Brighton and Kent were not the only places to experience the cousinhood.
Reading Synagogue, one of several provincial synagoues built to encourage Jews to leave the East End, is in Goldsmid Road (originally Junction Road and Westfield Grove). It was opened in 1900 on land owned by the Goldsmid family. Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid bought Whiteknights Park, now Reading University. His son, Sir Francis Goldsmid, was the first of three Jewish MPs for Reading (Rufus Isaacs and Ian Mikardo were two of his successors; a fourth MP was also rumoured to be Jewish).
The Shul was opened by Sir Samuel Montagu (Federation), with foundation and corner stones also laid by Osmond D'Avigdor-Goldsmid (Reform) and Claude Montefiore (Liberal), with the main benefactor, Mrs Lionel Lucas (nee Helen Goldsmid), all four of them cousins. It was consecrated by Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler and Rev Hermann Gollancz (United).
Viscount Bearsted of Maidstone (Nicholas Samuel) has his seat at Farley Hall, close to Reading. His cousin, Leonard HL Cohen, who died a few years ago, was High Sheriff Berkshire and a Berkshire County Councillor, and also lived at Farley Hall.
Very interesting article. Thanks Harry.
Brighton and Kent were not the only places to experience the cousinhood.
Reading Synagogue, one of several provincial synagoues built to encourage Jews to leave the East End, is in Goldsmid Road (originally Junction Road and Westfield Grove). It was opened in 1900 on land owned by the Goldsmid family. Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid bought Whiteknights Park, now Reading University. His son, Sir Francis Goldsmid, was the first of three Jewish MPs for Reading (Rufus Isaacs and Ian Mikardo were two of his successors; a fourth MP was also rumoured to be Jewish).
The Shul was opened by Sir Samuel Montagu (Federation), with foundation and corner stones also laid by Osmond D'Avigdor-Goldsmid (Reform) and Claude Montefiore (Liberal), with the main benefactor, Mrs Lionel Lucas (nee Helen Goldsmid), all four of them cousins. It was consecrated by Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler and Rev Hermann Gollancz (United).
Viscount Bearsted of Maidstone (Nicholas Samuel) has his seat at Farley Hall, close to Reading. His cousin, Leonard HL Cohen, who died a few years ago, was High Sheriff Berkshire and a Berkshire County Councillor, and also lived at Farley Hall.