Charles Henry Noskwith (1888–1952) was a British hosiery manufacturer. He founded

Charnos Charnos is a British hosiery manufacturer, founded in 1935 by Charles Noskwith in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, and later run by his son Rolf Noskwith. In January 2019, LF Intimates sold Charnos to Pour Moi Ltd Pour Moi Ltd (generally known as Po ...

Ilkeston Ilkeston ( ) is a town located in the Borough of Erewash in Derbyshire, England, with a population of 40,953 at the 2021 census. Its major industries, coal mining, iron working and lace making/textiles, have now all but disappeared. Part of t ...

, England in 1935.

Biography

He was born Chaim Noskowitz in

Łódź Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...

, Poland. He married Malka Ginsberg, a fellow Jew, and together they owned a textile business in

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...

, Germany. They emigrated to England in 1932, and started a textile business in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. The company name was derived from his Anglicised name Charles Noskwith. Their son

Rolf Noskwith Rolf Noskwith (19 June 1919 – 3 January 2017) was a British businessman who during the Second World War worked under Alan Turing as a cryptographer at the Bletchley Park British military base. Early life and education Noskwith's parents, Ch ...

, who was a

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cryptographer during the war, joined the company in 1946, and took over when his father died in 1952.

References

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