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{{Infobox company
| name = Jewish Chronicle Limited
| logo =
| type = Private limited company (dissolved)
| foundation = {{Start date|1907|11|7|df=y}}
| defunct = {{End date|2023|2|2|df=y}}
| location = London
| industry = Newspaper publishing
| subsid = [[Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Limited]]
| homepage =
}}
'''Jewish Chronicle Limited''' (company 00095587) was the company formed in 1907 to own ''[[The Jewish Chronicle]]''. From 1969 it held the 'A' shares in [[Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Limited]], the title-holding company. It went into creditors' voluntary liquidation in 2020 and was dissolved on 2 February 2023.<ref name="CH95587">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00095587 Jewish Chronicle Limited (00095587): overview], accessed 7 November 2026.</ref>

== Formation, 1906–1907 ==
According to [[David Cesarani]], after [[Leopold Greenberg]] arranged the purchase of the paper in December 1906, a company was set up with [[Israel Davis (born 1847)|Israel Davis]] as chairman. Its principal shareholders were Greenberg, [[Jacobus Kann]], [[Joseph Cowen (born 1868)|Joseph Cowen]] and [[Leopold Kessler (Zionist)|Leopold Kessler]], together with David Wolffsohn and Katzenelson; Cowen, Kessler and Kann were directors, and Greenberg held the largest shareholding.<ref name="Ces105">David Cesarani, ''The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 105.</ref> The purchase had been arranged through the executive of the [[Jewish Colonial Trust]].<ref name="Ces104">David Cesarani, ''The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 104.</ref> Companies House gives the incorporation date as 7 November 1907.<ref name="CH95587" />

== Kessler family control and the trust ==
Cesarani records that the Kessler family's stake in the company rose from just over 40 per cent in 1939 to 80 per cent in the 1960s, and that under the trust structure completed in October 1969 Jewish Chronicle Limited held the 'A' shares in Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Ltd, while [[Jewish Chronicle Trust Limited]] held 99 per cent of the 'B' shares.<ref name="Ces225">David Cesarani, ''The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 225.</ref> Companies House lists [[The Jacob Foundation|The Kessler Foundation]] as the company's [[person with significant control]] from 21 June 2019, after the cessation of [[Clive Wolman]] on that date.<ref name="CH95587FH">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00095587/filing-history Jewish Chronicle Limited (00095587): filing history], accessed 7 November 2026.</ref> [[Alan Jacobs (born 1962)|Alan Jacobs]] and [[David Kershaw]] became directors on the same date.<ref name="CH95587FH" />

== Liquidation ==
After the title-holding subsidiary went into liquidation in April 2020, Jewish Chronicle Limited passed an extraordinary resolution to wind up on 22 October 2020, appointed a voluntary liquidator in November 2020, and was dissolved on 2 February 2023 following liquidation.<ref name="CH95587FH" />

== Officers ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Officers of Jewish Chronicle Limited (Companies House)
! Name !! Role !! Born (month/year) !! Appointed !! Resigned
|-
| Raymond Jonathan Harrod || Director || December 1977 || 31 January 2014 || —
|-
| [[Alan Jacobs (born 1962)|Alan Steven Jacobs]] || Director || January 1962 || 21 June 2019 || —
|-
| [[David Kershaw|David Andrew Kershaw]] || Director || February 1954 || 21 June 2019 || —
|-
| Richard Andrew Fass || Secretary || || before 26 December 1991 || 11 December 2007
|-
| Gerard Alphonsus McCarthy || Secretary || || 16 October 2007 || 4 December 2017
|-
| Tracy Abraham || Director || March 1971 || 31 December 2010 || 25 December 2011
|-
| Tracy Abraham || Director || March 1971 || 31 December 2010 || 31 January 2014
|-
| [[Ellis Birk|Ellis Samuel Birk]] || Director || October 1915 || before 26 December 1991 || 12 January 1995
|-
| Richard Louis Bolchover || Director || August 1960 || 26 July 2004 || 31 December 2010
|-
| Richard Burton || Director || February 1954 || 31 January 2014 || 5 January 2016
|-
| Julia Sarah Chain || Director || June 1957 || 5 January 2005 || 31 December 2010
|-
| Lord Clinton-Davis || Director || December 1928 || before 26 December 1991 || 31 January 1992
|-
| Shimon David Cohen || Director || May 1960 || 1 November 1994 || 9 September 2003
|-
| Sarah Ebner || Director || June 1971 || 7 March 2016 || 31 May 2018
|-
| Richard Andrew Fass || Director || September 1945 || 1 May 1992 || 11 December 2007
|-
| [[Daniel Finkelstein]] || Director || August 1962 || 14 March 2011 || 22 October 2013
|-
| [[William Frankel]] || Director || February 1917 || before 26 December 1991 || 12 January 1995
|-
| Lionel Lawrence Gordon || Director || August 1933 || before 26 December 1991 || 25 January 2005
|-
| [[Stephen Grabiner]] || Director || September 1958 || 22 October 2013 || 21 June 2019
|-
| [[Stephen Grabiner]] || Director || September 1958 || 1 May 2005 || 12 December 2008
|-
| Jeffrey Michael Greenwood || Director || April 1935 || before 26 December 1991 || 19 April 2005
|-
| Cameron Hay || Director || January 1967 || 31 January 2014 || 26 August 2016
|-
| [[Anthony Julius]] || Director || July 1956 || 18 January 2011 || 22 October 2013
|-
| Daniel Benjamin Kessler || Director || July 1971 || 22 October 2004 || 31 December 2010
|-
| [[David Kessler]] || Director || June 1906 || before 26 December 1991 || 31 December 1991
|-
| Robin Matthew Klein || Director || December 1947 || 18 May 2009 || 15 September 2009
|-
| Peter Lawrence Levy || Director || November 1939 || 1 November 1994 || 18 May 2009
|-
| Paul Julian Mann || Director || March 1968 || 31 December 2010 || 22 October 2013
|-
| Michael Henry Marx || Director || June 1947 || 14 March 2011 || 22 October 2013
|-
| Gerard Alphonsus McCarthy || Director || January 1958 || 31 January 2014 || 4 December 2017
|-
| Sidney Norman Moss || Director || February 1927 || before 26 December 1991 || 4 October 1991
|-
| Danielle Sharon Nagler || Director || June 1973 || 29 December 2010 || 29 December 2010
|-
| [[Peter Oppenheimer (born 1938)|Peter Morris Oppenheimer]] || Director || April 1938 || before 26 December 1991 || 10 January 2006
|-
| [[Stephen Pollard]] || Director || December 1964 || 7 January 2014 || 8 June 2018
|-
| Wendy Flora Pollecoff || Director || October 1957 || 1 May 1992 || 13 January 1994
|-
| Debbie Rose || Director || August 1973 || 1 September 2016 || 8 June 2018
|-
| Alan Rubenstein || Director || June 1943 || 1 September 2003 || 4 September 2011
|-
| [[Ned Temko|Edward James (Ned) Temko]] || Director || November 1952 || 10 March 1995 || 6 May 2005
|}
Source:<ref name="CH95587Off">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00095587/officers Jewish Chronicle Limited (00095587): officers] (two pages), accessed 7 November 2026.</ref>

Companies House lists appointments made before December 1991 only as "appointed before" the start of its electronic records.

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:Companies|Jewish Chronicle Limited]]
[[Category:Media|Jewish Chronicle Limited]]
[[Category:Jewish organisations in London|Jewish Chronicle Limited]]

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 == Kessler family control and the trust ==
-Cesarani records that the Kessler family's stake in the company rose from just over 40 per cent in 1939 to 80 per cent in the 1960s, and that under the trust structure completed in October 1969 Jewish Chronicle Limited held the 'A' shares in Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Ltd, while [[Jewish Chronicle Trust Limited]] held 99 per cent of the 'B' shares.<ref name="Ces225">David Cesarani, ''The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 225.</ref> Companies House lists [[The Jacob Foundation|The Kessler Foundation]] as the company's [[person with significant control]] from 21 June 2019, after the cessation of [[Clive Wolman]] on that date.<ref name="CH95587FH">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00095587/filing-history Jewish Chronicle Limited (00095587): filing history], accessed 7 November 2026.</ref> [[Alan Jacobs (born 1962)|Alan Jacobs]] and [[David Kershaw]] became directors on the same date.<ref name="CH95587FH" />
+Cesarani records that the Kessler family's stake in the company rose from just over 40 per cent in 1939 to 80 per cent in the 1960s, and that under the trust structure completed in October 1969 Jewish Chronicle Limited held the 'A' shares in [[Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Limited|Jewish Chronicle Newspaper Ltd]], while [[Jewish Chronicle Trust Limited]] held 99 per cent of the 'B' shares.<ref name="Ces225">David Cesarani, ''The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 225.</ref> Companies House lists [[The Jacob Foundation|The Kessler Foundation]] as the company's [[person with significant control]] from 21 June 2019, after the cessation of [[Clive Wolman]] on that date.<ref name="CH95587FH">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00095587/filing-history Jewish Chronicle Limited (00095587): filing history], accessed 7 November 2026.</ref> [[Alan Jacobs (born 1962)|Alan Jacobs]] and [[David Kershaw (born 1954)|David Kershaw]] became directors on the same date.<ref name="CH95587FH" />
 == Liquidation ==
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 | [[Alan Jacobs (born 1962)|Alan Steven Jacobs]] || Director || January 1962 || 21 June 2019 || —
 |-
-| [[David Kershaw|David Andrew Kershaw]] || Director || February 1954 || 21 June 2019 || —
+| [[David Kershaw (born 1954)|David Andrew Kershaw]] || Director || February 1954 || 21 June 2019 || —
 |-
 | Richard Andrew Fass || Secretary ||  || before 26 December 1991 || 11 December 2007

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