FINANCE MONTHLY: The Philanthropic Legacy of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild: A Life Measured in Giving
Few figures in twentieth-century British finance carried a name as storied as Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, yet colleagues and grant recipients often described his charitable work as the truer measure of the man. He led the international bank N M Rothschild & Sons for nearly three decades and advised Queen Elizabeth II on her private financial affairs, though a parallel record of giving ran through his entire adult life. E
velyn de Rothschild approached generosity as a serious occupation, applying to grantmaking the same discipline he brought to the City of London. His death in November 2022, at the age of 91, drew tributes that lingered less on balance sheets and far more on the causes he chose to champion.
Those causes ranged from children's hospitals and university lecture halls to endangered elephants and retired racehorses, a spread that reveals a giver guided by personal conviction rather than fashion.
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