Godfrey Charles Joseph Isaacs (22 July 1866 – 17 April 1925) was a British businessman, and brother of the politician

Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, (10 October 1860 – 30 December 1935) was a British Liberal politician and judge, who served as Lord Chief Justice of England, Viceroy of India, and Foreign Secretary, the last Liberal to hold that ...

. He was born in England and educated at the

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and Free University of Brussels. He then entered his father’s firm of fruit and ship brokers. In 1910 he became Managing Director of

Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company The Marconi Company was a British telecommunications and engineering company that did business under that name from 1963 to 1987. Its roots were in the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company founded by Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi in 1897 ...

. He was involved in the

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of 1912, when several British politicians were accused of "insider trading" when they acquired shares in the American subsidiary of the Marconi Company; the parent company was expected to get a contract from the

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. He retired from the

Marconi Company The Marconi Company was a British telecommunications and engineering company that did business under that name from 1963 to 1987. Its roots were in the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company founded by Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi in 1897 ...

in November 1924, and died in 1925 aged only 58, which the ''Times'' obituary attributed to overwork.

Family

He married Lea Constance Perelli, they had two sons, Marcel Godfrey (born 1893) and Dennys Godfrey (born 1896).
Marcel Godfrey Isaacs married Marie Louise Cattier, daughter of prominent Belgian banker and philanthropist

Félicien Cattier Félicien Cattier (1869–1946) was a very prominent Belgian banker, financier and philanthropist. He was also professor of law at the Free University of Brussels. He was governor of the powerful trust, the Société Générale de Belgique and c ...

, who was also his business associate.

References

*''Who Was Who'', 1925 *"Obituary" in ''The Times'', London of 18 April 1925 p 12. * :fr:Félicien Cattier * http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/25th-april-1925/24/obituary 1866 births 1925 deaths British telecommunications industry businesspeople British Jews {{England-business-bio-stub