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The history of Wellesley Aron as presented is full of errors. It is largely based on the book which I would expect to be similar in inaccuracies. From where did this data come originally?
Wellesley had two half-sisters from his Jewish father's former mariage to a Christain lady who raised the sisters as Christains. His father's second marriage was to a Jewess and Wellesley was their first child and there was at least one more boy. Wellesily was not raised within religious Judaism, and his family was almost totally assimilated into the English community. As a youth and subsequently he was a keen and successful sportsman.
Wellesley was a holder of the "wood badge", a Scouting proficiency award which came after his participation in Baden Powel's Troop at Gilwell Park Camping Grounds. When Wellesey was 19 (in 1920) his Scouting ability was requested by Basil Henriques for starting the new Troop in Stepheny/Whitechapel, London. Wellseley became the Scoutmaster there. This information and that above comes from <an interview with Wellesley in 1977 which is in the Yad Tabenkin archive in Israel>.
Wellesley did not start academic studies at Cambridge until 1923 and graduated in 1926. Although he participated in the various sports clubs in Cambridge he was not awarded the "blue", which in those days was regarded at least as important as the academic qualification. The obvious reason for this is, I believe, was because of Wellesley's association with the Jewish society at Cambridge and the fact that he was Jewish. This may have been the reason for his disillusionment with England and his decision to go to Palestine the following year. Macrocompassion (talk) 13:19, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
I would question the very broad statement that he had a "total commitment to peace". That is an odd thing to say of someone whose career was based on warfare.203.184.41.226 (talk) 08:26, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
An additional point: the link to Hillel House takes the reader to a quite unrelated American organisation. The Hillel House where Wellesley was house tutor was the Jewish boarding house at the Perse School, which was opened in 1909 and closed in 1948. Any link should go to the Perse School page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.49.1.202 (talk) 12:07, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
- The Hillel House to which this refers is not part of an American organization, but a part of the Jewish students' faculties provided in London by the Board of Deputies for Jewish education. It is in central London and is (or was, when I visited) filled with many orthodox students, as well as less strict but fully conscious ones.¬¬¬¬ Macrocompassion (talk) 15:27, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
Name edit
Was his given name Wellesley or Aron? The article consistently refers to him as Wellesley; if his surname was Aron we should use that instead. But I am aware that Aron is probably a more common given name than Wellesley. Cn anyone confirm one way or the other? Moonraker12 (talk) 19:44, 5 August 2022 (UTC)