Aaron Cardozo

Aaron Nunez Cardozo, GMH (1762–1834)[1] was an English businessman[1] who was consul for Tunis and Algiers in Gibraltar around 1805.

Cardozo was successful in saving the lives of three Royal Navy sailors who were imprisoned at Oran and sentenced to death.

In 1824 Cardozo was created a knight of the Legion of Honor by Louis XVIII of France and was rewarded with other orders of merit for his distinguished services.

After settling in Gibraltar, Cardozo had a mansion built at John Mackintosh Square as his family home.

However, as he had been a close friend of Nelson and had supplied his fleet, he was eventually granted a site to build a house in the Alameda on the condition that it be "an ornament" to the square.