OBITUARY : Ruth Sebag-Montefiore

The Times 
Saturday July 18 2015

OBITUARY : Ruth Sebag-Montefiore
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- Sebag-Montefiore worked as a coder at Bletchley Park during the war

Matriarch of the prominent Anglo-Jewish family who wrote a revealing
memoir about the vanished age of her childhood

“Always damp your forehead with sea water before bathing,” the young Ruth
Magnus was advised soon after the First World War. Other pearls of wisdom
she recalled included “never eat lettuce in France” and “never pick
blackberries low down” — this last drummed into her by the nurserymaid, a
farmer’s daughter from Kent.

In time, she became the matriarch of one of the leading Anglo-Jewish  
families, the Sebag-Montefiores, and, through her published memoir and
lectures, a repository of knowledge both about her forebears and the
nowvanished age of her childhood....

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