Person Samuda; Isaac de Sequeira (c 1681 - 1729) Samuda Isaac de Sequeira Isaac de Isaac Simão Lopes Sequeira Samuda de Sequeyra Samuda c 1681 - 1729 Portuguese British Male c 1681 Parish of St Botolph without Bishopsgate, London, England, United Kingdom 20 November 1729 17291120 Baptism: Church of Sao Juliiao, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe (c.1681) Burial: Portuguese Jews' old cemetery at Mile End Road, Stepney, London, England, United Kingdom

Physician Medicine Astronomy Education: Coimbra University, MB (1702) Career: Practised as a physician in London. Admitted to Royal College of Physicians on 19 March 1721. Physician to the Portuguese envoy extraordinaire (later Ambassador) in London, Antonio Galvao de Castelo-Branco (from 1724). Retained connections with an international network of Portuguese Jesuits whilst in London and acted as a conduit of information between them and the Royal Society, including sharing of astronomical observations. Memberships: LRCP (1721) Second son of Rodrigo de Sequeira, merchant, and his wife, Violante Nunes Rosa, who were both of Jewish origin. Baptised with the same name as his grandfather Simão Lopes Samuda, a physician from Odemira. Samuda was the first Fellow of Jewish heritage to be elected to the Royal Society. Arrested on 23 August 1703 during the Portuguese Inquisition, tortured and convicted de vehemente of Judaizing, at an auto da fé held in Lisbon on 19 October 1704 after which he fled to London with other members of his family. Changed his name to Ishac de Sequeira Samuda at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in London in 1709. Fellow 27/06/1723 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; Munk's Roll; DNB References: London Magazine 1743, p205 (obituary) MS.693.37 Notes: Subscription paid to Michaelmas 1727 (paid 9 Nov 1727) - nothing recorded thereafter. On PL until 1729, not thereafter. Signed Bond no 198, 24 Oct 1723. Name disappeared from RCP list "in 1731" (Munk). Casrla Costa Vieira, 'Observing the skies of Lisbon. Isaac de Sequeira Samuda, an 'Estrangeirado' in the Royal Society ' in NR 2014, vol 68, no 2, pp 135-149 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (second edition) rules for double barrelled and compound surnames c.1681 - Mar 1743 NA5339 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 17/12/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/239694285 792b37a3-c71e-4f7a-b6a4-972d12a923e5