Isidore Salmon

Isidore Salmon (born February 10, 1876 - September 16, 1941 ) was a British businessman and politician (Conservative Party).

Life and activity

Salmon was a son of Barnett Salmon, one of the co-founders of the tobacco company Salmon & Gluckstein and his wife Lena, nee. Gluckstein. The father's company later expanded and transformed under the name of a third partner, Joseph Lyons, into a large company in the catering industry, which ran restaurants and supplied customers with prepared meals. In his youth he completed an apprenticeship in the kitchen operations of the Hotel Bristol in London.

In 1904 Salmon became director of the company he co-founded, now known as J. Lyon and Co, Ltd. traded. In 1910 he was given the post of managing director and in 1929 he was finally promoted to chairman. In 1938, the Lyon company's kitchens prepared 400,000 dishes a day and comprised 257 teashops and four large hotels with a total of 43,000 employees. This made Lyons the largest restaurant chain in the world at the time under the aegis of Salomon.

In 1907 Salmon was elected to the London County Council (LCC). In this he first represented the constituency of Islington West and later (from 1910) the constituency of Hammersmith. He was a member of the local council for eighteen years until 1925. In the final year of his membership of this body, he served as its deputy chairman. Due to his professional background, as part of his membership on the local council, he took over the chairmanship of the Westminster Technical School, which was dedicated to the training of cooks and waiters.

In the British general election of 1924, Salmon was elected to the House of Commons , the British Parliament, as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the Harrow constituency. He succeeded Oswald Mosley , who had previously held the parliamentary seat for this district. In the elections of 1929, 1931 and 1935 Salmon was re-elected. He was a member of the House of Commons for a total of seventeen years, until his death in 1941. His mandate was then taken over by Norman Bower . During his parliamentary term, Salmon served on the Public Accounts Committee and the Estimates Committee. He was chairman of the latter from 1936 to 1937.

From March 1938 until his death, Salmon served as a volunteer pension advisor for the British Army. In this context, he suggested the establishment of the Army Catering Corps, which was devoted to improving catering in the British Army.

Salmon was also Vice President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews for seven years.

family

In 1899 Kate married Abrahams who had two sons, Samuel Isidore Salmon and Julian Salmon.

literature

• W. Rubinstein, Michael A. Jolles: The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History , 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sir Isidore Salmon Sells 400,000 Meals a Day . In: LIFE of May 9, 1938, p. 68.