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Article: Classics major: Jacob, Lord Rothschild is on a mission to save the best of the past while creating the best for the future.
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- May 1, 1998
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Jacob, Lord Rothschild is on a mission to save the best of the past while creating the best for the future.
England's Jacob Rothschild--investment banker, sportsman, philanthropist, aesthete, leading light of historic restoration and gentleman extraordinaire--seems to find it hard to make decisions, but you never quite know if he isn't just asking for your opinion in order to flatter you. . . . "I can't decide how to hang the canopy by the rocks. What do you think?" he asks in the late-afternoon sun on a spring weekend at Kanonas, his farmhouse retreat on the Greek island of Corfu.
This time, in fact, the 4th Baron Rothschild of Tring is not even asking me ...