Montagu, Lilian Helen

Montagu, Lilian Helen
(1873-1963)
   English social worker and magistrate, daughter of Samuel Montagu. She founded the West Central Girls' Club in London in 1893. Together with Claude Goldsmid Montefiore, she established the Jewish Religious Union in 1902, and the World Union for Progressive Judaism in 1926.

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