Alex Tudor-Hart

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Dr. Alex Tudor Hart, MD BSc, a member of a well-known British artistic and radical family, was a student of John Maynard Keynes at Cambridge and then, later, of Melanie Kleine.

A Communist, he worked as a GP in the Rhondda in South Wales and served in a field operating theatre in the Spanish civil war[1][2]. Methods of dealing with fractures and associated wounds after surgery developed by Tudor-Hart when he worked in Spain continued to save lives in the Second World war.

He and his wife, the Austrian Jewish photographer, Edith Suschitzky, fled to England in 1933 so that she could avoid prosecution for Communist activities in Austria[3]. She is credited with suggesting to the NKVD recruiter, Arnold Deutsch, that the organization recruit Kim Philby as an agent[4].

Ruth Bader Gilbert has produced a bust of him (see here).

[edit] References

  1. ^ Angela Jackson (2002). The British Women and the Spanish Civil War. ISBN 0415277973. 
  2. ^ Julian Tudor Hart. "Obituary: Alex Tudor Hart", 1992-10. 
  3. ^ William E. Duff (1999). A Time for Spies: Theodore Stephanovich Mally and the Era of the Great Illegals. ISBN 0826513522. 
  4. ^ Genrikh Borovik (1994). The Philby Files - The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby. ISBN 0316102849.