David Lindo was an English Sephardi communal worker and elder of
Bevis Marks Synagogue.
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
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation o ...
and he carried out his circumcision. 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.
Parnas of
Bevis Marks Synagogue several times between 1809-38.
References
English Sephardi Jews
19th-century Sephardi Jews
1772 births
1852 deaths
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