore died 1 July 1935, when the baronetcy became extinct.[10]

Family

Sir Francis Abraham Montefiore and his wife Lady Montefiore, 1890s photograph

Montefiore married in 1888 Marianne von Gutmann, daughter of Wilhelm von Gutmann. He left no heir.[10]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Lipman, Vivian David (1990). A History of the Jews in Britain Since 1858. Leicester University Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-8419-1288-5.
  2. ↑ Adler, Cyrus; Szold, Henrietta (1936). American Jewish Year Book. Jewish Publication Society of America. p. 444.
  3. ↑ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority. Jack. p. 705.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Public Domain Jacobs, Joseph; Lipkind, Goodman; Emanuel, Victor Rousseau; Seltzer, Thomas; Harris, Isidore; Davis, Israel (1904). "Montefiore". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. pp. 663–671.
  5. ↑ Wellington College (Berkshire) (1923). Wellington College Register, 1859-1923. Hunt. p. 81.
  6. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Montefiore, Francis Abraham" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
  7. ↑ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (99th ed.). London: Burke's Peerage Ltd. and Shaw Publishing. 1949. pp. 1074–1075.
  8. ↑ Patai, Raphael (1 January 2000). Apprentice in Budapest: Memories of a World that is No More. Lexington Books. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-7391-0210-7.
  9. ↑ Cohn-Sherbok, Dan (7 January 2010). Dictionary of Jewish Biography. A&C Black. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-4411-9784-9.
  10. 1 2 "Montefiore, Sir Francis Abraham". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph; Lipkind, Goodman; Emanuel, Victor Rousseau; Seltzer, Thomas; Harris, Isidore; Davis, Israel (1904). "Montefiore". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. pp. 663–671.

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