James Armand de Rothschild, "Jimmy"

1878 - 1957  (79 years)    Has 24 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	James Armand de Rothschild
  Suffix	"Jimmy"
  Birth	1878
  Gender	Male
  Prominent People	Great Britain
  rich
  Death	1957
  death duties took more than twenty million dollars out of his fortune. No one inside The Family or out could provide fitting upkeep for so luscious a palazzo. Jimmy left it to the National Trust, together with 750,000 pounds (two million dollars) to defray at least part of the maintenance cost. Now sightseers aim cameras at the staircase on which Edward VII broke his leg.
  Siblings	2 Siblings
  1. James Armand de Rothschild, "Jimmy",   b. 1878   d. 1957  (Age 79 years) ▻ Dorothy Pinto + 2. Baron Maurice de Rothschild,   b. 1881   d. 1957  (Age 76 years) ▻ Noémie Halphen,  m. 1909   3. Baroness Miriam de Rothschild,   b. 1884   d. 1965  (Age 81 years) ▻ Baron Albert von Goldschmidt-Rothschild,  m. 1910
  Person ID	I303223	Geneagraphie
  Links To	This person is also James Armand de Rothschild at Wikipedia
  Last Modified	22 Sep 2001

  
  

  Father	Baron Edmond de Rothschild,   b. 1845   d. 1934 (Age 89 years)
  Mother	Baroness Adelheid von Rothschild,   b. 1853   d. 1935 (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	1877
  Family ID	F121635	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Dorothy Pinto   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F121644	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Sep 2001

  
  

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  A tophatted, monocled cross between Fred Astaire and Charlie Chaplin, almost as intriguing a dissonance as jazz itself. To begin with his national disparateness: "Jimmy," as the son of Baron Edmond, was French by birth; as the principal heir of his eccentric Viennese Aunt Alice, largely Austrian by fortune and by monocle; by citizenship and membership in the House of Commons, English. He was also a frail man. His left eye had been knocked out by a golf shot of the Duke de Gramont. He went through so many abdominal operations that The Family came to believe he grew a new gall bladder as soon as the old one was removed. And as he was not an especially fortunate rider, the saying developed that "whenever Jimmy has time between surgery, he sneaks in a quick fall." Yet he practiced sports, politics, philanthropy and art collecting up to the age of seventy-eight with great vigor. And with a contradictory elan. His frock coat, stiff collar, sideburns, Tout-Paris inflections combined with Oxford accent, made him the almost clownish epitome of Anglo-French elegance. At the same time he had an accomplished career as a Liberal in the Commons, was often seen with labor leaders like Aneuran Bevan, and talked fluent Hebrew to workers in Palestine, where he carried forward the colonization projects of his father. At the racetrack he resembled a Damon Runyon caricature dolled up in spats and monocle. And he had priceless hunches. A typically incredible Jimmy performance took place at the Cambridgeshire Handicap in 1921. Minutes before post time he began to rage up and down the line, putting bets on a 100-to-7 shot called Milenko until the bookies refused to accept any more. The grandstands laughed. Milenko won by a length and a half. Jimmy made some 200,000 pounds that afternoon. With women, too, Jimmy had a bizarre but felicitous way. At thirty-five he suddenly decided to marry and inquired about a suitable bride at---where else?---the secretary's office of one of his golf clubs. The secretary glanced over the golf scores of various members. What about young Miss Dorothy Pinto, who had been making such good progress on the links? Soon afterwards a rabbi solemnized a union which lasted forty-three happy years, through all the many-faceted phases of Jimmy's career, until his death in 1956. Today Mrs. Jimmy administers capably her late husband's philanthropies in Israel.