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Sir '''Lionel Barnett Abrahams''' (1869&ndash;1919<ref name="idnb"/><ref name="odnb" />) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] civil servant, economist, and historian who worked in the British government's [[India Office]].
'''Sir Lionel Barnett Abrahams''', [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath|KCB]] (1869&ndash;1919<ref name="idnb"/><ref name="odnb" />) was a British civil servant, economist, and historian who worked in the British government's [[India Office]].


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Born in 1869, Abrahams was the only son of Mordecai Abrahams, a noted [[shochet]], and long-term secretary of the Initiation Society.<ref name=DAJH>{{cite book |editor-last1=Rubinstein |editor-first1=W.D. |editor-last2=Jolles |editor-first2=M.A. |editor-last3=Rubinstein |editor-first3=H.L.|date=2011 |title=Abrahams, Lionel Barnett |work=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History |page=10 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|chapter=A |location=London |chapter-url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/_T_HCg17ufIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA10 |isbn=978-1-4039-3910-4 |doi=10.1057/9780230304666_1|last1=Rubinstein |first1=William D. |last2=Jolles |first2=Michael A. |last3=Rubinstein |first3=Hilary L. }}</ref>
Born in 1869, Abrahams was the only son of Mordecai Abrahams, a noted [[shochet]], and long-term secretary of the Initiation Society.<ref name=DAJH>{{cite book |editor-last1=Rubinstein |editor-first1=W.D. |editor-last2=Jolles |editor-first2=M.A. |editor-last3=Rubinstein |editor-first3=H.L.|date=2011 |title=Abrahams, Lionel Barnett |work=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History |page=10 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|chapter=A |location=London |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_T_HCg17ufIC&pg=PA10 |isbn=978-1-4039-3910-4 |doi=10.1057/9780230304666_1|last1=Rubinstein |first1=William D. |last2=Jolles |first2=Michael A. |last3=Rubinstein |first3=Hilary L. }}</ref>


Abrahams was a graduate of the [[City of London School]] and [[Balliol College]] at [[Oxford]], which he attended 1892&ndash;1898.<ref name="odnb">{{Cite ODNB|id=57024|title=Abrahams, Sir Lionel Barnett}}</ref> In 1894, he won the Arnold historical essay prize.<ref name="odnb"/><ref name="OU-Gazette">{{cite web |title=Scholarships and Prizes (Prizes) - (1a) to No 4375 |url=https://gazette.web.ox.ac.uk/scholarships-and-prizes-prizes-1a-to-no-4375#3Ref |website=Oxford University Gazette |publisher=[[Oxford University]] |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
Abrahams was a graduate of the [[City of London School]] and [[Balliol College]] at [[Oxford]], which he attended 1892&ndash;1898.<ref name="odnb">{{Cite ODNB|id=57024|title=Abrahams, Sir Lionel Barnett}}</ref> In 1894, he won the Arnold historical essay prize.<ref name="odnb"/><ref name="OU-Gazette">{{cite web |title=Scholarships and Prizes (Prizes) - (1a) to No 4375 |url=https://gazette.web.ox.ac.uk/scholarships-and-prizes-prizes-1a-to-no-4375#3Ref |website=Oxford University Gazette |publisher=[[Oxford University]] |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
Abrahams joined the India Office in 1893. Abrahams was appointed as the secretary to the Indian currency committee in 1898.<ref name="odnb" /> He was appointed Assistant Financial Secretary in 1901, and was appointed Financial Secretarv in 1902,<ref name="idnb"/> holding that post until 1911.<ref name="odnb" /> He was appointed to the position of [[Civil Service (United Kingdom)#Grading schemes|Assistant Under-secretary of State for India]] in 1911, and held that post until 1917.<ref name="odnb" /><ref name="Shirras-IFB">{{cite book |last1=Shirras |first1=George Findlay |title=Indian Finance and Banking |date=1920 |publisher=Indiana University |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Indian_Finance_and_Banking/UvQiAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 |access-date=15 August 2020}}</ref>{{rp|193}} He was made a [[Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath|Companion of the Bath]], (CB) in 1908.<ref name="idnb"/><ref name="odnb" /> He was raised to Knight-Commander of the Bath (KCB) in 1915.<ref name="odnb" />
Abrahams joined the [[India Office]] in 1893. Abrahams was appointed as the secretary to the Indian currency committee in 1898.<ref name="odnb" /> He was appointed Assistant Financial Secretary in 1901, and was appointed Financial Secretary in 1902,<ref name="idnb"/> holding that post until 1911.<ref name="odnb" /> He was appointed to the position of [[Civil Service (United Kingdom)#Grading schemes|Assistant Under-secretary of State for India]] in 1911, and held that post until 1917.<ref name="odnb" /><ref name="Shirras-IFB">{{cite book |last1=Shirras |first1=George Findlay |title=Indian Finance and Banking |date=1920 |publisher=Indiana University |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UvQiAQAAMAAJ |access-date=15 August 2020}}</ref>{{rp|193}} He was made a [[Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath|Companion of the Bath]], (CB) in 1908.<ref name="idnb"/><ref name="odnb" /> He was raised to Knight-Commander of the Bath (KCB) in 1915.<ref name="odnb" />


Abrahams was the first [[British Jews|Jew]] to hold a position as high as Assistant Under-secretary of State in the British Civil Service.<ref name="DAJH" />
Abrahams was the first [[British Jews|Jew]] to hold a position as high as Assistant Under-secretary of State in the British Civil Service.<ref name="DAJH" />
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==Reputation==
==Reputation==
Shirras describes Abrahams as "a permanent official who served the financial interests of India with conspicious efficiency and a zeal particularly his own.<ref name="Shirras-IFB" />{{rp|192–193}} Shirras also writes that "It was probably of Sir Lionel Abrahams that Sir James Meston was thinking when he referred to the fact that in the Secretariat of India, 'we have not got anything like the trained competent staff that a public office in London has.'"<ref name="Shirras-IFB" />{{rp|193}}
Shirras describes Abrahams as "a permanent official who served the financial interests of India with conspicuous efficiency and a zeal particularly his own.".<ref name="Shirras-IFB" />{{rp|192–193}} Shirras also writes that "It was probably of Sir Lionel Abrahams that Sir James Meston was thinking when he referred to the fact that in the Secretariat of India, 'we have not got anything like the trained competent staff that a public office in London has.'"<ref name="Shirras-IFB" />{{rp|193}}


==Writings==
==Writings==
Abrahams wrote ''The Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290''.<ref name="idnb"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Abrahams |first1=Lionel Barnett |title=The Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 (Continued) : Abrahams, B. Lionel : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming |url=https://archive.org/details/jstor-1450232/mode/2up |website=Internet Archive |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref> This was the thesis for which he won the Arnold Prize in 1894. It was reprinted in the ''Jewish Quarterly Review'' in the issues dated October 1984 and January 1895 and April 1895.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Abrahams |first1=Lionel Barnett |title=The expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 : Abrahams, Barnett Lionel, Sir, 1869-1919 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming |url=https://archive.org/details/expulsionofjewsf00abrauoft/page/n7/mode/2up |website=Internet Archive |page=10 |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref> He also wrote "Debts and houses of Jews of Hereford, 1290" which was published in volume one of ''The Jewish Historical Society of England – Transactions'' in 1894.<ref>{{cite web |title=JHSE Papers |url=https://jhse.org/resources/jhse-papers/ |website=Jewish Historical Society of England |access-date=14 August 2020}}</ref>
Abrahams wrote ''The Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290''.<ref name="idnb"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Abrahams |first1=Lionel Barnett |title=The Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 (Continued) : Abrahams, B. Lionel : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming |url=https://archive.org/details/jstor-1450232/mode/2up |website=Internet Archive |date=January 1895 |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref> This was the thesis for which he won the Arnold Prize in 1894. It was reprinted in the ''Jewish Quarterly Review'' in the issues dated October 1984 and January 1895 and April 1895.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Abrahams |first1=Lionel Barnett |title=The expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 : Abrahams, Barnett Lionel, Sir, 1869-1919 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming |url=https://archive.org/details/expulsionofjewsf00abrauoft/page/n7/mode/2up |via=Internet Archive |year=1895 |page=10 |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref> He also wrote "Debts and houses of Jews of Hereford, 1290" which was published in volume one of ''The Jewish Historical Society of England – Transactions'' in 1894.<ref>{{cite web |title=JHSE Papers |url=https://jhse.org/resources/jhse-papers/ |website=Jewish Historical Society of England |access-date=14 August 2020}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
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==Notes==
==Notes==
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Latest revision as of 16:17, 9 October 2024

Sir Lionel Barnett Abrahams
KCB
Abrahams in c1916
Born1869[1]
Died1919(1919-00-00) (aged 49–50)
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Occupation(s)civil servant and economist
TitleAssistant Under-secretary of State for India
Children1 son

Sir Lionel Barnett Abrahams, KCB (1869–1919[1][2]) was a British civil servant, economist, and historian who worked in the British government's India Office.

Early life and education

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Born in 1869, Abrahams was the only son of Mordecai Abrahams, a noted shochet, and long-term secretary of the Initiation Society.[3]

Abrahams was a graduate of the City of London School and Balliol College at Oxford, which he attended 1892–1898.[2] In 1894, he won the Arnold historical essay prize.[2][4]

Career

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Abrahams joined the India Office in 1893. Abrahams was appointed as the secretary to the Indian currency committee in 1898.[2] He was appointed Assistant Financial Secretary in 1901, and was appointed Financial Secretary in 1902,[1] holding that post until 1911.[2] He was appointed to the position of Assistant Under-secretary of State for India in 1911, and held that post until 1917.[2][5]: 193  He was made a Companion of the Bath, (CB) in 1908.[1][2] He was raised to Knight-Commander of the Bath (KCB) in 1915.[2]

Abrahams was the first Jew to hold a position as high as Assistant Under-secretary of State in the British Civil Service.[3]

In the position of Assistant Under-secretary, Abrahams needed to deal with currency and financial issues.[5]: 193 

Reputation

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Shirras describes Abrahams as "a permanent official who served the financial interests of India with conspicuous efficiency and a zeal particularly his own.".[5]: 192–193  Shirras also writes that "It was probably of Sir Lionel Abrahams that Sir James Meston was thinking when he referred to the fact that in the Secretariat of India, 'we have not got anything like the trained competent staff that a public office in London has.'"[5]: 193 

Writings

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Abrahams wrote The Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290.[1][6] This was the thesis for which he won the Arnold Prize in 1894. It was reprinted in the Jewish Quarterly Review in the issues dated October 1984 and January 1895 and April 1895.[7] He also wrote "Debts and houses of Jews of Hereford, 1290" which was published in volume one of The Jewish Historical Society of England – Transactions in 1894.[8]

Personal life

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Abrahams married Lucy, daughter of Nathan Solomon Joseph, in 1896. They had one son, Arthur Charles Lionel Abrahams.[2]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e Rao, C. Hayavadana, ed. (1915). "Abrahams, Lionel" . The Indian Biographical Dictionary . Vol. 2.1. Madras: Pillar & Co. p. 4.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Abrahams, Sir Lionel Barnett". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57024. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael A.; Rubinstein, Hilary L. (2011). "A". In Rubinstein, W.D.; Jolles, M.A.; Rubinstein, H.L. (eds.). Abrahams, Lionel Barnett. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 10. doi:10.1057/9780230304666_1. ISBN 978-1-4039-3910-4. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  4. ^ "Scholarships and Prizes (Prizes) - (1a) to No 4375". Oxford University Gazette. Oxford University. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d Shirras, George Findlay (1920). Indian Finance and Banking. Indiana University. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  6. ^ Abrahams, Lionel Barnett (January 1895). "The Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 (Continued) : Abrahams, B. Lionel : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming". Internet Archive. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  7. ^ Abrahams, Lionel Barnett (1895). The expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 : Abrahams, Barnett Lionel, Sir, 1869-1919 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming. p. 10. Retrieved 14 August 2020 – via Internet Archive.
  8. ^ "JHSE Papers". Jewish Historical Society of England. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
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