£25,000 FOR MANSION
POPULAR RACEHORSE OWNER.
A NEW LONDON HOME.
It is announced that Mr. Janies de Rothschild, the popular racehorse owner, and a member of the famous family of financiers, has brought 23 St. James’ Place, the London resilience of the late Lord Leith of Fyvie. It is believed that the purchase price is about £25,009. The house, which backs on the Green Park, contains 15 bedrooms and six reception rooms. It is a Clown lease, with 37 years to run, and has a ground rent of £760. Mr. Rothschild,, who is known to his friends as “Jimmy,” is entitled to the rank of French baron, but prefers the plain “Mr.” He figured in a romance of millions five years ago, when his great-aunt, the late Miss Alice de Rothschild, two days before her death, executed a codicil to her will leaving him her great estate at Waddesdon Manor, in Buckinghamshire.
One of Mr. Rothschild's great turf successes was when his horse Brigand won the Cambridgeshire in 1919. His win on that occasion was estimated at £74,000. He is an ardent Zionist, and, in September last, joined the board of directors of the Palestine Electric Corporation. Ltd., an undertaking formed to develop electricity schemes in Palestine.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 30 August 1927, Page 9
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