Anthony Denis Maurice George de Worms
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George de Worms
Violet Henrietta de Worms
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Louisa de Samuel
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Baron Anthony Denis Maurice George de Worms (4 January 1869 – 11 January 1938) was an Austrian aristocrat (by courtesy) and an English philatelist.
Biography
=Early life=
Anthony Denis Maurice George de Worms was born on 4 January 1869.[http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3374970 Yale Center for British Art: De Worms family scrapbook, 1912-1913] His father was George de Worms, 2nd Baron de Worms and his mother, Louisa de Samuel. He had a brother, Percy de Worms, and a sister, Henrietta Emmy Louisa Amelia de Worms. His paternal grandfather, Solomon Benedict de Worms, owned large plantations in Ceylon and was made a Hereditary Baron of the Austrian Empire by Franz Joseph I of Austria, and his paternal grandmother was Henrietta Samuel. His family was Jewish.
His paternal great-grandmother was Schönche Jeannette Rothschild, thus his paternal great-great-grandfather was Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty. As a result, his paternal great-great-granduncles were Amschel Mayer Rothschild, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Carl Mayer von Rothschild, and James Mayer de Rothschild. His great-uncles, who owned plantations in Ceylon with his grandfather, were Maurice Benedict de Worms and Gabriel Benedict de Worms. His paternal uncle was Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright.
=Adult life=
He was a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society and the Royal Society of Literature.
He became 3rd Baron de Worms in 1902, but renounced his aristocratic title in 1920.[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/31802/pages/2455/page.pdf The London Gazette]
=Personal life=
He married Louisa Matilda Goldsmidt, daughter of Moritz A. Goldsmidt, in 1901. They had two sons and one daughter:
- Charles de Worms (1903–1979).
- George Gerald Percy de Worms (1904–1968).
- Violet Henrietta Louisa de Worms (1912–1984).
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Category:Fellows of the Royal Philatelic Society London
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
Category:Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists