Companion to British History

Charles Arnold-Baker, OBE, born Wolfgang Charles Werner von Blumenthal was an English barrister , an academic and a historian. He was the author of the Companion to British History. He was awarded an OBE and the King Haakon VII Medal of Freedom . Charles Arnold-Baker was the second son of... Professor Baron Albrecht Werner von Blumenthal , of Gross Schloenwitz by Stolp, Pomerania, by his first wife, an English lady, Alice Wilhelmine, née Hainsworth . . He died on 6 June 2009, having been received into the R. Catholic Church on his deathbed. His ashes were interred at the Temple Church, London. Wolfgang Charles Werner was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford University . As World War II approached Charles and his elder brother Werner Gaunt 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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