Rudolph Winton

Heroes of the Holocaust: Ordinary Britons Who Risked Their Lives to Make a Difference by Lyn Smith Page 51 - 67

page 54 … One of the the three children of Rudolph and Barbara Wertheim, Nicholas Winton was born in 1909, into an affluent home in West Hampstead. Although his mother was from a Jewish family from Nürnberg, Germany, and the family were well integrated in . . .

Born Rudolf Wertheim, he changed his name to Rudolf Wortham in 1915.

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29269/pages/8329/page.pdf

Notice of Change of Name by Deed Poll.

I RUDOLF WORTHAM, heretofore called and , known by the name of Rudolf Wertheim, of Stonecroft, Cleve-road, West Hampstead, London, "hereby give public notice, that on the 29th day of July. 1915, I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished and abandoned the use of my said surname of Wei'theim, and then assumed and adopted and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of Rudolf Wortham instead of the said name of Rudolf Wertheim; and I give further notice, that by a deed poll, dated the .29th day.of July, 1915, duly executed and attested and enrolled in the Central Office of the Supreme Court, on the 4th day of August, 1915, I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished and abandoned the said surname of Wertheim, and dedared that I had assumed and adopted and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of Wortham instead of Wertheim, and so as to be at all times thereafter called, known and described by the name of Rudolf Wortham exclusively.

Dated the 16th day of August, 1915. 094 " RUDOLF WORTHAM.

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34443/pages/6344/page.pdf

Rudolf Wertheim late of 11 Heath Drive Hampstead in the county of Middlesex died on the 6th day of July 1937.

Executor: Emil Georg (in the Will called Emil) Wertheimer of Lyndhurst Rutland Road Ellesmere Park Eccles Manchester in the county of Lancaster.

[Emil Georg Wertheimer was Rudolf Wertheim's wife's brother]

After Rudolf's death in 1937, his wife and children changed their name from Wertheim / Wortham to Winton in 1938.

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Rudolf is involved in liquidation of WEISS, BIHELLEB & BROOKS Limited in 1933

See http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33964/pages/5064/page.pdf and http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33942/pages/3481/page.pdf

1911 UK census image has been posted as this profile's "picture"