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A banker, art collector, and Liberal member of Parliament who built Waddesdon Manor, an ornate French Renaissance-style château in Buckinghamshire designed to house his collection of French decorative art, furniture, and Old Master paintings. On his death the house and its collection passed to his sister Alice, who preserved it as one of the most significant art collections in private British hands; it later passed to the National Trust and remains open to the public.