David Mayer de Rothschild (born 25 August 1978) is a British adventurer, environmentalist and head of Adventure Ecology, an expedition group raising awareness about climate change. He is the youngest of three children of Victoria Schott (born 1949) and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (b. 1931) of the Rothschild banking family of England. His middle name "Mayer" is taken from the name of the founder of the Rothschild family banking empire, Mayer Amschel ...
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David Mayer de Rothschild (born 25 August 1978) is a British adventurer, environmentalist and head of Adventure Ecology, an expedition group raising awareness about climate change. He is the youngest of three children of Victoria Schott (born 1949) and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (b. 1931) of the Rothschild banking family of England. His middle name "Mayer" is taken from the name of the founder of the Rothschild family banking empire, Mayer Amschel Rothschild.
David de Rothschild was born in 1978 in London, England. After leaving Eton he attended Oxford Brookes receiving a B.Sc (Hons) in Political Science and Information Systems, followed later with an advanced Diploma in Natural Medicine from the College of Naturopathic Medicine, London. David was an accomplished equestrian, who at fourteen, joined the British Junior Eventing team
After his studies, David worked in music merchandising, and in 2001, bought an organic farm near Akaroa on the Banks Peninsular in New Zealand, which still...
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