Peter Mandelson was born at Hendon, Middlesex,[8] on 21 October 1953,[9][10] the younger son of the Hon. Mary Joyce Mandelson (née Morrison)[11] and George Norman Mandelson (1920–1988).[12] Of Polish Jewish extraction, his patrilineal great-great-great-grandfather was Colonel Naphtali Felthousen Mendelssohn; his great-grandfather, Levy Mandelson (1834–1891)[13] was son-in-law of Samuel Cohen MLA; and, his grandfather, Norman Levy Mandelson (1872–1956), founded the Harrow United Synagogue. His father George Norman Mandelson (known as Tony) was the advertising manager of The Jewish Chronicle[14] who served as an officer in the Royal Dragoons during the Second World War
genetics.. oh vey.