Levy Barent Cohen

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Levy Barent Cohen (1747 – 1808) was a Dutch-born British financier and community worker.

Levy Barent Cohen
Born1747
Died1808
OccupationFinancier
SpouseLydia Diamantschleifer
ParentBarent Cohen
RelativesShlomo David Cohen-Chazzan (brother)
Nanette Salomons Cohen (niece)
Nathan Mayer Rothschild (son-in-law)
Moses Montefiore (son-in-law)

Early life

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Levy Barent Cohen was born in Amsterdam in 1747. He was the son of Barent Cohen, a wealthy merchant.[1] Cohen was of Ashkenazi[2] Jewish descent.[3]

Career

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Cohen and his brother moved to England where they developed a large business in London. He became known as one of the leading merchants of the city.[1]

Personal life

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Cohen was naturalized as a British subject in 1798. He was closely involved in a number of Jewish charities and filled successively all the offices of the Duke's Place Synagogue, the principal Ashkenazi synagogue in London.[1]

He married twice, first to Fanny (née Diamantschleifer) then, after her death, to Fanny's sister, Lydia. He had eight surviving children.[4] Through the marriages his children contracted, including with Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Sir Moses Montefiore, nearly all the leading Jewish families in England were connected with him.[1] In addition, his brother's daughter was Nanette Salomons Cohen, the maternal grandmother of both Karl Marx and Frederik Philips who – with his son Gerard – founded Philips Electronics.[5]

Partial list of descendants

Death

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Cohen died in England in 1808.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Cohen, Levy Barent". The Jewish Encyclopedia, Funk & Wagnalls, New York. Retrieved 6 December 2019
  2. ^ Cohen, Lord Justice (1945). "Levi Barent Cohen and some of his descendants". Transactions (Jewish Historical Society of England). 16: 11–23. ISSN 2047-2331. JSTOR 29777856.
  3. ^ "COHEN, LEVY BARENT - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  4. ^ Dwor, Richa (2015). "Montefiore [née Barent Cohen], Judith". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/64882. Retrieved 5 December 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ Klaus (1 January 2008). "Westdeutsche Gesellschaft für Familienkunde e.V. Sitz Köln - Bezirksgruppe Krefeld (A walk through Nijmegen: A communist and founder of Philips have same roots. West German Family Research Society, Krefeld Journal nr 23, 1.1.2008)" (PDF). Retrieved 6 December 2019.

  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSinger, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Cohen, Levy Barent". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.