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| Birth | 1892 | |
| Death | 1982 (aged 90 years) |
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Maud Julia Augusta Nelke (1892-1982) was a British socialite and art patron. The daughter of Paul Nelke, a German Jewish stockbroker, she married Gilbert Byng Alwyne Russell and her father helped her husband create Cull & Company. The couple bought Mottisfont Abbey. Maud was a lover of Ian Fleming. In 1957, she gifted the house and grounds to the National Trust but continued to live at Mottisfont until 1972.