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Leone Levi, 1821-1888.
Born in Ancona, Italy, Leone Levi emigrated to Liverpool in 1844, obtaining British citizenship and converting from Judaism to Presbyterianism. He was active in the establishment of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce in 1849. He enrolled at Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar in 1859.
In 1850, Levi published a comprehensive treatise on Commercial Law of the World (reprinted under a different title in 1863) establishing himself as an authority on the subject. He was a principle impetus behind the efforts to harmonize English, Scottish and Irish commercial law in 1856, and a tireless (but fruitless) crusader for the development of an international commercial code.
In 1852, at popular request, Leone Levi was appointed to lecture in commercial law at King's College London. In 1855, after converting yet again, this time to Anglicanism, Levi was appointed to the Chair in Political Economy, which had been left vacant since the departure of Richard Jones twenty years earlier. With the creation of the Tooke Chair at KCL in 1859, Levi would continue as professor of commerce.
A free trader by instinct and evidence, Levi was also a master collector and deployer of statistics in economic arguments (allegedly, some friends jested, to make up for his heavy Italian accent and shaky command of the English language). Levi was quite active in the Statistical Society of London, and helped it establish its quarters at King's College. He received an honorary doctorate from the university of Tubingen.
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