Alderman Harold Blumenthal

Alderman Harold Blumenthal died on Thursday 17th June.

Chairman, Marion Roberts, Lunar Society on behalf of the members would like to say that ‘he will be greatly missed, for he was not only one of the Lunar Society's Founder Members, a man of courtly manners and wise counsel, but also a former soldier and a great servant to the City of Birmingham, both as a Councillor, then as its Lord Mayor, receiving later, an MBE from the Queen for those services to the City and its people.'

Harold Blumenthal, who first floated the proposal for a revival of the Lunar Society, explained his vision of the new society in the first newsletter.

'It seemed to me that something more was wanted: Birmingham needed a body of well-informed and experienced people who had the ability to explore ideas and the experience to be able to carry them out. It seemed to me also that the Lunar Society of Birmingham in the eighteenth century had done this very thing, so creating the industrial might of the West Midlands, and perhaps of the country. Such a body could play its part in the revitalisation of Birmingham.'