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The Marquess of Reading
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
19 September 1960  2 July 1980
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded byThe 2nd Marquess of Reading
Succeeded byThe 4th Marquess of Reading
Personal details
Born(1916-03-08)8 March 1916
Died2 July 1980(1980-07-02) (aged 64)
SpouseMargot Irene Duke
ChildrenSimon Rufus Isaacs, 4th Marquess of Reading,
Lord Alexander Rufus Isaacs
Lady Jacqueline Rufus Isaacs
Parent(s)Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading
Hon. Eva Violet Mond

Michael Alfred Rufus Isaacs, 3rd Marquess of Reading (8 March 1916 – 2 July 1980) was an English aristocrat and banker.

Biography

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Early life

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He was born in 1916. His father was Gerald Rufus Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading (1889–1960),[1][2] and his paternal grandfather was Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860–1935).[1] His mother was Eva Violet Mond (1895–1973),[1][2] daughter of Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett (1868–1930)[1] and Violet Mond, Baroness Melchett (1867–1945). Eva Violet Mond's grandfather Ludwig Mond (1839–1909), chemist and industrialist, created the Mond process to extract and purify nickel.

He became the 3rd Marquess of Reading after his father's death in 1960.

Career

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He was a member of the London Stock Exchange.[2]

Personal life

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He was married to Margot Irene (née Duke).[1] They had two sons, Simon Rufus Isaacs, 4th Marquess of Reading (born 1942) and Lord Alexander Rufus Isaacs (born 1957), and a daughter, Lady Jacqueline Rosemary Margaret Rufus Isaacs, who married Sir Mark Wilfrid Home Thomson, 3rd Baronet (born 1939).[1]

He died in 1980,[1] and Lady Reading lived until 2015.[3]

Arms

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Coat of arms of Michael Isaacs, 3rd Marquess of Reading
Coronet
Coronet of a marquess.
Crest
In front of a leopard's head couped sable, a fasces as in the arms.
Escutcheon
Sable, a bend between two leopards' faces or, on a chief argent a fasces fessewise proper.
Supporters
On either side a leopard proper, round the neck a collar or, pendant therefrom an escutcheon argent charged with a human head affrontée proper erased at the neck, ducally crowned proper.
Motto
Aut nunquam tentes, aut perspice (Either do not attempt, or complete).[4]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The Peerage
  2. 1 2 3 National Portrait Gallery
  3. READING
  4. Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. London: Debrett's Peerage Ltd. 2003. p. 1334.