Mr. Herbert Bentwich, one of the pioneers of the Zionist movement in England and an early associate of Dr. Theodore Herzl, died here to-day at the age of 76.
He was the father of Mr. Norman Bentwich, former Attorney General to the Palestine Government and now Weizmann Professor of International Peace at the Hebrew University, and of a large family of talented daughters, including Mrs. Friedlander, the widow of the late Professor Friedlander, the famous American Jewish scholar who was murdered in the Ukraine while on a relief expedition there at the time of the civil war, the late Mrs. Michael Lange, and Miss Margery and Miss Thelma Bentwich.
Mr. Herbert Bentwich was a brother-in-law of the famous painter, Mr. Solomon J. Solomon, R.A.
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