ROTHES 



Rothes, EARL OF. Scottish title 

 borne by the family of Leslie since 

 1457, or earlier. The 1st earl was 

 George Leslie, who had estates in 

 Fife. The 3rd earl was killed at 

 Flodden. John, the 7th earl, be- 

 came lord chancellor of Scotland 

 after the Restoration, and was 

 made a duke in 1680. He died 

 without sons in 1681, when his 

 daughter Margaret became count- 

 ess of Rothes. The title again 

 passed to a woman when the llth 

 earl died in 

 1773,and again 

 in 1817, in 

 1859, and in 

 1886, a most 

 unusual re- 

 cord, and the 

 consequence of 

 a charter ob- 

 tained in 1663. 

 When the 

 countess Mary, 



wife of Martin A ^ n Ul * 



E. Haworth-Leslie, died in 1893, 

 the titles passed "to her grandson, 

 who became the 19th earl. His 

 seat is Leslie House, Fife, and 

 his eldest son is called Lord Leslie. 

 Pron. Roth-ez. 



Rothesay. Royal and mun. 

 burgh and watering-place of Bute- 

 shire, Scotland, also the county 



1st Duke of Rothes, 

 Scottish royalist 



Rothesay. Scotland. 



town. It stands at the head of 

 Rothesay Bay, a fine opening of 

 the sea, on the E. side of the 

 Isle of Bute. It is 40 m. from 

 Glasgow, with a good modern 

 harbour and pier. Rothesay is a 

 popular tourist centre. The chief 

 building is the castle, restored 

 by the marquess of Bute in 1871- 

 77. Other buildings include those 

 erected for town and county busi- 

 ness, churches, schools, the Nor- 

 man Stewart In- 

 and 



Rothesay arms 



67 18 



burgh in 1400, about this time the 

 castle being a royal residence. 

 Pop. (1921) 15,218. 



Rothesay, DUKE OF. Scottish 

 title borne by the heir-apparent to 

 the British throne. It was created 

 in 1398 for David, the eldest son 

 of Robert III, king of Scotland. 

 He had previously been earl of 

 Carrick. In 1399, owing to the 

 illness of his father, he was made 

 regent, but he was soon superseded, 

 and imprisoned in Falkland by his 

 uncle, the duke of Albany, and on 

 March 27, 1402, he died there, it is 

 said, of starvation. The title be- 

 came one of those borne by the 

 heir to the Scottish throne, and 

 was included later among those of 

 the heir to the British one. 



Rothhorn, BRIENZER. Mountain 

 mass of Switzerland. On the borders 

 of the cantons of Berne, Lucerne, 

 and Unterwalden, it attains an 

 elevation of 7,715 ft., and the sum- 

 mit is reached by a rack and pinion 

 rly.' from Brienz (q.v.). 



Rothley Temple. Elizabethan 

 mansion in Leicestershire, Eng- 

 land. It contains the chapel of a 

 preceptory of the Knights Tem- 

 plars, is 5 m. from Leicester, and 

 was the birthplace of Lord Macau- 

 lay. The parish of Rothley lies on 

 the edge of Charnwood Forest, has 

 a station on the 

 G.C. Rly., and a 

 pop. of 2,000. See 

 Macaulay. 



Rothschild. 

 Name of a family 

 of Jewish finan- 

 ciers. They de- 

 rive their name 

 from the sign of 

 the red shield by 

 which their house 

 at Frankfort was 

 known. Founded 

 by Meyer Anselm 

 Rothschild (1743- 

 lown and harbour from Chapel Hill 1812) a banker 



and money changer of Frankfort 

 who made a fortune during the 

 French campaigns in Germany, the 

 family separated on his death, and 

 his five sons, who were all made 

 Austrian barons in 1822, extended 

 the business through Europe. 

 Anselm (1773-1855) continued at 

 Frankfort, 

 Solomon(1774- 

 1855) went to 

 Vienna, Na- 

 than Meyer 



stitute, and a (1777-1836) 



museum. There went to Man- 

 is a public park. Chester in 1798 



Fishing is an in- and moved to 



dustry, and the London in 



town is a yacht- 1805, Karl 



ing centre. (1788-1855) 



Rothesay was went to Naples, 



made a royal and Jacob 



ROTHWELL 



(1792-1868) to Paris. Nathan 

 Meyer Rothschild, on settling in 

 London, made a large fortune by 

 his financial activities, in which he 

 assisted the British and other 

 European governments. 



His eldest son, Lionel (1808-79), 

 was best known by his labours for 

 Jewish emancipation, and his 

 second son, Anthony (1810-76), a 

 London banker, was created a 

 baronet in 1847. Lionel's son, 

 Nathaniel Meyer (1840-1915), was 

 educated at Cambridge, was M.P. 

 for .Aylesbury, 1865-85, when he 

 was made a baron of the United 

 Kingdom. An ardent philanthro- 

 pist, he was president of the 

 British Red Cross Society when 

 he died, March 31, 1915. He was 

 succeeded bv his son, Lionel Walter 

 (b. 1868). " The family seat is at 

 Tring, Hertfordshire. 



Roth well. Urban dist. of 

 Northamptonshire, England. It is 

 4 m. from Kettering, with a sta- 

 tion on the Mid. Rly. Boots, shoes, 

 and clothing are manufactured. 

 The chief buildings are the church 

 of Holy Trinity in the Transitional 

 style, with memorials to the Tres- 

 ham family, and the market house, 



- -- , a Renaissance 



1 building which, 

 begun by a 

 Tresham in 

 1577, remained 

 unfinished 



until the 20th 

 century. Pop. 

 (1921), 4,368. 



Roth well. 

 Urban dist. of 

 Yorkshire 

 (W.R.). It is 

 4 m. from 

 Leeds. The 

 chief church is 

 Holy Trinity, 

 a fine building 

 restored. The 

 place has some 

 manufacture s, 

 while around 

 are coal mines 

 which provide 



Rothschild. Prominent members of the lamiiy. 1. Meyer 

 Anselm, 1743-1812. 2. Nathan Meyer, 1777-1836, founder 

 of the English house, from an old print. 3. Lionel 

 Nathan, 1808-79. 4. Nathaniel Meyer, 1st Baron, 1840- 

 1915. 5. Lionel Walter (b. 1868), 2nd Baron 



