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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 36

Baronet´s Badge, United Kingdom, 46mm x 37mm, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1929) and enamel, reverse engraved 'Cohen of Highfield 1905', good very fine, with miniature width neck riband

Baronet London Gazette 26.12.1905 Benjamin Louis Cohen of Highfield in the parish of Shoreham and county of Kent, Esquire

Sir Benjamin Louis Cohen, Bt., (1877-1909), was born in London, the son of Louis Cohen, and educated privately. Aside from his business interests working for the family firm of stockbrokers, he held a number of public and charitable appointments, serving as President of the Board of Guardians for the Relief of the Jewish Poor; President of the London Orphan Asylum; and Governor of St. Bartholomew's, Bridewell, and Bethlem Hospitals. In 1889 he was elected as one of the first members of the newly-instituted London County Council, representing the City of London, a seat he held until 1904; and in 1892 was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Islington East. Created a Baronet in recognition of his public and political services in 1905, he died at home in London four years later.

Sir Benjamin Cohen was succeeded in the Baronetcy by his son, Sir Herbert Benjamin Cohen, Bt., O.B.E., T.D.; upon his death in 1968 the title became extinct.

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