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of their investments. At the insistence of Bismarck, the German Chancellor, German banks
were allowed to participate and this precluded the Bank of England’s involvement. Loans were
issued instead by N.M. Rothschild & Sons, de Rothschild frères in Paris and M.A. Rothschild &
Söhne in Frankfurt, in partnership with S. Bleichröder and Disconto Gesellschaft in Berlin. The
state domain loan was finally renegotiated in 1893, the sands of time and Egypt passing over
the whole extraordinary affair.
Caroline Shaw joined The Rothschild Archive in 2002 and was appointed Archivist in 2005.
She is the author of ‘The Necessary Security’: an illustrated history of Rothschild bonds.
Estimate from The
Tobacco Company,
14 February 1885.
Francis Rowsell coordinated
the distribution
to Nile Expedition troops
of funds for medical
supplies and gifts of
tobacco from members
of the Rothschild family.
notes
1 ral 000/401, 000/336, 000/337.
2 Victor, 3rd Lord Rothschild, ‘You Have It,
Madam’: The Purchase, in 1875, of Suez Canal
Shares by Disraeli and Baron Lionel de Rothschild
(London: np, 1980).
3 Letter from Bouteron, the French
commissioner for the state domains, to
nmr, 8 June 1879. ral 000/96b.
4 ral xi/109/126; xi/111/12, 13 & 15;
000/43; 000/96a & 96b; 000/1576. The
Rowsell correspondence covers the years
1879–1880 and late 1882–1885.
Frustratingly and mysteriously there
appears to be no correspondence covering
the British bombardment of Alexandria
and occupation of Cairo in 1882.
5 Rowsell to nmr, 6 March 1879.
ral 000/69b.
6 It seemed typical of Rowsell’s luck that at
one point the ‘most important’ letter he had
yet written to the bank, a detailed paper
on the subject of taxation, was lost in a
shipwreck.
7 Vincent to Earl of Rosebery, 8 February
1886. ral 000/96b.
8 Rowsell to nmr, 14 November 1884.
ral xi/111/13.
9 Rowsell to nmr, 7 & 8 April 1885.
ral xi/111/13.
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