Alexander Salmon (1820 – 6 August 1866) was an English merchant who was the first Jew to reside in Tahiti.[1] He became secretary to Queen Pōmare IV and married her adopted half-sister.[2] Through his daughter's marriage to John Brander his family formed part of the influential Salmon/Brander Clan of Tahiti.[3]
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