Louisa de Rothschild (nee Montefiore ), Lady de Rothschild (28 May 1821 ? 22 September 1910), was an Anglo-Jewish philanthropist, and founding member of the Union of Jewish Women .

Born in England, the daughter of Abraham Montefiore , ^[1] she married Baron Anthony de Rothschild in 1840, ^[2] and was influential and able to push conventions that traditionally bound Jewish women at the time. ^{[3] [4]}

She founded the first independent Jewish women's philanthropic associations, the Jewish Ladies' Benevolent Loan Society and the Ladies' Visiting Society in London in 1840. ^{[5] [6]}

In 1885, she and Helen Lucas jointly paid for the cost of a nurse to work among the poor who were Jewish. Lucas would pay for two more in 1891 and 1892 and they were encouraged to use a traditional common sense approach to the help and sympathy they offered. Lucas believed that relief workers should give little priority to statistics or paperwork. ^[7]

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