Sigismund Mendl

Sir Sigismund Ferdinand Mendl KBE (2 December 1866 – 17 July 1945) was a British Liberal Party politician and businessman.

Mendl was born in Kensington, the son of Russian-born grain importer and shipowner Ferdinand Mendl.[1] He was educated at Harrow School and University College, Oxford, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple.[2] Mendl was a grain importer, like his father, and served as president of the London Corn Trade Association from 1909-1912 and again from 1915-1919.[3] Mendl was the first chairman of Decca Records, for which his son, Hugh, worked.[4]

Mendl was the Liberal MP for Plymouth from 1898-1900, having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1895 and the Isle of Wight constituency in 1892.[5] During his election campaign in Plymouth, the Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler urged Jewish voters in Plymouth to vote for the non-Jewish Conservative candidate over Mendl, who was Jewish.[3] From 1915 to 1918, Mendl served on the War Office Advisory Committee on Army Contracts. Mendl was knighted in 1918.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 William D. Rubinstein; Michael Jolles; Hilary L. Rubinstein (22 February 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 665. ISBN 978-1-4039-3910-4.
  2. ↑ http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10675-mendl-sigismund-ferdinand
  3. 1 2 Julius Carlebach (1991). Second Chance: Two Centuries of German-speaking Jews in the United Kingdom. Mohr Siebeck. p. 183. ISBN 978-3-16-145741-8.
  4. ↑ Simon Napier-Bell (26 June 2014). Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The dodgy business of popular music. Random House. p. 323. ISBN 978-1-78352-030-5.
  5. ↑ http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10675-mendl-sigismund-ferdinand
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Edward Clarke and
Sir William Pearce		 Member of Parliament for Plymouth
1898–1900
With: Ivor Guest and
Edward Clarke		 Succeeded by
Charles Harrison and
Sir Edward Clarke


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