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The Jewish Naturalization Act 1753, an attempt to legalise the Jewish presence in Britain, remained in force for only a few months. Practising Jews were finally allowed to sit in Parliament after the passage of the Jews Relief Act 1858, which was a significant step on the path to Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom.
This is a list of American citizens who have held titles of nobility from other countries. Nobility is not granted by the United States itself under the Title of Nobility Clause of the Constitution .
List of British Jews is a list of prominent Jews from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. Although the first Jews may have arrived on the island of Great Britain with the Romans, it was not until the Norman Conquest of William the Conqueror in 1066 that organised Jewish communities first appeared in England.
Charles Portal, British Chief of the Air Staff 1940–1945 Combined Chiefs of Staff 1942–1945; Paul Revere (1735–1818), American silversmith, famous for "Paul Revere's Ride" at the outbreak of the American War of Independence, descended from the Rivoire family from Riocaud, in the Gironde valley, near Bordeaux. [472]
Pages in category "Surnames of Jewish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,477 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Lopes Suasso: family whose nobility was confirmed between 1818 and 1831, extinct in 1970 (notable member: Francisco Lopes Suasso, Baron d'Avernas le Gras (1657–1710), one of the leading shareholders of the West India Company, one of the most ardent supporters of the House of Orange, he supported William of Orange in 1688, in his invasion of England)
A noble house is an aristocratic family or kinship group, either currently or historically of national or international significance [clarification needed], and usually associated with one or more hereditary titles, the most senior of which will be held by the "Head of the House" or patriarch.
Pages in category "American people of British-Jewish descent" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .