Louis Saul Sterling

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Name Louis Saul Sterling Born 16 May 1879 Kovno Lithuania - Russian Empire Gender Male Died 2 Jun 1958 St Mary's Hospital Paddington London Buried 4 Jun 1958 Willsden Jewish Cemetery Person ID I1178 My Genealogy Last Modified 2 Dec 2019
Father Moses Sterling, b. 1856, d. UNKNOWN Mother Julia, b. 1856, d. UNKNOWN Family ID F443 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Cissy Kantorwicz, b. 17 Mar 1877, Germany , d. 1963, Marylebone
(Age 85 years)
Married 17 Sep 1919 London Central Synagogue Portland Street Marylebone London Last Modified 2 Dec 2019 Family ID F442 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Biography: http://soundofthehound.com/absent-friends/sterling-louis-1879-1958/ .Originally published Gramaphone Magazine July 1958
Donation of Library (c.4000 volumes) to Senate House Library London University from 1954. Awarded Hon D.Litt.
Here follows article in Times Literary Supplement of 4 February 1939 describing Sterling's library
http://senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections/special-collections/printed-special-collections/tls-1939/
Business Career : http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Louis_Saul_Sterling
DNB Article. Erroneously records born in New York on 31 May 1879. Evidence sourced by IKM points to "Lithuania Russian Empire" on 16 May 1879.
Birth name not established. Anecdote quotes Sterling as saying that when he arrived in the UK he adopted the name of the epitome of the British Empire, the currency. Another anecdote was that on being Knighted by George VI, in answer to a question by the King, he replied that his first night in England was spent as "a guest of your father Sir", That is in a police cell, having celebrated his arrival rather too well. Anecdotes relayed to IKM by his Aunt, Dorothy Munro, who was married briefly to his step-son, George Kent.
Furthermore the DNB article gives maiden name of his wife Cissy as Stevens, whereas IKM records it as Kantorwicz, born in Germany. She was the widow of Julian Wilford Kandt, who died 19 June 1919. She married Sterling on 17 Sept 1919.
Probate Valuation of Estate 20 January 1959 was ?667,250.
- Biography: http://soundofthehound.com/absent-friends/sterling-louis-1879-1958/ .Originally published Gramaphone Magazine July 1958
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