Saul Isaac

{{short description|English businessman and politician}}

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Saul Isaac (1823 – late 1903){{Rayment-hc|n|3|date=March 2012}} was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was the first Jew to be elected to the House of Commons (1874 – 1880) as a Conservative candidate.{{cite news

|title=The Jubilee of Jewish Emancipation

|date=25 July 1908

|work=The Times

|pages=16, col A

|location=London}}

Isaac was a partner in the army contracting business run by his older brother Samuel (1812–1886),{{DNB|prescript=|wstitle=Isaac, Samuel}} which became the largest European supplier of materials to the Confederate States during the American Civil War.

He was elected at the 1874 general election as a member of parliament (MP) for Nottingham,{{London Gazette

|issue= 24063

|date=6 February 1874

|page=543

|city=London

}} when the Conservatives took both the city's parliamentary seats from the Liberals.{{cite book

|last=Craig

|first=F. W. S.

|authorlink= F. W. S. Craig

|title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885

|origyear=1977

|edition= 2nd

|year=1989

|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn= 0-900178-26-4

|page=230

}} The election return describes him as a colliery proprietor, of Colwick Hall, Nottinghamshire.

Isaac was defeated at the 1880 general election, and was unsuccessful when he contested Finsbury Central at the 1885 general election.{{cite book

|last=Craig

|first=F. W. S.

|authorlink= F. W. S. Craig

|title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918

|origyear=1974

|edition= 2nd

|year=1989

|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn= 0-900178-27-2

|page=13

}}