(Goldsmid, Abraham). An Act to Authorize a Composition for the Debt Remaining Due to His Majesty from the Late Abraham Goldsmid Merchant, and His Surviving Partners

(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

George Eyre and Andrew Strahan

London

1820

Seal of British Empire, “Honi soit qui mal y pense” (“Who thinks evil shall be ashamed”)

Abraham Goldsmid (1756?-1810), and his brother Benjamin were prominent Anglo-Jewish financiers who during the Napoleonic War loaned the British Government 14 million pounds. Unfortunately, the scrip of the new loan kept falling and Abraham Goldsmid was forced into bankruptcy, finally committing suicide on September 28, 1810. (Brother Benjamin committed suicide earlier in 1808. See previous Lot). In 1820, Parliament annulled the remaining portion of the debts, whether owed to the Government or to individual citizens