MONTEFIORE, JOSEPH BARROW
- MONTEFIORE, JOSEPH BARROW
- MONTEFIORE, JOSEPH BARROW (1803–1893), Australian pioneer. A
cousin of sir moses montefiore , Joseph Barrow Montefiore was born
in London. At the age of 23, he bought a seat on the London Stock
Exchange and became one of the 12 "Jew brokers" in the city. He
immigrated to Australia in 1829 with considerable means at his disposal
and was granted 5,000 acres of land. In Melbourne, Sydney, and later in
South Australia, he acquired extensive parcels of land. In 1838 he was
invited to give evidence to the House of Lords on the state of the
islands of New Zealand. He and his elder brother Jacob, who was one of
the 11 commissioners appointed by King William IV to
organize the administration of South Australia, helped to establish the
Bank of Australasia. Montefiore, who had ultimately made his home in
Adelaide, became one of its most prominent commercial and industrial
figures. When in Sydney, he was South Australia's agent in New South
Wales, and one of the original trustees of the State Savings Bank of
South Australia. In 1832 Montefiore helped to organize Australia's first
congregation, the Sydney Synagogue, the predecessor of the Great
Synagogue, and was its first president. He was a trustee of the Jewish
cemetery, for which he had secured a land grant from the government. The
township of Montefiore in New South Wales and Montefiore Hill in
Adelaide are tributes to the pioneering work of Montefiore and his
family. He spent the last years of his life in England.
-ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
J.S. Levi and G.F.J. Bergman, Australian Genesis: Jewish Convicts
and Settlers, 1788–1860 (2002), 171–74, index; ADB;
H.L. Rubinstein, Australia I, index.
(Israel Porush)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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