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Aaron Harry Kissin, Lord

Aaron Harry Kissin, Lord

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    Commodity broker and merchant banker Born in Danzig, the son of a Russian grain merchant, Harry Kissin qualified as a lawyer at the University of Basel. He moved to London in 1934 to become a company director in the City. After 1945 he worked with the merchant banker Sir Siegmund Warburg in a company trading with eastern Europe, and also became the head of Guinness Peat, a major commodity firm. In 1974, he was awarded a life peerage, Baron Kissin of Camden, by Harold Wilson, with whom he had worked with in the 1950s. Kissin was chairman of the Royal Opera House Trust and the Institute of Contemporary Art, and a governor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. See also the article. The picture is the coat of arms of Harry Kissin.
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    gravestone of Harry Kissin, https://www.jewishlivesproject.com/profiles/harry-aaron-kissin, wiki
Kissin, Lord

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Aaron Harry Kissin, Lord

(August 23, 1912August 23, 1912 Gregorian
August 10, 1912 Julian
Elul 10, 5672 Hebrew, Danzig - November 22, 1997November 22, 1997 Gregorian
November 9, 1997 Julian
Cheshvan 22, 5758 Hebrew, London)


Dvora Ruth Samuel

(October 14, 1911October 14, 1911 Gregorian
October 1, 1911 Julian
Tishrei 22, 5672 Hebrew - January 18, 2011January 18, 2011 Gregorian
January 5, 2011 Julian
Shevat 13, 5771 Hebrew)

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