Isaac de Sequeira Samuda

Isaac de Sequeira Samuda

Isaac de Sequeira Samuda or Isaac de Sequeyra Samuda (died March 1743?) was a British physician. He was the first member of the Samuda family to settle in Britain.

He was the first Jew to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (in 1727). In 1728 he gave an oration at the funeral of Haham David Nieto.

Samuda was of Portuguese-Jewish descent.

External links

* [http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=3&dsqSearch=((text)='samuda') Royal Society web site]

The first member to settle in England was the physician and scientist Isaac de Sequeyra Samuda.


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