It is still popular with the global elite however, and in the island's northeast the homeowners include members of the Rothschild family and Russian oligarchs.

Edward's finances had been ably managed by Sir Dighton Probyn, Comptroller of the Household, and had benefited from advice from Edward's Jewish financier friends, such as Ernest Cassel, Maurice de Hirsch and the Rothschild family.

A more literal reading of Tolkien's text and comparison to historical instead of living factual persons ( notably John D. Rockefeller or the Rothschild family ) would result in a much higher estimate, as much as $ 870 billion, according to the article.

* Rothschild Continuation Holdings AG a holding company that controls much of the Rothschild investment bank for the Rothschild family.

The movie stars George Arliss, Loretta Young, and Boris Karloff, in the biographical story of the rise of the Rothschild family of European bankers.

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Renoir briefly touches on the question of antisemitism through the character of Rosenthal, a son from a nouveau riche Jewish banking family ( a parallel to the Rothschild banking family of France ).

She was admired by Cecil Beaton and the patron Pauline de Rothschild of the Rothschild family.

* Jacob Rothschild, 5th Bt, Lord Rothschild ; member of the Rothschild banking family of England

Backstage Mary Lou Williams introduced him to Baroness Pannonica " Nica " de Koenigswarter, a member of the Rothschild family and a patroness of several New York City jazz musicians.

The Rothschild family bought up large areas of Mayfair in the 19th century.

A Rothschild house, Waddesdon Manor in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, donated to charity by the family in 1957.

A Rothschild family house in Picardy ( region ) | Picardy, France.

The first member of the family who was known to use the name " Rothschild " was Izaak Elchanan Rothschild, who was born in 1577.

The head of the whole group was the Rothschild family ...".

Mayer Rothschild successfully kept the fortune in the family with carefully arranged marriages, often between first or second cousins ( similar to Royal intermarriage ).

The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

Moore was married and divorced four times: to actresses Suzy Kendall, Tuesday Weld ( by whom he had a son, Patrick, in 1976 ), Brogan Lane and Nicole Rothschild ( one son, Nicholas, born in 1995 ).

* Papers of Louis S. Rothschild ( Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation 1955 – 1958 ), Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

* Château Lafite Rothschild ( Pauillac, France ), 1986

Today's Wildlife Trust movement began life as The Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves ( SPNR ), which was formed by Charles Rothschild in 1912.

* Nica de Koenigswarter nee Rothschild, ( 1913 – 88 ), known as the " bebop baroness " for her patronage of many jazz musicians.

Lex boasts some distinguished alumni who have gone on to make careers in business and government – including Nigel Lawson ( former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer ), Richard Lambert ( CBI director and former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee ), Martin Taylor ( former chief executive of Barclays ), John Makinson ( chairman and chief executive of Penguin ), John Gardiner ( former chairman of Tesco ), David Freud ( former UBS banker and Labour adviser, now a Conservative peer ), John Kingman ( former head of UKFI and a banker at Rothschild ’ s ), George Graham ( RBS banker ), Andrew Balls ( head of European portfolio management at PIMCO ) and Jo Johnson ( Conservative Member of Parliament for Orpington ).

* Lynn Forester de Rothschild ( born 1954 ), Chief Executive Officer of E. L. Rothschild, a holding company she owns with her husband Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild.

* Baron Edmond James de Rothschild ( 1845 – 1934 ), philanthropist and activist for Jew

He was the son of Amschel Moses Rothschild, ( born circa 1710 ), a money changer who had traded with the Prince of Hesse.

Edward Alan John George, Baron George, GBE, PC, DL ( 16 September 1938 – 18 April 2009 ), known as Eddie George, or " Steady Eddie ", was Governor of the Bank of England from 1993 to 2003 and sat on the board of Rothschild.

The first investigations into commercial use of lignin were reported by Marathon Corporation in Rothschild, Wisconsin ( USA ), starting in 1927.

* G. c. rothschildi is known variously as the Rothschild, Baringo or Ugandan giraffe.

A collection of far larger Viennese palaces known as Palais Rothschild were torn down during the Second World War.

The townfolk were known to have contributed money to reimburse Sheriff John Vines for his trip to Cincinnati to arrest Rothschild.

However, there are no known joint Polish-German actions, and the Germans were unsuccessful in their attempt to turn the Poles toward fighting exclusively against Soviet partisans. Tadeusz Piotrowski quotes Joseph Rothschild saying " The Polish Home Army was by and large untainted by collaboration " and adds that " the honor of AK as a whole is beyond reproach ".

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.

Nathan Mayer, Freiherr von Rothschild ( 16 September 1777 – 28 July 1836 ), known as Nathan Mayer Rothschild, was a British banker and financier and one of five sons of the second-generation of the Rothschild banking dynasty.

Nathan Meyer Rothschild was known for his role in the abolition of the slave trade through his part-financing of the 20 million pound British government buyout of the plantation industry's slaves.

Since this was the preferred style of the Rothschilds it became also known as the Goût Rothschild.

This became the home of James de Rothschild's widow, Dorothy de Rothschild, usually known as " Mrs James "; she took a very keen interest in Waddesdon for the remainder of her long life.

In a 1917, letter from Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild, known as the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the British government promised " the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ", but at the same time required " that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine ".

Southcourt Cottage, a large Victorian house, close to the stud, from 1922 to 1951 let by the Rothschild family to Sir Basil Henriques the philanthropist and social reformer, known for his work with Jewish youth in the east end of London.

Unusually for a Rothschild House, the name of the architect is not known for certain.

The whole was furnished in what became known as " Le Style Rothschild ", that is, 18th-century French furniture, boulle, ebony, and ormolu, complemented by Old Masters and fine porcelain.

Aston Clinton House ( also known as Green Park though referred to as simply Aston Clinton by the Rothschild family ) was a large mansion to the south-east of the village of Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire, England.

Originally known as Château Brane-Mouton it was renamed by Nathaniel de Rothschild in 1853 to Château Mouton Rothschild.