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.

Bibliography

• Pile, Jonathan (2012). Churchill's Secret Enemy. Jonathan Pile. ISBN 978-1-4716-4180-0.