so I've been asked to introduce Jacob and I'll keep it relatively Swift I will go through all the accolades or we'll be here for quite a long time aside from being my uncle Jacob is president of the Eternity or Israel focus foundation currently building a national library designed by Hertz over demure on he's chairman of the Rostov conditioned Europe focused on Jewish causes in Europe and he's chairman of the rostral Foundation which through the Rothschild election supports Watson and um under his leadership it's become one of the most visited properties in the UK with about
450,000 and your visitors it's it's breathtaking and I will leave it to him to give more details on how dazzling the collections have become for the first of all thank you for coming have to pay my brother Oh friendly faces youngins brendan gleeson hit and thanks James and thanks charmander so it was very nice very nice of you but I could have took a little bit apart once - it's just over an hour from London on the way to Oxford and he was created in six years five pound Ferdinand and there were no less than
six family of stately homes they bought them all in that era of my family the very balanced bread and it was said that a Rothschild could stand on the roof of any one of them and wag to the others they would test in it but the third Nando what was more than simply bricks and mortar but he really built it because his wife tragically died in childbirth she was poor Evelina an English master and it became Ferdinand's consummation and he spent the rest of his life and not his considerable fortune finessing is rather extraordinary collection
when creating a kind of matt.taryn and castle a grand master national shelter which incorporates the features of the shutters of the world since they nod thing to find in the English countryside it's got I think it's fair to say extensive and I think inductive and chained gardens we've got a working area and an ornamental dairy and it's filled with collections of thousand decorative arts I was asked um by Jacob fish how many the world I asked and they said twenty seven thousand I already believe and all that must be coin something and and are all
set off by architectural salvage stuff that came from France which is very Asian century and which even bought up from France's husband was ready remodeling Paris as an old song and write artists or it watzmann is extremely influential particularly in the United States and you may well know not dissimilar to the folks at Biltmore the project began by george washington vanderbilt in 1888 and which henry james described as a thing of thought when he described once to the thing well there's the thing of a high Rothschild men are vicious this was something that adults has
but the visage to contain two or three mentors and Boston which is partly zbrush I'm not sure that it's much bigger but the story goes that Vanderbilt visited one because architect Richard Morris hunt who went unknown about the finer points of French Renaissance architecture and after the Vanderbilt got impatient and said Oh for heaven sake just make the place ten metres long as it was then the grandeur of one stone my friend and had aziz any interest before despair because of his wife died it was a very far cry from the intruder gasps the frankfurt
kept there were the five sons of mahram full roster of the father but instead were born and brought up and you can see that the in Frankfurt ghetto in the house which and they lived in and it was one of the most disagreeable of all the Gators in Europe from the rostral family lived in this house in that narrow sunder street which few Christians ever even visited the gates of against her were opened some 200 years ago of and one son stayed behind in Frankfurt the four others were encouraged by the father to extend their
rapidly growing business into the major capitals of the day so they went to Vienna London Naples and Paris and all five brothers so they store their story became hugely successful and wealthy and I commissioned the painting are about to see by an artist goes on that big village is another family tree but not rejection tree which says just how after the family had become by the second half of the 19th century there were 42 ambitious highly skilled and the Dobson you can see the house and forget to write at the very very bottom well said
their son's creations were spread throughout Europe and the mundum of once believes that despite two world wars the mishandled genocide the history of the world the depression the 1930s inheritance tax and personal tax rates helps the ward 80% but somehow the connection to the goblins and indeed history somehow have survived in their entirety and I think it's fair to say they're going from strength to suspense today Lester there's 42 who have fallen by the wayside and it's a suspense story write some sand chapter in 400 years the man their children and their grandchildren and for
all for angers for childless furthermore the systematic and frequent into narratives resulted in works of art arriving through inheritance irrelevant to party and Darren James who was head of the parish Browns from the youngest of the five sons of RM for us Ron Garan astonishingly uninhibited description of the 19th century Wellstone policy of keeping it in the family I begged him from what he meant and made thus far in our family we've always tried to keep that in the family in this sense it was born as understood since childhood the children would never think of
marrying outside the family since our fortune would never leave it Thank You Duke Lipton ride that today and now the change from being a private parts to a public institution the mixed marriage between the National Trust and my family I think Express says being successful and happy one but I believe unique in its kind and last year we had 450 thousand visitors hmm the foundation our Foundation provides the financial support lends a pretty large number works with our to the property and then we started building new buildings and we've got two contemporary buildings on the
estate one is windmill hill which you can see there which has no archive and it has a connection a great collection of Contemporary Art both inside and outside more recently we built this house taste in Finch and apparently emerging from the depths of the earth and we were very pleased and honored when upon the Riv egg fries for the hospita in 2015 every now happy endings instead of the story we now have a joint finishing scheme when the Getty Museum in Los Angeles with a visiting scholar spending some months after photos and some months in
Los Angeles and many of you may notice in the audience but it's quite interesting the last week of fed out our feta this year was a guy called Tom Campbell and many of you in the shop owner who is the director Metropolitan Museum and left in somewhat unhappy circumstances he's now been appointed as the director of the San Francisco Museum hmm now I want to tell you something about the lives of our family who threw one stone have been particularly involved with Israel and the Jewish community mmm Jimmy Rothschild who very inherited the property I
like the blue he'd come is the center bounded on the rostrum Buddhists after settlements in Palestine to give a new life to persecuted Russian Jews he odd the blue inherited launched and conferred and sister Alice he deaf power statement after the Dreyfus case and his wife dolly helped um Diceman in history pendous efforts to establish the State of Israel by connect Ching Ming to the establishment regret pretty when she was and in nineteen that's from red to have 33 letters during the course of the year he didn't dare anybody is a fairly and bumper store
chemist in Manchester and she had contacts and introduced him to people are to include both res Britt and I think it's fair to say that the Balfour Declaration might not have happened without her and her husband support Jimmy Russ jobs right his life as a passionate supporter of the Jewish community and when conditional conditions for Jews in Australia Germany became intolerable in the 1930s something my name is the British government made provision for 10,000 unaccompanied children to be given refuge known as the Kindertransport and Jillian darling offered to help by providing a hand and 30
of those children of one it was literally a last-minute escape now Jimmy and darling will also childless and in effect there's 30 children became cows and interesting almost all of them had successful careers one for example is a golf professional and another and their stuff to this day for British girl on my side of the family the festival breast child became the first period care in 1885 and his success of Walter was a deep rich individual with a passion for collecting specimens of Natural History kneeling down horses who can see him riding one of them
but of those people's parts and fees and if you come to the Watson area you can see his collection is an extraordinary zealot ring which was my son without his property is only about 10 miles from Austin and surprisingly very surprisingly given his temperament he was converted to Zionism by my Hungarian grandmother razor cut and he fell under bison spell and he was seen as the day leader of the Jewish community and the Balfour Declaration was there for a dress trip now my name cousin definitely with responsibility for walleston and for our foundation the alternative
which James mentioned which is based in Jerusalem and today we continue our for God's work now since the building of the Knesset which dim eros choppers responsible forum which was dedicated in 1966 the Foundation's activities recovered a wider and wider field for example the building of the Supreme forge you can see somebody now some people involved are the eggmen University the Center for Education of Technology he Israel Institute for adult studies the Jerusalem Music Centre in the environment of health now today we're deeply involved with renewal the National Library of Israel I even had lunch
today with the architects of one foreskin to be a wonderful building halves of have some community and I think the first agrarian history and thanks to the internet Jewish communities throughout the world will be able to be in contact with another so I think it's going to be a tremendous project now our commitment shown to Jewish life has continued for eight generations and again gender want to thank you basically or support this evening and if you're supportive one spoon Anderson very with pictures and also as a trustee of Hannity happily over here tonight and think
of what you've said my health of course is that wants to more prospers a place and as a center for families continuing efforts in the United Kingdom in Israel for generations to come hopefully as some of they will come to one Smith's connection with his gardens and a run were creating which will share the families around the valve and our support for Israel you will see that models the Supreme Court building end of the Dagda building which is now into construction as you see and the window he'll go be you can see earlier documents photographs
in correspondence relation dependent on settlements and peak of empathy past and cherish : colonization Association which means which was set up to support those varied settlements none okay never today because of time American your snapshot of snapshots not enough of our family the prophet of Boston and our relationship with Israel thus a much more to say and even more to see so I hope you might come to Boston and meanwhile thanks for coming this evening this event I'd like to say couldn't have happened without the support of David fish who has connections with us and
with many of the guests here he's a vital link between the National Library of Israel project and wants to and then I'd like to thank celebrants a hundred years ago we used around 25 percent service and you still can then I like to dr. thanked at Smith your children that did he called my hand Jennifer Roe % Anderson his facade generously hosting us and welcome this evening thank you very much [Applause]
