£25,000 FOR MANSION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 2 (Supplement)

£25,000 FOR MANSION.

POPULAR RACEHORSE OWNER. A NEW LONDON HOME. It is announced that Mr. James do Rothschild, the popular racehorso owner, and a member of the famous family ot financiers, has bought 23, St. James Place, the London residence of the late Lord Leith of Fyvie. It is believed that the purchase price is about £25,000. Ihe house, which backs on tho Green Park, contains 15 bedrooms and six reception rooms. It is a Crown 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 romanco of millions five years ago, when his great-aunt, tho 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. lie is. an ardent Zionist, and, in September last, joined the board of directors of the P lestine Electric Cor poration, Limited, an undertaking formed to develop electricity schemes in Pales tine.