The Rothschild family moved into Tring Park in Hertfordshire when Walter was a small boy, and his interest in natural history was ignited by the surrounding countryside. At the age of seven he began ...

THE bequest of the zoological collections at Tring by the late Lord Rothschild is the largest single benefaction both in quantity of specimens and in scientific importance that the British Museum ...

When the Rothschild family added Tring Park to their local estates in 1872, the banker and statesman Nathaniel, later the first Baron Rothschild, set about rebuilding the farms and building new ...

Although his family disapproved of his interest in natural science, his father (the first Lord Rothschild) built him a museum on the edge of Tring Park as a twenty-first birthday present. Three years ...

After a visit to Nathan Rothschild’s Tring Park, the Earl of Crawford was so appalled by what he called the “overpowering ostentation and vulgarity” of the place that he swore he would never ...