Basil Samuel Feldman, Baron Feldman (23 September 1923 – 19 November 2019) was a British businessman who was a

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member of the

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. He sat in the House from 1996 until his retirement in 2017.

Biography

Feldman was born in September 1923 to Tilly (née Katz; 1902–1977) and Philip Feldman,'Feldman, Basil' in ''Who's Who 2010'', A & C Black, 2010; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009 ; online edn, Nov 200
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/ref> and was educated at the Grocers' School. Feldman began his first business in 1946, with Richard Beecham. Feldman was a former member of

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, and was the director of The Young Entrepreneurs Fund from 1985 to 1994. He has been described as a former plastic-toy magnate whose business interests reportedly included "

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dolls, aircraft kits and

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s". Feldman married his wife Gita Julius in 1952. His younger sister was

Fenella Fielding Fenella Fielding (born Fenella Marion Feldman; 17 November 1927 – 11 September 2018) was an English stage, film and television actress who rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, and was often referred to as "England's first lady of t ...

, the actress. He had two sons and a daughter. One of his sons is

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, bass guitarist of the band Wang Chung. Feldman was a member of the

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and

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s. He was

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in 1982. On 15 January 1996, he was made a

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as Baron Feldman, of

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in the

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. His sponsors were

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and

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, and he was introduced to the

on 14 February 1996.{{cite news , url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/the-lady-vanishes-what-ever-happened-to-fenella-fielding-785265.html, title= Whatever Happened to Fenella Fielding? , work=The Independent , location=London , first=Robert , last=Chalmers , date=24 February 2008 , accessdate=26 April 2010 Feldman died in November 2019 at the age of 96.

Arms

{{Infobox COA wide , escutcheon = Per chevron Argent guttee de sang and Gules guttee d'eau in chief two apple trees eradicated and fructed Proper and in base a phoenix rising from flames also Proper. , crest = A mount issuant therefrom between two sprigs of basil both flowered a dexter cubit arm the hand grasping a wreath of laurel all Proper. , supporters = Dexter a lion reguardant Or holding in the dexter paw a copper handbell and in the mouth a sprig of pink camellia both Proper sinister a hind reguardant Or gorged with a portcullis attached to a chain Sable and holding in the mouth a sprig of basil flowered Proper. , motto = Melius Qui Citius (The Sooner The Better){{cite book, title=Debrett's Peerage , date=2003 , page=582

References

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External links

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