page_title: List of British Jewish nobility and gentry
section_title: Gentry
hierarchical_section_title: List of British Jewish nobility and gentry / Gentry
caption_attribution_description: English: Moses Montefiore
context_page_description: The British nobility consists of two, sometimes overlapping entities, the peerage and the gentry. The peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles, granted by the Sovereign. Under this system, only the senior family member bears a substantive title. The gentry are untitled members of the upper classes, however, exceptions include baronets, knights, Scottish barons and Lairds.
  The history of the Jews in Britain goes back to the reign of William I. The first written record of Jewish settlement in England dates from 1070, although Jews may have lived there since Roman times. The Jewish presence continued until King Edward I's Edict of Expulsion in 1290. After the expulsion, there was no Jewish community, apart from individuals who practised Judaism secretly, until the rule of Oliver Cromwell. While Cromwell never officially readmitted Jews to Britain, a small colony of Sephardic Jews living in London was identified in 1656 and allowed to remain. The Jewish Naturalisation Act of 1753, an attempt to legalise the Jewish presence in Britain, remained in force for only a few months.
caption: Sir Moses Montefiore, 1st Baronet
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