Neville Ashenheim

Sir Neville Noel Ashenheim (18 December 1900 – 1 September 1984) was a Jamaican businessman, lawyer, politician, and served as the first Jamaican Ambassador to the United States.[1] He received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II on 1 January 1963.[2] Ashenheim served his post as ambassador until March 1967[3] He was the great-grandson of Lewis Ashenheim, who coedited The First Fruits of the West, the first Jewish periodical in the West Indies.[4] Neville himself was a Jew.[5]

References
  1. Foer, Paul (9 November 2012). "Jewish Jamaica, Then and Now". The Algemeiner. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  2. "SIXTH SUPPLEMENT TO The London Gazette of Friday, 28th December 1962" (PDF). The London Gazette. 28 December 1962.
  3. http://m.jamaicaobserver.com/teenage/Jamaica-1967_10837304?profile=&template=PrinterVersion
  4. Ornish, Natalie (1 September 2011). Pioneer Jewish Texans. Texas A&M University Press. p. 300. ISBN 9781603444330.
  5. Thompson, Ralph; Lennard, John (1 January 2009). View from Mount Diablo: An Annotated Edition. Humanities-Ebooks. p. 118. ISBN 9781847600936.


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