Emile Beaumont Baron d'Erlanger

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Emile Beaumont Baron d'Erlanger (born June 4, 1866 in Paris , † 1939 in Hythe , Kent) was a French banker, musician, music lover and patron of the arts.

Life

Emile Beaumont Baron d'Erlanger was the second son of the very wealthy Frankfurt- born banker Emile Frédéric Baron d'Erlanger (1832-1911) and his American wife Marguérite Mathilde Slidell (1842-1927). His father initially represented the parental Frankfurt banking house Erlanger & Sons in Paris, but shortly before the outbreak of the Franco-German War in 1870, he moved to London and founded a new bank, "Erlanger & Co.".

Emile Beaumont Baron d'Erlanger's older brother, Raphael Slidell Baron d'Erlanger , became a scientist and professor in Heidelberg , so that Emile was assigned the bank training. His father entrusted him with the chairmanship of the northern railroad companies. He also financed the planning company Channel Tunnel Company (predecessor of Eurotunnel ) and, among other things, rented some halls for initial construction studies as early as 1890. Most recently, he was president of the merchant bank "Emil Erlanger & Co.", which had emerged from "Erlanger & Co." and was renamed "Erlanger Ltd." from 1928. The French- born son of German-American parents was eventually naturalized in Great Britain.

Cathérine d'Erlanger (1899, by Philip de László )

In 1895 he married Rose Marie Antoinette Cathérine , called Kate , née de Robert d'Aqueria de Rochegude (1874-1959) in Paris . She was the daughter of a large landowner and shipowner from Le Havre .

They lived in Falconwood, Woolwich , near Shooters Hill, in the south-east of Greater London, but mostly in their house at 139 Piccadilly , the former home of Lord Byron . In 1926 Kate and her boyfriend, the bon vivant Alberto Clinton Landsberg and Paul Rodocanachi, bought the Villa Foscari near Venice, a famous building by Andrea Palladio , which had previously belonged to her father-in-law; the three owners held large summer salons there. The son of a banker of Jewish origin, Bertie Landsberg, had to flee from the Italian fascists in 1939 . At her later American residence in Beverly Hills , Kate d'Erlanger saw herself as the patroness of the Ballets Russes from Monte Carlo under Sergei Djagilew .

The couple had four children:

  • Robert (called Robin) Emile Frédéric Regis d'Erlanger (1896–1934), reserve officer in World War I , later partner in the Erlanger Ltd. In 1928 he married Myrle Farquharson of Invercauld (1897-1941). Two years later their only child Zoe Caroline Georgia (born February 2, 1930) was born. Robin died on October 13, 1934 of complications from tonsillitis. His early death plunged his father Emile Beaumont Baron d'Erlanger into deep depression, so that he retired from the declining banking business to his country house in Hythe and died there in 1939.
  • Liliane Mary Mathilde, called Baba, Baroness d'Erlanger (1901–1945)
  • Gérard John Leo Regis Baron d'Erlanger (1906–1962)
  • Bianca Baronesse d'Erlanger

progeny

  • Robert's widow Myrle d'Erlanger , b. Farquharson of Invercauld, inherited the Scottish possession Invercauld Castle in 1936 and became the 15th head of the Farquharson clan. Even after the outbreak of World War II and the start of the bombing raids, she stayed in London , but as a precaution sent her daughter Zoe Caroline Georgia to friends in New York. She died in London in a German bombing raid on May 11, 1941.
    • The granddaughter Zoe Caroline Georgia Baroness d'Erlanger grew up as an orphan in the family of her uncle Sir Gérard John Leo Regis Baron d'Erlanger (1906–1962). She married Paul Cater Hyde-Thompson on October 26, 1950, with whom they had five children.
  • The daughter Liliane Mary Mathilde , called Baba, was a very extravagant personality through birth and upbringing. She married on November 14, 1923 in London Jean-Louis Charles Marie Francois Guy Prince Faucigny- Lucinge with the nickname "Prince Charming" and thus became Princess de Faucigny-Lucinge. The couple were one of the most sought after interwar high society couples .
  • The third child was Gérard John Leo Regis Baron d'Erlanger (1906–1962), who was knighted as Sir Gérald Baron d'Erlanger in 1958 . He became a successful manager. Among other things, he was Vice President of the Erlanger Ltd. under his cousin Leo Friedrich Alfred Baron d'Erlanger (1898–1978) as bank president. From 1935 he was a partner in the Myers & Co. banking house, a member of the London Stock Exchange and, from 1935 to 1940, director of the British airline BOAC . After the war he was manager, from 1947 to 1949 board member of the airline BEA , from 1956 to 1960 again board member of BOAC. In 1937 he married Gladys Sammut, the daughter of a wholesale merchant and major from Valletta , the capital of the Mediterranean island of Malta , in the British at that time . They both had a son Robin Gerald and two daughters Penny and Minnie.
    • Robin Gerald Baron d'Erlanger , grandson of Emiles, married Mary Elizabeth Josephine de Urquijo Pellew (* 1947), daughter of the 9th Viscount Exmouth, in 1969; they have five children.
      • Mary Caroline (Minnie) d'Erlanger, great-granddaughter, whose first marriage was on July 15, 1964, the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill .

literature

  • Gabriele Mendelssohn: The Erlanger family-bankers-patrons-artists. Leinpfad Verlag 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Felix Kucher, Malcontenta, Roman
personal data
SURNAME Erlanger, Emile Beaumont Baron d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French banker
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1939
Place of death Hythe (Kent)