Saul Isaac

Saul Isaac (1823 – late 1903)^[1] 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.^[2]

Isaac was a partner in the army contracting business run by his older brother Samuel (1812–1886),^[3] which became the largest European supplier of materials to the Confederate States during the American Civil War.^[3]

He was elected at the 1874 general election as a member of parliament (MP) for Nottingham,^[4] when the Conservatives took both the city's parliamentary seats from the Liberals.^[5] The election return describes him as a colliery proprietor, of Colwick Hall, Nottinghamshire.^[4] Isaac was defeated at the 1880 general election,^[5] and was unsuccessful when he contested Finsbury Central at the 1885 general election.^[6]