Elias Lindo
Elias Lindo (1740-1785) was an English Royal Exchange broker.
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| Born | 1740 |
| Died | 1785 |
| Spouse | Grace Lumbroso de Mattos |
| Children | 8 |
Life
He was the son of Isaac Lindo. (1709-1766), an exchange broker, and Bathseba Haim Lindo (Abravanel).
Jacob Franco Sr. left each of his grandchildren £40,000. They invested it in the firm of Franco & Lindo, which was directed by Elias.[1][2]
He was a Freemason and friend of Lord George Gordon. [3][4][5]
Parnas of Bevis Marks Synagogue several times during the 1770's. [6][7]
On December 12, 1774, Lindo transferred 1168 acres of land at Four Mile Run, Virginia, to George Washington for £900.[8][9]
In 1781 he sued George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney for property sized from his uncle Benjamin during the Capture of Sint Eustatius. [10]
Family
He married Grace Lumbroso de Mattos and had eight children including:
- Moses (1760-1837) who was President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
- David Abarbanel Lindo
- Batsheba who married Joshua Basevi and had issue including: George Basevi
- Ephraim (1763-1838) who married Sarah Basevi and has issue including: Benjamin Ephraim Lindo (1794-1854), a director of Union Bank of Australia and first cousin of Benjamin Disraeli[11][12]
- Abigail who married Moses de Mattos Mocatta and had issue including: Elias Mocatta and David Mocatta
References
- Ranston, Jackie (2000). The Lindo Legacy. Toucan Books. ISBN 978-1-903435-00-7.
- England), Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation (London (1951). Treasures of a London Temple: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Ritual Plate, Mantles and Furniture of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Synagogue in Bevis Marks, Published by Authority of the Wardens and Elders of the Congregation on the Occasion of the 250th Anniversary of Its Opening. Taylor's Foreign Press.
- Oron, Michal (2020-03-04). Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor?: The Eighteenth-Century Ba'al Shem of London. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-78962-424-3.
- SOLOMONS, ISRAEL (1911). "LORD GEORGE GORDON'S CONVERSION TO JUDAISM". Transactions (Jewish Historical Society of England). 7: 222–271. ISSN 2047-2331.
- Mulsow, Martin; Popkin, Richard H. (2003-12-01). Secret Conversions to Judaism in Early Modern Europe. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-474-0184-1.
- England), Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation (London (1993). Bevis Marks Records: Being Contributions to the History of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London. Printed at the University Press by J. Johnson.
- Ruderman, David B. (2012-06-24). Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-15551-7.
- Division, Library of Congress Manuscript (1901). A Calendar of Washington Manuscripts in the Library of Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- Washington, George (1931). The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- Bench, Great Britain Court of King's; Glenbervie, Sylvester Douglas Baron (1790). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench, in the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Years of the Reign of George III. [1778-1781]. A. Strahan and W. Woodfall.
- "DISRAELI PEDIGREE - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
- Cesarani, David (2016-04-26). Disraeli: The Novel Politician. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-22189-3.
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