Frankel, Sir Otto Herzberg (1900–1998), agricultural scientist, was born on 4 November 1900 in Vienna, Austria, the third of four sons of Ludwig Herzberg-Frankel, lawyer, and his wife, Thérèse, née Sommerstein, daughter of a Galician estate-owning family. His paternal grandfather, an author, adopted the hyphenated name ...
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Hart, Aaron Philip [Moshe Uri ben Yechezkel] (1724–1800), merchant
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Rothschild, Edmund Leopold de (1916–2009), merchant banker and horticulturist
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Rothschild, Edmund Leopold de (1916–2009), merchant banker and horticulturist, was born at 46 Park Street, Mayfair, London, on 2 January 1916, the elder son and second of the four children of Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882–1942), partner of NM Rothschild & Sons, the family's bank, and Conservative MP for ...
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Stern, Sir Frederick Claude (1884–1967), banker and horticulturist, was born on 8 April 1884 at 42 Prince's Gate, Knightsbridge, London, the third son of James Julius Stern (1835–1901) [see under Stern family], merchant banker, and his wife, Lucy Leah, née Biedermann...
