#02: Born at Southhampton (England) and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Oxford. After graduating in 1904, he entered the British Civil Service in the General Post Office until his retirement in 1944. He was for some years Chairman of the Executive Council of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. An avid Zionist, he was among the original members of the Zionist Commission to Palestine, but his main interest was in the cultural aspect of Jewish nationalism, and particularly in the Hebrew revival.
