Sir Isaiah Berlin, Jewish author, lecturer and diplomat, was named yesterday by Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home, as one of three British academic trustees of the Kennedy Memorial Fund.
The fund will select British students for Kennedy Scholarships to Harvard University. Sir Isaiah is an Oxford University lecturer, former first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington, former vice-president of the Oxford Jewish Society and a member of the council of the Anglo-Jewish Association.
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