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His grandfather was Jewish and from a family that changed their surname from Moses to Moss. [8] He was brought up at Long White Cloud house on the south bank of the River Thames . His father was an amateur racing driver, who had come 16th in the 1924 Indianapolis 500 , [ 7 ] and his mother had also been involved in motorsport, entering into ...
The authorized biography of this legendary racing driver (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002) explains how Moss was born in London in 1929 to a Jewish family (his grandfather changed his last name...
Moss, whose mother was Scottish but whose father was (apparently) part Jewish and whose last name was at least inferentially Jewish (a 2002 biography said his grandfather had changed the name...
Sir Stirling was born into a Jewish family in London in 1929, who changed their name from Moses to Moss. According to his 2010 autobiography, his father was a Jewish dentist and part-time...
Stirling Craufurd Moss’s name became etched on the public psyche in Britain as indelibly as those of footballer Stanley Matthews and boxer Henry Cooper. He was still news, whatever he did, and for many years of his ‘retirement’ he showed absolutely no sign of slowing down.
Sir Stirling Moss, who died peacefully at 90 in London on Easter Sunday after a long illness, always acknowledged the importance to his racing career of his unusual name, believing it brought...
Sir Stirling Moss obituary: the racer who spearheaded Britain's emergence as a force in international racing. Moss at Aintree ahead of the 1955 British Grand Prix. Getty
