Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild

Walter Rothschild, heir to the banking family, was obsessed with zoology from childhood and opened his own natural history museum at Tring in Hertfordshire in 1892, employing curators who described thousands of new species. He bequeathed the museum to the British Museum on his death in 1937. It is now the Natural History Museum at Tring, free to visit, with its Victorian cases of mounted animals largely intact.