Lionel de Rothschild
Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (22 November 1808 – 3 June 1879) was a British Jewish banker, politician and philanthropist who was a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England. He became the first practising Jew to sit as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.[a]
For the 20th-century banker, politician and horticulturist of the same name, see Lionel de Rothschild (born 1882).
Baron Lionel de Rothschild
He co-founded the British Relief Association, the largest private provider of relief during the Great Irish and Highland Potato famines raising over £500,000.
Illness and death[edit]
Lionel de Rothschild suffered from gout for more than 20 years. He had a seizure on 3 June 1879 and died the next morning in his city home at 148 Piccadilly in London, aged 70. His body was interred at the Willesden Jewish Cemetery in the North London suburb of Willesden.[19][20][18] The grave is marked by a "handsome granite memorial", and surrounded by a stone enclosure designed by the architect George Devey. [21]