Delmonte, (Simeon) Koert
(1913–82), portrait and landscape painter, was born 15 April 1913 in van Mierlestraat, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, eldest of three children of Solomon Delmonte, banker, and his wife Nanetha, daughter of Simon Speyer, diamond merchant. His younger brother…...
Gordon, Maurice Leonard (‘Maurie’)
(1910–90), sports administrator, businessman, and community activist, was born 10 January 1910 in Leeds, England, only son and elder of two children of Joseph Gordon (originally Seltzer), textile worker from Russia, and Bessie Gordon (née Bellow…...
Solomons, Bethel Albert Herbert (1885–1965), gynaecologist and rugby player, was born 27 February 1885 at 32 Waterloo Road, Dublin, second son and third child of Maurice Elias Solomons (d. 1922), optician and honorary consul for the Austro–Hungarian empire in Ireland, and Rosa Jane…...
Waddington, Victor (1907–81), art dealer and gallery owner, was born on 9
January 1907 in Stepney, London, the second son of five sons and two daughters of William
George Waddington, a schoolteacher and convert to Judaism, originally from a
presbyterian family in rural Aberdeenshire…...
