Charles Arnold-Baker
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Charles Arnold-Baker OBE |
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| Born |
Wolfgang Charles Werner von Blumenthal June 25, 1918 Berlin |
| Died | June 6, 2009 (aged 90) London |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Barrister, academic, and historian |
| Spouse(s) | Edith May |
| Children | Two |
| Awards | King Haakon VII Medal of Freedom |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Winchester College |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Notable works | Companion to British History |
Charles Arnold-Baker, OBE (born Wolfgang Charles Werner von Blumenthal; 25 June 1918 — 6 June 2009) was an English barrister (called 1948) and historian. He was the author of the Companion to British History. He was awarded an OBE (1966) and the King Haakon VII Medal of Freedom (1945).
Charles Arnold-Baker was the son of Professor Baron Albrecht Werner von Blumenthal (10 August 1889, Staffelde, by Stettin, Prussia – 28 March 1945, Marburg an der Lahn), of Gross Schloenwitz by Stolp, Pomerania, by his first wife, an English lady, Wilhelmine, née Hainsworth (1883–1978), and stepson of Percival Richard Arnold-Baker. His parents divorced in 1921; his mother returned to England and remarried, 1923, Percy Arnold-Baker, (1875–1944), brother of Sir Frederick Arnold-Baker.) He was born in Moabit Hospital, Berlin, in 1918 and died in 2009, having been received into the Roman Catholic Church on his deathbed. His ashes were interred, however, in the triforium of the Temple Church, London.
Wolfgang Charles Werner was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford (BA History 1940).
As World War II approached Charles and his brother Werner Gaunt (Richard) took British nationality, and adopted their stepfather's surname, witnessed by Deed poll, and abandoned the use of their first Christian names.
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