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English metalworker and art collector

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 ​ ​(m. 1882)​

Alfred Alvarez Newman (1851 – 21 January 1887), also known as Alfred Abraham, 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." Among his clients were the Dukes of Westminster and Norfolk, the Marquis of Northampton, Louisa de Rothschild, Coutts Lindsay, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

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. He possessed a unique collection of Jewish prints and tracts bearing on these subjects, which was acquired by Asher Isaac Meyers after his death.

Newman was an organizer of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition of 1887, at which much of his collection was exhibited after his death, 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. It was due largely to Newman's efforts that a proposal to demolish the Bevis Marks Synagogue was eventually defeated.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph; Lipkind, Goodman (1905). "Newman, Alfred Alvarez". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. pp. 293–294.

Footnotes

  1. General Register Office (September 1882). Marriages, Kensington. Vol. 1a. London. p. 394a – via FreeBMD.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. "Creditors' Notices". The Solicitors' Journal and Reporter. 31 (24). London: 384. 9 April 1887.
  3. Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael A.; Rubinstein, Hillary L., eds. (2011). "Newman, Alfred Alvarez". The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 720. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6. OCLC 793104984.
  4. "Obituary". The Boston Weekly Globe. 9 March 1887. p. 3.
  5. Redway, G. W., ed. (1887). "Obituary Memoirs". Walford's Antiquarian: Magazine and Bibliographical Review. 11. London: The Gresham Press: 208.
  6. Wolf, Lucien (1911–1914). "Origin of the Jewish Historical Society of England". Transactions. 7. Jewish Historical Society of England: 206–221. JSTOR 29777668.
  7. Rubens, Alfred (1955–1959). "Portrait of Anglo-Jewry 1656-1836". Transactions. 19. Jewish Historical Society of England: 13–52. JSTOR 29777944.
  8. Berger, Natalia (2017). "The Historic Anglo-Jewish Exhibition in London, 1887". The Jewish Museum. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. pp. 66–91. doi:10.1163/9789004353886_004. ISBN 9789004353886.
  9. Levy, S. (1908–1910). "Anglo-Jewish Historiography". Transactions. 6. Jewish Historical Society of England: 13. JSTOR 29777647.
  10. Hyamson, Albert M. (1951). The Sephardim of England: A History of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community 1492–1951. London: Methuen. p. 374. ISBN 9781000043846.
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