GHL7819 Mr. Nathan Rothschild (1777-1836), from \'Dighton\'s City Characters\', October 1817 (etching) by Dighton, Richard (1795-1880); London Metropolitan Archives, City of London; (add.info.: A View from the Royal Exchange; Rothschild family, most famous of European banking dynasties; Nathan Mayer, Freiherr von Rothschild (16 September 1777 ??28 July 1836), known as Nathan Mayer Rothschild, was a London-based Ashkenazi Jewish banker and financier and one of five sons of the second-generation of the Rothschild banking dynasty. He was born in Frankfurt am Main, the fourth child of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744??812) and Gutle Schnapper (1753??849). ); 穢 London Metropolitan Archives ; English, out of copyright.