Education
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the University Pitt Club.
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the University Pitt Club.
Born in London, England, he was the second of three sons of Leopold de Rothschild (1845–1917) and Marie Perugia (1862–1937) and a part of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England. Born into wealth and privilege, Evelyn de Rothschild was expected to play a major role with the North M Rothschild & Sons bank. In November 1915, while serving with the Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry on the Gallipoli front, Evelyn de Rothschild was wounded and sent home to recuperate.
Within a few months he was back at the Front where in March 1916 his service resulted in his being Mentioned in Dispatches.
Sent to fight in Palestine, he was critically wounded during the 13 November Battle of Mughar Ridge against the Turkish Seventh Army and died four days later.
