Mentmore Towers, known simply as Mentmore, was built between 1852 and 1854 for Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818 - 1874). Sir Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes, designed the building in the 19th-century revival of late 16th and early 17th-century Elizabethan and Jacobean styles, a prime example of Jacobethan architecture. The magnificent stately home was inherited by his daughter Hannah, who married the Earl of Rosebery.