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unusual facts about Felix M. Warburg


Pujo Committee

The Pujo Report singled out individual bankers including Paul Warburg, Jacob H. Schiff, Felix M. Warburg, Frank E. Peabody, William Rockefeller and Benjamin Strong, Jr..


Denis Greenhill, Baron Greenhill of Harrow

His later years included roles as governor of the BBC and as a director of BAT Industries, Hawker Siddeley Group, Wellcome Foundation, Clerical Medical and General Life Assurance, S.G. Warburg and Leyland International.

E. F. Warburg

Here his first task was to move of the herbarium from the house of its founder, George Claridge Druce, in Crick Road to the newly built botany school.

Warburg was generally known by colleagues and friends as "Heff", partly in punning references to his initlials "E. F." but also wuth the suggestion of Heffalump, for he was physically a big man.

Warburg was responsible for the introduction to cultivation of Daboecia cantabrica ssp.

Felix M. Warburg House

The building was expanded in 1963 and again in 1993 with a discrete mid-block addition by Kevin Roche that blends seamlessly with Gilbert's original French Renaissance design.

His widow Frieda Schiff Warburg had tried to donate the house to a cultural institute but failed and finally sold the mansion in 1941 to developer Henry Kaufman and the architect Emery Roth, who intended to redevelop the site into an eighteen-story apartment building.


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