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The British nobility consists of the peerage and the gentry. The peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles, granted by the British sovereign. Under this system, only the senior family member bears a substantive title (duke, marquess, earl, viscount, baron). The gentry are generally untitled members of the upper classes, however, exceptions include baronets, knights, Scottish feudal barons and lairds.

The history of the Jews in Britain goes back to the reign of William the Conqueror. The first written record of Jewish settlement in England dates from 1070, although Jews may have lived there since Roman times. The Jewish presence continued until King Edward I's Edict of Expulsion in 1290. After the expulsion, there was no Jewish community (apart from individuals who practised Judaism secretly) until the rule of Oliver Cromwell. While Cromwell never officially readmitted Jews to Britain, a small colony of Sephardic Jews living in London was identified in 1656 and allowed to remain. The Jewish Naturalisation Act of 1753, an attempt to legalise the Jewish presence in Britain, remained in force for only a few months. In 1858, practising Jews were finally allowed to sit in Parliament after the passage of the Jews Relief Act, which was a significant step on the path to Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom.

The first Jewish knight was Sir Solomon de Medina, knighted in 1700, with no further Jews being knighted until 1837, when Queen Victoria knighted Moses Montefiore. Four years later, Isaac Goldsmid was made a baronet, the first Jew to receive a hereditary title. In 1885, Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, became the first Jew to receive a peerage title.

Peerage titles

Rufus Isaacs
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading

Marquessates

  • Marquess of Reading
  • Marquess of Cholmondeley
    • George Cholmondeley, 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley (Jewish mother)

Earldoms

Viscountcies

  • Viscount Burnham (extinct)
    • Harry Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham
  • Viscount Bearsted
    • Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted
    • Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted
    • Marcus Samuel, 3rd Viscount Bearsted
    • Peter Samuel, 4th Viscount Bearsted
    • Nicholas Alan Samuel, 5th Viscount Bearsted
  • Viscount Samuel

Hereditary baronies

Extant

Extinct

Life peerages

Lord young of Graffham
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham
  • David Alliance, Baron Alliance
  • Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil
  • Alma Birk, Baroness Birk
  • Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne
  • Bernard Delfont, Baron Delfont of Stepney
  • Terence Etherton, Baron Etherton
  • Andrew Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree
  • Stanley Fink, Baron Fink
  • David Freud, Baron Freud
  • Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell
  • Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron
  • Dean Godson, Baron Godson
  • Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith
  • William Goodhart, Baron Goodhart
  • Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman
  • Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner
  • Lew Grade, Baron Grade of Elstree
  • Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
  • Richard Harrington, Baron Harrington of Watford
  • Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne
  • Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson
  • Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
  • Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone
  • Keith Joseph, Baron Joseph
  • Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie
  • Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby
  • Michael Levy, Baron Levy
  • Peter Mandelson, Baron Mandelson (Jewish father)
  • Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin
  • Claus Moser, Baron Moser
  • David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury
  • Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger
  • Monroe Palmer, Baron Palmer of Childs Hill
  • David Pannick, Baron Pannick
  • Maurice Peston, Baron Peston of Mile End
  • Beatrice Plummer, Baroness Plummer
  • David Puttnam, Baron Puttnam (Jewish mother)
  • Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks
  • Cyril Salmon, Baron Salmon
  • James Sassoon, Baron Sassoon
  • Samuel Segal, Baron Segal
  • Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota
  • Emanuel Shinwell, Baron Shinwell
  • Israel Sieff, Baron Sieff
  • Marcus Sieff, Baron Sieff of Brimpton
  • Samuel Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich
  • Alan Sugar, Baron Sugar
  • David Triesman, Baron Triesman
  • Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg
  • Gordon Wasserman, Baron Wasserman
  • Arnold Weinstock, Baron Weinstock
  • Robert Winston, Baron Winston
  • David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale
  • David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Tredegar
  • Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson
  • Simon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Apsley Guise
  • Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf
  • David Young, Baron Young of Graffham
  • Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman

Other hereditary titles

Baronetcies

Extant

  • Lopes baronets of Maristow
    • Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, 1st Baronet (converted out)
  • Rothschild baronets of Grosvenor Place
    • Sir Anthony de Rothschild, 1st Baronet
    • Sir Nathan Rothschild, 2nd Baronet, created Baron Rothschild in 1885
  • Tuck baronets of Park Crescent
    • Sir Adolph Tuck, 1st Baronet
    • Sir William Reginald Tuck, 2nd Baronet
    • Sir Bruce Adolph Reginald Tuck, 3rd Baronet
  • Magnus baronets of Tangley Hill
    • Sir Philip Magnus, 1st Baronet
    • Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet
  • Cassel baronets of Lincoln's Inn
    • Sir Felix Maximilian Schoenbrunn Cassel, 1st Baronet
    • Sir Francis Edward Cassel, 2nd Baronet
    • Sir Harold Felix Cassel, 3rd Baronet
    • Sir Timothy Felix Harold Cassel, 4th Baronet
  • Joseph baronets of Portsoken

Extinct

Moses Montefiore
Sir Moses Montefiore, Bt
  • Goldsmid baronets of St John's Lodge
    • Sir Isaac Goldsmid, 1st Baronet
    • Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet
    • Sir Julian Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet
  • Montefiore baronets of East Cliff Lodge
  • Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons baronets of Broom Hill
  • Montefiore baronets of Worth Park
    • Sir Francis Abraham Montefiore, 1st Baronet
  • Sassoon baronets of Kensington-gore and of Eastern-terrace
    • Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, 1st Baronet
    • Sir Edward Albert Sassoon, 2nd Baronet
    • Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet
  • Speyer baronets of Grosvenor Street
    • Sir Edgar Speyer, 1st Baronet
  • Sassoon baronets of Bombay
    • Sir Jacob Elias Sassoon, 1st Baronet
    • Sir Edward Elias Sassoon, 2nd Baronet
    • Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, 3rd Baronet
  • David baronets of Bombay
    • Sir Sassoon David, 1st Baronet
    • Sir Percival David, 2nd Baronet
  • Oppenheimer baronets of Stoke Poges
    • Sir Bernard Oppenheimer, 1st Baronet
    • Sir Michael Oppenheimer, 2nd Baronet
    • Sir Michael Bernard Grenville Oppenheimer, 3rd Baronet
  • Beit baronets of Tewin Water
  • D'Avigdor-Goldsmid baronets of Somerhill
    • Sir Osmond Elim d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 1st Baronet
    • Sir Henry Joseph d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet
    • Sir James Arthur d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet
  • Wolfson baronets of St. Marylebone

Scottish feudal baronies

Other non-hereditary titles

Judicial lordships

  • John Dyson, Lord Dyson

Knighthoods

Honorary knighthoods

See also

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