Born Frankfurt, moved to London by the 1840s where he joined his brother David. There were other brothers in Paris and Berlin so their banking business covered Europe and was extremely successful. Herman became one of the wealthiest men in Victorian Britain. Father of Herbert. Baron in the Portuguese nobility. Died 4 Hyde Park Gate.
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Baron Herman de Stern
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Baron de Stern clock tower
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Halifax Bank
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2 memorials
South Suburban Gas Company
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1 memorial
Major Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, CBE, TD
Financier and horticulturalist. He was born on 2 January 1916 in Westminster the second of the four children of Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942) and Marie Louise Eugénie de Rothschild née B...
Person, Armed Forces, Commerce, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Barclays Bank
The bank's origins go back to the goldsmith bankers John Freame and Thomas Gould. James Barclay joined the business in 1736. After various name permutations, it became Barclay and Co. in 1896. As o...
3 memorials
Lloyds TSB Group
In 1765 John Taylor and Sampson Lloyd set up a private banking business in Birmingham. In 1810, the Reverend Henry Duncan of Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, set up a bank to help his poorest parishioners...
1 memorial
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