Albert Lazarus Benjamin

Albert Lazarus Benjamin (1909-2006) was a Glasgow based Zionist, his mothers maiden name was Winer. He married Judith Benjamin (nee Golombok) of the well known Glasgow Zionist Golombok family in Pollok in 1939.

Albert Lazarus Benjamin (1909–2006), a university student leader and mathematician, qualified as a professional Chartered Accountant. By 1940, he was living at 117 Forth Street, Govan, volunteering as the Honorary Financial Secretary managing the benefit books of the Grand Order of Israel Odessa Lodge, No. 97. He was also a mathematical mastermind who became a famous International Bridge Player for Scotland. In 1939, he married Judith Golombok (1909–1986), the daughter of Israel Golombok, legally uniting the lodge's financial engine with the city's premier publishing dynasty.

Family

• Parents Hymen Benjamin (1870-1951) and Katie Benjamin (nee Winer) who married in 1906 in the Gorbals. Hymen died in 1951 in Cathcart at 71 years of age. He is listed as a retired commercial traveller living at 127 Cartvale Road in Glasgow. His father was Albert Benjamin a Drapery traveller and his mother was Mary Benjamin afterwards Rosen nee Reinstein. the dearth certificat was signed by Albert Lazarus Benjamin of 595 Shield Road, Glasgow.
• In the 1901 Census Hymen (21) lived as a boarder with his older brother Charles Benjamin (23) with their mother Mary Rosin (41) and her second husband Morris Rosin (43), two other children, two other boarders and a widow, at 32 Govan Street a flat with three rooms.
• In the 1911 Census Hymen (30) and Katie (24) lived with Albert Lazarus Benjamin (2) and Claire Benjamin (3).
• Valuation rolls show that he lived at 127 Cartvale road in 1915 and 1920.