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32-477: Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling (21 December 1832 – 12 January 1911), was a British banker who founded the bank of Samuel Montagu & Co. He was a philanthropist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1900, and was later raised to the peerage . Montagu identified himself with Orthodox Judaism , and devoted himself to social services and advancing Jewish institutions. Montagu

64-523: A burial strip. At that time he was aware of the overcrowding in his constituency, and wanted to encourage Jewish families to move to the suburbs. In 1898, he proposed that land south of Salmons Brook , Edmonton—some 25 acres (100,000 m) in all—be used to construct 700 houses, to house between 3000 and 4000 people. The houses were to have low rents and to include small gardens, with preference given to those currently living in Whitechapel . He first proposed

96-560: A further compensation scheme for those affected, and a wider debate on the Home Office hostile environment policy . Aderonke Apata , a Nigerian LGBT activist , made two asylum claims that were both rejected by the Home Office in 2014 and on 1 April 2015 respectively, due to her previously having been in a relationship with a man and having children with that man. In 2014, Apata said that she would send an explicit video of herself to

128-514: A suburb of Southampton . In 1907, Montagu was raised to the peerage as Baron Swaythling , of Swaythling in the County of Southampton. Montagu died in January 1911, aged 78. Montagu married Ellen Cohen, daughter of Louis Cohen, in 1862. His eldest child, Henrietta , was known for improving children's education whilst his daughter Lily helped to establish Liberal Judaism . He was succeeded in

160-464: A trained barrister, had been the first outside director of NM Rothschild, before joining the Drayton Corporation, a manager of investment trusts. Its founder, Harley Drayton, was a well-known City buccaneer. Drayton was later absorbed by Samuel Montagu, to form the merchant bank's investment management subsidiary, Drayton Montagu Portfolio Management. Its managing director was David Stevens until

192-744: The Home Department , is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom . It is responsible for immigration , security , and law and order . As such, it is responsible for policing in England and Wales, fire and rescue services in England, Border Force , visas and immigration , and the Security Service (MI5) . It is also in charge of government policy on security-related issues such as drugs , counterterrorism , and immigration . It

224-593: The Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the Home Office . The expenditure, administration, and policy of the Home Office are scrutinised by the Home Affairs Select Committee . The Home Office is headed by the Home Secretary , a Cabinet minister, supported by the department's senior civil servant, the permanent secretary . The Home Office comprises eleven directorates that help fulfil

256-723: The Federation secure the services of distinguished rabbinical scholars such as Dr Mayer Lerner of Wurzheim in 1890 and the Maggid of Kamenitsk, Chaim Zundel Maccoby. In 1889 Montagu stated that "one of the principal objects of the Federation was to endeavour to raise the social condition of the Jews in East London and to prevent anything like anarchy and socialism …The blessings of the Patriarchs that they would increase their cattle and amass wealth, and

288-568: The Home Office had its offices in what is now the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Main Building on King Charles Street, off Whitehall . From 1978 to 2004, the Home Office was then located at 50 Queen Anne's Gate , a Brutalist office block in Westminster designed by Sir Basil Spence , close to St James's Park tube station . Many functions, however, were devolved to offices in other parts of London, and

320-411: The Home Office to prove her sexuality. This resulted in her asylum bid gaining widespread support, with multiple petitions created in response, which gained hundreds of thousands of signatures combined. On 8 August 2017, after a thirteen-year legal battle and after a new appeal from Apata was scheduled for late July, she was granted refugee status in the United Kingdom by the Home Office. Until 1978,

352-563: The Home Office. The initial responsibilities were: Responsibilities were subsequently changed over the years that followed: The Home Office retains a variety of functions that have not found a home elsewhere and sit oddly with the main law-and-order focus of the department, such as regulation of British Summer Time . On 18 July 2012, the Public and Commercial Services Union announced that thousands of Home Office employees would go on strike over jobs, pay and other issues. The union called off

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384-644: The Samuel Montagu Youth Centre provides recreational opportunities for young people. Montagu is remembered in Edmonton at: Montagu Road, Montagu Gardens, Montagu Crescent, Montagu Road School (demolished) and Swaythling Close. Samuel Montagu %26 Co. Set up as a bullion brokerage firm, by Samuel Montagu in 1853, it aimed to make money from the Australian gold rush by brokering deals between sellers and buyers. From 1911 onwards, it became part of

416-515: The acquisition Midland also gained a majority share in Guyerzeller Bank AG in Switzerland . Michael Samuel Rosenberg was Director of Corporate Finance for Samuel Montagu & Co. Ltd., from 1972 to 1974. Samuel Montagu's chairman in the 1970s was Philip Shelbourne , who owned a terrier named Montagu, which would travel with him in the back seat of his chauffeur-driven Mercedes. Shelbourne,

448-471: The baronetcy and barony by his eldest son, Louis Montagu , co-founder of the anti-Zionist League of British Jews . His second son, Edwin Montagu , followed his father into politics, becoming Secretary of State for India . In 1915, Edwin Montagu married Venetia Stanley (1887–1948), who in accordance with the will of the 1st Baron Swaythling converted to Judaism upon her marriage. Lord Swaythling's nephew

480-470: The collection of foreign coupons. Later the firm also dealt in foreign bills of exchange . Montagu's commitment to Jewish causes included both initiatives aimed at improving the lot of Jews in England, and his participation in the proto- Zionist "Lovers of Zion" movement. He was involved in founding new synagogues , and in establishing the Federation of Synagogues in 1887, which was an umbrella body for

512-670: The country, notably the headquarters of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate in Croydon. In 2005, the Home Office moved to a new main office designed by Sir Terry Farrell at 2 Marsham Street , Westminster, on the site of the demolished Marsham Towers building of the Department of the Environment . For external shots of its fictional Home Office, the TV series Spooks uses an aerial shot of

544-624: The criminal. The Home Office did not accept the offer because that practice had been discontinued. Montagu offered it because the Whitechapel murders resulted in some anti-semitic incidents against the East End population. In 1893, on behalf of the English "Lovers of Zion", Montagu presented a petition in favour of Jewish colonisation in Palestine to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs . He asked that

576-837: The department's responsibilities. As of April 2024, the Home Office works with the following agencies and public bodies: In the financial year 2022-2023, the Home Office had a total budget of £20.3 billion. The Home Office ministers are as follows, with cabinet ministers in bold. King Charles III [REDACTED] William, Prince of Wales [REDACTED] Charles III ( King-in-Council ) [REDACTED] Starmer ministry ( L ) Keir Starmer ( L ) Angela Rayner ( L ) ( King-in-Parliament ) [REDACTED] Charles III [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The Lord Reed The Lord Hodge Andrew Bailey Monetary Policy Committee The Department outlined its aims for this Parliament in its Business Plan, which

608-597: The early 1990s. The firm decided to enter the securities market buying W. Greenwell & Co., a stockbroker, in March 1984. In 2003, HSBC spun off its private equity business, which took the name Montagu Private Equity . This article about a financial services company in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Home Office The Home Office ( HO ), also known (especially in official papers and when referred to in Parliament) as

640-574: The group of companies which formed the London bullion market . After the death of founder Samuel Montagu, the bank passed into the ownership of the family trust, Montagu Trust. In 1967, the Midland Bank acquired a share in Montagu Trust, and so became the first British clearing bank to control a London merchant bank. Samuel Montagu & Co. became a wholly owned subsidiary in 1974, and on completion of

672-524: The minister forward it to the Turkish Sultan. The petition was evidence that what was to become political Zionism had already taken root in the minds of both Christian researchers of Palestine, and Jewish activists in search for solutions to the so-called " Jewish question ". Montagu presented land he owned in Jeremys Green Lane, Edmonton —now known as Montagu Road—to the Federation of Synagogues as

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704-504: The project to the LCC , and then Edmonton UDC; both prevaricated. In 1899, after the proposals were rejected, Montagu subsequently gave £10,000 (equivalent to £1421861 in 2023) towards LCC housing on the White Hart Lane estate , Tottenham . Montagu was also strong advocate for decimalisation of the pound. Towards the end of his life, Montagu lived at South Stoneham House at Swaythling ,

736-455: The prophecy would never cease out of the land, were in themselves evidence that Judaism did not recognise anything like social equality amongst all classes of people." Historian Geoffrey Alderman has described the Federation as the 'largest single instrument of Anglicization, as well as social control, that Anglo-Jewry possessed.' Montagu was elected at the 1885 general election Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Whitechapel , and held

768-406: The seat until he stood down at the 1900 general election . His campaign in 1885 was run against his brother-in-law, Lionel Louis Cohen , who was controversially running as a Conservative. As a Yiddish -speaker, Montagu was able to appeal to the many immigrants within his constituency on religious grounds, arguing in 1886 that he hoped "not a single Jew would vote Conservative". From 1887 to 1890, he

800-575: The small Orthodox congregations in the East End of London . By 1911, the Federation represented 51 London congregations (6,000 male members), which made it the largest synagogal body in UK (larger, by around 1,000 male seat-holders, than the United Synagogue ). This rapid growth brought Montagu into conflict with Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild , and the United Synagogue. Montagu's funding helped

832-500: The strike; it claimed the department had, consequent to the threat of actions, announced 1,100 new border jobs. The first allegations about the targeting of pre-1973 Caribbean migrants started in 2013. In 2018, the allegations were put to the Home Secretary in the House of Commons , and resulted in the resignation of the then Home Secretary. The Windrush scandal resulted in some British citizens being wrongly deported, along with

864-548: Was a member of the Gold and Silver Commission . He was created a Baronet, of South Stoneham House in the County of Southampton and of Kensington Palace Gardens in the County of London , on 23 June 1894. In September 1888, after the murder of Annie Chapman at the hands of an unknown man later called Jack the Ripper , Montagu tried to offer a reward of £100 for the discovery and conviction of

896-528: Was born in Liverpool as Montagu Samuel , the second son of Louis Samuel (1794–1859), a watchmaker of Liverpool, and his wife, Henrietta Israel, daughter of Israel Israel of Bury Street, St. Mary Axe , London. He was educated at the High School of Liverpool Mechanics' Institute as Samuel Montagu. In 1853 he founded the bank of Samuel Montagu & Co. At first the company concentrated on the exchange of coins and

928-586: Was formerly responsible for His Majesty's Prison Service and the National Probation Service , but these have been transferred to the Ministry of Justice . The Cabinet minister responsible for the department is the Home Secretary , a post considered one of the Great Offices of State ; it has been held by Yvette Cooper since July 2024. The Home Office is managed from day to day by a civil servant ,

960-530: Was published in May 2011, and superseded its Structural Reform Plan. The plan said the department will: The Home Office publishes progress against the plan on the 10 Downing Street website. On 27 March 1782 ; 242 years ago  ( 1782-03-27 ) , the Home Office was formed by renaming the existing Southern Department , with all existing staff transferring. On the same day, the Northern Department

992-722: Was renamed the Foreign Office . To match the new names, there was a transferring of responsibilities between the two Departments of State. All domestic responsibilities (including colonies, previously administered under the Board of Trade ) were moved to the Home Office, and all foreign matters (including the administration of British protectorates ) became the concern of the Foreign Office. Most subsequently created domestic departments (excluding, for instance, those dealing with education) have been formed by splitting responsibilities away from

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1024-560: Was the leading Liberal politician and philosopher Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel , the first High Commissioner of Mandate Palestine . Samuel Montagu was the maternal grandfather of the medical researcher Philip D'Arcy Hart and also of the lawyer Walter D'Arcy Hart. Montagu is also the great-grandfather of the 2016 Nobel Prize -winning economist Oliver Hart , the chemist Sir Martyn Poliakoff , and director and playwright Stephen Poliakoff . Located in Kidbrooke , South London ,

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