Renee Soskin

Soskin was daughter of merchant Semion (Simon) Beloff (born Semion Rubinowicz) and his wife Maria (Marie) Katzin, who were Russian Jews who had moved to England in 1903.^[1] She was one of five children. She was a younger sister to Max Beloff the historian and member of the House of Lords. She was older sister to John Beloff the psychologist. Her sister Anne later married German-born Nobel Prize–winning biochemist Ernst Boris Chain in 1948. Her paternal great-grandmother was Leah Horowitz-Winograd, the sister of Eliyahu Shlomo Horowitz-Winograd and a descendant of the Hasidic master, Shmelke Horowitz of Nikolsburg (1726–1778).^[2] She was educated at King Alfred School, London, and the Royal Academy of Music^[3] and trained for the stage.^[4] She married Moses G. Soskin.

She was a speech and drama teacher. She was a teacher of drama at the Royal Academy of Music.^[5] She was managing director of a City of London finance house.^[6] She became a Company Director of two companies.^[7] In 1970 she became the new proprietor of Bury Lawn Independent Day School a coeducational independent school first located in Newport Pagnell, then at The Knoll in Woburn Sands and ultimately at its present location in Milton Keynes. The school, now called the Webber independent school, is located in Soskin Drive, which was named after her.