| AdminHistory | Basil Henriques, born in London, the youngest of the five children of David Quixano Henriques, who had an import and export company in Manchester and London, and his wife, Agnes C. Lucas, who was a great-niece of Sir Moses H. Montefiore, 1890; educated at Harrow, 1904-1907, and University College, Oxford, 1909-1913, where he became involved in the liberal Jewish movement; he joined with Claude Montefiore and the Chief Rabbi to promote the establishment of an academic post in rabbinical studies; founded Oxford and St George's Jewish Lads' Club, 1914 and persuaded his fiance, Rose Louise Loewe, to take charge of the corresponding Jewish Girls' Club, 1915; joined 3rd battalion of the East Kent regiment, 1915; married, 1916; seconded in 1916 to the newly formed tank corps; was wounded in the first tank attack on the Somme in 1916; twice mentioned in dispatches, and gained the Italian silver medal; with his wife, established the St. George's Jewish Settlement after World War I, lived there as warden and led services in the Settlement Synagogue; magistrate, 1924-1955; Chairman of the East London Juvenile Court, 1936-1955; founded the anti-Zionist Jewish Fellowship in 1942; retired as warden of the St. George's Jewish Settlement, 1947; CBE, 1948; knighted, 1955; visited boys' homes and prisons, suggested reforms, and took a great interest in the care of young Jewish offenders after their discharge; made lecture tours throughout the world to spread his views on the prevention of juvenile delinquency and to advance the cause of progressive Judaism; President, London Federation of Boys' Clubs; co-founder and President, British Diabetic Association; died 1961. Publications include: 'Club Leadership' (1933); 'The Indiscretions of a Warden' (1937); 'The Religion of the Jew' (with A. Marmorstein, 1946); 'So You're being Called Up' (1947); 'The Indiscretions of a Magistrate' (1950); 'Fratres, Club Boys in Uniform' (1951); 'Club Leadership Today' (1951); 'The Home Menders' (1955); and pamphlets on Judaism, juvenile delinquency, boys' clubs, and printed sermons and prayers.
Rosa (or Rosa) Louise Henriques, born 1889, daughter of James H. Loewe, a linguist and at one time secretary of the Jewish Colonial Trust; studied piano in Breslau; artist; in charge of music at the St George's Settlement Synagogue; involved in various international Jewish welfare agencies: Chairwoman, British OSE; Vice President, English ORT; Chairwoman, German section for Jewish Relief Abroad; President, League of Jewish Women; Trustee, Whitechapel Art Gallery; Vice-President, National Association and London Federation of Boys' Clubs; Vice-President, National Association of Girls' Clubs; Vice-Chairwoman, Standing Conference of British Organisations for Aid to Refugees; Vice-President, International Social Service (British Branch); founder, Workrooms for the Elderly (East London); received Youth Aliyah's Henrietta Szold Award, 1964; CBE, 1971; died 1972. Publications include: 'Approach to Music', 'Medieval Hebrew Minstrelsy' |