Few families capture a sense of the word “dynasty” quite as much as the Rothschilds. And you don’t have to travel very far before you run into one of them. 6

Most recently, the Rothschild name popped up in the headlines attached to Marcus Agius, the beleaguered interim chairman of Barclays, who became part of the family in 1971 when he married the niece of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, chairman of the bank in the UK for 30 years until his retirement in 2004.