Saul Isaac

Saul Isaac
Saul Isaac
Member of Parliament for Nottingham
	In office; 1874–1880
Personal details
Born	1823; England
Died	late 1903
Party	Conservative Party
Occupation	Businessman
Known for	First Jewish MP elected as a Conservative

Saul Isaac (1823 – late 1903)^[1] was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was the first Jew to be elected to the House of Commons (1874 – 1880) as a Conservative candidate.^[2]

Isaac was a partner in the army contracting business run by his older brother Samuel (1812–1886),^[3] which became the largest European supplier of materials to the Confederate States during the American Civil War.^[3]

He was elected at the 1874 general election as a member of parliament (MP) for Nottingham,^[4] when the Conservatives took both the city's parliamentary seats from the Liberals.^[5] The election return describes him as a colliery proprietor, of Colwick Hall, Nottinghamshire.^[4] Isaac was defeated at the 1880 general election,^[5] and was unsuccessful when he contested Finsbury Central at the 1885 general election.^[6]

References

↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 3)
↑ "The Jubilee of Jewish Emancipation". The Times. London. 25 July 1908. pp. 16, col A.
1 2 "Isaac, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
1 2 "No. 24063". The London Gazette. 6 February 1874. p. 543.
1 2 Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 230. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 13. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.