Evelina de Rothschild [SEP] father
Evelina de Rothschild
Evelina Gertrude de Rothschild (25 August 1839 – 4 December 1866) was an English socialite and a member of the Rothschild banking family of England.
Biography.
Evelina de Rothschild was the daughter of Baron Lionel de Rothschild (1808–1879), the first openly unconverted Jew to sit in the British House of Commons. Her mother was Charlotte von Rothschild (1819–1884), a cousin from the Naples branch of the family.
On 7 June 1865 Evelina married her second cousin Ferdinand James von Rothschild (
buried at the Rothschild Mausoleum in the Jewish Cemetery at West Ham.
Commemoration.
In her memory, her husband built, equipped, and endowed the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children in Southwark, one of the neglected and poorest districts of London. Her father Lionel assumed sponsorship, in 1867, of the first school for girls in Israel, which opened in Jerusalem in 1854, and renamed it the "Evelina de Rothschild School". Her mother, Charlotte, inaugurated the Evelina Prize, awarded at Jewish elementary schools and