Evelina de Rothschild

Evelina De Rothschild

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Evelina de Rothschild

Evelina Gertrude de Rothschild (August 25, 1839 – December 4, 1866) was an English

England

Socialite

A socialite is a person who is known to be a part of fashionable Upper class because of his or her regular participation in social activities and fondness for spending a significant amount of time Entertainment and being entertained....
and a member of the Rothschild banking family of England

Rothschild banking family of England

The Rothschild banking family of England was founded in 1798 by Nathan Mayer Rothschild who first settled in Manchester but then moved to London....
.
ina de Rothschild was the daughter of Baron Lionel de Rothschild

Lionel de Rothschild

Lionel Nathan de Rothschild was a British politician. The son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Hanna Barent Cohen, he was a member of the prominent Rothschild family....
(1808-1879), the first Jew

Jew

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to sit in the British House of Commons

British House of Commons

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Evelina de Rothschild was the daughter of Baron Lionel de Rothschild

Lionel de Rothschild

Lionel Nathan de Rothschild was a British politician. The son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Hanna Barent Cohen, he was a member of the prominent Rothschild family....
(1808-1879), the first Jew

Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
to sit in the British House of Commons

British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the British monarchy and the House of Lords ....
. Her mother was Charlotte von Rothschild

Charlotte von Rothschild

Charlotte von Rothschild was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland socialite born in Frankfurt, Germany but who was a member of the Rothschild banking family of Naples....
(1819-1884), a cousin from the Naples branch

Rothschild banking family of Naples

The Rothschild banking family of Naples was founded by Carl Mayer von Rothschild who was sent to the Two Sicilies from Frankfurt in 1821 by his father, Mayer Amschel Rothschild....
of the family.

Continuing the endogamy

Endogamy

Endogamy is the practice of Marriage within a group , rejecting others based solely on culture as being unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships....
strategy within the Rothschild family to ensure that control of their wealth remained in family hands, on June 7, 1865, Evelina de Rothschild married her cousin Ferdinand James von Rothschild

Ferdinand James von Rothschild

Ferdinand James Anselm Freiherr von Rothschild was an United Kingdom politician and art collector, and a member of the prominent Mayer Amschel Rothschild family of bankers....
(1839-1898) of the Austrian branch

Rothschild banking family of Austria

The Rothschild banking family of Austria was founded by Salomon Mayer von Rothschild in 1820 in Vienna in what was then the Austrian Empire. Salomon had been sent there from his home in Frankfurt, Germany by his father, Mayer Amschel Rothschild ....
of the family. Because of her parents' prominent position as one of the wealthiest and most influential families in England, guests at her wedding banquet and ball included Benjamin Disraeli, the ambassadors from Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
and France

France

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, and Prince George, Duke of Cambridge

Prince George, Duke of Cambridge

Prince George, Duke of Cambridge was a member of the British Royal Family, a male-line grandson of George III of the United Kingdom. The Duke was an army officer and served as commander-in-chief of the British Army from 1856 to 1895....
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Following a lengthy honeymoon across Europe

Europe

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, Evelina and her husband settled into a home at 143 Piccadilly

Piccadilly

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in London near her parents. Pregnant with their first child, she died on December 4, 1866 while giving birth to a stillborn

Stillborn

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son. She is buried at the West Ham Cemetery.

Commemoration

In her memory, her husband built, equipped, and endowed the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children

Evelina Children's Hospital

Evelina Children's Hospital is a specialist National Health Service hospital in London. It is administratively a part of Guy?s & St Thomas? NHS Foundation Trust and provides teaching hospital facilities for King's College London....
in Southwark

Southwark

Southwark, or the Borough, is an area of south-east London in the London Borough of Southwark, situated 1.5 miles east of Charing Cross....
, one of the neglected and poorest districts of London. Her father Lionel assumed sponsorship of the first school for girls in Palestine

Palestine

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, which opened in Jerusalem

Jerusalem

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in 1854, and renamed it the Evelina de Rothschild School. Her mother, Charlotte, inaugurated the Evelina Prize, awarded at Jewish elementary schools and Jews' College.