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Baron Mayer gave the house at Ascott to his nephew Leopold de Rothschild, who transformed it over the following decades into the substantial, but informal, country house it is today.
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In 1850 Paxton was commissioned by Baron Mayer de Rothschild to design Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire.
In 1878, Rosebery married Hannah, only child of the Jewish banker Baron Mayer de Rothschild, and the greatest English heiress of her day.
Lionel Rothschild's brother, Baron Mayer de Rothschild, became the first Rothschild to build a house in Buckinghamshire when he commissioned Joseph Paxton to design Mentmore Towers in 1850.
* Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild of the United Kingdom ( 1840 – 1915 )
* Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild of the United Kingdom ( 1910 – 1990 )
Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, GBE, GM, FRS ( 31 October 1910 – 20 March 1990 ) was a biologist by training, a cricketer and a member of the prominent Rothschild family.
In 1873 a farm house in the parish known as Ascott Hall was bought by Baron Mayer de Rothschild he gave it to his nephew Leopold de Rothschild who employed the architect George Devey to enlarge the property into a substantial country house.
However the hamlet was substantially rebuilt after the 1850s when it became part of the Mentmore estate of Baron Mayer de Rothschild.
It seems he was successful in gaining support of the Austrian consul and Muhammad Ali by invoking the name of Baron Salomon Mayer von Rothschild of Vienna.
In 1873 it was acquired by Baron Mayer de Rothschild ( of the neighbouring Mentmore Towers estate ).
During the 19th and 20th century, the hamlet was owned by Baron Mayer de Rothschild and, by inheritance, became part of the Earl of Rosebery's Mentmore estate.
The purchaser was Baron Mayer de Rothschild.
On the death of Baron Mayer in 1877 his heiress Hannah de Rothschild continued the building of the village using another architect George Devey ( his work was a forerunner of the arts and crafts movement ).
The house was designed by Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes, in the composite English Renaissance revival style called Jacobethan, for the banker and collector of fine art, Baron Mayer de Rothschild as a country home, display case for his collection of fine art and as an assertion of status.
Since 1846 Baron Mayer de Rothschild had been slowly buying land in the area.
The house was built between 1852 and 1854 for Baron Mayer de Rothschild, who required a house close to London.
Zikhron was one of the first Jewish agricultural colonies to come under the wing of the Baron ( along with Rishon LeZion and Rosh Pina ), who renamed it in memory of his father, James ( Ya ' akov ) Mayer de Rothschild.
Lord Rosebery was married to Hannah de Rothschild, the wealthy daughter and heiress of Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, through which marriage the Mentmore Towers estate in Buckinghamshire came into the Primrose family.
* Sir Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 2nd Baronet ( 1840 – 1915 ) ( created Baron Rothschild in 1885 )
* Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild ( 1840 – 1915 )
* Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild ( 1910 – 1990 )
His large sculpture of the stallion King Tom ( 1874 ) was commissioned by Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild for his new mansion, Mentmore Towers, and moved to Dalmeny House in 1982.
In 1873 Baron Mayer bought 90 acres ( 360, 000 m² ) of land at Ascott two miles from Mentmore.
He succeeded Joseph Paxton's son-in-law George H. Stokes as Baron Mayer de Rothschild's architect for the estate village at Mentmore ; he designed the stables and riding school there between 1869 and 1870.
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The Queen Mother, Henrietta Maria, briefly regained the castle, with the earls of Monmouth acting as stewards once again, but after her death Charles II gave the castle to Sir Edward Hyde, whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon and Earl of Clarendon.
Baron Fassini Camossi, the former Italian diplomat to China, gave Puccini as a gift a music box which played a number of Chinese melodies.
The first of these was from 1835, when Charles Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Baron Yarborough gave a bust of Newton to the Mechanics ' Institute in Lincoln.
As a wedding present, Colin Tennant ( later the 3rd Baron Glenconner ) gave her a plot of land on his private Caribbean island, Mustique.
Diplomat Baron Deffaudis gave Mexico an ultimatum to pay, or the French would demand satisfaction.
He married Elizabeth Brooke ( 1503 – 1550 ), the sister of George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham, in 1522, and a year later she gave birth to a son, Thomas Wyatt, the younger, who led Wyatt's rebellion many years after his father's death.
A year later, he gave a final outstanding performance in his native language as Baron Raoul in Alain Resnais's Stavisky ( 1974 )
The artist credit on Baron von Tollbooth gave bassist / keyboard player / vocalist David Freiberg equal billing with Kantner and Slick.
Henry De Lacey, Baron of Pontefract, gave the land for the foundation of the abbey, and Kirkstall has a few roads named in his memory.
In 1946 Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton, gave Lyme Park to the National Trust.
The fidelity with which Carteret, like John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, had clung to the royal cause, gave him also great influence at court.
His son Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry gave land beside the house for the building of the Roman Catholic Church, St. John the Baptist.
In 1821 he was created Baron Silchester, of Silchester in the County of Southampton, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave him and his descendants an automatic seat in the House of Lords.
In 1300, the city acquired the four surrounding parishes of Bolligen, Vechigen, Stettlen and Muri, destroyed the threatening castles of Bremgarten and Belp and gave the Baron of Montenach Bernese citizenship.
In 1954, the 3rd Baron St Levan gave most of St Michael ’ s Mount to the National Trust, together with a large endowment fund.
Thanks to the patronage of Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley, who gave Murray £ 200 a year to live on, Murray could afford to study at the bar, and became a member of Lincoln's Inn on 23 April 1724.
On 7 August 1879, he succeeded his father as 6th Earl Fife in the Peerage of Ireland ( and as 2nd Baron Skene in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which title gave him a seat in the House of Lords ).
In 1469, Edward IV of England confiscated the castle from its owner, Ralph Boteler, 1st Baron Sudeley and gave it to his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, who later became Richard III of England.
In 1554, Queen Mary gave Sudeley Castle to John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos, and it remained his property throughout the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Eventually, Garter King of Arms gave way on condition that Brown simultaneously change his surname to George-Brown, so finally his title ended as Baron George-Brown, of Jevington in the County of Sussex.
He died without legitimate issue three years later, and the King gave ( or rather sold ) the Earldom to William Cavendish, 1st Baron Cavendish.
In 1760 he was created Baron Wycombe, of Chepping Wycombe in the County of Buckingham, in the Peerage of Great Britain, which gave him an automatic seat in the British House of Lords.
In 1806 he was made Baron Monteagle in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave the Marquesses an automatic seat in the House of Lords.
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