Brentford GB Birth:1932 ,B4-B-0051: BATHGATE, Ronald H. Mothers name: Fine. District: Brentford volume: 3a page.233
Ronald Harry Bathgate (Eulogy from his wife, Claudia Bathgate-Starr)
- Ronald was born on 17 December 1932 at the West Middlesex Hospital in Isleworth. He died on 3 June 2018 at the age of 85 at King’s College Hospital, near his home in Herne Hill in London. After many decades spent living abroad and extensive travel during his life, his life ended only 13 miles from his birthplace. About 4 hours to walk, but a lifetime to live.
- Ronald was born to unique parents who passed on strong traits and ideals that came to shape his character. His father, Harry Shiels Bathgate (1887-1963), was from Mount Vernon in Glasgow, and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. He lived by all accounts a highly eccentric existence as a naturalist and researcher into nutrition and herbalism. He set him a lifelong example of how to live and eat naturally, and shared his quietly expressed ideals of freedom and independence.
- His mother, Fanny Fine (1896-1985) was born in Kovno, Lithuania. In 1906, at the age of 10, she traveled with her mother, father and younger sisters and brother to Scotland to escape the threat of the Russian progroms. Her roots can be traced back to the esteemed 17th century Jewish scholar Shabtai ben Meir Ha-cohen (“the Shach”), and his father Meir Katz. His mother took care of him beautifully, encouraged him, followed keenly his endeavours and enabled his many talents to unfold. She imparted an open mind, and respect for people of all cultures and religions. She also nurtured ways of living naturally and as a vegetarian, continuing the traditions of her husband and his family.
- Ronald spent his early childhood in Hounslow, to the West of London. He went to a small private school there, run by two genteel ladies. He remembers being aware that his mother feared negative influences from ‘common’ little boys, and refused to allow him to read ‘violent’ comics like Micky Mouse. Even at the age of 5, Ronald said he got the feeling that this was taking the search for gentility a bit too far.
- They lived in Hounslow until the war broke out. His parents’ marriage broke up around this time, and he moved with his mother to Darwen and later Blackburn in Lancashire. From the age of 10, he attended the Darwen Grammar School and at 12 he won a scholarship to Wycliffe in Gloucestershire, at that time one of the two boarding schools in the country that catered for vegetarian pupils. Even with the scholarship his mother couldn’t afford the fees, so she appealed to the headmaster, the son of the school’s founder, to give Ronald a chance of a good education, saying that he needed the discipline. The headmaster agreed.
- Ronald remembered himself as a quiet, good little boy, despite liking to run wild in the woods and moors around Darwen, walking through streams with his shoes on and sliding down snow -slopes on his school blazer for want of a sledge.
(1) Hij is getrouwd met (Niet openbaar).
Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1970 te Wells, hij was toen 37 jaar oud.
Wells Marriages 1970, 7c1017: BATHGATE, Ronald H & HART
(2) Hij is getrouwd met (Niet openbaar).
Zij zijn getrouwd rond 1998 te Cambridge, UK.
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