He was president of the Board of Deputies from 1895 until his death. In the 1890s he was a vice president of the Ḥovevei Zion (*Hibbat Zion). Joseph, who had accompanied Sir Moses to Ereẓ Israel in 1866, remained concerned with the welfare of the Jews there, administering on behalf of the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue the Holy Land Trust bequeathed by Sir Moses. He was a justice of the peace, high sheriff of Kent in 1889, and was knighted in 1896. In 1885 he added the name of Montefiore to his own by royal license, the family name henceforward being Sebag-Montefiore. Their son JOSEPH (1822–1903), a stockbroker who amassed a fortune, was the closest associate of Sir Moses in his last years and heir to his Ramsgate estate. With his death, the title became extinct. Joseph Mayer's eldest son, Sir Francis Abraham Montefiore, succeeded to Sir Moses' baronetcy in 1886, when the title, which had become extinct, was revived in his favor.

Under his presidency the Board and the Anglo-Jewish AssociationĬooperated to form the Conjoint Foreign Committee. Joseph Mayer succeeded Sir Moses as president of the Board of Deputies in 1874, after having been the first vice president since 1857. Their two sons were JOSEPH MAYER (1816–1880) and NATHANIEL (1819–1883), the father of Claude Goldsmid *Montefiore. Sir Moses' brother and business partner, ABRAHAM (1788–1824), married as his second wife Henrietta Rothschild. His grandsons Joseph Barrow *Montefiore (1803–1893) and JACOB MONTEFIORE (1801–1895) were prominent in early Australian history two other sons were Joshua *Montefiore and JOSEPH ELIAS (1759–1804) who married Rachel Mocatta and was the father of Sir Moses *Montefiore. The former had 17 children who intermarried with the Anglo-Jewish families. The first to come to England were the brothers MOSES VITA (1712–1789), who set up successfully as an importer of Italian straw hats, and JOSEPH (b. (See Chart: Montefiore Family 1, 2, and 3). MONTEFIORE, SEBAG-MONTEFIORE, English family originating from Leghorn, Italy.

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