Sydney Montagu Samuel
Sydney Montagu Samuel | |
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Born | East London, United Kingdom | 21 June 1848
Died | 21 June 1882 Fulham, Middlesex, United Kingdom | (aged 34)
Alma mater | University College, London |
Sydney Montagu Samuel (21 June 1848 – 21 June 1884) was an English journalist, librettist, financier, and communal worker.
Biography
Samuel was born in
Samuel was a broker of the city of London, and was engaged in the banking establishment of his relatives, Samuel Montagu & Co. He contributed poetry and articles on financial matters to the Examiner and other publications, and wrote for the Times an annual financial survey.[3]
He became honorary secretary to the Jewish Board of Guardians in 1878, and wrote its annual reports from 1878 to 1882. He held a similar office in the Jewish Association for the Diffusion of Religious Knowledge, and assisted in establishing the Jewish Working Men's Club. He and Israel Davis jointly purchased the Jewish Chronicle from the Anglo-Jewish Association, to which it had been left by Abraham Benisch on his death in 1878,[4][5] and appointed as editor Asher Myers.[6] In 1879 he travelled to the Holy Land, Egypt, and elsewhere in the Near East, where he investigated the condition of the local Jewish communities. The result was embodied in his Jewish Life in the East (1881).[3]
As a playwright, Samuel wrote the English
Overwork took a toll on his health, and he was admitted to the Munster House Lunatic Asylum in Fulham, Middlesex, on 17 November 1882.[13] He died there in 1884, on his 34th birthday.[14]
Bibliography
- Hugo, Victor (1879). La lyre et la harpe [The Lyre and the Harp]. Translated by Samuel, Sydney M.; Donzel, James. Paris: Durand, Schoenewek & Cie. Music by Camille Saint-Saëns.
- Sardou, Victorien; Nuitter, Charles-Louis-Étienne (1879). Piccolino. Translated by Samuel, Sydney M.
- Samuel, Sydney M.; Cowen, Henrietta (1880). A Quiet Pipe: An Original Domestic Scene. London: P. Vallentine.
- Samuel, Sydney M. (1881). Jewish Life in the East. London: C. K. Paul & Co.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph; Lipkind, Goodman (1905). "Samuel, Sydney Montagu". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 28.
- OCLC 793104984.
- Gale CX2587517425.
- ^ a b Jacobs, Joseph; Lipkind, Goodman (1905). "Samuel, Sydney Montagu". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 28.
- ^ Shaftesley, John M., ed. (1966). Remember the Days: Essays on Anglo-Jewish History Presented to Cecil Roth by Members of the Council of the Jewish Historical Society of England. London: Jewish Historical Society of England. p. 230.
- JSTOR 23908272.
- ISBN 978-0-521-43434-8.
- ^ Hart, Jerome A. (1913). Sardou and the Sardou Plays. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company. p. 53.
- ^ "M. Guirard's 'Piccolino'". The Athenæum (2675). London: 161. 1 February 1879.
- JSTOR 3356778.
- ^ Scott, Clement, ed. (1 April 1880). "Our Play-Box". The Theatre: A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts. 1. London: Charles Dickens & Evans: 244.
- ^ Rideing, William H., ed. (1880–1881). "March 1880". Dramatic Notes: An Illustrated Year-Book of the London Stage. 2. London: David Bogue: 17.
- ^ Brett, Edwin J. (3 May 1881). "Our Critic at the Play". Something to Read. 1 (8). London: Charles Dickens & Evans: 126.
- ^ "Metropolitan Licensed Houses" (January 1876 to December 1885). Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, ID: MH 94 (5), p. 36956. Kew, Surrey: The National Archives.
- ^ "Wills and Administrations" (1884). Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England, p. 332. London: Principal Probate Registry.