David Lurie obituary

My friend David Lurie, who has died of heart disease aged 65, pioneered the practice of Chinese medicine in the UK and also popularised the renaissance of the Argentinian tango.Born in Cape Town to an Orthodox Jewish family, he was the son of Maisie (nee Kahn) and Joseph Lurie, known as Yankie, who ran the fishery set up by his Lithuanian father, and who died when David was 11. David lived in the affluent Bantry Bay suburb and was sent to the Herzlia Zionist school. The experience quashed any in