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Ferdinand James Von Rothschild

Ferdinand James von Rothschild was an English art collector and Liberal politician from the prominent Rothschild banking family of Austria. He was born in Paris in 1839 to the Austrian branch of the family and moved to London, where he sat as a Liberal MP from 1885 until his death in 1898. He built Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire between 1874 and 1889 and left his renowned art collection to the British Museum upon his death.

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Ferdinand James Von Rothschild

Ferdinand James von Rothschild was an English art collector and Liberal politician from the prominent Rothschild banking family of Austria. He was born in Paris in 1839 to the Austrian branch of the family and moved to London, where he sat as a Liberal MP from 1885 until his death in 1898. He built Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire between 1874 and 1889 and left his renowned art collection to the British Museum upon his death.

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Ferdinand James von Rothschild

Ferdinand James Anselm Freiherr von Rothschild


(17 December 1839 17 December 1898) was an
English art collector, and a member of the prominent
Rothschild family of bankers. He was a Liberal politician
who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1898.

Life and career

Although Ferdinand von Rothschild was born in Paris,


France, he was from Vienna and a part of the Rothschild
banking family of Austria. He was the second son of
Baron Anselm von Rothschild (18031874) and Charlotte von Rothschild ne Rothschild (18071859).[1] He
held the hereditary title Freiherr (Baron) in the Austrian
nobility. He became a British subject and moved from
Vienna to London. In Britain he used the style Ferdinand de Rothschild.
On 7 June 1865, he married his second cousin Evelina
de Rothschild (18391866), the daughter of Lionel de
Rothschild (18081879). On 4 December 1866 their son
was stillborn, and Evelina died later the same day. In
her memory, Ferdinand built, equipped and endowed the
Evelina Hospital for Sick Children in Southwark, south Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in the House of Commons, cariLondon.[2]
catured in Vanity Fair, 1889
In 1874, he bought an estate near the village of
Waddesdon in Buckinghamshire and between 1874 and
2 References
1889 built Waddesdon Manor, designed by GabrielHippolyte Destailleur in an eclectic style based on the
[1] House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886
16th-century French Chateau de Chambord.[2]
In 1883, Ferdinand de Rothschild was High Sheri of
Buckinghamshire[1] and in 1885 he was elected as Liberal
MP for Aylesbury, a seat he held until his death in 1898.[3]

[2] Seccombe 1901.


[3] Leigh Rayments Historical List of MPs Constituencies
beginning with A (part 3)

Ferdinand von Rothschild died at Waddesdon Manor on


his 59th birthday and was buried next to his wife in the
elegant Rothschild Mausoleum in the Jewish Cemetery at
West Ham.

3 Sources

His collection of Renaissance objets d'art from the


house was bequeathed to the British Museum as the
"Waddesdon Bequest"; the Holy Thorn Reliquary was
a highlight of the collection, though its distinguished
provenance was still unknown. He willed the Manor to
Alice Charlotte von Rothschild, his unmarried younger
sister, who had lived with him there, and thence to their
nephew, James Armand de Rothschild, who in turn bequeathed it to the National Trust.

Seccombe, Thomas (1901). "Rothschild, Ferdinand


James de". In Sidney Lee. Dictionary of National
Biography, 1901 supplement. London: Smith, Elder
& Co.
Davis, R. W. Ferdinand James von Rothschild.
=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford
University Press. Retrieved 28 April 2006.
1

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Mrs James de Rothschild - Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor (Collins, 1979) ISBN 0-00-216671-2

External links
Hansard 18032005: contributions in Parliament by
Ferdinand von Rothschild
Waddesdon Manor
The Waddesdon Bequest at the British Museum

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