Isaac Solomon Sidney Fox (1896 - 1971)

Isaac Solomon Sidney Fox, born Fuchs, is the father-in-law of Alan Cecil Levinson, my 2nd cousin 1x removed. Levinson family HERE. Glynn family HERE

Parents: Dr Jacob Samuel Fox (Fuchs) (1868 - 1938) and Rose Trenner (1869 -1947)

Biography for Isaac's father, Jacob Fox

FOX (Fuchs ), JACOB SAMUEL (1868–1938), journalist and educator. Born in Bialystok, Russia, he obtained his rabbinical diploma at the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary and pursued his secular studies at Berlin and Berne. Turning to journalism, he edited Ha-Maggid he-Ḥadash (1891–98) and (together with A. Guenzig) Ha-Eshkol (1898–1912). A research trip prompted his final move to England in 1902, after which Fox decided to foster Jewish education in Liverpool by founding a Hebrew higher grade school. He supported the establishment of the British Mizrachi and became principal of Aria College in Brighton. He was author of a monograph on Judah *Ibn Bal'am. (Encyclopaedia Judaica)

Born: 25 November 1896 in Kraków, Poland

Birth certificate for Isaac Fox - his date of birth is listed as 2 March 1896 but in the 1939 register it is given as 25 November 1896

Migration: The family came to England in 1902 when Isaac was 5

Occupation: Reverend (Grimsby Hebrew Congregation - January 1916 to about 1920, returning briefly in 1923), Medical doctor, Mayor of Chester (1932 - 33) and Chairman of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland (1955 - 56)

Married

Gwaladys Lightman on 16 June 1927 at the Belgrave Street Synagogue in Leeds, England. Isaac was 30 and Gwaladys age 25

Children

Their first child was born in 1928 when Isaac was 31 and Gwaladys 26. Their last child was born in 1936 when Isaac was 39 and Gwaladys 34 

• Cecile Joan Charlotte Fox, known as Joan, 1928 - 2003
• Victor Murray Fox 1931 - 2014
• Alfred Mervyn Fox, known as Mervyn, 1936 - 2013

Census

1911

In 1911 Isaac, listed as Solomon, is living with his family at 40 West Derby Street, Liverpool, England. His father, Jacob is age 43 and the headmaster of a Hebrew School in Liverpool. His mother Rachel (Rose) is age 42. There are 5 children and Isaac is age 14

1921

In the 1921 census Isaac is living at 52 West Derby Street, Liverpool. He is a medical student age 24 years and 7 months and is living with his sister Salome, her husband Harry Ellenbogen and their son Saul

1939

In the 1939 register Isaac is listed (on the bottom line) as a physician and surgeon living at 40 Colney Hatch Lane, Hornsey, Middlesex, England

Medical career

Register of Medical and Dental students 1914. Isaac registered as a medical student at Liverpool University on 10 October 1914 age 17

Isaac's listing in the 1934 medical Register

FOX, Isaac Solomon, 10, Upper Northgate St., Chester (Tel. Chester 190)-M.B., Ch. B. Liverp. 1921; Med. Off. Brownlow Hill Inst. Liverp.; Certif. Fact. Surg.; Med. Off. Tarvin Area, Chesh. C.C.; Med. Off. Lead Works, Chester; Chairm. Pub. Health Comm.1933; Mem. B.M.A.; late Sen. Ho. Phys. Qu. Mary's Hosp. Stratford; Res. Cas. Off. Miller Gen. Hosp. Greenwich; Roy. South. Hosp. Liverp. Author, "Acute puerperal complete inversion of uterus: replacement-recovery," B.М.Л. 1924. (Entry for Isaac Fox in the 1935 Medical Directory)

Biography

Rev. (later Dr.) Isaac Solomon Fox

(c.1897 - April 1974)

Born in Cracow, Poland and raised in Liverpool, Rev. I.S. Fox was the son of Rev. Dr. Jacob Samuel Fox. He was minister to the Grimsby Hebrew Congregation (January 1916 to about 1920, returning briefly in 1923). He then pursued a medical career (having graduated in medicine from Liverpool University). He remained active in synagogue and public life and was Mayor of Chester in 1932 and president of the Chester Hebrew Congregation. By 1938 Dr Fox was living in London and became president of Muswell Hill Synagogue. In 1954 he was elected chairman of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, and advocated the teaching of modern Hebrew in Jewish schools. In c.1964 he retired to Brighton where he died (Isaac's JewishGen entry). He was also president of the Chester Hebrew Congregation from 1927 - 1929

Death

18 April 1971 in Hove, Sussex, England age 74. He was buried in the Bushey Jewish Cemetery, Hertfordshire, England, section 10, Row L, plot 221 on 20 April 1971

What is left of Isaac and Gwaladys's joint tombstone in the Bushey Jewish cemetery in Hertfordshire, England

Probate

FOX Isaac Solomon Sidney otherwise Isaac Solomon of 9c Bedford Tower Cavendish Pl Kings Rd Brighton died 18 April 1971 Probate London 26 October [1971]. £32,252.

Leeds Database

Entry in the Leeds database for Isaac Fox

Residences

In the 1911 census Isaac and his family were living at 40 West Derby Street, Liverpool, England. The property is now the site of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital

In the 1930s Isaac's address was given as 10 Upper Northgate Street, Chester, England

Isaac, Gwaladys and the children lived in London at 40 Colney Hatch Lane, Muswell Hill, London, England before retiring to Brighton