Samson Ricardo

Samson Israel Ricardo
Member of Parliament for
Windsor
In office
1855–1857
Preceded byLord Charles Wellesley
Succeeded byWilliam Vansittart
Personal details
Born(1792-11-19)19 November 1792
London, England
Died14 November 1862(1862-11-14) (aged 69)
Grosvenor Place, London England
PartyWhig
RelationsDavid Ricardo (brother)
Parent(s)Abraham Israel Ricardo
Abigail Delvalle
OccupationBusinessman, politician

Samson Israel Ricardo (19 November 1792 – 14 November 1862) was a British politician who served as a Whig Member of Parliament (MP).

Early life

Ricardo was born in London on 19 November 1792 into the wealthy family of Portuguese origin. He was a younger son of successful stockbroker Abraham Israel Ricardo and Abigail (née Delvalle) Ricardo, a daughter of Abraham Delvalle (also "del Valle"). Among his siblings were the political economist David Ricardo and financier Jacob Ricardo, who was the father of John Lewis Ricardo.

The Ricardo family were Sephardic Jews of Portuguese origin who had recently relocated from the Dutch Republic. His maternal aunt, Rebecca Delvalle, was wife of the engraver Wilson Lowry, mother of the engraver Joseph Wilson Lowry as well as the geologist, mineralogist, and author Delvalle Lowry.

Career

He was also the business partner of his nephew John Lewis Ricardo, with whom he became an investor and director of the Electric Telegraph Company.

Ricardo was elected as MP for Windsor a by-election from 1855 to 1857. He had failed to win the seat in the 1852 general election and lost it in the 1857 general election.[citation needed]

Personal life

Ricardo died at Grosvenor Place in London on 14 November 1862.

References

  1. ↑ Heertje, Arnold (2004). "The Dutch and Portuguese-Jewish background of David Ricardo". European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 11 (2): 281–294. doi:10.1080/0967256042000209288. S2CID 154424757.
  2. ↑ Sraffa, Piero; David Ricardo (1955), The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo: Volume 10, Biographical Miscellany, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, p. 434, ISBN 0-521-06075-3 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  3. 1 2 Heertje, Arnold (2004). "The Dutch and Portuguese-Jewish background of David Ricardo". European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 11 (2): 281–294. doi:10.1080/0967256042000209288. S2CID 154424757.
  4. ↑ David Ricardo, D. Weatherall, Springer Netherlands, 2012, p. 6
  5. ↑ Anglo-Jewish Portraits- A Biographical Catalogue of Engraved Anglo-Jewish and Colonial Portraits from the Earliest Times to the Accession of Queen Victoria, Alfred Rubens, Jewish Museum, London, 1935, p. 69
  6. ↑ Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (2 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/23471. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23471. Retrieved 14 December 2019. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ↑ "Distant Writing - Electric Telegraph Company". distantwriting.co.uk. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  8. ↑ They work for you
  9. ↑ 1857 The Letters of Richard Cobden: Volume III: 1854-1859
  10. ↑ Rubinstein, W.; Jolles, Michael A. (27 January 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Springer. p. 799. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6. Retrieved 28 May 2024.