ISAAC ‘IKEY’ SOLOMONS C1787–1850

In the 1820s Isaac Solomons became the most notorious receiver of stolen goods in the East End, and reputedly the model forin Dickens’ . As a young man, ‘Ikey’ as he was universally called was a pickpocket. He was sentenced to transportation for stealing a pocket book, containing £40 in notes and a cheque for £56, from a gentleman at an election meeting at Westminster Hall in April 1810, but was released in 1816 after serving six years on board a prison hulk.