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David Jacob Stern, birth 1807, died 1877, son of Jacob Stern and Theresa Wohl
Married 1841 to: Sophia Goldsmid, birth 1821, died 1900, daughter of Aaron Asher Goldsmid and Sophia Salomons |
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1) Sydney de Stern, birth 1845 LONDON, ENGLAND, died 10 Feb 1912 Baron Wandsworth Sydney James Stern, 1st Baron Wandsworth (born 1845, London, died February 10, 1912) was a British banker, M.P. and philanthropist. The eldest son of Viscount de Stern, senior partner of the firm of Stern Brothers, and Sophia, daughter of Aaron Asher Goldsmid, brother of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge and for some time worked in his fa ther's firm of Stern Brothers. He unsuccessfully contested the Middle Division of Surrey in 1880 and 1884, Ipswich, 1886, Tiverton, 1885, and was finally elected as M.P. for Stowmarket in 1891 and was created a peer on July 19, 1895. He was appoin ted J.P. for Surrey and London and was awarded the rank of honorary colonel in the 4th volunteer battalion of the East Surrey Regiment. He was vice president of the London and Counties Radical Union and held a Portuguese Viscountcy by right of hi s father. He left an estate of 1,555,984 pound sterling most of which was bequeathed to charity, over a million being given to found an orphanage in his name which was actually used to found Lord Wandsworth College. |