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At first D'Israeli was employed at a moderate salary in the counting-house of Messrs. Joseph and
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His fortunes were repaired by his second marriage, which took place in May 1765. The bride was Sarah
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Jonathan's Coffee House, admitted him to their body, and afterwards elected him a member of their Committee for General Purposes. When, in 1801, it was resolved to build new premises at Capel Court (where the Stock Exchange remained until 1972), Mr. D'Israeli was appointed a member of the
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Ferrara. He or his ancestors probably came from the Levant, where the Arabic name-form "Israeli" would find an environment more favourable to its survival than in Western Europe, where the
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