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Born a Lithuanian Jew (Moshe Osinsky), he came alone to England in 1900. In 1901, he was staying in Cheetham , Manchester . He later set up as a general outfitter in Chesterfield in 1903, and had five men's tailor shops with headquarters in Sheffield and manufacturing in Leeds by 1913. He had four hundred shops, and factories and mills, by 1929, when the company went public. His firm made a quarter of the British military uniforms during World War II and a third of demobilisation clothing. He was Knight ed in 1931 and was a Justice Of The Peace for many years. He vastly improved working conditions in clothes manufacturing, favouring organised labour and collective bargaining; he endowed chairs in industrial relations in Leeds and Cardiff in 1929 and Cambridge in 1930. He also endowed chairs of international relations in Jerusalem (1929), Oxford (1930), London (1936) and Edinburgh (1948). REFERENCES
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