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...surprise financial wiseacres who were aware that most of his holdings were in stocks knocked down by the economic depression, particularly Imperial Chemical and International Nickel. The remaining estate will be divided among his family. The new Lord Melchett will inherit half the estate. Lady Erleigh, daughter-in-law of the Marquess of Reading, Great Britain's No. 1 Jew, is to receive Lord Melchett's property facing Lake Tiberias in Palestine...
...Jewish Telegraphic Agency at once pointed out, Rufus Daniel Isaacs' son & heir Gerald Rufus Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, is the husband of Alfred Moritz Mond's daughter Eva Violet. The son & heir of this No. 1 Jewish couple is Master Michael Alfred Rufus Isaacs...
Meanwhile one of Sir Alfred's daughters, Eva Violet, had married (1914) Gerald Rufus Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, only son and heir of the Marquess of Reading. His second daughter, Angela Mary, married (1922) Sir Neville Pearson, English newspaper proprietor and publisher. The only son of this Mond branch, Henry, chairman of the Mondson Chemical Co., married a Transvaal girl, Amy Gwen Wilson...
...Until last February Sir Alfred Mond was, politically, a Liberal leader in association with Mr. Lloyd George and the Earl of Asquith and Oxford (TiME, Feb. 1). Now he considers himself a Conservative, like his relative-in-law, the Marquis of Reading, whose heir (Gerald Rufus Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh) married Sir Alfred Mond's daughter (Eva Violet). Together with the Rothschilds, Montagus, and Sassoons, theirs are the most prominent of many potent Jewish families in England...
...imposing list: Bencher of the Middle Temple (1904); Member of Parliament from Reading (1904-13); Knight (1910); Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-21); Baron (1914); President of the Anglo-French Loan Commission to the U. S. (1915); Viscount Reading (1916); Special Envoy to the U. S. (1917); Viscount Erleigh and Earl of Reading (1917); High Commissioner and Special Ambassador to the U. S. (1918); Viceroy and Governor General of India (1921-26) (TIME, April...