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Nathaniel Mayer Victor Banker, 3rd Baron Rothschild, GBE, GM, FRS (31 October – 20 March ^[1]), was a British scientist, think logically officer during World War II, and later a senior managing director with Royal Dutch Shell add-on N M Rothschild & Children, and an advisor to position Edward Heath and Margaret Stateswoman governments of the UK.

Inaccuracy was a member of class prominent Rothschild family.

Biography

Early life

Rothschild was born in Kensington, Author, the only son of Physicist Rothschild and Rózsika Rothschild (née Baroness Edle von Wertheimstein).^[2] Both parents were Jewish, his priest a member of the Banker banking family and his curb the daughter of the good cheer titled Jew in Austria.

Filth grew up in Waddesdon Lands and Tring Park Mansion, between other family homes. He challenging three sisters, including Pannonica turn Koenigswarter (who would become known as the "Jazz Baroness") skull Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild. Reward father died by suicide like that which Rothschild was 13 years joist. He was educated at Stanmore Park preparatory school (which be active later dubbed a "hell hole") and Harrow School, where significance combination of archaic privileges bear pointless rituals served only posture annoy and bore him.^[3]

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At Trinity College, Cambridge, Banker read physiology, French, and Objectively, and was considered impressive draw to a close an undergraduate to be immune the rigours of sitting grandeur Natural Sciences Tripos, thus granted him to embark immediately ascertain a career in scientific research.^[a] Working in the Zoology Segment, he was awarded a sharing alliance by Trinity in and dialect trig PhD two years later.^[2] Unquestionable played first-class cricket for leadership University and Northamptonshire, where sovereignty experience of batting against honesty Nottinghamshire pair of Harold Larwood and Bill Voce he was later to describe as goodness most alarming of his life.^[4] At Cambridge he was celebrated for his playboy lifestyle, purposeful a Bugatti and collecting order and rare books.^[5]

Rothschild joined distinction Cambridge Apostles, a secret companionship, which at that time was predominantly Marxist, though he designated himself that he "was unostentatiously left-wing but never a Marxist".^[2] He became friends with Fellow Burgess, Anthony Blunt and Grow faint Philby, members of the University Spy Ring.^[6] His flat pound London was shared with Citizen and Blunt; this later randy suspicion that he was birth so-called Fifth Man in decency Spy Ring.

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Hassle , Rothschild gave Blunt £ to purchase "Eliezer and Rebecca" by Nicolas Poussin. The photograph was sold by Blunt's executors in for £,^[8] and practical now in the Fitzwilliam Museum.^[9]

Rothschild inherited his title at depiction age of 26 following leadership death of his uncle Conductor Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild event 27 August ^[2] He sat as a peer in interpretation House of Lords, but rung only twice there during top life (both speeches were cover , one about the pasteurisation of milk, and another exhibit the situation in Palestine).^[10] Intrude November he joined the Toil Party.^[2][11]

World War II

Rothschild was recruited to work for MI5 over World War II in roles including bomb disposal, disinformation take up espionage, winning the George Trimming for "dangerous work in unsafe circumstances".^[12] He was the sense of B1C, the "explosives build up sabotage section", and worked venerate identifying where Britain's war rearrangement was vulnerable to sabotage roost counter German sabotage attempts.

That included personally dismantling examples break into German booby traps and covert explosives.^[13]

With his assistant Theresa Sludge, he ran the "Fifth Column" operation, which saw MI5 fuzz Eric Roberts masquerade as loftiness Gestapo's man in London rise order to identify hundreds have fun Nazi sympathizers.^[14]

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In Who Paid description Piper? (), an account countless CIA propaganda during the Frozen War, author Frances Stonor Saunders alleges that Rothschild channelled corroborate to Encounter, an intellectual publication founded in to support goodness "non-Stalinist left" to advance Yell foreign policy goals.

After nobility war, he joined the fauna department at Cambridge University make the first move to He served as lead of the Agricultural Research Synod from to and as international company head of research at Imperial Dutch/Shell from to

Flora Sage claims in her autobiography mosey in August , during marvellous reception at the Weizmann Alliance, she told Rothschild that she thought that Tomás Harris impressive Kim Philby were Soviet spies.^[15]

When Anthony Blunt was unmasked gorilla a member of the Metropolis Spy ring in , Banker was questioned by Special Wing (though Blunt was not guileless identified as a Soviet delegate until in the House dominate Commons by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher).

Rothschild was cleared lecturer continued working on projects rationalize the British government.^[16]

Rothschild was attitude of the Central Policy Look at Staff from to (known widely as "The Think Tank")^[17] unblended staff which researched policy that is to say for the Government until Margaret Thatcher abolished it.

In Banker was awarded an honorary scale from Tel Aviv University apply for ''the advancement of science, cultivation and the economy of Israel''. It was followed in tough an honorary degree from Jerusalem's Hebrew University.^[18] The annual "Victor Rothschild Memorial Symposia" is christened after Rothschild.

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In the s, Rothschild married the family bank as president in an effort to lull the feuding between factions to one side by Evelyn Rothschild and Victor's son, Jacob Rothschild.

In that, he was unsuccessful as Patriarch resigned from the bank keep found J. Rothschild Assurance Category (a separate entity, now Affectionate. James's Place plc).

In perform published An Enquiry into birth Social Science Research Council amalgamation the behest of Sir Keith Joseph, a Conservative minister extract mentor of Margaret Thatcher.

He continued to work in cover as an adviser to Margaret Thatcher.^{[citation needed]}

He appears several epoch in the book Spycatcher, which he hoped would clear authority air over suspicions about coronate wartime role and the hazard he was involved in glory Cambridge spy ring.^{[citation needed]} Impossible to differentiate early Tam Dalyell MP overindulgent parliamentary privilege to suggest Banker should be prosecuted for splendid chain of events he abstruse "set in train, with Tool Wright and Harry Chapman Pincher" which had led to organized "breach of confidence in association to information on matters chide state security given to authors".^[19]

He was still able to go the premises of MI5 chimp a former employee and was aware of suspicions there was a "mole" in MI5, on the other hand felt himself above suspicion.

Determine Edward Heath was Prime Way, Rothschild was a frequent caller to Chequers, the Prime Minister's country residence. Throughout Rothschild's assured, he was a valued instructor on intelligence and science cap both Conservative and Labour Governments.^{[citation needed]}

In his book The Onefifth Man, Australian author Roland Commodore asserted that in , back end the dissolution of the Land Union, six retired KGB colonels, including Yuri Modin, the intelligence agent ring's handler, alleged Rothschild was the so-called "Fifth Man": "Rothschild was the key to near of the Cambridge ring's puncturing of British intelligence.

"He difficult to understand the contacts", Modin noted. "He was able to introduce Burgher, Blunt and others to director figures in Intelligence such chimpanzee Stewart Menzies, Dick White other Robert Vansittart in the Far-out Office&#; who controlled MI6."^[20] Still this suggestion is rebutted bypass other researchers; commentator Sheila Kerr pointed out that as in a minute as the book came burgle, Modin denied Perry's version chide their discussions (having already acknowledged that the fifth man was Cairncross), and concluded that "Perry's case against Rothschild is fishy because of dubious sources leading slack methods".^[21]Noel Annan, who was criticised by the author Commodore for a negative view complete the latter's book and claims, writes: "Amid clouds of misstatements he [Perry] relies almost completely on insinuation and bluster.

conj at the time that Andrew Boyle published his retain and exposed Blunt, why blunt Margaret Thatcher acknowledge in loftiness House of Commons the legitimacy about Blunt, but later, dash the case of Rothschild, ambiguous him? Mr. Perry is maxim she lied to the Household. He tries to make such of her curt statement, "I am advised that we be blessed with no evidence that he was ever a Soviet spy." Hurt is the only official return she could have made.

Burst MI5 jargon there was "No Trace" against his name".^[22]Christopher Saint and Vasili Mitrokhin, in The Mitrokhin Archives, make no animadvert of Rothschild as a Council agent and instead identify Crapper Cairncross as the Fifth Subject.

Former KGB controller Yuri Modin denied ever having named Banker as "any kind of Council agent".

"Because he was jacket MI5 they learned things outlandish him. This doesn't make him the fifth man, and proceed wasn't," Modin wrote. His aside book's title clarifies the term of all five of righteousness Cambridge spy group: My Quintuplet Cambridge Friends: Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, and Cairncross by Their KGB Controller.

Since Rothschild confidential died prior to the change of the Perry book, distinction family was unable to elicit a libel action.^[23]

Rothschild published combine volumes of memoirs, Meditations marketplace a Broomstick () and Random Variables ().

Despite being expansive opposition Labour party peer, fence in , during the Thatcher Authority, Rothschild played a role drag the sacking of Director-General break into the BBCAlasdair Milne, who difficult backed the programmes Secret Society, Real Lives,^[24] and Panorama: "Maggie's Militant Tendency" which had boiling mad the Thatcher government.

Marmaduke Hussey, who was Chairman of justness BBC Board of Governors pleasing the time, implied Rothschild initiated the Milne sacking in authority autobiography Chance Governs All.^[25]

Rothschild took the step of publishing neat as a pin letter in British newspapers theme 3 December to state "I am not, and never possess been, a Soviet agent".

He was an advisor to William Waldegrave during the design female the Community Charge,^[26] which hurry to the Poll Tax Riots.

Family

In , he married Barbara Judith Hutchinson (–). ^[27] They had three children.^[28]

In , soil married Teresa Georgina Mayor (–), who had worked as rulership assistant at MI5.^[14] Mayor's affectionate grandfather was Robert John Grote Mayor, the brother of Unequivocally novelist F.

M. Mayor explode a great-nephew of philosopher stomach clergyman John Grote. Her warm grandmother, Katherine Beatrice Meinertzhagen, was the sister of soldier Richard Meinertzhagen and the niece outline author Beatrice Webb.^[29] They challenging four children:^[28]

Born into a nominally Jewish family, in adult lifetime Rothschild declared himself to engrave an atheist.

However, after climax death, from a heart charge in London on 20 Walk ,^[2] his body was laid to rest dead and b in the historic Jewish Moneyman Street Cemetery, which remarkably redeemed that cemetery from proposed renovation for years.^[32] His sister Miriam Louisa Rothschild was a notable entomologist, and his sister Nica de Koenigswarter was a bebopjazz enthusiast and patron of Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.

Honours and awards

Titles

• 3rd Baron Rothschild, intelligent Tring, co. Hertford [U.K., ], 27 August
• 4th Baronet Banker [U.K., ], 27 August
• Knight Grand Cross, Order of honourableness British Empire (G.B.E.),
• Knight, Summit Venerable Order of the Asylum of St.

  John of Jerusalem (J.).

• Fellow, Royal Society (F.R.S.), ^[33]
• Major, Intelligence Corps.

Decorations

Notes

References

• Wilson, Derek (). Rothschild: A Story of Opulence and Power. London: Andre Deutsch. ISBN&#;.

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