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Baron Ephraim Lópes Pereira d' Aguilar

Baron Ephraim Lópes Pereira d' Aguilar

Male 1739 - 1802  (63 years)    Has 12 ancestors and 26 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Ephraim Lópes Pereira d' Aguilar 
    Prefix Baron  
    Birth 1739  Wien, Österreich Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 16 Mar 1802  Shaftesbury Place, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 14 Siblings 
    Person ID I829765  Geneagraphie
    Links To This person is also Ephraim Lopes Pereira d'Aguilar at Wikipedia 
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2013 

    Father Baron Diego Pereira d' Aguilar,   b. 1699, Portugal Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Aug 1759, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years) 
    Mother Simha da Fonseca   d. 1755 
    Marriage 1722 
    Family ID F366704  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Sarah (Simha) Mendes da Costa,   b. Cir 1742   d. 5 May 1763 (Age 21 years) 
    Marriage 08 Dec 1756 
    Children 
    +1. Georgina Isabella d' Aguilar,   b. Cir 1758
     2. Caroline Sarah d' Aguilar,   b. Cir 1760
     3. NN d' Aguilar,   b. Cir 1763
    Family ID F366703  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2013 

    Family 2 Rebecca Lamego   d. 30 Nov 1795 
    Marriage 05 Mar 1767 
    Family ID F366865  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2013 

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  • Notes 
    • 2nd Baron d'Aguilar
    • Eccentric and miser.
      Lost his suit to be executor of his 2nd wife. He inherited his father's vast fortune.
      At the age of eighteen, in 1757 he was naturalised British and married his first wife, with whom he lived in great style in Broad Street Buildings, in a house built by his father-in-law. He kept an elegant equipage, consisting of carriages and 24 servants. He held various positions in the Sephardi Community, and served as treasurer of the Portuguese Synagogue.
      In 1765 he was elected warden, but declined to serve, and refused, on technical grounds, to pay the fine. He was given eight days to accept or to submit to the penalty. He must have submitted, because in 1767, he married the very accomplished and also rich widow of Benjamin Mendes Da Costa, a respectable merchant, which he would not have been able to do had he been lying under the ban.
      He lost a large estate of about 15,000 acres, and an elegant mansion, in America, as a result of the Revolution, which, together with domestic disagreements, caused him to alter his life-style, renounce the character of a gentleman, and become ?rude, slovenly and careless of his person and conduct, totally withdrawing himself from his family connections, and the gay world. He latterly affected the appearance of poverty, though notwithstanding his losses, ... he still possessed much more than a competency, having considerable property, consisting of houses, land, merchandise, goods, jewels, diamonds ...?
      He gave up his mansion in Broad Street as well as his country houses at Bethnal Green, Twickenham and Sydenham. At this point the couple separated, and he became notorious as the miserly proprietor of ?Starvation Farm? at Islington, because he refused to feed his livestock, on the principle that they had to learn who was boss.
      He also had the reputation for scattering wild oats all over the place, but then he brought up the resulting offspring as his own children, although he would not see his two legitimate daughters, whom he declared ?too fine? to fit into his company.
      In 1770 he was again elected to office in the synagogue, and for some years thereafter remained a member of the synagogue. He died at Shaftesbury Place, of an inflammation in his bowels, having been ill for 17 days, and is buried in the cemetery of Bevis Marks. It was supposed that he died for want of proper care and treatment, because, notwithstanding the severity of the weather, and the danger he was in, he would not allow a fire in his house. The name d?Aguilar is a very famous Sephardi name; there were four eminent Rabbonim in Amsterdam of this name.



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