Walter Rothschild
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Zoologist who assembled the largest natural history collection ever gathered by one person, and the addressee of the Balfour Declaration
8 February 1868, London, England — 27 August 1937, Tring, England
United Kingdom
Walter Rothschild is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Zoologist who assembled the largest natural history collection ever gathered by one person, and the addressee of the Balfour Declaration
Walter Rothschild, second Baron Rothschild, built at Tring the largest zoological collection ever amassed by a private individual — over two million specimens — and described thousands of species with his curators; his name is carried by Rothschild's giraffe and many other animals. A leader of British Zionism, he was the man to whom the Balfour Declaration was addressed in 1917, pledging British support for a Jewish national home in Palestine.
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Zoologist who assembled the largest natural history collection ever gathered by one person, and the addressee of the Balfour Declaration
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