Lady Emma Louisa Rothschild, widow of Nathaniel Mayer, first Lord Rothschild, and mother of Lionel Walter, present bearer of the title, died here last night in her ninety-first year after only a few hours’ illness.
The only other survivor in addition to her son, the present Lord Rothschild, is a daughter, the Hon. Mistress Clive Behrens. Another son, the Hon Nathaniel Charles Rothschild, died in 1923.
Born in Frankfort-am-Main, one of the seven daughters of Baron Mayer Karl de Rothschild, on March 23, 1844, Emma Louisa married her cousin in 1867.
Throughout her life she maintained an active interest in Jewish communal affairs. She was patroness of the City of London Benevolent Society for Assisting Widows of the Jewish Faith; president of the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women, of the Jewish Creche, and of the Brady Street Club for Working Boys; and was on the committee of the Jews’ Free School.
Her father, Baron Mayer Karl, took over joint management of the branch of the House of Rothschild in Frankfort, where the international banking concern originated, with his brother, Baron Wilhelm, in 1855. Baron Mayer Karl,
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