Baron Rothschild, of Tring

Tring

Tring is a small market town and also a civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in Hertfordshire, England. Situated north-west of London and linked to London by the old Roman road of Akeman Street, by the modern A41, by the Grand Union Canal and by rail lines to Euston Station, Tring is now largely a...

 in the County of Hertford

Hertfordshire

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, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1885 for Sir Nathan Rothschild, 2nd Baronet

Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild was a British banker and politician from the international Rothschild financial dynasty.-Life and family:...

, a member of the Rothschild banking family

Rothschild family

The Rothschild family , known as The House of Rothschild, or more simply as the Rothschilds, is a Jewish-German family that established European banking and finance houses starting in the late 18th century...

. He was the first person of the Jewish faith

Judaism

Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...

 to be raised to the peerage. (Benjamin Disraeli, though born into a Jewish family, was a member of the Church of England.)

The Rothschild Baronetcy, of Tring Park, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1847 for Anthony de Rothschild, a banker and politician, with remainder to the male issue of his elder brother, Lionel de Rothschild

Lionel de Rothschild

Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild was a British banker and politician.-Biography:The son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Hanna Barent Cohen, he was a member of the prominent Rothschild family....

, the first ever Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 of the Jewish faith. Both Anthony and Lionel were the sons of the influential financier Nathan Mayer Rothschild

Nathan Mayer Rothschild

Nathan Mayer, Freiherr von Rothschild , known as Nathan Mayer Rothschild, was a London financier and one of the founders of the international Rothschild family banking dynasty...

 (1777–1836) founder of the English branch

Rothschild banking family of England

The Rothschild banking family of England was founded in 1798 by Nathan Mayer von Rothschild who first settled in Manchester but then moved to London. Nathan was sent there from his home in Frankfurt by his father, Mayer Amschel Rothschild...

 of the family.

The first Baronet was succeeded according to the special remainder by his nephew, the aforementioned second Baronet, who was elevated to the peerage in 1885. The latter was succeeded by his eldest son, Walter

Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild FRS , a scion of the Rothschild family, was a British banker, politician, and zoologist.-Biography:...

, the second Baron. He was a banker and politician but is best remembered for his interest in zoology

Zoology

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. He died without issue, and his brother had predeceased him, so on his death the titles passed to his nephew, the third Baron, Victor

Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, GBE, GM, FRS was a biologist by training, a cricketer and a member of the prominent Rothschild family...

. He was the son of the Hon. Charles Rothschild

Charles Rothschild

Nathaniel Charles Rothschild , known as "Charles", was an English banker and entomologist and a member of the Rothschild family.-Family:...

. the titles are held by the third Baron's eldest son, Jacob, the fourth Baron, who succeeded in 1990.

There is also a title Baron de Rothschild (Freiherr von Rothschild) in the Austrian nobility

Austrian nobility

Historically, the Austrian nobility was a privileged social class in Austria. The nobility was officially abolished in 1919 after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Former noble families and their descendants are still a part of Austrian society today, but they no longer retain any specific...

.

Rothschild Baronets, of Tring Park (1847)

• Sir Anthony Nathan de Rothschild, 1st Baronet (1810–1876)
• Sir Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 2nd Baronet
  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
  Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild was a British banker and politician from the international Rothschild financial dynasty.-Life and family:...
  
   (1840–1915) (created Baron Rothschild in 1885)

Barons Rothschild (1885)

• Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
  Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild was a British banker and politician from the international Rothschild financial dynasty.-Life and family:...
  
   (1840–1915)
• Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
  Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
  Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild FRS , a scion of the Rothschild family, was a British banker, politician, and zoologist.-Biography:...
  
   (1868–1937)
• Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
  Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
  Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, GBE, GM, FRS was a biologist by training, a cricketer and a member of the prominent Rothschild family...
  
   (1910–1990)
• Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
  Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
  Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, Bt, OM, GBE, FBA is a British investment banker and a member of the prominent Rothschild family of bankers...
  
   (b. 1936)

Line of succession

1. Nathaniel Philip Victor James Rothschild
   Nathaniel Philip Rothschild
   Nathaniel Philip Victor James Rothschild , also known as Nat, is a British-born financier who has settled in Switzerland, and a scion of the prominent Rothschild family. He is the Chairman of "JNR Limited", an investment advisory business primarily focused on emerging markets and the metals, mining...
   
   (b. 1971), son of the Baron.
2. James Amschel Victor Rothschild (b. 1985), nephew of the Baron.