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Lot Essay
The applied arms are those of Montefiore impaling those of Rothschild, for Nathaniel Montefiore (1819-1883), second son of Abraham Montefiore (1788-1824), and his second wife Henrietta (1791-1866), daughter of Meyer Anselm Rothschild of Frankfurt. He trained as a doctor and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was known for being "dry, caustic, and amusing" and his personal correspondence reveals a keen enjoyment of society: "Last Wednesday, a great day, or rather evening, I went to Court. There I was presented to His Majesty the King, afterwards to the Queen, Duc d'Orleans, and Princess...the conversation was more novel than interesting. The Royal family was exceedingly affable, particularly the Queen who chats away, just as if she was only Mrs. Snookes." In 1850, he married Emma, daughter of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid. They had four children, one of whom Claude Goldsmid Montefiore became renowned as a biblical scholar and philanthropist. (see Chaim Bermant, The Cousinhood: The Anglo-Jewish Gentry, 1971, p. 313-314)