Notes
His biography on the college website states: ‘Frank Woolf was the younger of the two sons, by his second marriage, of Alfred Haldinstein of Thorpe Hall, Norwich. He had five younger sisters. Alfred Haldinstein’s father, Philip, had emigrated from Breslau in the 1840’s and married Rosa Soman, daughter of David Soman. In 1799, David Soman, an emigrant from the French Revolution, bought a building in Norwich where he made fur caps. As the boot and shoe trade took over from the former headwear, he also became Phillip Haldinstein, as a shoe manufacturer. In 1853, the business passed into the hands of Haldinstein, and later merged with the Swiss manufacturer, Bally, to become Bally and Haldinstein of Norwich. One of Frank’s aunts married Arthur Samuel who was Norwich’s first Jewish Lord Mayor and, later, became the 1st Lord Mancroft.
Educated at Norwich Grammar School, Frank went up to Christ Church as a Scholar in 1912. He served in the ranks before being gazetted in 1915 as a Captain in 8th Signal Coy. Royal Engineers. He died of wounds and is buried in Bray Military Cemetery, Bray-sur-Somme, together with 746 others. His name is on the Thorpe St. Andrew Memorial, Norwich. Probate was granted to George Emanuel Haldinstein on 3 January 1918. He left £275-15s-0d.
In his Preface to “Authority in the Modern State” 1919, Harold Laski says:
“This book would have gone to my friend Frank Haldinstein, scholar, of Christ Church and captain in the Royal Engineers. But his name has been added to the list on which the Oxford of my generation will write with undying pride.'