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Bearing in mind the relative ages it would seem that there were 6 still to be born. [Whatever they left would not have been "a ranch". It is described in detail by Professor Jane Miller in Relations [Jonathan Cape, 2003]. Box six includes a 120 pp tss family history and auto-biography written c1950. Salaman, one of a family of fifteen, came to Barley in 1906 having obtained his M.D.

two years earlier. At the same time, he was also an incisive critic of the changing character of that community. He was director of the Pathological Institute of the London Hospital from 1901 to 1904. The papers are held at the University of Cambridge.

March, 2006

The portrait of Dr Salaman, and the picture of Homestall were added from Barley, an English Village

May, 2006

Colin Cohen (colin @t nehoc.co.uk) is the great nephew of Redcliffe Salaman and is working on a family history.

Dr Salaman also did valuable work as Chairman of the Potato Synonym Committee. They were both members of the Royston Magistrates bench for many years but they rarely allowed Barley squabbles to reach court. He discovered resistance to potato blight in 1908, and in 1926 he persuaded the Ministry of Agriculture to found the Potato Virus Research Unit at Cambridge of which he became the first director until reaching the age of retirement in 1939.

Encompassing family and social life as well as intellectual and political history, Todd Endelman has produced a vivid and humane biography and, at the same time, brings new insights to the history of Jewish integration in modern Britain.

More than a narrow study of Salaman's life, this detailed biography provides insight into the world of the old Anglo-Jewish elite as it confronted, and in some cases was subsumed by, the modern world.

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Salaman,  Raphael Arthur  (1906-1993), collector and lexicographer of tradesmen's tools, was born on 24 April 1906 at Homestall, Barley, near Royston, Hertfordshire, the fourth of six children of Redcliffe Nathan Salaman  (1874-1955), physician and scientist, and his wife, Pauline Ruth (Nina), nee Davis (1876/7-1925), writer, poet, and Zionist.

The garden is looking quite a picture. More than a biography, Endelman's book is a tale of an interconnected Anglo-Jewish elite and its decline over the course of the 20th century. For the sovereign state of the same name, see Republic of Ireland. We know nothing about these men, and are anxious to find out more.  A Dr.

Redcliffe Salaman, a scientist and Zionist notable, is listed in several jewish reference books, and a web site lists him as resident of the area in question. I suspect the Salamans are his relatives.

My starting point is Homestall, Barley. M. Adler, chief rabbi from 1844 to 1890. I don't know who the Rose was who wrote the PC: it does not ring a bell as a family name, so perhaps she was a servant?  Do you know if it was common at the period to print commercial PCs of private houses? 

I am sure that when someone moved in to one of the better houses in the area the local photographer would be round to ensure they had a supply of postcards, and Robert H.

Clark was a prolific photographer and publisher  in the Royston area. 

Was there a privacy reason for not showing the addressee?

No - It was sent to Mrs Watts, 7 Deccon Street, Corporation Road, Ilkeston, Nr Nottingham.

I have learned a lot since we last corresponded - some of which is as follows:

First, I have to say I was quite wrong about there being no Canadian connection: my starting point is Prof Todd Endelman's article on Redcliffe - he was interested as as RNS was an FRS - 'Anglo-Jewish scientists and the science of race' in Jewish Social Studies, Sept 2004.

He was wildly eccentric but also deeply embedded. You also mention his book, The social history of the potato. I have no idea who the Cecil Cohen was - probably not related to me. at  This shows that Dr Salaman's papers have been archived and include "Pedigrees, correspondence and papers regarding the genealogy of Salaman, Davis and other Anglo-Jewish families ..." and may well include details of his immediate relatives.

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