Teresa Georgina "Tess" Rothschild, Baroness Rothschild, MBE, JP (née Mayor; 10 September 1915 – 29 May 1996) was a British counter-intelligence officer and magistrate.
[1] Her paternal grandfather was Joseph Bickersteth Mayor, brother of John E. B.
Mayor and nephew of Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale and Rev.
[1] She was educated at Bedales School from 1929 to 1934, and was head girl, followed in 1935 by Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was "the most celebrated actress of her day".
[1][3] She became a magistrate, and was Chairman of the Bench, and was a lecturer at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, and she sat on various Home Office boards investigating the subject of penal reform.