For over a century, the Rothschilds, a Jewish banking dynasty that began in 18th-century Frankfurt, quietly helped lay the ...

Jacob Rothschild’s friend Sir James Goldsmith once said of him: “It depends which day it is: on one, Jacob is an excellent banker. The next, he is absorbed by art and heritage.

Son of Victor, III Baron Rothschild, and a Christian Anglican woman converted to observant Judaism for marriage, Jacob studied at Oxford University and then trained as a financier in the family ...

Jacob struck out on his own in 1980, selling his 11 per cent stake in NM Rothschild for £6.6mn and building RIT Capital Partners, a listed investment trust combining public and private ...

The British peer started his career in the family bank, NM Rothschild & Sons, in 1963, before going on to co-found the then J Rothschild Assurance Group, now St James's Place, in 1980.

Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild was born in April, 1936, educated at Eton College and the University of Oxford. In 1961, he married the late Serena Mary Dunn, a granddaughter of the Canadian ...

Following Lord Jacob Rothschild's death at the age of 87, which his foundation announced Monday, the focus now turns to the heirs to the family fortune, worth an estimated $1 billion, according to ...