Maud Nelke

Maud Julia Augusta Nelke (1892-1982) was a British socialite and art patron. The daughter of Paul Nelke, a German Jewish stockbroker, she married Gilbert Byng Alwyne Russell[1] and her father helped her husband create Cull & Company. The couple bought Mottisfont Abbey. Maud was a lover of Ian Fleming.[2] In 1957, she gifted the house and grounds to the National Trust but continued to live at Mottisfont until 1972.[3]

References

  1. "Lot 109 Sir William Orpen (1878-1931)". Waddingtons. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  2. Pile 2012, p. 405.
  3. "Meet the Russells at Mottisfont". National Trust.

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