Famous son of Party members

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I suppose this is off-topic rather than WSM stuff, but in the full-page obituary in yesterday's Times of Paul Robertson, a top violinist who formed the Medici Quartet, it says his mother, the daughter of a rabbi,

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was ostracised by her community after marrying John Robertson, a staunch socialist who came from a Scottish-Presbyterian background. He moved the young family to Oxford, where he would espouse his views from a soapbox.

He was indeed a staunch socialist, a member of the Party. He joined in London. During the war he was on the run and so had difficulties getting identity papers and a job after the war. And he did speak at the Martyr's Memorial in Oxford. His wife and brother and sister were also Party members. Maybe they were of "Scottish-Presbyterian background" but they came from Newcastle and spoke with Geordie accents.

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