He is the ostensible subject of Rudyard Kipling's poem Gehazi, thought to be aimed at Rufus Isaacs, a member of the British Liberal government at the time the poem was composed.
It is named after Lady Reading, the wife of the Viceroy of India, Lord Reading.
Along with Alfred Mond and Herbert Samuel, Isaacs was a founding chairman of the Palestine Electric Corporation, precursor to the Israel Electric Corporation in the British Mandate of Palestine.
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It was created in 1926 for Rufus Isaacs, 1st Earl of Reading, the former Viceroy of India and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs (known familiarly as Nats), is the second child of the 4th Marquess of Reading, Simon Charles Henry Rufus Isaacs and Melinda Victoria Rufus Isaacs née Dewar.