Ferdinand James von Rothschild


Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, the style he used in Britain, or Ferdinand James Anselm, Freiherr von Rothschild was a Franceborn, Austrianturned British and Jewish banker, art collector, and politician, who was a member of the prominent Rothschild family of bankers. He was a Liberal, later Liberal Unionist, MP who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1898.

Although Ferdinand von Rothschild was born in Paris, he was from Vienna and a part of the Rothschild banking family of Austria. He was the second son of Baron Anselm von Rothschild and his English wife Charlotte von Rothschild ne Rothschild . He held the hereditary title Freiherr in the Austrian nobility. He became a British subject and moved from Vienna to London.

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