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List of British Jewish politicians

This is a list of Jews who served as politicians in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states or who were born in the United Kingdom and had notable political careers abroad.

British MPs

A law in place until the 1850s stated that no member of the Jewish religion could be elected to Parliament. Some Christian denominations were similarly prohibited. If elected, a member would be excluded if he refused to swear an oath of abjuration with a strong Christian wording.

British Members of Parliament listed chronologically by first election date (in brackets)

Pre–1900

  • Lord George Gordon (1774–1780) Converted to Judaism
  • Sampson Eardley (1770–1802) Father was Jewish. Eardley was baptised. Tory MP
  • Manasseh Masseh Lopes (1802–1806, 1807–1808, 1812–1819 & 1820–1829) Lopes converted to Christianity in 1802, and later the same year he entered Parliament as a Tory MP
  • Ralph Lopes (1814–1819, 1831–1837, 1841–1847 & 1849–1854) Conservative MP.
  • Ralph Bernal (1818–1841 & 1842–1852) His father was Jewish, but Bernal was baptised. Whig MP
  • David Ricardo (1819–1823) Ricardo converted to Christianity in 1793. Whig MP
  • David Ricardo (the younger) (1832–1833) His father had been Jewish, but Ricardo was baptised. Liberal MP
  • Benjamin Disraeli (1837–1876) [1], Conservative MP and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Born Jewish but baptised at an early age.
  • John Lewis Ricardo (1841–1862) Liberal MP
  • Ralph Bernal Osborne (1841–1874) His grandfather was Jewish, but Bernal Osborne was baptised. Liberal MP
  • Lionel de Rothschild (1847–1868 & 1869–1874) [2], Liberal MP.
  • David Salomons (1851–1852 & 1859–1873) Liberal MP.
  • Massey Lopes (1857–1885) Conservative MP
  • Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1859–1874) Liberal MP
  • Francis Henry Goldsmid (1860–1878) Liberal MP
  • Frederick Goldsmid (1865–1866) Liberal MP
  • Nathan Rothschild (1865–1885) Liberal MP
  • Joseph d'Aguilar Samuda (1865–1880) Liberal MP
  • Julian Goldsmid (1866–1896) Liberal and later Liberal Unionist MP
  • George Jessel (1868–1873) Liberal MP
  • Henry Lopes (1868–1876) Conservative MP
  • John Simon(1868–1888) Liberal MP
  • Farrer Herschell (1874–1885) Liberal MP
  • Saul Isaac (1874–1880) Conservative MP
  • Henry Drummond Wolff (1874–1885) Conservative MP
  • Arthur Cohen (1880–1888) Liberal MP
  • Henry de Worms (1880–1895) Conservative MP
  • Harry Levy-Lawson (1885–1892, 1893–1895, 1905–1906 & 1910–1916) Liberal and later Liberal Unionist MP
  • Lionel Louis Cohen (1885–1887) Conservative MP
  • Lewis Henry Isaacs (1885–1892) Conservative MP
  • Samuel Montagu (1885–1900) Liberal MP
  • Ferdinand de Rothschild (1885–1898) Liberal and later Liberal Unionist Party MP
  • Herbert Jessel (1896–1906 & 1910–1918) Liberal Unionist and later Conservative MP
  • Sydney Stern (1891–1895) Liberal MP
  • Herbert Leon (1891–1895) Liberal MP[1]
  • Benjamin Cohen (1892–1906) Conservative MP
  • Coningsby Disraeli (1892–1906) Conservative MP
  • Henry Lopes (1892–1900) Conservative MP
  • Gustav Wilhelm Wolff (1892–1910) Conservative MP
  • Harry Samuel (1895–1906 & 1910–1922) Conservative MP
  • Arthur Strauss (1895–1900 & 1910–1918) Liberal Unionist Party and later Conservative MP
  • Walter Rothschild (1899–1910) Liberal Unionist and later Conservative MP
  • Edward Sassoon (1899–1912) Liberal Unionist MP

1900–1939

  • Stuart Samuel (1900–1916) Liberal MP
  • Herbert Samuel (1902–1918 & 1929–1935) Liberal MP and Leader of the Liberal Party
  • Rufus Isaacs (1904–1913) Liberal MP
  • Charles Henry (1906–1919) Liberal MP
  • Arthur Lever (1906–1910 & 1922–1923) Liberal MP
  • Maurice Levy (1906–1918) Liberal MP
  • Philip Magnus (1906–1922) Conservative MP
  • Alfred Mond (1906–1928) Liberal and then Conservative MP
  • Edwin Samuel Montagu (1906–1922) Liberal MP
  • Horatio Myer (1906–1910) Liberal MP
  • Harry Primrose (1906–1910) Liberal MP
  • Herbert Raphael (1906–1918) Liberal MP
  • Bertram Straus (1906–1910) Liberal MP
  • Edward Strauss (1906–1910, 1910–1923, 1927–1929 & 1931–1939) Liberal and then Liberal National MP
  • Felix Cassel (1910–1916) Conservative MP
  • Sydney Goldman (1910–1918) Conservative MP
  • Frank Goldsmith (1910–1918) Conservative MP
  • Trebitsch Lincoln (1910) Liberal MP
  • Neil Primrose (1910–1917) Liberal MP
  • Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1910–1923) Conservative MP
  • Maurice de Forest (1911–1918) – Liberal MP
  • Leo Amery (1911–1945) Conservative MP
  • Samuel Samuel (1913–1934) Conservative MP
  • Percy Alfred Harris (1916–1918 & 1922–1945) Liberal MP
  • Gerald Hurst (1918–1923 & 1924–1935) Conservative MP
  • Arthur Samuel (1918–1937) Conservative MP
  • Maurice Alexander (1922–1923) Liberal MP
  • Manny Shinwell (1922–1924, 1928–1931 & 1935–1970) Labour MP
  • Leonard Benjamin Franklin (1923–1924) Liberal MP
  • Ernest Spero (1923–1924 & 1929–1930) Liberal and then Labour MP
  • Leslie Haden-Guest (1923–1927 & 1937–1950) Labour MP
  • Leslie Hore-Belisha (1923–1945), Liberal and then Liberal National MP
  • Henry Mond (1923–1924 & 1929–1931) Liberal and then Conservative MP
  • Frank Meyer (1924–1929) Conservative MP
  • Isidore Salmon (1924–1941) Conservative MP
  • Henry Slesser (1924–1929) Labour MP
  • Harry Louis Nathan (1929–1935 & 1937–1940), Liberal and then Labour MP
  • Marion Phillips (1929–1931) Labour MP
  • James de Rothschild (1929–1945) Liberal MP
  • George Strauss (1929–1931 & 1934–1979) Labour MP
  • Alfred Beit (1931–1945) Conservative MP
  • Alfred Chotzner (1931–1934) Conservative MP
  • Louis Gluckstein (1931–1945) Conservative MP
  • Barnett Janner (1931–1935 & 1945–1970) Liberal and then Labour MP[2]
  • Dudley Joel (1931–1941) Conservative MP[3]
  • Thomas Levy (1931–1945) Conservative MP
  • Abraham Lyons (1931–1945) Conservative MP
  • Marcus Samuel (1934–1942) Conservative MP
  • Henry Strauss (1935–1945 & 1946–1955) Conservative MP
  • Sydney Silverman (1935–1968) Labour MP 1935[4]
  • Daniel Frankel (1935–1945) Labour MP
  • Lewis Silkin (1936–1950) Labour MP[5]
  • Daniel Lipson (1937–1950) Independent Conservative MP

1940–1973

1974–2000

2000–present

  • Jonathan Djanogly (2001–present), Conservative MP
  • Paul Goodman (2001–2010) Conservative MP
  • George Osborne (2001–2017), Tory MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer 2010–2016[47][48]
  • Ed Miliband (2005–present), Labour MP and former Leader of the Labour Party
  • David Miliband (2001–2013), Labour MP
  • Susan Kramer (2005–2010), Liberal Democrat MP
  • Lynne Featherstone (2005–2015), Liberal Democrat MP[49]
  • Brooks Newmark (2005–2015), Conservative MP
  • Grant Shapps (2005–present), Conservative MP
  • Lee Scott (2005–2015),[50] Conservative MP
  • Luciana Berger (2010–2019),[51] Labour Co-operative MP and later Liberal Democrat MP
  • Michael Ellis (2010–present), Conservative MP
  • Zac Goldsmith (2010–2016 & 2017–2019), Conservative MP
  • Robert Halfon (2010–present), Conservative MP
  • Richard Harrington (2010–2019), Conservative MP
  • Julian Huppert (2010–2015), Liberal Democrat MP
  • Andrew Percy (2010–present), Conservative MP
  • Lucy Frazer (2015–present), Conservative MP
  • Ruth Smeeth (2015–2019), Labour MP
  • Alex Sobel (2017–present), Labour MP [52]
  • Nicola Richards (2019–present), Conservative MP
  • Ian Levy (2019–present), Conservative MP
  • Charlotte Nichols (2019–present), Labour MP

Peers

People with careers abroad

  • Julius Vogel, eighth Premier and first Jewish prime minister of New Zealand.[60]

See also

Bibliography

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