David Abarbanel Lindo
Born1772
Disappeared1852 (aged 79–80)
OccupationCommunal Worker
ChildrenAbigail Lindo

David Lindo was an English Sephardi communal worker and elder of Bevis Marks Synagogue.[1]

He was the son of Elias Lindo (1740-1785), a royal exchange broker, and Grace Lumbroso de Mattos, the daughter of Moses Lumbroso de Mattos (1700-59).

David was an uncle of Benjamin Disraeli and he carried out his circumcision.[2][3][4] He was an uncle by marriage of Moses Montefiore.

He opposed the founders of the Reform movement in London. Lindo had at least eighteen children, many of whom married into well established Sephardi families.[5][6]

Parnas of Bevis Marks Synagogue several times between 1809-38.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Lindo". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  2. ↑ Wolf, Lucien (1885). Sir Moses Montefiore: A Centennial Biography, with Extracts from Letters and Journals. J. Murray.
  3. ↑ Wolf, Lucien (2011-11-10). Sir Moses Montefiore: A Centennial Biography. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-03668-9.
  4. ↑ Disraeli, Benjamin (1884). Lord Beaconsfield on the Constitution: "What is He?" and "A Vindication of the English Constitution". Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Presse.
  5. ↑ "LINDO, DAVID ABARBANEL - JewishEncyclopedia.com". jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  6. ↑ Gaster, Moses (1901). History of the Ancient Synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews: The Cathedral Synagogue of the Jews in England, Situate in Bevis Marks . A Memorial Volume Written Specially to Celebrate the Two-hundredth Anniversary of Its Inauguration, 1701-1901. With Illustrations and Facsimiles of Deeds and Documents. Harrison & sons. ISBN 978-0-243-73208-1.
  7. ↑ England), Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation (London (1993). Bevis Marks Records: Being Contributions to the History of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London. Printed at the University Press by J. Johnson.
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