RARE “Rothschild Financier" Edmund Leopold de Rothschild Hand Written Card COA

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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 and Marie Louise Eugénie de Rothschild née Beer

(1892–1975). Known as Eddy de Rothschild, he graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge,

after which he traveled the world. Returning home, he worked 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. He became a partner, his father

having died in 1942, but then had 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. Over the years he was

involved in a number of philanthropic causes and in recognition of his services,

the New Year Honours 1997 made

Rothschild a Commander of the Order of

the British Empire. Still active into his nineties, he was President

of the Association

of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (AJEX). In 1998, he appeared

in the Chuck Olin documentary film titled In Our Own

Hands that told the story of the only all-Jewish fighting

force in World War II. Like other members of the Rothschild family, he was an

art collector, but the maintenance and development of the Exbury gardens was

his most important pastime. From his father, Rothschild inherited Exbury Gardens in Hampshire which had fallen into severe disrepair as a

result of the War, and he set about restoring the 200-acre (0.81 km2)

gardens. Edmund's expertise became such that in the 1950s and 1960s he served

on the Council of the Royal Horticultural

Society. In 2001, the American Rhododendron Society in Eugene, Oregon awarded him a citation in appreciation of

his many services to the horticultural world. In 2005, the Royal Horticultural

Society bestowed on him the Victoria Medal of Honour,

the highest accolade in the British gardening world. Rothschild established a

charitable trust to manage Exbury Gardens with which his children are involved.

In 1949 he published Window on the World, an account of his world

tour of 1937–39. His autobiography was published in 1998.