David Abarbanel Lindo

David Lindo was an English Sephardi communal worker and elder of Bevis Marks Synagogue.[1]

David Abarbanel Lindo
Born1772
Disappeared1852 (aged 7980)
OccupationCommunal Worker
ChildrenAbigail Lindo

He was the son of Elias Lindo (1740-1785), a royal exchange broker, and Grace Lumbroso de Mattos, the daughter of Moses Lumbroso de Mattos (1700-59).

David was an uncle of Benjamin Disraeli and he carried out his circumcision.[2][3][4] He was an uncle by marriage of Moses Montefiore.

He opposed the founders of the Reform movement in London. Lindo had at least eighteen children, many of whom married into well established Sephardi families.[5][6]

Parnas of Bevis Marks Synagogue several times between 1809-38.[7]

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