Person    | Male  Born 2/1/1916  Died 17/1/2009

Major Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, CBE, TD

Financier and horticulturalist.

He was born on 2 January 1916 in Westminster the second of the four children of Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942) and Marie Louise Eugénie de Rothschild née Beer (1892–1975). His siblings were: Rosemary Leonora Ruth de Rothschild (1913-2013), Naomi Louise Nine de Rothschild (1920-2007) and Leopold David de Rothschild (1927-2012). 

His Wikipedia page gives much information about this man.

He was a grand nephew of Evelina Gertrude de Rothschild (1839-1866) and Baron Ferdinand James Anselm von Rothschild (1839-1898) and died, aged 93 years, on 17 January 2009. 

To see how he is related to other members of the Rothschild family who feature on plaques on the London Remembers website see our entry for Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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