AdminHistory | Oscar Isaac Philipp, born in Hamburg, son of Elias Philipp and his second wife Mary Heine, 1887; left school at the age of 17 and apprenticed himself to a paint and glue maker; became apprenticed in dealing in metals, 1907; moved to England and founded a metal-broking firm in London, 1909; naturalised as British, 1914; moved to Hove, c1914; returned to London, c1918; retired to Geneva; Orthodox Jew; Zionist; member of the Fabian Society; died in Geneva, 1965. His wife Clarisse (nee Weil) was born in Paris of a French father and a German mother; she suffered from epilepsy. |