Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

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Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (8 November 1840–31 March 1915) was a British banker and politician from the international Rothschild financial dynasty.

Contents 1 Life and family 2 Baron and first Jewish member of House of Lords 3 Work 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Life and family

Known as "Natty", he was the son of Lionel de Rothschild (1808-1879) and Charlotte Rothschild (née von Rothschild), grandson of Nathan Mayer Rothschild after whom he was named, and the great-grandson of Mayer Amschel Rothschild founder of the dynasty.

He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a friend of the Prince of Wales, but left without taking a degree.

On 16 April 1867 he married Emma Louise von Rothschild (1844-1935), a cousin from the Rothschild banking family of Germany in Frankfurt. They had the following children:

• Lionel Walter (1868-1937)
• Charlotte (1873-1937)
• Charles Rothschild (1877-1923)

[edit] Baron and first Jewish member of House of Lords

In 1876 he succeeded to the baronetcy created for his uncle Anthony Nathan de Rothschild (1810-1876), who had died without a male heir.

In 1847, his uncle Anthony Nathan de Rothschild (1810-1876) was created 1st Baronet de Rothschild, of Tring Park. Because Anthony had no male heirs, on his death the title went to nephew Nathan Mayer Rothschild who was subsequently elevated to the House of Lords and created Baron Rothschild in 1885 with which title the baronetcy remains merged.

The peerage was inherited by his son Walter (Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild).

[edit] Work

He worked as a partner in the London branch of the family bank NM Rothschild and Sons and became head of the bank after his father's death in 1879. During his tenure the bank maintained its pre-eminent position in private venture finance and in issuing loans to the governments of the USA, Russia and Austria. Following the Rothschild's funding of the Suez Canal a close relationship was maintained with Benjamin Disraeli and affairs in Egypt.

Natty also funded Cecil Rhodes in the development of the British South Africa Company and the De Beers diamond conglomerate. He administered Rhodes's estate after his death in 1902 and helped to set up the Rhodes Scholarship scheme at Oxford University.

[edit] See also

• History of the Jews in England

[edit] References

• Joseph Valynseele & Henri-Claude Mars, Le Sang des Rothschild, L’Intermédiaire des Chercheurs et Curieux, Paris.
• See also the list of references at Rothschild banking family of England

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Thomas Tyringham Bernard Samuel George Smith	Member for Aylesbury with Samuel George Smith 1865–1880, George William Erskine Russell 1880–1885 1865–1885	Succeeded by Ferdinand James von Rothschild
Honorary Titles
Preceded by The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos	Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire 1889–1915	Succeeded by The Marquess of Lincolnshire
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Rothschild 1885–1915	Succeeded by Walter Rothschild
Preceded by Anthony Nathan de Rothschild	Baronet (of Tring Park) 1876–1915