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Miriam Rothschild was born in 1908 in Ashton Wold, near Oundle in Northamptonshire, the daughter of Charles Rothschild of the Rothschild family of Jewish bankers and Rozsika Edle Rothschild ( née von Wertheimstein ), a Hungarian sportswoman and member of the first Jewish family in Europe to be ennobled.

Her brother was Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild and one of her sisters ( Kathleen Annie ) Pannonica Rothschild ( Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter ) would later be a bebop jazz enthusiast and patroness of Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.