RARE "3rd Baron Rothschild" Victor Rothschild Hand Signed Card COA For Sale

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RARE "3rd Baron Rothschild" Victor Rothschild Hand Signed Card COA:
$999.99

Up for sale a RARE! "3rd Baron Rothschild" Victor Rothschild Hand Signed 4X6 Card. This item is

certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate

of Authenticity. 

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Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild GBE GM FRS (31 October 1910 – 20 March 1990) was a British

banker, scientist, intelligence officer during World War II, and later a senior

executive with Royal Dutch Shell and N M Rothschild & Sons,

and an advisor to the Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher governments of the UK. He was a member

of the prominent Rothschild family. Rothschild

was the only son of Charles Rothschild and Rózsika Rothschild (née Baroness

Edle von Wertheimstein). Both parents were Jewish, his father a member of the

Rothschild banking family and his mother the daughter of the first titled Jew

in Austria. He grew up in Waddesdon Manor and Tring Park Mansion, among

other family homes. He had three sisters, including Pannonica de Koenigswarter (who

would become known as the "Jazz Baroness") and Dame Miriam Louisa

Rothschild. Rothschild suffered the suicide of his father when he

was 13 years old. He was educated at Harrow School. At Trinity College, Cambridge,

he read physiology, French, and English. Later he

worked in the Zoology Department before gaining a PhD in 1935. He played first-class cricket for the Cambridge he was known for his playboy lifestyle, driving a Bugatti and collecting art and rare books

Rothschild joined the Cambridge Apostles,

a secret society, which at

that time was predominantly Marxist, though he stated himself that he

"was mildly left-wing but never a

Marxist". He became friends with Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and Kim Philby; members of the Cambridge

Spy Ring. In 1933, Rothschild gave Blunt £100 to purchase "Eliezer and Rebecca" by Nicolas Poussin. The painting was sold by Blunt's executors in

1985 for £100,000 and is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

His flat in London was shared with Burgess and Blunt. This later aroused

suspicion that he was the so-called Fifth Man in the Cambridge Spy Ring. Rothschild

inherited his title at the age of 26 following the death of his uncle Walter

Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild on 27 August 1937. He sat as

a Labour Party peer in

the House of Lords, but spoke

only twice there during his life (both speeches were in 1946, one about the

pasteurization of milk, and another about the situation in Palestine). Rothschild was

recruited to work for MI5 during World War II in roles including bomb disposal,

disinformation and espionage, winning the George Medal for "dangerous work in was the head of B1C, the "explosives

and sabotage section", and worked on identifying where Britain's war

effort was vulnerable to sabotage and counter German sabotage attempts. This

included personally dismantling examples of German booby traps and disguised

explosives.

With his assistant Theresa Clay, he ran the "Fifth

Column" operation, that saw MI5 officer Eric Roberts masquerade

as the Gestapo's man in London in order to identify hundreds of Nazi

sympathizers. In Who Paid the Piper? (1999),

an account of CIA propaganda

during the Cold War, author Frances Stonor Saunders alleges

that Rothschild channelled funds to Encounter, an

intellectual magazine founded in 1953 to support the "non-Stalinist

left" in advance of US foreign policy goals. After the war, he joined

the zoology department at Cambridge University from

1950 to 1970. He served as chairman of the Agricultural Research

Council from 1948 to 1958 and as worldwide head of research

at Royal Dutch/Shell from

1963 to 1970. Flora Solomon claims

in her autobiography that in August 1962, during a reception at the Weizmann Institute, she

told Rothschild that she thought that Tomás Harris and Kim Philby were Soviet spies. When Anthony

Blunt was unmasked as a member of the Cambridge Spy ring in 1964, Rothschild

was questioned by Special Branch (though

Blunt was not publicly identified as a Soviet agent until 1979 in the House of

Commons by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher). Rothschild was cleared, and continued

working on projects for the British government.

Rothschild was head of the Central Policy Review

Staff from 1971 to 1974 (known popularly as "The Think Tank") a staff which researched policy

specifically for the Government until Margaret Thatcher abolished it. In 1971

Rothschild was awarded an honorary degree from Tel Aviv University for

''the advancement of science, education and the economy of Israel''. It was

followed in 1975 by an honorary degree from Jerusalem's Hebrew University. The annual "Victor

Rothschild Memorial Symposia" is named after Rothschild.

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