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    Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet FRS (/ˈwʊlfsən/; 17 September 1897 – 20 June 1991) was a Scottish businessman and philanthropist. He was managing director...
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    owes its initial fame to Sir Isaac Wolfson, who built the Great Universal Stores retail empire and created the Wolfson Foundation. The family is of Polish-Jewish...
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  • Stores, a mail order business created by the Rose family. In 1931, Isaac Wolfson joined the mail order company and would, through a series of takeovers...
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  • established by and named after Sir Isaac Wolfson, chairman of Great Universal Stores (GUS). His wife and his son Lord Wolfson, were the other founder trustees...
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    chairman of GUS, and son of GUS magnate Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet. He is the father of Janet Wolfson de Botton. He attended The King's School, Worcester...
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    nephew of Isaac Wolfson, former chairman of GUS and Next Dik Wolfson (born 1933), Dutch economist, politician and civil servant Elliot R. Wolfson, professor...
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    are around 30 academic staff positions of which four are Chairs. The Isaac Wolfson Chair in Metallurgy was set up in the late 1950s. Sir Peter Hirsch formerly...
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    of whom was Sir Isaac Wolfson, Simon's great uncle, who made his fortune through Great Universal Stores. Wolfson's father, Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale...
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    Ruth (née Sterling), who married in 1949, and a granddaughter of Sir Isaac Wolfson, founder of the Great Universal Stores family; she is the former wife...
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    founded with the assistance of the Wolfson Foundation and named after Lady Edith Specterman Wolfson, Sir Isaac Wolfson's wife. The medical center in Holon...
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    around it. In recognition of Isaac Wolfson's contribution to the foundation of the college, its name was changed to Wolfson College. But Berlin's work as...
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  • The Wolfson Stadium is a sports stadium in KwaZakele, Ibhayi just outside Port Elizabeth in South Africa. The stadium is able to hold 10,000 people. and...
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  • 000 Paarl Western Cape Boland cricket team Cape Cobras Paarl Rocks 73 Isaac Wolfson Stadium 10,000 KwaZakele Eastern Cape Zwide United, PE Villagers, St...
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  • chairman from 1996 to 2000. The retailer had been founded by his uncle Isaac Wolfson as a mail order clothing company. He was first introduced to Margaret...
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    construction of the new synagogue was Sir Isaac Wolfson, a Jewish philanthropist from Britain. The Wolfson family consecrated the synagogue in the memory...
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    medical center. The project was financed by the Edith and Isaac Wolfson Trust. Kiryat Wolfson is situated on a ridge at the western edge of Sha'arei Hesed...
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  • William Hume-Rothery (category Isaac Wolfson Professors of Metallurgy)
    William Hume-Rothery OBE FRS (15 May 1899 – 27 September 1968) was an English metallurgist and materials scientist who studied the constitution of alloys...
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    B listed building. It is named for Isaac Wolfson of the Wolfson Foundation, and was initially known as the Wolfson Centre for Bioengineering to distinguish...
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    housing development in Jerusalem by Mordechai Meir, Charles Clore, Isaac Wolfson and the Municipality of Jerusalem. In December 1963, the bank was granted...
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  • non-Jewish purchaser of Israel Bonds. Lindner, who said an early loan from Isaac Wolfson inspired him to never forget his gratitude to the Jewish people, donated...
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  • College, Oxford The Wolfson Foundation, founded by Isaac Wolfson Wolfson Microelectronics, an electronics company Samuel W. Wolfson High School, a public...
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  • to develop it with great success. With the financial backing of Sir Isaac Wolfson, he acquired diverse food companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange...
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  • to export. After the Second World War, the distillery was bought by Isaac Wolfson, and, in 1972, it was taken over by Irish Distillers, meaning that Irish...
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  • David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Tredegar Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson Simon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Apsley...
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  • Peter Hirsch (category Isaac Wolfson Professors of Metallurgy)
    thin crystals. The following year he moved to Oxford to take up the Isaac Wolfson Chair in Metallurgy, succeeding William Hume-Rothery. He held this post...
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    Foundation, the Esmée Fairbairn Trust, the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Isaac Wolfson Foundation, the Monument Trust, and the Pilgrim Trust, and continues...
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    temporary exhibitions is named for British Jewish philanthropist Sir Isaac Wolfson. In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI paid a courtesy visit to Heichal Shlomo...
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  • 'acquisition' of Collaro, along with managing director of Collaro, Isaac Wolfson. However, he is also reported as noting that "the linking of the two...
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  • 1962 for Isaac Wolfson, the businessman and philanthropist who established the Wolfson Foundation. In 1985, the 2nd Baronet, Leonard Wolfson, became a...
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    underwritten by banker Sir Isaac Wolfson, who by mid-1964 had bankrolled the company with an £8 million loan. Spotting trouble, Sir Isaac withdrew his support...
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