Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild

The Lord Rothschild
Member of Parliament
for Aylesbury
In office
6 January 1899 – 10 January 1910
Preceded byFerdinand James von Rothschild
Succeeded byLionel Nathan de Rothschild
Personal details
Born
Lionel Walter Rothschild

8 February 1868
London, England
Died27 August 1937(1937-08-27) (aged 69)
Tring, Hertfordshire, England
Political partyLiberal Unionist
Conservative (after 1912)
RelativesRothschild Family
Occupation
  • Banker
  • Politician
  • Zoologist
  • Soldier
Military service
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch/serviceTerritorial Army
RankMajor

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild,[1] FRS[2][3] (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was presented with the Balfour Declaration, which pledged British support for a Jewish national home in Palestine. Rothschild was the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1925 to 1926.

  1. ^ Bulletins of State Intelligence, 1838, p. 220
  2. ^ "Fellows 1660–2007" (PDF). Royal Society. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  3. ^ Jordan, Karl (1938). "Lord Rothschild. 1868–1937". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2 (6): 385–386. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1938.0023.

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