Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs


Lady Natasha Rose Eleanor Finch, known by her maiden name as Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs, is an English aristocrat, socialite, and founder of Beulah London.

Early life

Rufus Isaacs is the second child of the Simon Rufus Isaacs, 4th Marquess of Reading, and Melinda Victoria Rufus Isaacs née Dewar. She has an elder sister, Sybilla Alice Hart née Rufus Isaacs, and a younger brother, Julian Michael Rufus Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, the heir apparent of the title of Marquess of Reading. She attended Westonbirt School, an independent day and boarding school for girls located in Gloucestershire in South West England.

Ancestors

Her great-great grandfather, Rufus Isaacs, was the 1st Marquess of Reading and Viceroy of India in 1921. Her great-great grandparents are Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, and Violet Mond, Baroness Melchett.
Her great-great-great grandfather chemist and industrialist Ludwig Mond created the Mond process to extract and purify nickel. Her great-great uncle Sir Robert Mond was a British chemist and archaeologist.
Her great-great grandmother Violet Mond, Baroness Melchett DBE 's brother, Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs' great-great uncle, was painter and sculptor Sigismund Goetze who painted a mural scheme for the Foreign Office which was available to view when Foreign Office participated in Open House London.
Her great-great aunt Lady Joan Rufus Isaacs married Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, OM, KCB, FRS, a celebrated British public servant, zoologist and operational research pioneer.

Career

Rufus Isaacs worked for Sotheby's briefly, resigning to work for the Church of England in late 2007. She was assigned to help and organise the church's homeless projects and arranging prison visit for the volunteers. In October 2009, Rufus Isaacs and her childhood friend Lavinia Brennan, also a fellow congregants at the same Christian church in South Kensington, travelled to India where they met several victims of human trafficking while visiting numerous after care homes in Delhi and Mumbai. She was thus motivated to take some action, and so co-founded Beulah London with Brennan.

Personal life

On 8 June 2013, Rufus Isaacs married lawyer Rupert Finch in Cirencester. They have three children: Georgia Liberty Andrena, Cienna Freya and India Grace Albertine Finch.

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