Tring is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Dacorum, Hertfordshire, England. It is situated in a gap passing through the Chiltern Hills, classed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 30 miles (50 km) from Central London.
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, was a British banker, politician, zoologist, and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was presented with the Balfour Declaration, which pledged British support for a Jewish national home in Mandatory Palestine. Rothschild was the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1925 to 1926.
Ernst Johann Otto Hartert was a widely published German ornithologist.
Oscar Rudolph Neumann was a German ornithologist and naturalist who explored and collected specimens in Africa. He fled via Cuba and settled in the United States to escape Nazi persecution of Jews. Neumann's starling and several other species are named after him.
Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan was a German-British entomologist. He took a special interest in the taxonomy and classification of butterflies, beetles and fleas. Jordan was a founder of the International Congress of Entomology.
Tring Park Mansion or Mansion House, Tring Park, is a large country house in Tring, Hertfordshire. The house, as "Tring Park", was used, and from 1872 owned, by members of the Rothschild family from 1838 to 1945.
The Natural History Museum at Tring was the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild; today it is under the control of the Natural History Museum, London. It houses one of the finest collections of stuffed mammals, birds, reptiles and insects in the United Kingdom. It was known as the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum until April 2007. The museum is located on Akeman Street, in Tring, Hertfordshire.
Paracles is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae. The genus was described by Francis Walker in 1855. The species range from Panama to Patagonia, with quite a few in the southern temperate region of South America.
Henley Grose-Smith (1833–1911) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
Hollowaya is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae and is strictly endemic for New Caledonia.
Lophocampa distincta, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Ecuador.
Palaeomolis palmeri is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Colombia.
Amerila kuehni is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found on Damar Island in Indonesia.
Amerila lactea is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Myanmar and Nepal.
Paracles vivida is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Venezuela.
Paracles insipida is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Argentina.
Paracles cnethocampoides is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Rothschild in 1910. It is found in Argentina.
Melese intensa is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was first described by Walter Rothschild in 1910 using specimens collected at San Antonio in western Colombia. These syntypes are held at the Natural History Museum, London. Rothschild originally named it as the subspecies Melesse[sic] chozeba intensa.
Tring Market House is a municipal building in the High Street, Tring, Hertfordshire, England. The structure, which is the meeting place of Tring Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.
Ellen Alice BrittonM.B.E. was a British nursery gardener who was active as an insect collector in Argentina from circa 1899–1909, sometimes working with her brother Charles. Britton's specimens contributed to the first scientific description of several Lepidoptera species. Britton was awarded an M.B.E. in 1920 for her voluntary service during the First World War.
