Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild Rothschild

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Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild Rothschild

1868–1937

Better known for zoology than banking, this eccentric British aristocrat built one of the greatest private natural history collections of his time and turned Tring into a landmark for science. He is also remembered as the Rothschild who received the Balfour Declaration in 1917.

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Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times

Extinct birds : $b An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times

by Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild Rothschild

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Born in London in 1868 into the Rothschild family, Walter Rothschild followed his own interests from an early age. Reliable sources describe him as a banker, politician, and zoologist, but natural history was the work that truly defined his life.

He assembled an enormous collection of animals and specimens and created the museum at Tring, now known as the Natural History Museum at Tring. Accounts from the Rothschild Archive and the Natural History Museum emphasize how deeply he devoted himself to collecting, studying, and organizing the natural world.

Rothschild inherited the title of 2nd Baron Rothschild in 1915 and is also remembered in political history because the Balfour Declaration was addressed to him in 1917. He died in 1937, leaving behind a legacy that connects scientific curiosity, public collecting, and one of Britain’s most remarkable family names.