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4 unusual facts about Mayer Amschel de Rothschild


Ascott, Buckinghamshire

In 1873 a farm house in the parish known as Ascott Hall was bought by Baron Mayer de Rothschild he gave it to his nephew Leopold de Rothschild who employed the architect George Devey to enlarge the property into a substantial country house.

Crafton, Buckinghamshire

However the hamlet was substantially rebuilt after the 1850s when it became part of the Mentmore estate of Baron Mayer de Rothschild.

Don Pacifico affair and case

Mayer de Rothschild was visiting Athens, during the Greek Orthodox Easter, to discuss a possible loan, and the government, in order to coax him, decided to ban the tradition of burning the effigy of Judas, thinking that Rothschild would be offended.

Nathan Mayer Rothschild

# Mayer Amschel (1818–1874) married 1850 Juliana Cohen (1831–1877)


Sir Anthony de Rothschild, 1st Baronet

With younger brother Nathaniel settling permanently in Paris and acquiring the Château Brane Mouton vineyard, and youngest brother Mayer Amschel showing little interest in banking, a good portion of the responsibility for running the family's investment house fell on Anthony's shoulders.


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