Rufus Isaacs (1860-1935; ODNB); son of a Jewish fruit importer; travelled the world as a deckhand, 1876-7; stockbroker; barr. 1887, QC 1898; MP (L) Reading 1904-13; solicitor-general and kt., 1910; attorney-general, 1910-13; implicated in the 'Marconi scandal', and the subject of Rudyard Kipling's anti-semitic poem, 'Gehazi'; lord chief justice, 1913-21; baron Reading, 1914, viscount 1916, earl of Reading 1917; special envoy in the USA ,1915-18, ambassador 1918-19; viceroy of India, 1921-6; 1st marquess of Reading, 1926; business career; leader, Liberal party House of Lords, 1931-5; foreign secretary in the first National government, 1931; member, Indian constitutional conferences, 1930-4.

Journal references: 3

• 5 Jan 1921
• 28 Jan 1921
• 25 Sep 1921