![]() The Foundation has awarded over £900 million (£1.9 billion in real terms) in grants to more than 11,000 projects throughout the U.K., including the founding endowments for Wolfson College, Oxford and Wolfson College, Cambridge. The rest should go to charity." The Wolfson Foundation was established in 1955, endowed with shares in the family businesses, to support and promote excellence in education, science & medicine, the arts & humanities, and health & disability. Isaac Wolfson is quoted as having said, "No man should have more than £100,000. ![]() Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, purchased for the National Gallery by the Wolfson FoundationĪ family descended from devout Orthodox Jews, the Wolfsons followed the religious and charitable example of their patriarch Solomon and the middle-European community from which he came. Today, family members live in London, New York, and Israel. After World War II various family members moved permanently to New York. During the Blitz, Solomon's daughter Edith took many of the family children (the third generation) to seek refuge in the United States for the duration of the war. By World War II the family was based in London, with the Samuel Wolfson branch having moved to Israel. Isaac was joined at GUS by his brother Charles Wolfson and later succeeded by his son Leonard Wolfson, and his nephews David Wolfson and Victor Barnett. His son Isaac Wolfson built the family retail business and founded the Wolfson Foundation and the Wolfson Family Charitable Trust. He was a furniture maker and Jewish community leader, later appointed Justice of the Peace. History įamily patriarch Solomon Wolfson immigrated from Białystok to Glasgow, Scotland, with his wife Nechi (née Wilamowski) at the end of the 19th century. ![]() Other businesses led or controlled by family members include the retailers Burberry and Next, and the pharmaceutical company Shaklee. The original family business, GUS, was eventually demerged into Home Retail Group, which included Argos and Homebase, and credit company Experian. The family is of Polish-Jewish and Russian-Jewish ancestry and has branches in the U.K., the U.S., and Israel. ![]() The family owes its initial fame to Sir Isaac Wolfson, who built the Great Universal Stores retail empire and created the Wolfson Foundation. The Wolfson family is a British Jewish family known for its business, philanthropic, and political activities. The coat of arms of Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson ![]()
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