Jacques Abady

{{short description|British lawyer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Jacques Abady''' QC (2 October 1872 – 15 April 1964) was a British lawyer.

==Early life== Born on 2 October 1872, into a Syrian Jewish family,<ref name="RubinsteinJolles">William D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein, ''The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History'', Palgrave Macmillan (2011), p. 2 {{ISBN|0230318940}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History |url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057/9780230304666.pdf |date=2011 |language=en |doi=10.1057/9780230304666 |isbn=978-1-349-51951-4 |editor-last1=Rubinstein |editor-last2=Jolles |editor-last3=Rubinstein |editor-first1=William D. |editor-first2=Michael A. |editor-first3=Hilary L. }}</ref> Abady was educated at Manchester Grammar School and the Birkbeck Institute.<ref name=WW>'[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U56139 ABADY, Jacques]', ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007 (accessed 27 September 2011).</ref><ref name=Times/> His first vocation was as an engineer, becoming a Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and inventing several scientific instruments.<ref name=WW/><ref name=Times/>

==Legal career== Later, Abady decided to pursue a legal career, and was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1905.<ref name=WW/><ref name=Times/> He became a bencher of the Middle Temple in 1941.<ref name=WW/><ref name=Times/> He was a member of Westminster City Council between 1906 and 1912, and then again from 1916 to 1959, also serving as the Mayor of Westminster in 1927–1928.<ref name=WW/><ref name=Times/>

==Death== Abady died in Sussex on 15 April 1964, at the age of 91.<ref name=Times>{{cite news|title=Obituary: Mr Jacques Abady|newspaper=The Times|date=17 April 1964}}</ref>

==Personal life== Abady had one son with his wife.<ref name=WW/> In his spare time, Abady enjoyed writing thrillers and plays.<ref name=Times/> He was a member of the Hurlingham Club and the Constitutional Club.<ref name=WW/>

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