Jacob Montefiore

1801 - 3rd Nov 1895

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

London merchant, born in Barbados, the son of Eliezer Montefiore, and a partner with his brother Joseph Barrow Montefiore (q.v., under Joseph Montefiore). Their London firm failed in 1842.

  1. The Montefiore brothers were active in the early colonisation of Australia. The partnership between Jacob Montefiore and Leslie Jacob Montefiore, trading under the style of Jacob Montefiore and Co., at Melbourne, Victoria, dissolved 01/06/1855.

  2. Jacob Montefiore appears in all censuses between 1841 and 1891, (with his wife Justina between 1851 and 1881) living mainly in London, at [24] Tavistock Square, 7 Lower Belgrave Street, 12 Brunswick Square Hove, and most latterly at 35 Hyde Park Square. Their daughter Violet was born in Melbourne c. 1854. Montefiore died 03/11/1895 in London, effects £1843 6s resworn December 1896 at £2001 7s 2d.


Sources

T71/896 Barbados claim no. 1274.

  1. London Gazette, Issue 21869, 05/05/1871, p. 2195.

  2. 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 censuses online.

We are grateful for the help of Nikita Vanderbyl of La Trobe with this entry.


Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish?
Spouse
Justina
Children
Leslie (1830-), Louisa (1835-), Sidney (1837-), Ada (1842-), Violet (1854-)

Associated Claims (2)

£386 19s 1d
Awardee (Trustee)
£514 12s 3d
Unsuccessful claimant (Trustee)

Legacies Summary

Commercial (3)

Name partner
Jacob and Joseph Montefiore
General overseas merchant?  
 
Railway Investment
London, Salisbury and Yeovil Junction (Basingstoke to Yeovil) [1846285]  
£2000 
Director
 

Imperial (2)

Colonization Commissioner
Australia: South Australia 
notes →
Member of the South Australian Colonisation Commission 1835-9...
sources →
Australian Dictionary of Biography: entry for Jacob Barrow...
Partner
Jacob Montefiore and Co. Australia: Victoria 
notes →
The partnership between Jacob Montefiore and Leslie Jacob Montefiore, trading under the style of Jacob Montefiore and Co., at Melbourne, Victoria, dissolved...

Relationships (2)

Brothers
Notes →
If LBS's identification of Joseph Montefiore as Joseph Barrow Montefiore is a correct, then Jacob Montefiore was his...
Brothers
Notes →
Tentative only. Moses Eliezer Montefiore was the brother of Jacob...

Addresses (7)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
12 Brunswick Square, Hove, Sussex, South-east England, England
20 Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, London, Middlesex, London, England
24 Tavistock Square, London, Middlesex, London, England
35 Hyde Park Gardens, London, Middlesex, London, England
7 Lower Belgrave Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
98 Upper Kennington Lane, Lambeth, London, Surrey, London, England