EDWARD LAWRENCE LEVY-SOLICITOR

[RDWard]

Firstly, I have now finished the book about the Levy family, called Wealth and Notoriety: the extraordinary families of William Levy and Charles Lewis of London, which is available through lulu.com (and in due course elsewhere). It includes of course a chunk on Edward Lawrence Levy. The price mainly reflects the lulu's one-off print-on-demand cost - it is not a commercial venture as only few pence come to me - so I hope this "advert" here is acceptable.

Secondly, I recently attempted to submit an entry on Edward Lawrence Levy to Wikipedia, reasoning that someone who is the subject of an entire Times leader/editorial summarizing his 'career' as a fraudster is sufficiently notable to warrant an entry. However, at present the article is rejected, seemingly because there have been no other books or articles about him and my drawing together of his newspaper coverage over his lifetime is regarded as original research which "has no place on Wikipedia". I find this rather perverse. However, if anyone has suggestions for improvements, the draft article is at present at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped..._Lawrence_Levy. Hopefully it will be accepted eventually.

[phillip]

Robert
First of all very well done for completing the book. I look forward to obtaining a copy. With regard to the Wikipedia submission I have to say that I found the critique for refusing to accept your summary article amusing not least because of your academic background and the quality of the primary sources which are accessible. Given you and I have had some comparable academic experiences perhaps the submission was too accurate and objective. The article also relates in part to my own Jacobs family lines through marriage and I have found nothing which has been "too harsh".
Phillip

[RDWard]

To be fair to Wikipedia, the version you saw was after I had made some changes - one of the phrases I removed was that he was "one of the most notorious fraudulent solicitors in Victorian London", which is possibly judgmental rather than factual. But, yes, perhaps I did write it too detailed and maybe should have submitted a shorter version based on the Times editorial article, and then added the rest once this trojan horse had been accepted. Anyway, I have now resubmitted the article. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Robert

[ABrooks]

Robert,
thanks and well done for publishing the Levy family history, I look forward to reading it.
Adrian

[Dom1]

Congratulations Robert on your book, as you know the branch of William Levy Lawrence (1830-1912) are my cousins.

[RDWard]

We now have an accepted Wikipedia article. They regard the quality of the article as Start Class - i.e. it lacks adequate references. I'm sure we all would be delighted if they can find "adequate" ones, but I would say that the length and duration of this thread points to that being unlikely. The editor renamed the article to Edward Lawrence Levy (fraudster) to distinguish him from the weightlifter of the same name.

[Ellen]

I have been trying to decide where best to ask my question & given that this thread appears to be mostly about '' Levy ''[ & ever the optimist] it looks like a good place to begin...

I have the names of a Mark Levy , died May 1812 Artillery Lane , St Botolph , London, & his son Henry Levy. Henry is the subject of a Guardianship Order [October 1812 ] as Mark died Intestate, & his only son Henry, is described as an' Infant' . I think that Henry may have been born c, 1806 , reading between the lines of said document . The Guardian is named as James Cohen & is supposedly Uncle & next of kin [ Mark Levy is described as a Widower without parents] The address of the Guardian & Witnesses named, are all from London.

Has anyone heard of this Levy father & son?
Thank you