Dudley Joel

Lieutenant Dudley Jack Barnato Joel was an English officer of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 27 April 1904, in London, the son of Solomon, a businessman with extensive interests in South Africa, and Ellen Joel (née Ridley), a Lancashire actress who had converted to Judaism.Maryna Fraser, ‘Joel, Solomon Barnato (1865–1931)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2013 accessed 12 Feb 2015. He studied at Repton School and King's College before becoming an insurance underwriter. In 1931, he was elected as the conservative member of parliament for Dudley,Rubinstein, William D. (2011), The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History, p. 487. and retained the seat in the 1935 general election.
Joel died on 28 May 1941, when German bombers attacked and heavily damaged the steam merchant ship HMS Registan off Cape Cornwall. The vessel had been designated an "ocean boarding vessel" and was tasked with the enforcement of the Royal Navy's blockade of enemy countries. He had married, in 1936, to Esme Oldham.
He is buried in Willesden Jewish Cemetery. 
==Notes==
==References==
*Joel, Dudley Jack Barnato, cwgc.org. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
==External links==
*Dudley Joel's contributions to parliament, hansard.millbanksystems.com. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
Category:1904 births
Category:1941 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Category:Buried in England
Category:Lieutenants