POLITICIAN

Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild

1868 - 1937

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Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was presented with the Balfour Declaration, which pledged British support for a Jewish national home in Palestine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild has received more than 916,111 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild is the 2,976th most popular politician (down from 2,806th in 2019), the 635th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 642nd in 2019) and the 113th most popular British Politician.

Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild is most famous for his work in zoology and as a patron of natural history.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ranks 2,976 out of 19,576Before him are Mahmud I of Great Seljuq, Hyeokgeose of Silla, Christina of Lorraine, Milton Obote, Giovanni Giolitti, and Mihailo Obrenović. After him are Calchas, Zechariah of Israel, Telipinu, Syphax, Caranus of Macedon, and Emperor Sujin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ranks 32Before him are Felix Hoffmann, Vittorio Monti, Edmond Rostand, Scott Joplin, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, and Charles Maurras. After him are Josephine Bakhita, Myrtle Corbin, Stefan George, La Belle Otero, Alexandra David-Néel, and Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse. Among people deceased in 1937, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ranks 28Before him are Gaston Doumergue, Jean Harlow, Rudolf Otto, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Karol Szymanowski, and Ramsay MacDonald. After him are Emilio Mola, Frank B. Kellogg, Charles-Marie Widor, Keke Geladze, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ranks 635 out of 8,785Before him are Charles Laughton (1899), Willibrord (658), William Shockley (1910), Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850), Alice Liddell (1852), and John Bunyan (1628). After him are Julian Barnes (1946), Kenneth MacAlpin (810), Henry Bessemer (1813), Rudolf Abel (1903), W. H. Auden (1907), and Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ranks 113Before him are Norman Angell (1872), James III of Scotland (1451), James II of Scotland (1430), Robert II of Scotland (1316), Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532), and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850). After him are Kenneth MacAlpin (810), Philippa of England (1394), Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902), John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924), Gladwyn Jebb (1900), and James Francis Edward Stuart (1688).