The Murdered Rothschild

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People used the word “gentle” to describe Amschel Mayor James Rothschild.

He was the only son of Victor Rothschild’s second marriage to Theresa Mayor, and heir to the Rothschild dynasty after his older half-brother Jacob.

Amschel’s obituary stated: “Where his father was of large and pugnacious build, Amschel Rothschild was tall, thin and strikingly graceful [after his mother]. His bushy head of hair … emphasized large, sad brown eyes. He was precise, almost obsessively tidy, enjoyed making difficult cocktails and revisiting old jokes. He loved his farm, his children, restoring old outhouses, extending his lawns, going to bed early.”

As a teenager he raced motorcycles and later vintage cars and bi-planes. “He started racing classic cars in 1974, owning successively a Lotus 10, an AC Cobra, a famous 1954 250F Maserati, a 1964 Willment Daytona Coupe in which he won two Historic Sports Car Championships…”

He married brewing heiress Anita Guinness in 1981 and…

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