Nathaniel de Rothschild

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Nathaniel de Rothschild
Born	(1812-07-02)2 July 1812 London, England
Died	19 February 1870(1870-02-19) (aged 57) Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Businessman, winemaker
Spouse	Charlotte de Rothschild ​ ​ (m. 1842)​
Children	Nathalie de Rothschild (b. 1843) James Edouard de Rothschild (b. 1844) Mayer Albert de Rothschild (b. 1846) James Mayer Rothschild (uncle and later father-in-law)

Nathaniel de Rothschild (1812–1870), was a businessman, banker and winemaker. He established the Château Mouton Rothschild.

Early life

Nathaniel de Rothschild was born on 2 July 1812 in London. He was the fourth child of Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836) and Hannah W. Cohen (1783–1850).

He was a member of the Rothschild banking family of England, closely connected to the Rothschild banking family of France.^[1] While he was in his thirties, he was injured in a hunting accident, after which he was rarely seen in public.^[1]

Career

He moved to Paris, France in 1850 to work in the banking business owned by his uncle,

In 1853, he acquired the Château Brane Mouton, a vineyard in Pauillac in the Gironde département from a Paris banker named Thuret who had previously bought it from Baron Hector de Branne in 1830. Rothschild paid 1,175,000 francs for Brane-Mouton's 65 acres (263,000 m²) of vineyards and renamed the estate, Château Mouton Rothschild. It would become one of the world's best known winemakers.

In 1868, his uncle James acquired the neighboring

• Nathalie de Rothschild (1843–1843)
• James Edouard de Rothschild (1844–1881), married
  Laura Thérèse von Rothschild
  (m. 1871)
• Mayer Albert de Rothschild (1846–1850)
• Arthur de Rothschild (1851–1903)

In 1856, Nathaniel and his wife purchased the property at 33

The property of Château Mouton Rothschild will pass to his son James Nathan and through him, to his great grandson Philippe de Rothschild

Death and legacy

He died on 19 February 1870 in Paris, France.

After his death, his children and grandchildren showed little enthusiasm for the wine business. It would be 118 years later before Château Mouton, under the leadership of Nat's great-grandson Philippe de Rothschild (1902–88), would become the only French vineyard to ever achieve reclassification to First Growth.

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