From 1765 until his death, Chief Rabbi David Tevele Schiff (died December 17, 1791; or in the Hebrew calendar, 26 Kislev 5551) was the Chief Rabbi of Britain and the Great Synagogue rabbi of London.
Rabbi Schiff was a disciple of Rabbi Joshua Falk, author of the classic Talmud commentary "Pene Yehoshua." He was a contemporary of Rabbi Yechezkel Segal Landau, Chief Rabbi of Prague and author of the fundamental Responsa "Noda BiYhuda." His most famous disciple was the saintly Frankfurt-am-Main rabbi Nosson Adler, renowned for his Kabbalistic teachings.
Because Jews were expelled during the medieval period, Rabbi Schiff's resting place is the first German-Jewish cemetery in Britain. It is located at 27 Alderney Road, London E1 4EG, in the East End of London.