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2 unusual facts about Jacob Rothschild


Israeli Educational Television

Lord Jacob Rothschild delivered a speech on behalf of the Rothschild Fund.

Robert Loder

With the backing of Lord Rothschild, he built up a business with 2,000 employees in 30 countries.


Dorothy de Rothschild

After his death in 1957, Waddesdon Manor was bequeathed to the National Trust, but the surrounding estate and small mansion at Eythrope in Buckinghamshire were retained by Mrs. de Rothschild and bequeathed to her husband's great nephew Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild.

Mário Garnero

Throughout the years, Garnero became a personal friend of some of the most influential personalities in the world, including Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon, US Secretary of Defense William Cohen, banker and statesman David Rockefeller and Jacob Rothschild, US Presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, among others.

Martin Filler

From 1990 to 1994 he was also a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he wrote profiles on major figures in the arts including Lucian Freud, Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Mellon, I.M. Pei, Irving Penn, and Jacob Rothschild.


see also

RIT Capital Partners

In 1980 there was a conflict between Lord Jacob Rothschild and Evelyn de Rothschild, then the head of N M Rothschild & Sons.

The Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership

The Kravis Prize Selection Committee is chaired by Marie-Josée Kravis, and also includes Harry McMahon, Amartya Sen, Lord Jacob Rothschild, Ratan Tata, Surin Pitsuwan and James D. Wolfensohn.