Lieutenant-General Sir David Ximenes KCH (1777–1848) was a

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officer, magistrate and

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landowner. He was a descendant of Cardinal Ximenes de Cisneros, the Grand Inquisitor. His family converted to the

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faith in the late 18th century and were amongst the first Jewish families to do so. This was in order to serve in official capacities within the British power structure, then prohibited to non-Anglicans. It appears that they did not have to do much with the Jewish community in England after that time. He was the youngest son of David Ximenes Senior of

Bear Place Bear Place is an English country house. It is a historic Grade II* listed building. The house is located northeast of Wargrave, Berkshire. History The house was built in 1784–1785 for David Ximenes, Senior, father of David Ximenes and Morris X ...

Hare Hatch Hare Hatch is a village in Berkshire, England, and part of the civil parish of Ruscombe. According to the Post Office the majority of the population at the United Kingdom 2011 Census, 2011 Census was included in the civil parish of Wargrave. Th ...

, near

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in Berkshire, and brother to Sir

Morris Ximenes Sir Morris Ximenes (1762–1837), also known as Moses Ximenes, was a captain in the British Army and Berkshire landowner who had converted to Anglicanism from Judaism. Biography Morris was born in London about 1762. He was a member of the London ...

of the same place. He was present at the

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. In England, he lived at Bear Ash, also at Hare Hatch in Berkshire.

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Contemporaneous information on Lieutenant-General Sir David Ximenes and Bear PlaceNoting his descent from Cardinal Ximenes
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