Sarah Winter

Who was Sarah Winter?

Sarah Winter née Domville-Taylor was a noted British Nazi Supporter and member of the British Union of Fascists, as well as a Society hostess throughout the 1920s and 1930s.

Sarah Domville-Taylor was born in 1870 in Ludlow, Shropshire the youngest of five daughters of Walter Domville-Taylor JP and his wife Mary Hamilton, daughter of Col. Christopher Hamilton MP. She grew up in an impoverished but Upper class home with a house in Shropshire and a house in London, 48 Belgrave Square. She grew up with a German governess Baroness von Altenburg and was taught a very pro German and Anti-semetic ideology.

After being educated at home and then at Finishing School, she made her appearance at court as a debutante, in 1890, the year she also married her only husband Robert Winter, whose family were major landowners in Newport, Shropshire. They had one child, Arthur Trevor Winter, educated at Fettes College and who was a banker with Barclays. He refused to ever talk of his mother's political views, his grandson is Professor Michael Winter.