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1 Family

She is the daughter of Charles Rothschild of the famous European Rothschild family.

2 Scholarship and author

Rothschild is a leading authority on fleas. She was the first person to work out the flea jumping mechanism. She also studied the flea's reproductive cycle and linked this, in rabbits, to the hormonal changes within the host. She has written about 350 papers on entomology, zoology and other subjects.

Rothschild was also involved with butterfly conservation in the UK.

Rothschild is also the author of books on her father (Rothschild's Reserves - time and fragile nature) and her uncle Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (Dear Lord Rothschild).

Rothshild was also one of the few women whom E.B. Ford got on with.

3 Prominent English Rothschild family members

• Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836)
• Moses Haim Montefiore (1784-1885) (Married daughter of Mayer Amschel RothschildMayer Amschel Rothschild born February 23, 1744 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany died there on September 19, 1812 was the founder of the Rothschild family banking empire that would become one of the most successful business families in history. On August 29, the original family patriarch)
• Baron Mayer de RothschildBaron Mayer de Rothschild (named Mayer Amschel Rothschild for his grandfather with that name) ( 1818 1874) was the third son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild ( 1777 1836). Nathan and his brothers had been sent from Frankfurt to the capital cities of Europe in t (1818-1874)
• Lionel de RothschildBaron Lionel de Rothschild (Lionel Nathan Rothschild) ( 1808- 1879). This page is part of the History of the Jews in England First Jewish member of Parliament On Monday, July 26 1858, Baron Lionel de Rothschild took the oath with covered head, substitutin (1808-1879)
• Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron RothschildNathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild ( 1840 31 March 1915) was a British banker and politician from the international Rothschild financial dynasty. Life and family Known as "Natty", he was the son of Lionel de Rothschild (1808-1879) and Charlotte (1840-1915)
• Hannah Primrose, Countess of RoseberyHannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery ( 27 July 1851 19 November 1890), daughter of Baron Meyer de Rothschild and his wife Juliana, was at one time said to be the richest woman in Britain, on the death of her father in 1874, she inherited £2,000,000 in ca (1851-1890) (Daughter of Baron Mayer de RothschildBaron Mayer de Rothschild (named Mayer Amschel Rothschild for his grandfather with that name) ( 1818 1874) was the third son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild ( 1777 1836). Nathan and his brothers had been sent from Frankfurt to the capital cities of Europe in t)
• Charles Rothschild (1877-1923)
• Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868-1937)
• Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron RothschildNathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild CBE, GM, FRS ( October 31, 1910 March 20, 1990) was a biologist by training and a member of the prominent Rothschild family. He was the son of Charles Rothschild and Rozsika Edle Rothschild (nee von (1910-1990)
• Miriam Rothschild (b. 1908)
• Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (b. 1936)