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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 aLiberal politician

who sat in theHouse of Commonsfrom 1885 to 1898.

1 Life and career

Although Ferdinand von Rothschild was born in Paris,

France, he was fromViennaand a part of theRothschild

banking family of Austria. He was the second son of

Baron Anselm von Rothschild(18031874) and Char-

lotte von RothschildneRothschild (18071859).[1] He

held the hereditary titleFreiherr(Baron) in theAustrian

nobility. He became a British subject and moved from

Vienna to London. In Britain he used the style Ferdi-

nand 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 sonwas stillborn, and Evelina died later the same day. In

her memory, Ferdinand built, equipped and endowed the

Evelina Hospital for Sick Childrenin Southwark, south

London.[2]

In 1874, he bought an estate near the village of

Waddesdonin Buckinghamshireand between 1874 and

1889 built Waddesdon Manor, designed by Gabriel-

Hippolyte Destailleur in an eclectic style based on the

16th-century FrenchChateau de Chambord.[2]

In 1883, Ferdinand de Rothschild was High Sheriff of

Buckinghamshire

[1]

and in 1885 he was elected as LiberalMP for Aylesbury, a seat heheld until his death in 1898.[3]

Ferdinand von Rothschild died at Waddesdon Manor on

his 59th birthday and was buried next to his wife in the

elegantRothschild Mausoleumin theJewish Cemetery at

West Ham.

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

provenancewas still unknown. He willed the Manor to

Alice Charlotte von Rothschild, his unmarried younger

sister, who had lived with him there, and thence to theirnephew,James Armand de Rothschild, who in turn be-

queathed it to theNational Trust.

Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in theHouse of Commons, cari-

catured inVanity Fair, 1889

2 References

[1] House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886

[2] Seccombe 1901.

[3] Leigh Rayments Historical List of MPs Constituencies

beginning with A (part 3)

3 Sources

Seccombe, Thomas (1901). "Rothschild, Ferdinand

James de". InSidney 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.

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2 4 EXTERNAL LINKS

Mrs James de Rothschild -Rothschilds at Waddes-

don Manor(Collins, 1979)ISBN 0-00-216671-2

4 External links

Hansard 18032005:contributions in Parliament by

Ferdinand von Rothschild

Waddesdon Manor

The Waddesdon Bequest at the British Museum
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