King David Hotel
The King David Hotel ( , ) is a 5-star hotel in Jerusalem and a member of The Leading Hotels of the World. Opened in 1931, the hotel was built with locally quarried pink limestone and was founded by Ezra Mosseri, a wealthy Egyptian Jewish banker. It is located on King David Street in the centre of Jerusalem, overlooking the Old City and Mount Zion.
Polydore de Keyser
He came to England sometime before 1849 and became a naturalized English citizen in 1853. He founded the 400-room Royal Hotel, later to be called the De Keyser's Royal Hotel, and personally ran it from 1856 to 1887. It was built on the site of Bridewell Palace, London, and demolished in 1929 to make way for Unilever House.