In 1931, British aristocrat and naturalist Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild sold his extensive bird collection to the American Museum of Natural History for the bargain price of $225,000.The ...

Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868–1937) amassed the greatest private natural history collection ever put together by one person and housed it in his own museum in Tring, in Hertfordshire, England. Built ...

But perhaps the most wild rides in the history of finance, though, belonged to the late Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1 868-1937) of the wealthy British banking family.. Rothschild, who worked ...

IN Lionel Walter Lord Rothschild, who died on August 27 at the age of sixty-nine years, a scientific worker has passed away of whom it may justly be said that he was better known at home and ...

Lord Lionel Walter, Second Baron Rothschild (1868-1937) is famous for his passionate interest in ornithology and for having assembled in his museum in Tring, Herts, probably the largest private ...

Lionel Walter Rothschild, scion of the famous banking family, was exceedingly fond of zebras. In 1894 he harnessed three to a carriage and drove them through the streets of London and on to the ...

lionel walter rothschild, second baron rothschild, died this morning at his country seat, tring park, in hertfordshire, after a long illness. HE WAS 69 YEARS OLD. BARON ROTHSCHILD NEVER MARRIED.

On November 2, 1917 a letter was delivered by hand from Britain’s foreign secretary, Lord Balfour, to Lionel Walter, the second Baron Rothschild, at his home at 148 Piccadilly, a prestigious ...

Rothschild, who is a great-great-grandson of Nathan Rothschild who established the family in England, and a nephew of the late Lionel Walter Rothschild to whom the Balfour Declaration was ...