Lionel Nathan de Rothschild

Major Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, OBE (25 January 1882 – 28 January 1942) was a British banker and Conservative politician best remembered as the creator of Exbury Gardens by the New Forest in Hampshire. He was the eldest son of Leopold de Rothschild (1845–1917) and a part of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England. In 1910, he was elected to the House of Commons. In 1917, he co-founded the anti-Zionist League of British Jews. Early life and family Lionel Nathan de Rothschild was the eldest of the three sons of Leopold de Rothschild (1845–1917) and Marie Perugia (1862–1937). He was born in London and educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1903 and MA in 1908. On 25 January 1910 he was elected to the House of Commons for the constituency of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire and was a Member of Parliament until 1923. In 1912 he married Marie Louise Eugénie Beer (1892–1975). They had the following children: Rosemary Leonora Ruth (1913–2013), the first wife of Major Hon Denis Gomer Berry Edmund Leopold (1916–2009) Naomi Luisa Nina (1920-2007) Leopold David (1927–2012)