Person | Male Born 1853 Died 1906

Alfred Beit

Categories: Industry, Philanthropy, Race Issues

Countries: Africa, Germany, South Africa

Co-founder and funder (with Sir Julius Wernher) of the Royal School of Mines building.

Born Hamburg, learnt the diamond trade in Amsterdam and went to Kimberley where he met Wernher and Cecil Rhodes. In 1884 he and Wernher converted the firm Jules Porgès & Co into Wernher, Beit & Co. On his death he left vast sums of money for education and research in South Africa, Rhodesia, Britain and Germany.

His brother Otto, also made a fortune in the diamond trade. See Otto's page for the difficulties this is causing Imperial College in 2021.

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Alfred Beit

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National Union of Public Employees

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Evan Evans Bevan

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Seafarers

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1 memorial

Bernhard Baron

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Person, Industry, Philanthropy

1 memorial

New River Company

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Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

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Person, Journalism / Publishing, Ireland

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Fountain Tavern

Here the political opponents of Sir Robert Walpole met, using the title of the Fountain Club. Since the Kit-Cat Club, Walpole's supporters, also met here, we have to trust that the landlord arrange...

Building, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Politics & Administration

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B. Rundell

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War dead, WW1

1 memorial

Daily Mirror newspaper

Tabloid newspaper. Created by Alfred Harmsworth, initially as a paper for women by women but the following year he changed it to be a picture paper with a male editor and he fired all the female j...

Group, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial