16 September 1777 Nathan Mayer Rothschild a banker
Nathan Mayer Rothschild was born on 16 September 1777 in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Source: Wikipedia Family He was one of the five sons of the second generation of the Rothschild banking dynasty. His parents were Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812) and Gutle Schnapper (1753-1849). At the age of 21, in 1798, Nathan Mayer Rothschild moved to Manchester in England where he founded a business in textile trading and finance. Later he moved to London, where he made a fortune in trading bills of exchange through a banking enterprise started in 1805. Love and marriage On 22 October 1806 he married Hannah Barent-Cohen, the daughter of Levy Barent Cohen and Lydia Diamantschleifer. They would have 7 children. Business In 1809 Rothschild began to deal in gold bullion and he developed this as a cornerstone of his business. From 1811, he undertook to transfer money to pay Wellington's troops on campaign in Port...