Everything about Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild totally explained
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (
February 8,
1868 –
August 27 1937) was a
British banker and
zoologist from the international
Rothschild financial dynasty.
Education and zoology
Educated at
Magdalene College, Cambridge, from 1889 to 1908 he worked for the family firm of
N M Rothschild & Sons, in
London. An introduction to
Albert C. L. G. Günther led to a lifelong interest in
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. After him is named the Rothchild's subspecies of giraffe
Giraffa camelopardis rothschildi, the most endangered of the nine subspecies, also known as the Ugandan or Baringo Giraffe.
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 forced to sell his vast bird collection to the
American Museum of Natural History, partly because of financial needs arising due to blackmail by an unknown woman. His collection was one of the world's largest natural history collections, and in 1936 he donated the rest of the collection to the Trustees of the British Museum. The
Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum at Tring is now a division of the
Natural History Museum.
Walter Rothschild was a
Liberal and
Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for
Aylesbury from 1899 to 1910. A notable eccentric, he kept kangaroos in his garden and harnessed a team of
zebras to pull his carriage. He also owned many dogs, who dined with him at meals.
Zionism and the Balfour Declaration
As an active
Zionist and close friend of
Chaim Weizmann he worked to formulate the draft declaration for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. On
2 November 1917 a letter from
Arthur Balfour, addressed to "Dear Lord Rothschild" at his London home in 148
Piccadilly, set out the
Balfour Declaration, which committed the British Government to supporting the establishment in Palestine of a national home for
Jews.
Peerage
Walter inherited the peerage from his father
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild in 1915. He had no children, and his younger brother
Charles Rothschild had predeceased him, so the title was inherited by his nephew (Nathaniel Mayer)
Victor Rothschild.
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