Ferdinand Moritz Delmar
Baron Ferdinand Moritz Delmar born Salomon Moses Levy (21 March 1781 – 27 November 1858) was a wealthy Prussian banker. He also owned coffee and tea plantations in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) including the namesake Delmar Estate. Salomon Moses Levy was born in Charlottenburg, Berlin to a Jewish family that came from Poznan. His father was Moses Salomon Levy, also a banker and grain merchant and his mother Belle was the daughter of the court banker Ruben Hesse Goldschmidt in Kassel. Delmar was also a banker and financier involved in the Prussian war tributes after the Treaties of Tilsit . He inherited Delmar and Co in 1809 and along with his brothers, he adopted the name of "Delmar" (meaning "of the sea") and converted to Christianity. He then became a councilor for Berlin and was a friend of the French aristocracy there. In 1810 he received the Prussian title of "Freiherr" (baron) von Delmar. He moved around 1815 to Paris where he married Emily (1790-1861), the daughter of Sir George Rumbold, 2nd Baronet (1764-1807). Delmar adopted his wife's niece Emily Victorine Elizabeth Rumbold, created "Freifrau" von Delmar in 1869 (1824-1904, daughter of Sir William Rumbold, 3rd  Baronet), who married in 1848 (div 1866) George Henry Cavendish (1824-1889, grandson of George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington), then in 1870 to Count Gaston de la Rochefoucauld (1834-1915). The Delmar company went out of business in 1825. Baron Delmar's estates in Ceylon were mortgaged to Baring Brothers and in 1897 the Ceylon lands were liquidated after a complicated court settlement between his adopted daughter Emily and coffee plantation owner John Boustead who had taken possession of the estates.