A Famous Jewish Banker.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 12, 22 March 1911, Page 36

A Famous Jewish Banker.

The late Lord Swaythling, the famous Jewish banker, was a marvel of health. The first illness he ever had was contracted in January. 1909, when he was seventy-six years of age, through a heavy London fog, when he was laid up with severe bronchitis. Lord iSwaythling considered that his marvellous health was entirely due to the fact that he was a strict observer of the Mosaic laws pertaining not only to daily food, but to hygiene. As head of the great banking firm of Montague and Co., during his career he had the honour of being consulted by no fewer than three Chancellors of the Exchequer—both Conservative and Liberal. He passed through many crises in the City, and well remembered when the Bank of France was so short of gold that it paid the bankers to draw- golden napoleons from the bank itself, send them over to England to be melted down into bars, and resell them to France at a profit.