The range of philanthropic interests of the family can be seen in the in the will of Charlotte, Baroness Lionel de Rothschild (1819-1884).
Charlotte was the daughter of Carl von Rothschild of the Naples House and his wife, Adelheid Herz. She married her cousin, Lionel de Rothschild, in Frankfurt on 15 June 1836 and had five children. The couple lived at 148 Piccadilly and Gunnersbury Park, London. Charlotte was born in Frankfurt on 13 June 1819, but her family divided their time between this city and Naples. She was an intellectual woman, linguistically gifted, and passionately involved in issues of education, not only for her own children but for the wider community.
In her will she made the following charitable legacies:
Jews' Free School,Bell Lane: £15,000
Jews' Infant School, Commercial Street: £3,000
TheWestminsterJews' Free School: £3,000
The Stepney Jewish Schools: £3,000
Bayswater Jewish Schools: £3,000
Jewish Board of Guardians: £10,000
The London Hospital: £10,000
The Evelina Hospital: £10,000
St George's Hospital: £5,000
Jewish Ladies' Lying-in Charity: £5,000
West London Hospital,Hammersmith: £3,000
Jews' Hospital & Orphan Asylum, Norwood: £3,000
Jewish Emigration Society: £3.000
Ladies Benevolent Loan and Visiting Society: £3,000
Clementine Hospital, Frankfurt: £3,000
Jewish Convalescent Home, Norwood: £2,000
The German Hospital, Dalston: £2,000
The Metropolitan Free Hospital: £2,000
The Home for Jewish Deaf and Dumb: £2,000
Ladies Conjoint Visiting Committee of the Board of Guardians: £2,000
Jewish Ladies'West End Charity: £1,000
Bread, Meat and Coal Charity: £1,000
Institution for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb: £1,000
Buckinghamshire Infirmary, Aylesbury: £1,000
Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary, Margate: £1,000
Hospital for Incurables, Putney: £1,000
Infant Orphan Asylum, Wanstead: £1,000
Earlswood Asylum: £1,000
Institution for the Relief of the Indigent Blind Of the Jewish Persuasion:£500
Society for Relieving Aged and Needy Jews: £500
United Synagogues: £5,000
Charities and Charitable objects in Frankfurt: £2,000
