After cremation at Golders Green Crematorium his ashes were buried at the nearby Jewish cemetery. Lord Reading died in London in December 1935 aged 75. He was knighted in 1910, made a KCVO in 1911, a GCB in 1915, a GCSI and GCIE in 1921 (upon appointment as Viceroy of India) and a GCVO in 1922.
This is the highest rank in the Peerage reached by a Jew in British history. Isaacs lived at Foxhill House in Earley, adjoining Reading, and was elevated to the Peerage as Baron Reading, of Erleigh in the County of Berkshire, in 1914, and continued to rise in the Peerage: he was created Viscount Reading, of Erleigh in the County of Berkshire, in 1916 Earl of Reading along with the subsidiary title of Viscount Erleigh, of Erleigh in the County of Berkshire, in 1917 and eventually Marquess of Reading in 1926. His second marriage lasted until his own death in 1935. Stella Isaacs was later made a life peeress as Baroness Swanborough, of Swanborough, County Sussex, and later a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE). He then married Stella Charnaud, the first Lady Reading's secretary. Alice, Lady Reading, appointed GBE, was a chronic invalid, who eventually died of cancer in 1927, a year after Reading's viceroyalty ended, after 40 years of marriage. Lord Reading married Alice Edith Cohen in 1887. He was called to the Bar, the Middle Temple, in 1887.
In 1876–77 he served as a ships-boy and later worked as a jobber on the stock-exchange, 1880–84. The son of a Jewish fruit merchant at Spitalfields, Rufus Daniel Isaacs was educated at University College School, and then entered the family business at the age of fifteen. He was the first religiously-practising Jew to be appointed to the British cabinet. Lord Reading was the last Liberal Foreign Secretary. Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, GCB GCSI GCIE GCVO PC KC (10 October 1860 – 30 December 1935), was an English lawyer, jurist and politician.
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