![]() ![]() Meeting Albert Günther sparked his interest in the taxonomy of birds and butterflies.Īlthough Rothschild himself travelled and collected in Europe and North Africa for many years, his work and health concerns limited his range and beginning while at Cambridge he employed others (explorers, professional collectors and residents) to collect for him in remote and little-known parts of the world. Rothschild studied zoology at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Though he never married, Rothschild had two mistresses, one of whom bore him a daughter. Rothschild was 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall, suffered from a speech impediment and was very shy, but he had his photograph taken riding on a giant tortoise and drove a carriage harnessed to four zebras to Buckingham Palace to prove that zebras could be tamed. However, his parents established a zoological museum as a compensation and footed the bill for expeditions all over the world to seek out animals. He evidently lacked any interest or ability in the financial profession, but it was not until 1908, at the age of 40, that he was finally allowed to give it up. Īt 21, he reluctantly went to work at the family bank, N M Rothschild & Sons in London. ![]() As a boy, Rothschild was once dragged off his horse and assaulted by workmen while on a hunting ride near Tring, an experience he attributed to antisemitism. Among his pets at the family home in Tring Park were kangaroos and exotic birds. In 1889, leaving Cambridge after two years, he was required to go into the family banking business to study finance.Īt the age of seven, he declared that he would run a zoological museum and, as a child, he collected insects, butterflies and other animals. ![]() As a young man, he travelled in Europe, attending the University of Bonn for a year before entering Magdalene College, Cambridge. The eldest of three children, Walter was deemed to have delicate health and was educated at home. Walter Rothschild was born in London as the eldest son and heir of Emma Louise von Rothschild and Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, an immensely wealthy financier of the international Rothschild financial dynasty and the first Jewish peer in England. Rothschild was the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1925 to 1926. As a Zionist leader, he was presented with the Balfour Declaration, which pledged British support for a Jewish national home in Palestine. Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, FRS (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. ![]()
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