The death of Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild removes the head of the English branch of the famous family of that name and his position in that respect will be occupied by his heir, Mr. Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, a grandson of the first baron. The deceased besides serving for eleven years as a member of Parliament for the Aylesbury Division, Bucks., was Lieutenant for the City of London, a Fellow of the Royal Society, because of his great interest in and writings about zoology, and a trustee of the British Museum. His grandfather played a big part in the constitutional history of Great Britain for it was over his election to the House of Commons that a long drawn out fight resulted in the removal of certain civil disabilities under which Jews up to that time had laboured. Lionel Rothschild was elected a member of Parliament by the City of London in 1847 but was not allowed to take his seat because he was not permitted to affirm instead of taking the oath which contained words to which he as a Jew conscientiously objected. He was re-elected in 1849 and 1852, but it was not until 1858 that the joint operation of an act of Parliament and a resolution of the House of Commons was necessary before Mr. Rothschild was able to take his seat, He continued to represent the same constituency until 1874 but it was not until 1885 that the barony was created,
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