James de Rothschild (politician)
James Armand Edmond de Rothschild DCM DL( 1 December 1878 – 7 May 1957), sometimes known as Jimmy de Rothschild, was a British Liberal politician and philanthropist, from the wealthy Rothschild international banking dynasty.
De Rothschild was the son of Edmond James de Rothschild of the French branch of family.
He was educated at Lycée Louis- le- Grand in Paris and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He served in the First World War, at the outset as an enlisted man in the French Army then as an officer in The Royal Canadian Dragoons, and ended the war as an officer in the British Army, serving in Palestine as a major in the 39th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers( part of the" Jewish Legion").
He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.
He was a keen follower of the turf and a racehorse owner.
His 33- 1 runner" Bomba" won the Ascot Gold Cup in 1909.
He married Dorothy Mathilde Pinto in 1913.
She was 17 years old; he was 35.
He became a naturalised Briton in 1920, and in 1922 he inherited from Alice de Rothschild the Waddesdon Manor estate of his great- uncle Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, the Liberal Member of Parliament( MP) for Aylesbury from 1885 to 1898.
Dorothy de Rothschild
Dorothy Mathilde de Rothschild (née Pinto, 7 March 1895 – 10 December 1988) was an English philanthropist and activist for Jewish affairs who married into the wealthy international Rothschild family.
Known to her friends as "Dolly", she married her cousin James Armand de Rothschild (known as Jimmy) at the age of 17 in 1913.
He was 35 years old, the son of Edmond James de Rothschild of the Paris branch of the Rothschild family.
In 1922 James de Rothschild inherited Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire.
This became their country home.
They also had a London house in St James's Square.
Dorothy de Rothschild assisted her husband in his political campaigns, particularly from 1929 to 1945 when he was Liberal Member of Parliament for the Isle of Ely constituency.
After his death in 1957, Waddesdon Manor was bequeathed to the National Trust, but the surrounding estate and smaller mansion at Eythrope in Buckinghamshire were retained by Mrs. de Rothschild and bequeathed to her husband's great nephew Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild.
She remained a strong influence on the preservation and development of the house and collections at Waddesdon.
Dorothy de Rothschild continued the Zionist interests of her father-in-law and husband, and was a close friend of Chaim Weizmann.
She became chairman of Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild family charities in Israel, and saw through her husband's gift of funds to build the Knesset and her own gift of the Supreme Court of Israel building.
At her death in 1988, she left £94,117,964 (equivalent to £ million in), the largest probated estate to that date in England and Wales.
Mayer Amschel de Rothschild
Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (29 June 1818 – 6 February 1874) was an English businessman and politician of the English branch of the Rothschild family.
He was the fourth and youngest son of Hannah (Barent-Cohen) and Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836).
He was named Mayer Amschel Rothschild, for his grandfather, the patriarch of the Rothschild family.
Nadine de Rothschild
Nadine de Rothschild( née Nadine Lhopitalier; born 18 April 1932) is a French author and former actress.
She is the widow of banker Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, a member of the Rothschild family.
Nathan Mayer Rothschild
Nathan Mayer Rothschild (16 September 1777 – 28 July 1836) was a German Jewish banker, businessman and financier.
Born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, he was the third of the five sons of Gutle (Schnapper) and Mayer Amschel Rothschild, and was of the second generation of the Rothschild banking dynasty.
Like his four brothers, he was from 1822, the "Nathan Mayer, Freiherr von Rothschild", an Austrian Baron; however, he never used the title.
Once the wealthiest man on earth, he was the richest among the Rothschilds.
Arthur de Rothschild
Baron Arthur de Rothschild (28 Mars 1851 – 10 December 1903 was part of the French branch of the prominent Rothschild family.
He was the son of Nathaniel de Rothschild (1812–1870) and Charlotte de Rothschild (née de Rothschild) (1825–1899).
Being born in France of British parents he was English citizen but obtain the French nationality in 1872.
He was a prominent philatelist and published a book on the subject.
He also collected rare tapestries
He was also interested in yachting and provided prize money for the America's Cup.
He died of heart failure in his armchair in Monte Carlo at the age of 53.
After his death important paintings were given to the Museum du Louvre and a large collection of anciens rings to the Musée de Cluny.
Ariane de Rothschild
Ariane de Rothschild( née Langner, born in November 1965) is President of the Executive Committee of Edmond de Rothschild since 2015, and vice- president of the Edmond de Rothschild Holding SA since 1999.
She has been married since 23 January 1999 to Benjamin de Rothschild, with whom she has four daughters.
Amschel Mayer Rothschild
Baron Amschel Mayer von Rothschild (12 June 1773 – 6 December 1855) was a German Jewish banker of the wealthy Rothschild family.
He was the second child and eldest son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), the founder of the dynasty, and Gutlé Rothschild née Schnapper (1753–1849).
On the death of Mayer Amschel in 1812, Amschel Mayer succeeded as head of the bank at Frankfurt am Main, his brothers having been dispatched to set up banking houses in Paris, London, Naples, and Vienna.
As Amschel Mayer died childless, the sons of his brothers (Anselm, son of Salomon, and Mayer Carl and Wilhelm Carl, sons of Carl) assumed responsibility for the business from 1855.
He was ennobled as Amschel Mayer von Rothschild in 1817 and became a Freiherr (Baron) in 1822.
Amschel Mayer Rothschild was close to Orthodox Jewish circles, and was referred to by Eastern European Jews as "the pious Rothschild" .
Benjamin de Rothschild
Benjamin de Rothschild( born 30 July 1963) is a French banker and businessman, the chairman of the Edmond de Rothschild Group, a private Swiss bank established by his father and owned by the family.
He was born in Neuilly- sur- Seine in France, the only child of the Baron Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, a banker, and Nadine Lhopitalier( 1932 –), an actress.
He married Ariane de Rothschild( née Langner) on 23 January 1999 and they have four children.
He is a descendant of the French branch of the Rothschild family.
Lionel de Rothschild (born 1882)
Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, OBE( 25 January 1882 – 28 January 1942), also Major Lionel de Rothschild, was a British banker and Conservative politician best remembered as the creator of Exbury Gardens by the New Forest in Hampshire.
He was the eldest son of Leopold de Rothschild( 1845 – 1917) and a part of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England.
In 1910, he was elected to the House of Commons.
In 1917, he co-founded the anti-Zionist League of British Jews.

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