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marriage with Moses Lombrozo de Mattos she had two sons and
a daughter.
The name of Mocatta was revived by her eldest son Abraham
Lombrozo de Mattos born in 1730, who by Royal license in 1791
dropped the names of Lumbrozo de Mattos and substituted for
them his maternal grandfather’s name of Mocatta. The Lumbrozo
de Mattos family was among the earliest settlers in England
during the Commonwealth, and through his uncle Abraham Lum
brozo de Mattos he was connected with the Francias, who were
among the secret community of Jews who lived in London pre
viously to the coming of Menasseh ben Israel. He entered the
business of his grandfather, Abraham Mocatta, in Mansell Street
as a youth, and succeeded him as one of the twelve Jew brokers
in 1749. In 1783 he became associated with Asher Goldsmid, and
the name of the firm was changed to Mocatta and Goldsmid, and
in due course became the official brokers to the East India Com
pany and the Bank of England. After 1810, the firm of Mocatta
and Goldsmid, under the guidance of Asher’s famous son, Isaac
Lyon Goldsmid, took a great development. It played a great part
in financing the early English railways and as contractors for
foreign loans. Abraham Mocatta died in 1800 leaving a large
fortune. He was a prominent member of the Bevis Marks Syna
gogue, and was actively associated with the leading Jewish Cha
rities. In 1759 he married Esther, the heiress of Isaac Lamego,
one of the wealthiest members of the Sephardi community. She
died in 1799, and by her he Md eleven children. Among his grand
children was Sir Moses Montefiore. Other grandchildren married
into the Basevi family and became brothers and sisters-in-law of
Isaac D’Israeli. One of his great great grandchildren married her
cousin Ralph Disraeli, a brother of the Earl of Beaconsfield,
whose son, Mr. Coningsby Disraeli, was the Earl’s heir.
Lucien Wolf.