The Marquess of Reading | |
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Leader of the House of Lords | |
In office 25 August 1931 – 5 November 1931 | |
Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
Preceded by | The Lord Parmoor |
Succeeded by | The Viscount Hailsham |
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
In office 25 August 1931 – 5 November 1931 | |
Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
Preceded by | Arthur Henderson |
Succeeded by | Sir John Simon |
Viceroy and Governor-General of India | |
In office 2 April 1921 – 3 April 1926 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | |
Preceded by | The Lord Chelmsford |
Succeeded by | The Earl of Halifax |
Lord Chief Justice of England | |
In office 21 October 1913 – 8 March 1921 | |
Appointed by | George V |
Preceded by | The Viscount Alverstone |
Succeeded by | The Lord Trevethin |
Attorney-General for England | |
In office 7 October 1910 – 19 October 1913 | |
Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | Sir William Robson |
Succeeded by | Sir John Simon |
Solicitor-General for England | |
In office 6 March 1910 – 7 October 1910 | |
Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | Sir Samuel Evans |
Succeeded by | Sir John Simon |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 9 January 1914 – 30 December 1935 Hereditary Peerage | |
Preceded by | Peerage created |
Succeeded by | The 2nd Marquess of Reading |
Member of Parliament for Reading | |
In office 6 August 1904 – 19 October 1913 | |
Preceded by | George William Palmer |
Succeeded by | Leslie Orme Wilson |
Personal details | |
Born | Rufus Daniel Isaacs 10 October 1860 Tower Hamlets, London, England |
Died | 30 December 1935 Mayfair, London, England | (aged 75)
Political party | Liberal |
Spouses | |
Children | Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading |
Education | University College School |
Profession | Lawyer, jurist, politician |
Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, PC (10 October 1860 – 30 December 1935), known as the Earl of Reading from 1917 to 1926, was a British Liberal politician and judge, who served as Lord Chief Justice of England,[1] Viceroy of India, and Foreign Secretary, the last Liberal to hold that post. The second practising Jew to be a member of the British cabinet (the first being Herbert Samuel,[2] who was also a member of H. H. Asquith's government), Isaacs was the first Jew to be Lord Chief Justice, and the first, and as yet, only British Jew to be raised to a marquessate.