Heinrich Wilhelm Jacques Rothschild (21 November 1913 – 27 May 2009) was a collector and dealer in ceramics, textiles and other craft works. He developed an interest in these crafts while campaigning in Italy during the Second World War and then founded the Primavera Gallery in

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in 1946. The London gallery closed in 1970 but he continued to run a branch in Cambridge's

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in Gateshead. The Henry Rothschild Memorial Ceramic Bursary is a biannual award to a ceramic artist resident in the UK. He was a Jewish émigré from Offenbach am Main who left Germany for England in 1933. He read

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having studied chemistry at

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. He graduated in 1936 and then joined the British Army in 1938, serving as an

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officer during the Second World War.

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