Record #2173 (edit record; developers only)

Date: 1847

Event:

Baron Lionel de Rothschild elected to Parliament for London. Because he is a Jew, he is not permitted to take the seat. Rothschild is elected several more times, but does not assume his seat in Parliament until 1858, after the Jewish Emancipation Act.

Notes: Roth, Cecil. A History of the Jews in England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964. 

Topics:

*Anglo-Jewish History  

   

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9/6/1999


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