Epstein, Arnold Leonard

Epstein, Arnold Leonard [Bill] (1924–1999), social anthropologist, was born on 13 September 1924 at 152 Bedford Street, Liverpool, the son of Maurice Epstein (1898–1965), a travelling draper, from Liverpool, and his wife, Ethel Esther (1897–1989). Epstein, whose family came from Austrian Poland, was himself brought up in Belfast and attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution (1938–41). He read law at the Queen's University, graduating with an LLB in 1944 before war service with the Royal Navy as a communications rating.