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| | |  Baron Mayer de Rothschild: Encyclopedia - Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron RothschildLionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (February 8, 1868 – August 27, 1937) was a British banker and zoologist from the international Rothschild financial dynasty.
Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild - Education and zoology.
Educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, from 1889 to 1908 he worked for the family firm of NM Rothschild and Sons, in London, though his greatest passion was zoology, particularly the collecting and taxonomy of birds and butterflies. He participated in, and funded, expedi ...
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| | | | Baron Mayer de Rothschild: Encyclopedia II - Ascott House - Architecture At a casual first glance Ascott appears the epitome of a perfect ancient English manor house. However, as is often the case with perfect ancient English manor houses, nothing could be further from the truth. Leopold de Rothschild, whose principal country residence was Gunnersbury Park, used Ascott at first as a hunting box, but realising the limitations imposed by its modest size, in 1874 he employed the architect George Devey to enlarge it. The present half-timbered house is largely the result of that commission. Devey attempted to design a ...
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| | | | Baron Mayer de Rothschild: Encyclopedia II - Nathan Mayer Rothschild - Life In 1798, at the age of 21, he settled in Manchester and established a business in textile trading and finance, later moving to London, England and making a fortune in trading bills of exchange.
In 1816, his two elder brothers were granted noble status (Freiherr or Baron) by the Emperor of Austria. They were now permitted to prefix the Rothschild name with 'von' or 'de'. Their device of four arrows became five when in 1818 Nathan too was elevated. Nathan rather disliked the whole business of aristocratic titles. Some have suggested that he felt a foreign title se ...
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| | | | Baron Mayer de Rothschild: Encyclopedia II - Nathan Mayer Rothschild 1st Baron Rothschild - Life and family Known as "Natty", he was the son of Lionel de Rothschild (1808-1879) and Charlotte Rothschild (née von Rothschild), grandson of Nathan Mayer Rothschild after whom he was named, and the great-grandson of Mayer Amschel Rothschild founder of the dynasty.
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a friend of the Prince of Wales, but left without taking a degree.
In 1864 h ...
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| | | | Baron Mayer de Rothschild: Encyclopedia II - Victor Rothschild 3rd Baron Rothschild - Life He was educated at the Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read Physiology, French and English and played cricket for the University. At Cambridge he was known for his playboy lifestyle, driving a Bugatti and collecting art and rare books.
At Trinity, Rothschild joined the secret society, the Cambridge Apostles, which at that time was predominantly Marxist, where he became friends with KGB spies Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt, who were also members. Rothschild gave Blunt £100 to purchase a painting (falsely) attr ...
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| | | | Baron Mayer de Rothschild: Encyclopedia II - Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild - Education and zoology Educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, from 1889 to 1908 he worked for the family firm of NM Rothschild and Sons, in London, though his greatest passion was zoology, particularly the collecting and taxonomy of birds and butterflies. He participated in, and funded, expeditions across the world to gather specimens, and wrote numerous scientific papers.
Near his country home at Tring Park in Hertfordshire he established his own private zoological museum in the town of Tring, which he opened to the public from 1892. In 1932 he was forc ...
See also:Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild, Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild - Education and zoology, Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild - Zionism and the Balfour Declaration, Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild - Peerage, Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild - Prominent English Rothschild family members Read more here: » Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild: Encyclopedia II - Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild - Education and zoology |
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| | | | Baron Mayer de Rothschild: Encyclopedia II - Mentmore Towers - The Rothschild era The house was built between 1852 and 1854 for Baron Mayer de Rothschild who needed a house close to London and in close proximity to other Rothschild homes at Tring in Hertfordshire, Ascott, Aston Clinton and later Waddesdon Manor and Halton House. He had slowly since 1846 been buying land in the area. However, it was not until 1850 that he bought the manor and advowson of Mentmore for £12,400 from the trustees of the Harcourt family.
The plans for the new mansion which was begun in 1852, imitated Wollaton Hall in Nottingham; they were drawn by the well known architect Joseph Paxton, famous for The ...
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| | | | Baron Mayer de Rothschild: Encyclopedia II - Ascott House - Ascott today Ascott House, with some of its important art collection and a small part of the estate, was given in 1947 to the National Trust by Anthony de Rothschild. The National Trust market the property under the name "Ascott". However, as at nearby Waddesdon Manor, the Rothschild family retain a very close control over Ascott, and the present resident of the house is the son of the donor Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. He has added further invaluable works of art and ceramics to the collection, and much of what is seen in the collection is st ...
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| | | | Baron Mayer de Rothschild: Encyclopedia II - Mentmore Towers - The Rosebery era The Baron and his wife did not live long after the Towers' completion. After the Baroness's death it was inherited by her daughter Hannah, later Countess of Rosebery.
Following her demise in 1890 aged 39 from Bright's Disease, it became the home of her widower Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, later (in 1894) Prime Minister for two years. The 5th earl gave the estate in the late 1920s to his son Harry, Lord Dalmeny, who in ...
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