Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (February 8, 1868 – August 27, 1937) was a British banker and zoologist from the international Rothschild financial dynasty. February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Media:Example. ... August 27 is the 239th day of the year (240th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... For other uses, see Bank (disambiguation). ... Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ... Rothschild Coat of Arms The Mayer Amschel Rothschild family (often referred to simply as The Rothschilds), is an eminent international banking and finance dynasty of German Jewish origin that established operations across Europe, and was ennobled by the Austrian and British governments. ...

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Education and zoology

Rothschild with his famed zebra (Equus burchelli) carriage, which he frequently drove through London.

Educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, from 1889 to 1908 he worked for the family firm of NM Rothschild and 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. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 426 pixelsFull resolution (1377 × 734 pixel, file size: 193 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937), 2nd Baron Rothschild, with his famed zebra (Equus burchelli) carriage, which he frequently drove through London. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 426 pixelsFull resolution (1377 × 734 pixel, file size: 193 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937), 2nd Baron Rothschild, with his famed zebra (Equus burchelli) carriage, which he frequently drove through London. ... Binomial name Equus quagga Boddaert, 1785 The Plains Zebra (Equus quagga, formerly Equus burchelli) is the most common and widespread form of zebra, once being found on plains and grasslands from the south of Ethiopia right through east Africa as far south as Angola and eastern South Africa. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Full name The College of Saint Mary Magdalene Motto Garde ta Foy Keep your Faith Named after Mary Magdalene Previous names Buckingham College Established 1428 Sister College(s) Magdalen College Master Duncan Robinson Location Magdalene Street Undergraduates 335 Postgraduates 169 Homepage Boatclub Magdalene College (pronounced ) was founded in 1428 as... N. M. Rothschild and Sons is the investment bank company of the Rothschild family. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther. ... Zoology (rarely spelled zoölogy) is the biological discipline which involves the study of non-human animals. ...

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 gifted 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. Tring Park is a large country house near Tring, Hertfordshire. ... Hertfordshire (pronounced Hartfordshire and abbreviated as Herts) is an inland county in the United Kingdom and part of the East of England Government Office region. ... Map sources for Tring at grid reference SP924117 Tring is a small market town in the Chiltern Hills in Hertfordshire, England with a population of 13,000. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum was once the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild, and is located in the grounds of the former Rothschild family home of Tring Park, Tring, Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. ... For other similarly-named museums see Museum of Natural History. ...

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. This article is about the historic Liberal Party. ... This article is part of or related to the Liberalism series Categories: Politics stubs | Liberal related stubs | UK political parties | Historical liberal parties ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Aylesbury is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Species Equus zebra Equus hartmannae Equus quagga Equus grevyi The Zebra is a part of the horse family, Equidae, native to central, eastern and southern Africa. ...

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. Zionism is a political movement that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, where Jewish nationhood is thought to have evolved somewhere between 1200 BCE and late Second Temple times,[1][2] and where Jewish kingdoms existed up to the 2nd century CE. Zionism is... Chaim Weizmann and Harry S. Truman, May 25, 1948 Chaim Azriel Weizmann (Hebrew: חיים ויצמן) (also: Chaijim W., Haim W.) (November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first President of Israel (elected May 16, 1948, served 1949 - 1952) and founder of a research institute in... November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1st Earl Balfour, KG, OM, PC (25 July 1848 - 19 March 1930) was a British Conservative politician and statesman, and the Prime Minister from 1902 to 1905. ... Piccadilly is a major London street, running from Hyde Park Corner in the west to Piccadilly Circus in the east. ... The Balfour Declaration was a letter dated November 2, 1917 from the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, to Lord Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation, a private Zionist organization. ...

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. Baron Rothschild. ... (Nathaniel) Charles Rothschild (May 9, 1877 _ October 12, 1923) was an English banker and entomologist and a member of the Rothschild international financial dynasty. ... Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, CBE, GM, FRS (October 31, 1910 – March 20, 1990) was a biologist by training and a member of the prominent Rothschild family. ...

References

• Miriam Louisa Rothschild. Dear Lord Rothschild. (Hutchinson, 1983) ISBN 0-09-153740-1

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See also

• Rothschild family
• History of the Jews in England

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External links

• The Avifauna of Laysan and the Neighboring Islands with a complete history to date of the birds of the Hawaiian possession (1893-1900) Walter Rothschild. From Smithsonian Institution Libraries
• Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum
• Lecture on Walter Rothschild