Background
Charles Arnold-Baker was the second son of Professor Baron Albrecht Werner von Blumenthal (10 August 1889, Staffelde, by Stettin, Prussia - 28 March 1945, Marburg an der Lahn), of Gross Schloenwitz by Stolp, Pomerania, by his first wife, an English lady, Alice Wilhelmine, née Hainsworth (1883–1978). (They divorced in 1921 and she returned to England and remarried, 1923, Percy Baker, (1875–1944), brother of Sir Frederick Arnold-Baker.) He was born in Moabit Hospital, Berlin, on 25 June 1918 and died on 6 June 2009, having been received into the R. Catholic Church on his deathbed. His ashes were interred, however, in the triforium of the Temple Church, London.
Wolfgang Charles Werner was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford University (BA History 1940).
As World War II approached Charles and his elder brother Werner Gaunt (Richard) took British Nationality, and adopted their stepfather's surname, witnessed by Deed poll, and abandoned the use of their first Christian names.
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