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2 unusual facts about Isaac D. Seyburn


1824 in Wales

March - Isaac D. Seyburn, Welsh-born merchant captain and naval officer (d. 1895)

Isaac D. Seyburn

One of the eight Flying Junior dinghies in the Vanderbilt Sailing Club fleet was named for Isaac D. Seyburn, who was the great great great grandfather of a former Commodore of the Club; another was named Lew Chew.


Isaac D. Smith

In 1989, the Comptroller General of the Department of Defense that Smith failed to abide by the "Fly America Act", which required use of US-based airlines for military flights; Smith's case became a precedent.

Isaac D'Israeli

Isaac was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England, the only child of Benjamin D'Israeli (1730–1816), a Jewish merchant who had emigrated from Cento in Italy in 1748, and his second wife, Sarah Syprut de Gabay Villa Real (1742/3–1825).

He died of influenza at age 81, at his home, Bradenham House, in Buckinghamshire, less than a year after the death of his wife in the spring of 1847.

John Lambe

Accounts of Lambe’s life would also appear in later writings, such as Isaac D'Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature and Sir Walter Scott’s Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft.

Spelling of Shakespeare's name

Isaac D'Israeli wrote a strongly worded letter condemning this spelling as a "barbaric curt shock".


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