N M Rothschild & Sons, London (The London house)

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1. Since 1809 there has been a succession of four buildings called New Court on the site originally chosen by Nathan Mayer Rothschild
2. The position of Nathan Rothschild as the leading City merchant banker was consolidated in 1826, when the firm stepped in, with an instant injection of gold, to save the Bank of England
3. The firm operated through a worldwide network of agents, among them August Belmont (New York, est. 1837), Weisweiller & Bauer (Madrid, est. 1835), Lionel Davidson (Valparaiso, est. 1843), and S Bleichröder (Berlin, documented from 1850)
4. The firm acquired the lease of the Royal Mint Refinery in 1852, refining bullion until the sale of the business in 1967
5. The London house was noted for the many loan issues the business handled; Jules Ayer published a list of these in A Century of Finance (William Neely, London: 1905)
6. In 2003, after 44 years with the family firm, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (1931-2022) stepped down as Chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons Limited

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