Rothschild properties in Buckinghamshire
Of all the landowners in the Buckinghamshire area, none have had more impact on the landscape than the de Rothschild family.When Nathan Mayer Rothschild first arrived in London in the early Nineteenth Century his first priority was to establish business and to build influences. By the time of his death in 1836 he passed a fast growing banking business on to his eldest son Ferdinand Mayer Rothschild. By the mid 1840s the latter was proving to be a very successful businessman and so he started buying lands close to London where he could establish himself as lord of the manor.
Buckinghamshire had recently been blighted by a livestock famine that had almost destroyed the rural communities and so picturesque estates that were in close proximity to London were going cheap. Several were bought and rebuilt or restyled.
The properties that were purchased in Buckinghamshire include:
- Green Park, Aston Clinton
- Halton Hall, Halton
- Mentmore Towers, Mentmore
- Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon
