Tring Park [Nathaniel, 1st Lord Rothschild (1840-1915)]

Tring Park in Hertfordshire was built by Christopher Wren in 1670. The Rothschilds’ earliest association with the house dates back to the 1830s when they rented it for the summer. Lionel de Rothschild (1808-1879) finally purchased it in 1872, making considerable alterations according to designs by George Devey. Nathaniel, ('Natty'), 1st Lord Rothschild (1840-1915), inherited the property in 1879, and it became his country residence. 

After the death of Lord Rothschild in 1915, his Walter succeeded to the title, becoming Lionel Walter 2nd Lord Rothschild, and he lived alone with his mother, Emma, Lady Rothschild (1844-1935) at Tring. When Lady Rothschild died in 1935 aged 91, under the terms of his father’s will, Walter was obliged to move out of Tring Park and the house and estate now passed to his brother Charles’s branch of the family. Charles Rothschild (1877-1923) had died in 1923, which meant that the title, along with his interest in the Tring Park estate was inherited by his son Victor (1910-1990).