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thumb Maurice Arnold de Forest (9 January 1879 – 6 October 1968) was an early motor racing driver, aviator and Liberal politician in the United Kingdom. ==Early life== Born in Paris, in the Rue Legendre (in the 17th arrondissement), Maurice Arnold de Forest was reportedly the elder of the two sons of Edward Deforest/ de Forest (1848-1882), an American circus performer, and his wife, the former Juliette Arnold (1860-1882).〔Frischer (Dominique), ''Le Moïse des Amériques: Vies et œuvres du munificent baron de Hirsch'', Grasset, Paris, 2002, pp. 247-248〕 He had a younger brother, Raymond Deforest/ de Forest (1880-1912).〔 The boys' parents died in 1882, while on a professional engagement in the Ottoman Empire, of typhoid.〔 Sent to live in an orphanage, they were adopted on 16 June 1887 by the millionaire Baroness Clara de Hirsch, née Bischoffsheim, wife of Jewish banker and philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch de Gereuth, and given the surname de Forest-Bischoffsheim.〔Frischer (Dominique), ''Le Moïse des Amériques: Vies et œuvres du munificent baron de Hirsch'', Grasset, Paris, 2002, pp. 247-248.〕 The Hirschs had lost to pneumonia, earlier that year, their only surviving child, Baron Lucien de Hirsch (1856-1887).〔Frischer (Dominique), ''Le Moïse des Amériques: Vies et œuvres du munificent baron de Hirsch'', Grasset, Paris, 2002, pp. 247-248. Lucien de Hirsch had one illegitimate daughter by Irène-Catherine Premelic, named Lucienne Irène Marie Premelic, who became Lucienne Premelic Hirsch (no particule) upon being adopted by her grandparents; she was later adopted by her grand-aunt Hortense Montefiore. Described in 1901 in ''A.M.F. Monthly'' as "the world's greatest heiress ... () strikingly handsome," Lucienne Premelic Hirsch married a German banker, Edouard Balzer, in 1904.〕 The de Forest children, however, have been identified as Hirsch's illegitimate sons by Juliette Arnold de Forest.〔Samuel James Lee, ''Moses of the New World: The Work of Baron de Hirsch'' (T. Yoseloff, 1970), page 197〕 Von Hirsch died in Hungary at the age of 64 in 1896. His widow Clara died three years later, on 1 April 1899. Maurice inherited his adoptive father's residence, Schloss Eichhorn (now known as Veveri Castle) near Brünn in Moravia, then part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Maurice inherited from the widow 25,000,000 Francs, as well as her estates in Rossitz-Eichhorn. Maurice von Hirsch had bought the estates in Rossitz (now Rosice) in 1881.〔(Emmelie de Forest is NOT a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria ), royalmusings, February 18, 2013〕 Maurice de Forest-Bischoffsheim was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.〔 In 1899 he was awarded the title Freiherr von Forest by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.〔of Ruvigny, Marquis, ''The Titled Nobility of Europe'', 1914, p. 564.〕 According to the ''Court Circular'', on 6 March 1899, "The Emperor of Austria has given the title of Baron De Forest to M. Arnold () Forest and to his brother M. Raymond De Forest, both the adopted sons of Baroness de Hirsch de Gereuth, widow of the late Baron de Hirsch." Both men inherited millions of dollars from Baroness de Hirsch upon her death.〔Isidor Singer and Cyrus Adler, ''The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day'', Volume 6 (Funk and Wagnalls, 1912), page 410〕〔''The American Jewess: A Sure Test'', Volume 9, Issue: 4, May, 1899, pp. 16+〕 In the following year he was naturalised to become a British citizen, and was authorised to bear the title Baron de Forest by royal licence. He was commissioned into the Militia as a Second Lieutenant in the Prince of Wales's Own Norfolk Artillery (Eastern Division) on 25 August 1900. He resigned his commission on 20 June 1903, but this was later cancelled and he became Second Lieutenant in the Staffordshire Imperial Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) on 4 July 1903. He resigned this commission on 5 May 1906, by which time he was also an Honorary Second Lieutenant in the Army. De Forest converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism. Churchill spent much time on de Forest's yacht and stayed three times (in 1908 together with Lady Clementine during their honeymoon journey) at de Forest´s Schloss Eichhorn/Veveří Castle in Moravia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maurice de Forest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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