Louisa de Rothschild

Louisa de Rothschild (née Montefiore), Lady de Rothschild (28 May 1821 – 22 September 1910), was an Anglo-Jewish philanthropist, and founding member of the Union of Jewish Women.

Born in England, the daughter of Abraham Montefiore,[1] she married Baron Anthony de Rothschild in 1840,[2] and was influential and able to push conventions that traditionally bound Jewish women at the time.

[5][6] In 1885, she and Helen Lucas jointly paid for the cost of a nurse to work among the poor who were Jewish.

Lucas would pay for two more in 1891 and 1892 and they were encouraged to use a traditional common sense approach to the help and sympathy they offered.

Lucas believed that relief workers should give little priority to statistics or paperwork.