Edmund Leopold de Rothschild
| Edmund Leopold de Rothschild | |
|---|---|
| Born |
2 January 1916 London |
| Died | 17 January 2009 (aged 93) |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Financier |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Edith Lentner (m. 1948) |
Major Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, CBE, TD (2 January 1916 – 17 January 2009) was an English financier, a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England, and a recipient of the Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH), given by the Royal Horticultural Society.
Born in Westminster,London, he was the second child and first son of Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882–1942) and Marie Louise Eugénie de Rothschild née Beer (1892–1975). Widely known as Eddy de Rothschild, he graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, after which he traveled the world. Returning home, he went to work at the N M Rothschild & Sons bank but shortly thereafter World War II broke out and he joined the British Army. An artillery officer in the Buckinghamshire Yeomanry, he served with the British Expeditionary Force in France then fought in the North African Campaign and in Italy with the 77th Field (Highland) Regiment, then became a major in the newly formed Jewish Infantry Brigade.
In May 1946 Rothschild was demobilised and once back home in England he returned to work at N M Rothschild & Sons. As his father had died in 1942, he was then a partner but one with very little experience. Tutored by his uncle Anthony Gustav de Rothschild, he played a key role in the continuing success of the bank, and became its Chairman from 1970 to 1975. An aggressive business developer, during his career Rothschild flew the Atlantic Ocean more than four hundred times playing a key role in developing British interests in postwar Japan and was a significant part of the Rothschild syndicate that formed the British Newfoundland Development Corporation to undertake mineral exploration in Labrador, Canada and to develop the Churchill Falls hydro-electric dam.
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