Although he claimed that for a lot of his life he had lived without luxury... by last year his wealth, built on shrewd investments and an inheritance, was estimated to be worth at least 825m.
The family's wealth was built up over two centuries, from when Nathan Rothschild was sent from Frankfurt in 1798... resulting in a peerage for Jacob's great-grandfather, another Nathan.
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