2 Quotes & Sayings By Baron Rothschild
Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild (22 April 1845 – 12 September 1912), was a financier, businessman and banker who founded the banking house of M.M. Rothschild & Sons in London in 1836. He was the youngest child of Nathaniel Rothschild and Hannah Barent Cohen, daughter of Rabbi Kalonymos Kalonymus Brisker of Paris, France. He was a great-grandson of the Jewish-German financier Moses Meyer Rothschild (1792–1868), who made a fortune in the financing of European wars. He was a member of the prominent Rothschild family of Britain. His father Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836) was recognized as one of the greatest Jewish financiers in Europe
The founder's descendants continued to run his twin financial institutions, N.M. Rothschild & Sons and M.M. Rothschild, which are still active today under their current management teams, having survived two world wars and numerous other catastrophes that befell the global economy in the intervening century and a half. The Baron's two sons were also prominent financiers: Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild (1840–1915) became one of England's leading bankers; while Jacob Mayer Rothschild (1852–1937) became an important financier in Germany up until 1914 before emigrating to England on behalf of his family after Germany declared war on Britain at the start of World War I; Jacob eventually rose to become head of M.
M. Rothschild bank in London after his father's death in 1937; while he remained head until his own death in 1952 at age 81 after which it merged with N M Rothschild & Sons into an entity known today as Rothschild Incorporated; he is also credited with helping lead the British economy through World War II by way of lending to war-torn Britain while many other nations refused to do so fearing worse economic reprisals from Germany if they did so themselves . His only brother was Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, who became Chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons in 1922 but died two years later following an operation for appendicitis before being able to assume this position permanently; Lionel is remembered for having successfully turned N M Rothschild & Sons into one of Europe's foremost international banks during World War II when many other financial institutions around the world began refusing to lend money due to concerns that doing so would severely impact their own economic stability or that they would face reprisals if they lent money to Britain