Dorothy de Rothschild

Dorothy de Rothschild ( born March 7, 1895 in London, † December 10, 1988 ibid ), born Dorothy Mathilde Pinto was an English philanthropist and Zionist.

Life

Daughter of Eugene Pinto (1854-1932) and Catherine Pinto (born Cohen, 1872-1939 ). She married in 1913 at the age of 17, James Armand de Rothschild, the son of the international financial dynasty Rothschild. The couple settled in 1922 in Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire down. Dorothy de Rothschild supported her husband's political work in particular from 1929 to 1945, when he was MP for the Liberal Party. After his death in 1957 Waddesdon Manor was passed to the National Trust.

Dorothy de Rothschild as her father Edmond Rothschild and her husband became involved early for Zionism interest of her father and husband away and was a close friend of Chaim Weizmann. She was chairman of Yad Hanadiv, the charity of the Rothschilds in Israel.

Her husband had financed the parliament building of the Knesset, they themselves contributed to the financing of the building of the Supreme Court of Israel in.

Dorothy de Rothschild died in 1988 at the age of 93 years in London. She left no direct heirs. Their property was estimated at $ 166 million.

  • Person of Judaism (United Kingdom)
  • Liberal Party Member
  • Rothschild
  • Briton
  • English
  • Born in 1895
  • Died in 1988
  • Woman
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