Title: Lender to the lords, giver to the poor
Description: The story of Samuel Lewis, the most respected and philanthropic Jewish Moneylender in Victorian Society, is one of contrasts. not only does Sam's life represent the classic Rags-To-Riches story but it also Illustartes the difference in.

Contemporary Attitides to usurers and the extravagant aristocrats who were their clients.
Subjects: Biography, History, Jewish capitalists and financiers, Philanthropists, Usury, Capitalists and financiers, Loans, Jews, great britain
Places: Great Britain
People: Samuel Lewis (b. 1838)
Time periods: 19th century