Death and Descendants
The London Jewish Chronicle of 25 March 1864 reported from Sydney:
Mr. Nathan was a passenger by No. 2 tramway car alighted from the car at the southern end, but before he got clear of the rails the car moved onwards he was thus whirled round by the sudden motion of the carriage and his body was brought under the front wheel.
The horse-drawn tram was the first in Sydney: Nathan was Australia's (indeed the southern hemisphere's) first tram fatality.
He was buried in Sydney; his tomb is at Camperdown Cemetery.
Many of Nathan's descendants became leading Australian citizens. Later descendants include three brothers - the conductor Sir Charles Mackerras; the psephologist Malcolm Mackerras; the headmaster of Sydney Grammar School Alastair Mackerras; and their nephew the conductor Alexander Briger.
Read more about this topic: Isaac Nathan
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