Leslie Hore Belisha, 1st Baron Hore Belisha
Leslie HoreBelisha, 1st Baron HoreBelisha, PC was a British Liberal, then National Liberal Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister. He later joined the Conservative Party. He is remembered for his innovations in road transport and for being an alleged victim of antisemitism.
HoreBelisha was born Isaac Leslie Belisha allegedly in Devonport, Plymouth his birth, however, was registered in Hampstead, in the fourth quarter of 1893. He was the only son of the Jewish family of Jacob Isaac Belisha , manager of an insurance company, and his wife, Elizabeth Miriam Miers . His father died when he was less than one year old . In 1912, in Kensington, his widowed mother married Sir Charles F. Adair Hore, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Pensions. Leslie Belisha then adopted the doublebarrelled surname. The suggestion that he changed his name from HorebElisha seems to be without foundation the name Belisha is likely to be to either have originated as DElisha or be a variant of the Albanianlanguage surname Berisha.
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