Background
De Rothschild was the son of Edmond James de Rothschild of the French branch of family.
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James Armand Edmond de Rothschild Distinguished Conduct Medal Doctor of Laws
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He was educated at Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career
He served in the First World War, at the outset as an enlisted man in the French Army then as an officer in The Royal Canadian Dragoons, and ended the war as an officer in the British Army, serving in Palestine as a Major in the 39th (Jewish) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (part of the "Jewish Legion"). He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Meda He was a keen follower of the turf and a racehorse owner.
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During the Second World War he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply in the Coalition Government 1940-1945. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of London and a Justice of the Peace in Buckinghamshire.
Rothschild continued to support his father"s Zionist causes, and donated six million Israeli Pounds towards the construction of the Knesset building in Jerusalem, which was completed in 1966. When he died in 1957, he bequeathed Waddesdon Manor to the National Trust.
His widow Dorothy de Rothschild (née Pinto) inherited the surrounding estate, and maintained a strong interest in the house and collections until she died in 1988.
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35th United Kingdom Parliament. 36th United Kingdom Parliament. 37th United Kingdom Parliament]
He became a naturalised Briton in 1920, and in 1922 he inherited from Alice de Rothschild the Waddesdon Manor estate of his great-uncle Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, the Liberal Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Aylesbury from 1885 to 1898.
Described by the Journal of Liberal History as "one of the Liberal Party"s most colourful MPs", Rothschild served as Liberal Member of Parliament for the Isle of Ely constituency from 1929 to 1945.
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Political Party
The Liberal Party