{{Short description|British tobacco manufacturer}} {{Infobox person | name = Barnett Salmon | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth year |1829 }} | birth_place = London, United Kingdom | death_date = {{Death date and age|1897|02|11|1829||}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Tobacco manufacturer, businessman | years_active = | known_for = co-founder of Salmon & Gluckstein | notable_works = | spouse = {{Marriage |Helena Gluckstein |1863 }} | children = 15 (including Isidore Salmon, Alfred Salmon, and Harry Salmon) | relatives = Samuel Gluckstein (father in-law) }}
'''Barnett Salmon''' (1829 – 11 February 1897) was a British tobacco manufacturer and businessman who was co-founder of Salmon & Gluckstein, which by 1901 was the world's largest retail tobacconist, owning 140 retail outlets.
==Early life== He was the son of Aaron Solomons, a clothes dealer in London's East End, and his wife Jane Barnett Simmons.<ref name="m074"/><ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/get_started/wdytya_celeb_gallery_07.shtml |title=Family History – WDYTYA? Series Three: Celebrity Gallery |publisher=BBC |date= |accessdate=2016-11-28}}</ref><ref name="Lyons">{{cite web|url=http://www.kzwp.com/lyons/directors.htm |title=J. Lyons & Co |website=Kzwp.com |date= |accessdate=2016-11-28}}</ref>
==Career== Salmon began his career as a travelling tobacco salesman.<ref name="m074">{{cite book | last=Harding | first=Thomas | title=Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World | publisher=Random House | date=2019 | isbn=978-1-4735-3760-6}}</ref> After his marriage in 1863, he went into business with his father-in-law, founding Salmon & Gluckstein.<ref name="m074"/>
==Personal life== He married Helena Gluckstein in 1863, the daughter of Samuel Gluckstein. They had nine sons and six daughters, but six died in infancy, one from diarrhoea, four from scarlet fever and one from failure to thrive.<ref name="m074"/><ref name="Lyons"/>
Their children included: * Sir Isidore Salmon (1876–1941), businessman and Conservative Party politician * Alfred Salmon (1868–1928), father of Felix Addison Salmon, and great-grandfather of Nigella Lawson<ref name="autogenerated1"/> * Montagu Salmon (1878–1943), father of Cyril Salmon, Baron Salmon, judge * Harry Salmon JP (1881–1950), chairman from 1941 to 1950 of J. Lyons and Co. * Julius Salmon (1888–1940), married Emma Gluckstein, father of Brian Lawson Salmon<ref name="RubinsteinJolles2011">{{cite book|author1=W. Rubinstein|author2=Michael A. Jolles|title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_T_HCg17ufIC&pg=PA846|date=27 January 2011|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-30466-6|page=846}}</ref>
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