Roland Lubienski Wentworth

Nationalisation: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37940/pages/1841/page.pdf

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Roland A. Lubienski Wentworth

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Biographical Note on Roland Lubienski Wentworth

by Felix Lubienski Wentworth

Roland, my father, was born on July 22nd, 1900 in Krakow, in that part of Poland then ruled by the Austrian Empire, into an aristocratic Polish family traceable back to the 15th century. He was the great-great-grandson of the first Count Lublenski, a minister in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, but the family was already illustrious as a result of having produced, over the centuries, no less than three archbishop-primates of Poland, and several bishops. He was the fourth of five children, four boys and a girl, and was baptized Zbigniew Antony Lublenski. Many years later, in 1947, having settled in England in 1933, and having just acquired British nationality, he adopted the additional surname of Wentworth, which had been the baptismal name of his great-uncle, Thomas Wentworth Lublenski. At the same time he officially changed his forename Zbigniew, which the English had always found unpronounceable, to Roland, by which name he had asked to be known ever since his first arrival in England. He never explained why he had chosen that name, but the closeness between the names Roland and...