Married Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Daniel Bryce DSO, in 1919 and divorced in 1932. Bryce was born and educated in England , but had lived in Peru and Singapore and was not of the Jewish faith. He served in the army in the Boer War in South Africa and in the First World War in France . They had no children.

Of D.L. Salomons' five children, Vera was possibly the most similar to her father and shared many of his interests. She published three books on 18 th century French illustrators in her twenties and maintained a strong interest in art throughout her life.

At the onset of the First World War she trained as a nurse and served with the British Army Medical Services. She met Lt.-Col. Edward Daniel Bryce of the Tank Corps while nursing in a Voluntary Aid Detachment in France , and married him in 1919.

From 1925 Vera lived much of the time in Jerusalem and worked actively for Palestine and Israel . She contributed towards the setting up of homes for the elderly (there is one named after her which still exists today), care of blind people, housing for immigrants, and numerous charitable and educational institutions.

Like her great-uncle, David Salomons, Vera was a champion of religious tolerance and was interested in the relationship between Palestinians and Jews in Jerusalem . Through her work with universities in Palestine she met Professor Leon Arie Mayer, Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology and Rector of the Hebrew University . They both felt that better understanding of the cultural heritage of Islamic peoples might lead to less strife between the Israeli and Palestinian communities, and this led to the foundation of the L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art. Vera provided all the funds for the construction of the Institute and its Museum in Jerusalem .

These funds were originally to be used for another project. When Vera first moved to Jerusalem she was appalled by the squalid state of the Wailing Wall. She appealed to the leading Jewish politician in England , Rufus Isaacs, the Marquess of Reading, to buy the Wall from the Muslim religious property trust that owned it. Vera provided the huge sum of £100,000 for him to make the offer, but it was not accepted. So instead the money was used to form the David Salomons Charity, which went on to fund many projects, including the creation of the L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute.

As the inheritor of the Salomons estate (her mother and her sisters, Maud and Ethel died between 1931 and 1937), Vera decided to present Broomhill to Kent County Council for use as a public institution such as a college, hospital museum or research institute. It was agreed that it would be renamed the ‘David Salomons Estate', so that the name would be preserved in bricks and mortar, although the family name had died out after her brother, David Reginald Salomons, drowned in the Hythe disaster. First a convalescent home and then a National Health Service regional training centre, it is now the Salomons campus of Canterbury Christ Church University .

Parts of D.L. Salomons' collections were given to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and the L.A. Mayer Museum in Jerusalem . Vera Salomons then selected a collection of material from the house that would be representative of the lives and work of the three David Salomons; her brother, her father and her great-uncle. The rest of the contents of the house were sold.

As an old lady, Vera lived mostly in Switzerland . She died in Ireland on 12 November 1969, aged 81.

Links : L.A. Meyer Institute http://www.islamicart.co.il/english/history.asp