Word: tring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, 69, head of the English branch* of the potent European Jewish banking family; at Tring Park, Hertfordshire, England. Baron Rothschild eschewed banking, but became one of the world's greatest naturalists. In 1932, financially embarrassed, he sold his bird collection, which had cost him $1,000,000, to the American Museum of Natural History for $500,000. He kept his moth and butterfly collection of 1,500,000 specimens. The Rothschild title passes to his 26-year-old nephew, Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge...
...skins, stuffed but unmounted, have been coming to rest in the Museum during his absences this year. A nature-loving youngster named Lionel Walter Rothschild began collecting them in England half a century ago. Coming of age in 1889, he founded a zoological museum on his ancestral estate at Tring, Hertfordshire. No bait for birds, the Rothschild gold was lure enough to set men snaring them in the trees, brush, jungles, marshes of all the earth. Bit by bit the hauls of famed ornithologists and obscure amateurs found their way to Tring, gave it what many experts regard...