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11 unusual facts about Rothschild


Clément-Rothschild

Carrosserie Clément-Rothschild were based at 33 Quai Michelet, Levallois-Perret, either adjacent to or in Adolphe Clément-Bayard's Levallois-Perret factory.

Clément-Talbot

By 1903 a Clément-Talbot Type CT4K 18hp four cylinder was described as 'Coachwork by J.Rothschild et Fils, Paris' who had traded as Clément-Rothschild in 1902, coach-building on Panhard-Levassor chassis.

Exbury

In 1919 the eminent banker Lionel Nathan de Rothschild bought Exbury House, the house being nearly derelict at that time.

When Edmund died in 2009, his brother Leopold David de Rothschild took over, creating a Charitable Trust to secure the financial future of the gardens.

Misgav Ladach

Misgav Ladach hospital was established in 1854 in the Old City of Jerusalem, funded by the French Rothschild family.

Mutty Lall Seal

In 1878 Kissori Chand Mitra delivered a lecture on the life of Mutty Lall Seal calling him the "Rothschild of Calcutta".

Rothschild

The most notable family with this surname are the Jewish descendants of Mayer Amschel Rothschild who formed a European financial dynasty that was during the 19th, 20th and 21st century, perhaps the wealthiest family by the scale of their private fortune in modern history.

Rothschild's giraffe

Various captive breeding programmes are in place — notably at the Giraffe Centre in Nairobi, Kenya — which aim to expand the gene pool in the wild population of Rothschild's giraffe.

Salomon Heine

Because of his wealth – by the time of his death his estate was worth an estimated  110 million – he was called "Rothschild of Hamburg", in allusion to the Rothschild banking family.

Veniamin Fleishman

"I’m happy that I managed to complete Rothschild's Violin and orchestrate it. It’s a marvellous opera – sensitive and sad. There are no cheap effects in it; it is wise and very Chekhovian. I’m sorry that theatres pass over Fleishman’s opera. It’s certainly not the fault of the music, as far as I can see." (Dmitri Shostakovich, “Testimony”, p. 225)

While studying under Dmitri Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatory (1939–1941), he began a one-act opera Rothschild's Violin based on Anton Chekhov’s short story about Bronza, a Russian country coffin-maker and violinist, and his combative relationship with the Jewish musicians in his village.


120 Collins Street

The building is home to a number of high-profile tenants including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BlackRock, Rothschild, Standard & Poor's, Bluescope Steel, Mitsubishi, Rio Tinto Group, Ord Minnet, plus Citigroup's Melbourne office.

Ariane de Rothschild

Ariane de Rothschild, (born Ariane Langner in 1965 in San Salvador), is vice-president of Edmond de Rothschild Holding SA since 1999.

Ascott, Buckinghamshire

In the late 19th century members of the Rothschild banking family began to acquire estates in the area, including Ascott.

Benjamin de Rothschild

Benjamin is a scion of the secondary, (non-wine-making) Parisian Rothschild dynasty.

Betty Leslie-Melville

Often called the "Giraffe Lady", she spent much of her life living and working in Kenya protecting and caring for the Rothschild's giraffe population there, primarily through a breeding programme established at her residence, Giraffe Manor.

Charlotte von Rothschild

Charlotte de Rothschild became one of England's most prominent socialites whose dinner invitations, according to biographer Stanley Weintraub were favoured over those from Buckingham Palace.

David de Rothschild

David de Rothschild is the name of several members of the renowned family of bankers founded by Mayer Amschel Rothschild family

David René de Rothschild (b. 1942), French banker, head of Group 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.

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.

Edmond James de Rothschild

A portion of his art collection was bequeathed to his son James A. de Rothschild and is now part of the National Trust collection at Waddesdon Manor.

Élisabeth de Rothschild

Élisabeth de Rothschild (née de Chambure) (March 9, 1902 – Ravensbrück concentration camp, March 23, 1945) was a member by marriage of the wine-making branch of the Rothschild family.

Philippe de Rothschild's late-in-life memoirs (Milady Vine, written in collaboration with his friend and companion, the British director Joan Littlewood) described his marriage to Lili as one of great passion but also enormous tempestuousness and despair.

Eythrope

In 1922 following the death of Alice de Rothschild, The Pavilion was enlarged by her heirs, Dorothy and James A. de Rothschild (they added a large wing with bedrooms and bathrooms) and then let it to Syrie Maugham, an interior decorator who was the former wife of the novelist Somerset Maugham.

Herend Porcelain Manufactory

The name of well-known patterns refer to the first customers (Queen Victoria, Esterházy, Batthyány, Rothschild, Apponyi).

India Song

Finding the main location took several months; eventually Duras chose the Palais Rothschild in Boulogne, which she had seen during a walk and which had impressed her.

Isidor Bush

He submitted to Secretary of the Treasury Chase a plan for a government loan of one hundred million dollars, similar to the famous Rothschild premium loans of Austria.

Israeli Educational Television

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

Jan Udo Holey

He believes the Rothschilds head a Jewish conspiracy to rule the world and associates them with a mysterious cabal called the Illuminati, who plan a New World Order.

Lionel Rothschild

Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882–1942), the eldest son of Leopold de Rothschild

Mentmore and Crafton Studs

The most notable horses from this era included Rothschild's founding stallion King Tom and his offspring Favonius and Hannah who between them won the Epsom Derby, 1,000 Guineas, Oaks, and St Leger in 1871.

Nadine de Rothschild

Although she was raised Roman Catholic, she converted to Judaism stating: "It would not have been possible to have the name Rothschild and be a Catholic...Nor would it be right for the son of a Rothschild to be half-Jewish and half-Catholic." They had one son born in 1963, Benjamin de Rothschild, shortly after their marriage.

Ned Touchstone

He singled out "dangerous" groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Federal Reserve System, the Bank of France, the Bank of England, the three major American television networks, as well as the Rothschild and Warburg families.

Nyceryx continua

Nyceryx continua cratera Rothschild & Jordan, 1916 (Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil)

Ornithoptera allotei

allotei was described by Rothschild in 1914 as a species, despite the assertion by its discoverer, Abbé Allotte, a priest at the Buin Mission, Bougainville Island, that it was a natural hybrid.

Pauline de Rothschild

She is buried on the grounds of Château Mouton Rothschild in Pauillac, Bordeaux, France, beneath a translucent tomb made of Lalique glass and marble.

Periodontology

The graduate programs that have been approved are the following: Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, University of Bern, Sahlgrenska University Göteborg, Institute for Postgraduate Dental Education Jönköping, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, University Complutense in Madrid, University of Dublin, Trinity College, University of Strasbourg, Paris Diderot University at Rothschild hospital.

Primavera Gallery

Henry Rothschild of the Rothschild family founded Primavera in 1945 in Sloane Street, London, in order to promote and retail contemporary British art and craft.

Roi-des-Belges

The Roi-des-Belges style began with a 1901 40 hp Panhard et Levassor with a Rothschild body commissioned by Leopold II of Belgium, Roi des Belges.

Sal. Oppenheim

Through the marriage of Abraham Oppenheim to Charlotte Beyfus in 1834, the family became closely related to the prominent Rothschild banking family in matters both personal and business-related.

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.

Thomas Highgate

On 5 September, as his battalion moved forward to take part in the First Battle of the Marne, Highgate was apprehended in a barn on the estate of Baron de Rothschild at Tournan-en-Brie by the gamekeeper.

Thomas Slingsby Duncombe

He also took up the cause of religious Dissenters, Catholics and Jews, including the claim of Baron Rothschild to take his seat in Parliament, and was a particular advocate of Jewish emancipation, spending the last years of his life helping edit a book on The Jews of England: Their History and Wrongs.

Tring Museum

Natural History Museum at Tring, formerly the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum now part of the Natural History Museum.

Urs Meisterhans

Meisterhans left Rothschild Bank in 1999 to work at Sinitus where he currently holds the positions Managing Partner and Director of Wealth and Asset Management and Investment Funds.

Vera-Ellen

Her second husband, from 1954 to their 1966 divorce, was millionaire Victor Rothschild of the Rothschild family.

Vicky de Lambray

De Lambray once changed his name by deed poll to Louis de Rothschild, hoping he would be confused as a Rothschild family member.

Waddesdon Manor

Michael Hall and John Bigelow Taylor, Waddesdon Manor: The Heritage of a Rothschild House (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2002) ISBN 0-8109-0507-8

Wigginton, Hertfordshire

In 1902 Champneys was sold to Lady Rothschild by the Rev. Arthur Sutton Valpy, a descendant of Richard Valpy who had inherited it in 1871.

William Armfield Hobday

William Armfield Hobday (1771 – 17 Feb 1831) was an English portrait painter and miniaturist whose clientele included royalty and the Rothschild family.

William Doherty

Many of the birds he collected for Lord Rothschild were named after him, including Doherty's Bushshrike Malaconotus dohertyi, Red-naped Fruit Dove Ptilinopus dohertyi, Sumba Cicadabird Coracina dohertyi and Crested White-eye Lophozosterops dohertyi.

Yaakov Malkin

These municipal centers were at first run by groups of friends who led the centers' dozens of social activities, including the Haifa Cinematheque, built inside Beit Rothschild.