| AdminHistory | Born Sheffield, son of a moneylender from Poland, 1864; educated at St Paul's School, London (the first Jewish boy to go there) and Wadham College, Oxford; became a private tutor; opened Ascott House School, Brighton, a boarding school for Jewish boys; Senior Member and Hon Auditor, Jewish Board of Deputies; Council member of the Anglo-Jewish Association; Executive member, Jewish Memorial Council; President, Brighton Hebrew Congregation; active in B'nai B'rith; French Consular Agent for Brighton and district; Officier de l'Instruction Publique; Chevalier de la Lgion d'Honneur, 1931; died Brighton, 1937. |