Sir Neville Noel Ashenheim (18 December 1900 – 1 September 1984) was a

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n businessman, lawyer, politician, and served as the first Jamaican Ambassador to the

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. He received a knighthood from Queen

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on 1 January 1963. Ashenheim served his post as ambassador until March 1967 He was the great-grandson of Lewis Ashenheim, who coedited ''The First Fruits of the West'', the first Jewish Periodical literature, periodical in the West Indies. Neville himself was a Jews, Jew.

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1900 births 1984 deaths Ambassadors of Jamaica to the United States Jamaican diplomats Jamaican Jews 20th-century Jamaican lawyers 20th-century Jamaican businesspeople {{Jamaica-politician-stub