Moses Montefiore
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Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London. Born to an Italian Sephardic Jewish family based in London, after he achieve
Portrait, 1881
Portrait of Montefiore made after he was made an honorary British Army colonel in 1846
Collotype of Moses Montefiore, c. 1885–1900, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.
Montefiore synagogue and tomb of Montefiore in Ramsgate, England
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore is a British historian, television presenter and author of history books and novels, including Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Jerusalem: The Biography, The Romanovs
Moses Montefiore
…Sir Joseph Sebag-Montefiore (1822–1903, born Joseph Sebag), a British banker, stockbroker and politician. Sir Joseph's descendant, British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965), revealed that his family believes Sir Moses to have fathered a child late in life with a 16-year-old domestic servant. Philanthropist…
Sebag Montefiore in 2018
Montefiore giving an author talk at Politics and Prose on The World: A Family History (20 May 2023)