Before it was a school the mansion belonged to Sir Henry Guy. The mansion was built in 1685 to a design of Sir Christopher Wren. In 1705 the house was purchased by Sir William Gore, Lord Mayor of London. In 1786 it was sold to Sir Drummond Smith, a London banker and then in 1838 rented to Nathan de Rothschild. The property was bought by Rothschild's son, Sir Nathaniel de Rothschild. In 1945 the Cone-Ripman School relocated to Tring from London as a result of World War II. The school founded in 1939 eventually bought the mansion at Tring Park and set up shop.
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Notable pupils of the Tring Park Mansion houses the School for the Performing Arts include: Dame Julie Andrews, Dame Beryl Bainbridge, Jane Seymour, Thandie Newton, Jessica Brown Findlay, Amy Nuttall, Geraldine Somerville, Daisy Ridley, Sarah Brightman, Stephanie Lawrence and John Gilpin.