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"Social Reform".
As always with a Wikipedia article there is an assumption that "social reform" means a bigger government - more taxes, more government spending, more regulations and so on. What has this got to do with the "liberty" that Lord Reading is claimed to have stood for? Other than being the bane of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:B5B8:DA00:F182:F09C:FAAE:E7D2 ( talk) 15:48, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
His poem 'Gehazi' ( referencing the story in 2 Kings) is supposed to be about Isaacs and the Marconi scandal. Worth a mention, with proper references and sourcing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.28.140.30 ( talk) 19:52, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
Is there seriously any dispute that Isaacs was involved in the Marconi scandal? Please discuss. Kenilworth Terrace ( talk) 20:54, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
CLICK HERE to view FRAMED PRINT OF RUFUS ISAACS —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.206.190.242 ( talk) 19:15, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
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I have qualified the description of his distinction as first Jewish British cabinet minister "religiously-practising", to distinguish him from earlier ministers eg Disraeli, who were of Jewish race but no longer practised the faith at the time of office. Cloptonson ( talk) 21:52, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
When did he become a KC? Paulturtle ( talk) 17:41, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Should this not be added in? - though strictly speaking in 1898 he would have been appointed QC, and would have used the style of KC from 1901 onwards. Ntmr ( talk) 15:45, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
Looking at this category, I am not sure that the alteration made by Worobiew to this external link is necessarily a correction. Some of the entries in the category are to titles, but most of the entries seem to relate to individual marquesses. (If the link from this article needed to be changed, then so do many others). Is there an established convention here? Perhaps this article could cross-reference both to Marquesses of Reading and directly to Marquesses in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Ntmr ( talk) 19:35, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
I don't have a biography to hand, but didn't he fail as a stock jobber ("trader" as we would nowadays say) and have to submit to some bell-ringing ceremony where it was announced that he was unable to meet his obligations that day? I doubt he went completely bankrupt as he would have been unable to be either a barrister or a politician, but he must be pretty much the only man ever to get to top of both professions having failed at trading as a young man (I suppose Disraeli deserves an honourable mention for his debts from his South American get-rich-quick scheme in the early 1820s, but despite being articled to a solicitor he never practised as a lawyer afaik and I'm not sure he ever even qualified). Paulturtle ( talk) 13:39, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
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"Social Reform".
As always with a Wikipedia article there is an assumption that "social reform" means a bigger government - more taxes, more government spending, more regulations and so on. What has this got to do with the "liberty" that Lord Reading is claimed to have stood for? Other than being the bane of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:B5B8:DA00:F182:F09C:FAAE:E7D2 ( talk) 15:48, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
His poem 'Gehazi' ( referencing the story in 2 Kings) is supposed to be about Isaacs and the Marconi scandal. Worth a mention, with proper references and sourcing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.28.140.30 ( talk) 19:52, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
Is there seriously any dispute that Isaacs was involved in the Marconi scandal? Please discuss. Kenilworth Terrace ( talk) 20:54, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
CLICK HERE to view FRAMED PRINT OF RUFUS ISAACS —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.206.190.242 ( talk) 19:15, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
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I have qualified the description of his distinction as first Jewish British cabinet minister "religiously-practising", to distinguish him from earlier ministers eg Disraeli, who were of Jewish race but no longer practised the faith at the time of office. Cloptonson ( talk) 21:52, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
When did he become a KC? Paulturtle ( talk) 17:41, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Should this not be added in? - though strictly speaking in 1898 he would have been appointed QC, and would have used the style of KC from 1901 onwards. Ntmr ( talk) 15:45, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
Looking at this category, I am not sure that the alteration made by Worobiew to this external link is necessarily a correction. Some of the entries in the category are to titles, but most of the entries seem to relate to individual marquesses. (If the link from this article needed to be changed, then so do many others). Is there an established convention here? Perhaps this article could cross-reference both to Marquesses of Reading and directly to Marquesses in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Ntmr ( talk) 19:35, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
I don't have a biography to hand, but didn't he fail as a stock jobber ("trader" as we would nowadays say) and have to submit to some bell-ringing ceremony where it was announced that he was unable to meet his obligations that day? I doubt he went completely bankrupt as he would have been unable to be either a barrister or a politician, but he must be pretty much the only man ever to get to top of both professions having failed at trading as a young man (I suppose Disraeli deserves an honourable mention for his debts from his South American get-rich-quick scheme in the early 1820s, but despite being articled to a solicitor he never practised as a lawyer afaik and I'm not sure he ever even qualified). Paulturtle ( talk) 13:39, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
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