The Rothschild family moved into Tring Park in Hertfordshire when Walter was a small boy, and his interest in natural history was ignited by the surrounding countryside. At the age of seven he began ...

His family had moved from London to Tring Park in Hertfordshire, where he started collecting insects. When he was seven he told his parents that he was going to 'make a museum', and by the time he was ...

When the Rothschild family added Tring Park to their local estates in 1872, the banker and statesman Nathaniel, later the first Baron Rothschild, set about rebuilding the farms and building new ...