Purdue founders Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler were the sons of Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn who attended medical school in Scotland because American schools wouldn’t admit Jews at the time.

Mortimer and Raymond Sackler are the late patriarchs of a family under fire now for its central role in the opioid addiction crisis, which has led to hundreds of thousands of American deaths.

Among a series of small windows in Henry VII's chapel, Westminster Abbey, installed in 1995 to acknowledge donors to the Abbey's late twentieth-century restoration appeal, is one naming Dr Mortimer ...