Max Rayne

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Max Rayne, Baron Rayne (8 February 1918 – 10 October 2003)

philanthropist
who supported medical, religious, education and arts charities in England.

Early life

Rayne came from a

Second World War Rayne rejoined the family clothing firm. Using sub-leases on its premises as his source of finance, he directed his attention to land and property development in bomb-damaged central London
.

Family

In 1941, Rayne married Margaret Marco and they had three children:

  • Madeleine Barbara (b. 1943)
  • Susan Ann (b. 1945)
  • Robert Anthony (b. 1949)

Rayne and his wife divorced in 1960 and on 2 June 1965, he married

8th Marquess of Londonderry and sister of Lady Annabel Goldsmith
) and they had four children:

  • Natasha Deborah (b. 1966)
  • Nicholas Alexander (b. 1969)
  • Tamara Annabel (b. 1970)
  • Alexander Philip (b. 1973)

Rayne Foundation

As Rayne had judged, the opportunities offered in the post-war period of booming reconstruction led to substantial business success and when, in 1962, he set up the Rayne Foundation and endowed it with a substantial shareholding in his companies, he created a well funded and influential charitable institution.

Although acting through the foundation, Rayne took a close personal interest in the causes it supported. He was soon on the governing bodies of most of the London

Old Vic
to the present building in 1976.

Rayne was

Légion d'Honneur
in 1973, later promoted to Officier.

In 2007, using money from the Rayne Foundation, the

Hand in Hand School, a bilingual school located in Jerusalem was founded to teach Arabs and Jews alongside each other.[4]

Arms

Coat of arms of Max Rayne
Crest
Upon a wreath Or and Azure issuant from a circlet Or a mount Vert thereon a lion passant Gold murally crowned Azure holding in the dexter forepaw a key erect wards outwards Or.
Escutcheon
Per fess dancetty Azure and Gules a caduceus between in chief two roses Or.
Supporters
Dexter a lion Or crowned and gorged with a chain pendant therefrom two triangles interlaced Azure sinister a lion Azure crowned and gorged with a like chain pendant therefrom a fleur-de-lys Gold.
Motto
Integrity Enterprise[5][6]

References

  1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/92600. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ "No. 44804". The London Gazette. 7 March 1969. p. 2538.
  3. ^ "No. 46981". The London Gazette. 5 August 1976. p. 10687.
  4. ^ Hider, James (22 October 2007). "School crosses religious divide to teach children a lesson in unity". The Times. London. Retrieved 22 October 2007.
  5. ^ Maccauly, Gregor (2009). "The Arms of Charles Darwin". The New Zealand Armorist: The Journal of the Heraldry Society of New Zealand. 112 (Spring 2009): 12–14.
  6. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2003. p. 1331.

Sources

External links
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