Alfred Alvarez Newman

Alfred Alvarez Newman
Born1851 (1851)
London, United Kingdom
Died21 January 1887(1887-01-21) (aged 35–36)
London, United Kingdom
Occupation(s)Metal craftsman, art collector, antiquary
Spouse
Theresa Dora Saunders
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(m. 1882)​
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Alfred Alvarez Newman (1851 – 21 January 1887), also known as Alfred Abraham,[2] was an English metalworker and art collector.

He was the founder of the picturesque Old English Smithy on Archer Street, Haymarket, which became a place of fashionable resort during the "London season."[3] Among his clients were the Dukes of Westminster and Norfolk, the Marquis of Northampton, Louisa de Rothschild, Coutts Lindsay, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema.[4]

Newman's interests included Anglo-Jewish history and archaeology, and was the author of several papers communicated to the Society of Architects and similar bodies.[5] He possessed a unique collection of Jewish prints and tracts bearing on these subjects,[6] which was acquired by Asher Isaac Meyers after his death.[7]

Newman was an organizer of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition of 1887, at which much of his collection was exhibited after his death,[8] and was among the first to give his support to the formation of the Jewish Historical Society of England, which was afterwards founded in 1893.[9] It was due largely to Newman's efforts that a proposal to demolish the Bevis Marks Synagogue was eventually defeated.[10]

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