Rudy Sternberg, Baron Plurenden (17 April 1917 – 5 January 1978) was a Jewish-British industrialist and farmer.
Following the outbreak of war with Germany, Sternberg remained in England as a refugee from Hitler's persecution of the Jews.
[2] In 1948, he founded the Sterling Group to manufacture Bakelite in a disused cotton mill in Stalybridge, Cheshire.
[4] In 1951, Sternberg married Dorothée Monica Prust, a former dancer with the Royal Ballet, who bore him two daughters, Roseanne and Francesca.
[1][2] Sternberg collapsed and died at Tenerife Airport on 5 January 1978, while returning from holiday.