Edmund de Rothschild, CBE, banker and gardener, was born on January 2,
1916. He died on January 17, 2009, aged 93. Edmund de Rothschild was
chairman of NM Rothschild, the City-based branch of the famous
European banking empire. He joined it 1946, was its chairman from 1970
to 1975, and continued to offer it advice into old age. However, it
was as a horticulturist that he left his most enduring mark. His
gardens at Exbury, near Beaulieu, Hampshire, beside a Queen Anne
property bought by de Rothschild’s father in 1919, were awarded a
coveted top rating in the Good Gardens Guide. He also received the
Victorian Medal of Honour, the highest award in the gift of the Royal
Horticultural Society.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5555156.ece

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Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, banker and horticulturalist: born London
2 January 1916; chairman, N.M. Rothschild and Sons 1970-75;
chairman,Asia Committee, British National Export Council, 1971;
president, Exbury Gardens Ltd, 2000-09; married1948 Elizabeth Edith
Lentner (died 1980; two sons, two daughters), 1982 Anne Harrison; died
Exbury, Hampshire 17 January 2009.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/edmund-de-rothschild-banker-and-horticulturalist-who-modernised-rothschilds-and-restored-the-family-gardens-at-exbury-1570728.html

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