ABSTRACT
Adrian Stokes was "pleased about the Montefiore" connection "but not about being Jewish". Perhaps he was more pleased that his father, Durham, came from a non-Jewish Irish family. It was at 18 Radnor Place that Adrian's brother, Geoffrey, was born on 19 April 1900, and that Adrian himself was born on 27 October 1902. Ethel Stokes was disappointed that he was yet another boy. Adrian's older brother, Geoffrey, also retaliated against Durham, in his case by urinating in Durham's bath out of hatred of him. Unlike Geoffrey, it seems, Adrian courted Durham and succeeded, as a toddler, in transforming him from being "monosyllabic and very undemonstrative" into becoming "more affectionate". Adrian did not remember it happening to him albeit he continued into adulthood to be "entirely bad at tying laces or anything else". By the time he was six Geoffrey, as well as Philip, had gone to boarding school.
