Lionel Nathan de Rothschild Family Tree
“First Practicing Jewish Member of the British Parliament”
Biography
Biography
Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808–1879) took leadership of the London house after his father Nathan's death in 1836. He advanced millions to the British government during the Irish Famine and the Crimean War.
In 1875, Lionel financed Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's emergency £4 million purchase of the Khedive of Egypt's shares in the Suez Canal, securing Britain's route to India. Elected MP for the City of London in 1847, he was barred from taking his seat for eleven years until the Parliamentary Oaths Act was reformed in 1858, allowing him to swear on the Hebrew Bible.
Lionel Nathan de Rothschild’s Immediate Family
How Lionel Nathan de Rothschild Is Related to the Rothschild Family Tree
- Lionel Nathan de Rothschild is Mayer Amschel Rothschild's grandson. View Mayer Amschel Rothschild
- Lionel Nathan de Rothschild is Gutle Schnapper's grandson. View Gutle Schnapper
- Lionel Nathan de Rothschild is Kalman (Carl) Mayer von Rothschild's nephew. View Kalman (Carl) Mayer von Rothschild
- Lionel Nathan de Rothschild is Jakob (James) Mayer de Rothschild's nephew. View Jakob (James) Mayer de Rothschild
- Lionel Nathan de Rothschild is Betty von Rothschild's first cousin. View Betty von Rothschild
- Lionel Nathan de Rothschild is Alphonse James de Rothschild's first cousin. View Alphonse James de Rothschild
- Lionel Nathan de Rothschild is Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild's great-grandfather. View Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
- Lionel Nathan de Rothschild is Salomon Mayer von Rothschild's nephew. View Salomon Mayer von Rothschild