Nathan Marcus Adler, first Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, was a founder of the United Synagogue in 1870 and of a form of orthodox Jewish practice which lasts to this day.
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Henrietta Adler, known as “Nettie”, was one of the first two women on the London County Council, the body that governed London from 1889 to 1965.
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Jane Joseph was a promising musician and arranger whom composer Gustav Holst called “possibly the best pupil I ever had”. Much of her work is lost.
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Marcus Samuel was co-founder of the Shell oil company, invented the bulk oil tanker and was Lord Mayor of London.
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Arnold Weinstock took electrical engineering giant GEC through the “white heat of technology” and became Britain’s premier industrialist.
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