Rothschild, Nathaniel Charles

Nathaniel Charles Rothschild was an English banker and entomologist and a member of the Rothschild family. He is remembered for The Rothschild List, a list he made in 1915 of 284 sites across Britain that he considered suitable for nature reserves. He devoted much of his energies to entomology and natural history collecting. His enormous collection of some 260,000 fleas in now in the Rothschild Collection at the Natural History Museum. He described about 500 new flea species