Family of Rufus Daniel ISAACS and Alice Edith COHEN

Husband:	Rufus Daniel ISAACS (1860-1935)
Wife:	Alice Edith COHEN (1866-1930)
Children:	Gerald ISAACS (1889-1960)
Marriage	1897	Dec Qtr, Marylebone, London

Husband: Rufus Daniel ISAACS

Name:	Rufus Daniel ISAACS
Sex:	Male
Father:	Joseph Michael ISAACS (1832-1907)
Mother:	Sarah DAVIS (1834- )
Birth	10 Oct 1860	Aldgate London
Occupation		Lord Chief Justice/Politician
Death	30 Dec 1935 (age 75)

Wife: Alice Edith COHEN

Name:	Alice Edith COHEN
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	1866
Death	30 Jan 1930 (age 63-64)

Child 1: Gerald ISAACS

Name:	Gerald ISAACS
Sex:	Male
Birth	10 Dec 1889
Death	19 Dec 1960 (age 71)
Occupation		Soldier/Politician

Note on Husband: Rufus Daniel ISAACS

1st Marquess of Reading, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, PC, KC (10 October 1860 - 30 December 1935) was the Viceroy of India (1921-25), barrister, jurist and the last member of the official Liberal Party to serve as Foreign Secretary. He was the second practising Jew to be a member of the British cabinet. The first Jew to be Lord Chief Justice of England, and the first, and as yet only, British Jew to be raised to a marquess.

Note on Wife: Alice Edith COHEN

Alice Edith Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading, CI, GBE (née Cohen; c.1866 - 30 January 1930), also known as Dame Alice Reading, was the first wife of Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading and a prominent philanthropist in colonial India.

Isaacs was born in London, the third daughter of Albert Cohen, a merchant in the City of London, and his wife, Elizabeth. She married Rufus Isaacs, then a newly qualified barrister, on 8 December 1887. He had considered being a stockbroker but his wife encouraged him to pursue a career in law. He was ultimately Solicitor-General, Attorney-General and Chief Justice of the United Kingdom.

Her title successively changed from Mrs Isaacs to Lady Isaacs on her husband's knighthood in 1910, Baroness Reading on his ennoblement in 1914, Viscountess Reading in 1916, the Countess of Reading in 1917, and finally the Marchioness of Reading in 1926.

Note on Child 1: Gerald ISAACS

Gerald Rufus Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading GCMG CBE MC TD PC QC, styled Viscount Erleigh from 1917 to 1935, was a British barrister and Liberal then Conservative politician.

He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. He served in the First World War, earning the Military Cross in the 1918 Birthday Honours and reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. His book The South Sea Bubble which describes the famous speculative boom and crash of shares in 18th century England, was published in 1933