LEVI

Leone (2 son of Isaac Levi a Jewish merchant at Ancona). b. Ancona 6 June 1821; entered office of his brother a merchant 1836; merchant at Liverpool 1844–7; naturalised 16 Jany. 1847; clerk in a mercantile house at Liverpool; advocated chambers of commerce; hon. sec. of Liverpool chamber of commerce 1849; lectured in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and elsewhere 1851–2; profe or of principles and practice of commerce at King’s college, London 1852 to death; fellow of Statistical Soc. 1851, member of council 1860, vice pres. 1885; F.S.A. 14 Dec. 1854; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; a knight of the Italian orders of SS. Mauritius and Lazarus and of the Crown of Italy; became a member of Presbyterian church in England about 1846; author of Commercial law, its principles and administration 2 vols. 1851–2, 2nd ed. entitled International commercial law 2 vols. 1863; The law of nature and nations as affected by divine law 1855; Annals of British legislation 18 vols. 1856–68; History of British commerce and of the economic progre of the British nation 1763–1870. 1872, 2 ed. 1880. d. 31 High bury grove, High bury, London 7 May 1888. bur. High gate cemet. 12 May. L. Levi’s The story of my life. Privately printed (1888); Journal of royal statistical soc. li 340–2 (1888); I.L.N. xxvi 653, 654 (1855), portrait ; London Figaro 19 May 1888 p. 11, portrait ; Law Journal , xxiii 259 (1888).