28/02/2024
R.I.P. LORD JOCOB DE ROTHSCHILD
- 1936 - 2024
Jacob Rothschild, Financier and Philanthropist, Dies at 87
The 4th Baron Rothschild, OM, who has died aged 87, broke away from his family bank to build his own financial empire; he also left a major mark on Britain’s national heritage through his passion for historic buildings and collections.
Jacob Rothschild’s friend Sir James Goldsmith once said of him: “It depends which day it is: on one, Jacob is an excellent banker. The next, he is absorbed by art and heritage. He has been torn between the two strands all his life.” It was said that Jacob inherited an artistic sensibility from his Bloomsbury mother, a first-class mind from his scientist father, and an appetite for risk from the genes of his Rothschild ancestors.
He also inherited two fortunes, one in the form of a stake in the family bank, NM Rothschild & Sons, which he sold in 1980 when he struck out on his own, and another from his cousin by marriage, Dorothy (“Dollie”) de Rothschild, the châtelaine of Waddesdon Manor. Augmented and sometimes dente
