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Post by Wayne Hall on Oct 17, 2022 6:38:04 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne Hall on Nov 8, 2022 22:40:28 GMT -5
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2
022-11-08/evelyn-de-rothschild-london-head-of-banking-dynasty-dies-at-91?
Evelyn De Rothschild, London Head of Banking Dynasty, Dies at 91 Helped unite his family’s British and French finance arms Friend of Margaret Thatcher, financial adviser to the queen
Evelyn de Rothschild, who helped unite the British and French arms of his family’s famous banking group and counted Queen Elizabeth II among those who sought his financial advice, has died. He was 91.
He died “peacefully at home,” the UK’s Press Association reported, citing a statement from his family.
Starting in 1976, Rothschild served 27 years as chairman of N.M. Rothschild & Sons, the London branch of the financial dynasty started by his great-great-great grandfather in the late 18th century. Among its many other roles, the bank known today as Rothschild & Co. helped finance the Duke of Wellington’s victory over Napoleon in 1815 at the battle of Waterloo.
Before stepping down in 2003, he achieved a long-planned goal of bringing together the London business with its French counterpart, Rothschild & Compagnie Banque. That was seen as a key step in remaining competitive with much younger -- but also bigger -- multinational banks.
“The first important strength of the family is unity,” he told the New York Times in 1996, as he and his cousin, David de Rothschild, head of the French house, announced their new partnership.
From 1972 to 1989 he was chairman of the Economist magazine, which, in a 2002 interview with Bloomberg News, he called “probably the most independent publication in the world.”
The Rothschild firm was founded by Mayer Amschel, who started out buying and selling old coins in a Frankfurt ghetto. He took the family surname from the red shield -- “rote Schild” in German -- that was displayed above an ancestor’s house in the 1560s.
In the early 1800s, he sent his five sons to establish bases of Rothschild in London, Paris, Naples, Vienna and Frankfurt. London-based N.M. Rothschild carries the name of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Evelyn’s great-great grandfather.
The family’s influence waned in the 20th century because European governments relied on American banks to finance both world wars against Germany. After World War II, Evelyn and his cousin Jacob refashioned N.M. Rothschild as a British merchant bank, which arranged international bond deals for such countries as Chile and Hungary.
The pair had a highly publicized split in 1980 over Jacob’s push to merge with S.G. Warburg & Co., in the hopes of expanding internationally and competing with Wall Street firms. When Evelyn refused, Jacob quit and founded an offshoot investment vehicle, RIT Capital Partners Plc.
‘A Serious Rift’ “The preservation of family control took precedence over expansion,” British historian Niall Ferguson wrote in his second volume on the Rothschild clan. “It was a serious rift within the English branch of the family.”
For his part, Evelyn Rothschild rebuilt N.M. Rothschild by hiring a series of well-connected bankers. One of them was Michael Richardson, a partner at Cazenove. His friendship with Margaret Thatcher -- British prime minister from 1979 to 1990 -- helped the bank win the job of lead underwriter in the sales of shares in state-owned companies such as British Gas Plc and British Petroleum Plc.
Rothschild also helped the firm expand in China, where it opened an office in Beijing in 1999.
He was knighted in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth II. He was for many years one of the queen’s financial advisers.
“No one is tighter at spending than the queen,” he told the London Evening Standard in 2017. “She grew up during the war. Very disciplined.”
Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild was born on Aug. 29, 1931, the only son of Anthony Gustav de Rothschild and the former Yvonne Cahen d’Anvers, according to the website of the Rothschild Archive, an independent charitable trust.
Wartime Evacuation Evacuated to the relative safety of the US during World War II, he worked the soda fountain at a drugstore in Westhampton on New York’s Long Island, he told the Financial Times for a 2017 profile.
He returned to the UK to be educated first at Harrow School in London, then at Cambridge University’s Trinity College.
He joined his family’s bank in 1957. He was part of its expansion into media and telecommunications, joining the boards of Beaverbrook Newspapers, the Economist and the Telegraph, Ferguson wrote.
In the 2002 interview with Bloomberg News, Rothschild said of his job, “Every day something new pops up out of the woodwork and someone asks me if I can help. I don’t pretend to be a nuts and bolts person. I know quite a lot about certain things, but I’m not a lawyer, I’m not an engineer, I’m not an accountant. But that doesn’t stop you from using your common sense.”
An art collector, wine connoisseur and owner of thoroughbred racehorses who counted Bill and Hillary Clinton among his friends, Rothschild shuttled for many years between London and Ascott House, a country estate in Buckinghamshire acquired by his grandfather in 1876 and decorated with porcelain from Asia and paintings by old masters such as Rubens.
Rothschild’s first marriage, to Jeannette Ellen Dorothy Bishop, ended in divorce. With his second wife, Victoria Lou Schott, he had three children: Jessica, Anthony and David. That marriage also ended in divorce. In 2000, Rothschild married US-born Lynn Forester, co-founder of the telephone network company FirstMark Communications Europe SA.
— With assistance by Stephanie Baker
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Post by Wayne Hall on Nov 20, 2022 5:00:31 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne Hall on Dec 1, 2022 9:25:44 GMT -5
From "The Rothschild banking family" Telegram group
"Communist leaders like Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin were nothing but front men for the Rothschilds
Communism was portrayed as a people's revolution. In fact it was the brutal destruction of a proud Christian civilization by a Satanic Jewish cult ultimately committed to enslaving mankind".
Comment from W.H.:
The "nothing but" overlooks the factor of what they saw themselves as. This is the Communist viewpoint and it remains relevant. Whereas the "nothing but" easily becomes a mere component of the familiar "divide and rule" scenario. And thus a weapon at the disposal of "the other side".
Real Canadian Patriots, [12/1/2022 5:01 AM]
I must say, the fact that all the globalists are in support of the protests in China makes me wonder who has really instigated them and for what purpose…
Don’t get me wrong, it’s great that the people finally rebel against the zero covid madness, but is there a hidden hand behind it with ulterior motives? 🤔🧐
(Maybe I’ve become too cynical!)
Wayne Hall, [12/1/2022 5:10 AM]
I have tended to think that Marxism was a way for Jews to be reconciled with Gentiles without having to become Christians. But does it turn out that it has been a way for Jews to gain control over the Chinese?
SIMPLE APE, [12/1/2022 5:12 AM]
Same can be said for the freedom convoy, there were definitely bad actors trying to steer things I to a different direction. In the end the government did what they wanted to do all along and deployed the illegal EA against the law abiding citizens of the land.
Same thing in China this will most likely be used as a set up to something major. Right now it is being used as a distraction.
Most of the protests I have seen seem very tame and well controlled as far as where and how they move.
Wayne Hall, [12/1/2022 5:31 AM]
Finally it is the Enlightenment and rational element that makes one prefer Marxism to becoming an anti-Semite or a Jehovah's Witness. Of course libertarians have their capitalist ideology and good luck to them but they can have it for themselves.
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