DE ROTHSCHILD, Sir Evelyn Robert Adrian 1931-2022

[Richard R]

The BBC is reporting the death of Sir Evelyn & Wikipedia is showing 8 Nov 2022 as date of death.

He was s of Anthony Gustave DE ROTHSCHILD 1887-1961 (gs of Baron (Lionel Nathan) de Rothschild (Austrian Empire) and nephew of 1st UK Baron ROTHSCHILD 2nd Bt GCVO PC 1840-1915) and Yvonne Louise 1899-1977 d of Robert CAHEN D'ANVERS of Paris, France. He m 1973 Victoria Lou 1949-2021 d of Lewis M SCHOTT 1922-2017 of New York and his 1st w Marcia WHITNEY 1923-89, and had two sons and a dau.

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Richard, the news of his death has become more widespread, with more outlets reporting it.

Sir Evelyn and his two sons (Anthony James, b. 1977 and David Mayer, b. 1978) were part of the branch of the family that was in the line of succession to the Rothschild baronetcy only, and not the Rothschild barony.

Does anyone know if Sir Evelyn had any grandchildren?  I could only find the marital records for two of Sir Evelyn's children (son Anthony and daughter Jessica, b. 1974), but nothing further.

Brooke

[colinp]

From the family's statement (assuming it was issued today) it would seem Sir Evelyn died yesterday 7 November:

 'It is with great sorrow that Lady de Rothschild announces the death of her beloved husband, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, after a short illness.

'Sir Evelyn passed away peacefully yesterday evening at his home in London with his loved ones by his side.

'The family appreciates thoughts and prayers at this very sad time.'

[Harry Merritt]

The Lady de Rothschild referred to in the statement is Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who married Sir Evelyn in 2000, his third wife. She is or was a director of The Economist Group, Estee Lauder, etc.. The marriage to Victoria Schott, his second wife, ended in divorce.  There was a brief first marriage to Jeannette Ellen Dorothy Bishop (1940-81), also divorced.

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[colinp]

Obit in Daily Telegraph 12 November 2022 -  Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, financier who prudently led the family merchant bank and bred champion racehorses – obituary (telegraph.co.uk)

EXTRACTS:

Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, financier who prudently led the family merchant bank and bred champion racehorses – obituary

It was said that NM Rothschild executives simply asked each other: ‘Would Evelyn want us to do this?’ If the answer was no, it was not done

Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, who has died aged 91, was the head of his family’s banking house in London for almost three decades.

He maintained N M Rothschild’s prestigious reputation, particularly as an adviser to governments, as well as its independence; by the end of his tenure in 2003, the firm was unique in the City as the only traditional, family-controlled merchant bank to have survived intact the upheavals of Big Bang and the turbulent years that followed....

Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild was born on August 29 1931, the son of Anthony de Rothschild, a Gallipoli veteran who was described as “formidable, aloof and slow to smile”. Anthony was in turn a great-grandson of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the young Jewish textile trader who arrived from Frankfurt to buy cloth in London and Manchester in 1798, and established his “counting house” at New Court in St Swithin’s Lane in the City of London in 1810-11.

Nathan and his sons and cousins developed a network of banking houses across Europe, and became financiers to successive British, French and German governments. Having financed Wellington’s armies and the building of the Suez Canal, they were acknowledged as the most powerful bankers in the 19th-century world. Their partnerships remained dynastic and exclusive, epitomising everything suggested by the phrase “haute banque”.

Anthony de Rothschild’s contribution, as senior partner in the decade following the Second World War, was to rebuild the London bank’s international business and to reorganise the family shareholdings on a basis which gave him (and in due course Evelyn) 60 per cent of its voting shares.

Anthony’s wife, Evelyn’s mother, was Yvonne Cahen d’Anvers, from a family long associated with the Rothschild family’s French branch.....

His country home was Ascott House, a sprawling half-timbered Victorian mansion (in fact, a much enlarged 17th-century farmhouse) at Wing, near Leighton Buzzard, in Buckinghamshire. The house had been created as a hunting lodge in the 1870s and 1880s by his Rothschild grandfather, Leopold.

Anthony de Rothschild inherited Ascott in 1937, and reshaped the house to provide a suitable setting for a splendid art collection, to which Evelyn in due course added. The house was made over to the National Trust on Anthony’s death, but remained a family home.

In London, de Rothschild and his third wife, Lynn, bought and refurbished John Singer Sargent’s house and studio in Chelsea; they also had homes in France and the United States.

Evelyn de Rothschild married first, in 1966, Jeanette Bishop, a former model. The marriage was dissolved and he married secondly, in 1973, Victoria Schott; they had two sons and a daughter. The second marriage was also dissolved and in 2000 he married Lynn Forester, an American telecommunications entrepreneur who later campaigned for inclusive capitalism; she survives him along with his three children and two stepsons.

Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, born August 29 1931, died November 7 2022

[colinp]

Anecdote from the TImes obit  Sir Evelyn de Rothschild obituary | Register | The Times

"As the Rothschilds have long been friendly with the British royal family, Rothschild became an usher at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953. 'They needed fine fellows in uniforms,' he said, 'but the joke was I had the wrong one. I went to Moss Bros and they made me a commodore by mistake. But it didn’t matter. I had to get up at five in the morning to be at Westminster Abbey at seven, and when I arrived they were all drunk.' "

[Richard R]

COURT CIRCULAR
Buckingham Palace
21st November, 2022
The King and The Queen [Camilla] Consort were represented by the Baroness Neuberger at the Funeral of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild which was held at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London NW8, today.
The Princess Royal was represented by Mrs Timothy Holderness-Roddam.
Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy was represented by Major Charles Macfarlane.

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