Julius West

He translated Chekhov into English and produced a number of other works including a history of Chartism that was published posthumously.

His father was Jewish but Julius was later confirmed in the Church of England and at some point changed his name to the more English sounding "West".

[1] Around August 1914, West tried to obtain a commission in the British Army but was refused on the grounds that he was a Russian citizen.

[1] The couple wished to marry urgently as West was soon to travel to Russia but, according to the priest who officiated, the so-called "pacifist bishop" Edward Hicks, Giles's mother and sister were "vehement feminists"[5] who wished to omit the word "obey" from the marriage vows while West's father would not attend the ceremony if they did.

After his wife died in early 1917, he travelled again to Russia for the start of the Bolshevik regime[1][6] where he experienced famine conditions in Petrograd[1] which affected his already poor health.

In February 1918, he escaped Russia with a party of English governesses and elderly invalids who travelled over ice through German lines.

He spent time at a hotel in Surrey and at a sanatorium in the Mendip Hills, but his health did not improve and he died of a complication of influenza and pneumonia in 1918.