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	Alfred Beit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfred Beit (1853-16 July 1906) was a South African diamond magnate.
		With Cecil Rhodes, he financed the unsuccessful Jameson Raid of late 1895 which was intended to trigger a coup in the South African Republic in the Transvaal.
		In recognition of these bequests the Royal School of Mines, in London, erected a large memorial to Beit flanking the entrance to its building.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Beit (194 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Lady Beit
		Lady Beit, who has died aged 89, retired with her husband, Sir Alfred Beit, Bt, to enjoy one of the finest private art collections in private hands at an idyllic Irish country house, only to find themselves the victims of a series of robberies.
		In 1939, she married Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Bt, a serious-minded Conservative MP with liberal instincts and a lifelong dedication to the collection which had been built up by his father, Sir Otto Beit, the South African diamond millionaire.
		Beit was a fine shot and his wife hunted with the Killing Kildares and took retired greyhounds for walks.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/01/db0101.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/01/ixportal.html (1211 words)

	IC Reporter - Beit restored
		"Alfred and Otto Beit began a tradition of benefaction and support for education and scientific research which was continued by College Fellow, Sir Alfred Lane Beit, on the death of his father Otto.
		Alfred Beit and his co-founder and funder of the Royal School of Mines building, Sir Julius Wernher, are commemorated in the stone entrance to the building on Prince Consort Road as shining examples of Victorian philanthropy.
		"Alfred Beit was a kindly man of integrity and a philanthropist who gave money in the interest of science," she said.
	www.ic.ac.uk /publications/reporterarchive/0109/news01.htm (438 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Beit Alfred (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Beit, Alfred (1853-1906), German financier and diamond expert of world renown.
		Alfred (849-899), King of Wessex (871-899), referred to as Alfred the Great by English historians from the 16th century onward.
		Binet, Alfred (1857-1911), French psychologist known for his achievement in developing a standard intelligence test.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Beit_Alfred.html (107 words)

	Jules Porgès
		Both Alfred Beit and Sir Julius Wernher worked for him and were sent by him to Kimberley.
		Through Beit, Porgès became a close business associate of C.J. Rhodes, who eventually induced him to persuade the French shareholders to dispose of their interests to the new De Beers combine.
		Quickly realizing the potential of these newly discovered mines, he dispatched Alfred Beit and Julius Wernher in 1873 to act as his representatives in this new venture and in 1876, Porges himself arrived in Kimberley, playing the unusual role as both consumer and producer of diamonds.
	www.porges.net /FamilyTreesBiographies/JulesPorges.html (2479 words)

	She was a grand old dame of heist society - Obituaries - smh.com.au
		Lady (Clementine) Beit, who has died aged 89, retired with her husband, Sir Alfred Beit, to an Irish country house to enjoy one of the finest art collections in private hands, only to become the victims of a series of robberies.
		In 1974 the Beits were listening to records in the library of Russborough House, County Wicklow, when three armed men and a woman forced their way in.
		In 1939, she married Beit, a serious-minded Conservative MP with liberal instincts and a dedication to the collection which had been built up by his father, Sir Otto Beit, the South African diamond millionaire.
	www.smh.com.au /news/obituaries/she-was-a-grand-old-dame-of-heist-society/2005/09/13/1126377310478.html (1217 words)

	BEIT, ALFRED (1853-1906) - Online Information article about BEIT, ALFRED (1853-1906)
		In 1889 Rhodes and Beit effected the amalgamation of various interests in the De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited.
		Transvaal was started, and he had a large See also:
		firm of Wernher, Beit and Co. gradually transferred the centre of their See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BEC_BER/BEIT_ALFRED_1853_1906_.html (526 words)

	Grand Dukes and Diamonds
		Self-effacing and cautious, he was the perfect partner for the brilliant Alfred Beit, and together they made a vast fortune.
		Meanwhile the firm of Jules Porgès and Company was reconstituted on 1 January 1890 under the name of Wernher Beit, the partners being Julius Wernher, Alfred Beit, Max Michaelis and Charles Rube.
		Wernher, Beit was left with £1 million in cash, diamonds and non-speculative investments, and around £2 million in shares and interests of a non-speculative nature.
	www.porges.net /GrandDukesDiamonds/GrandDukesIndex.html (1622 words)

	Beit Bridge -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It lies near the bridge named for Alfred Beit, British South African financier, across the Limpopo River.
		The bridge is situated on the border with Northern province, South Africa, opposite Messina and is a port of entry and a customs and immigration post.
		After a COSATU fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe was twice expelled, COSATU and the SACP marched to the Beit Bridge border crossing shortly before the elections to protest...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9015152 (726 words)

	News - Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Lady Clementine Beit and her husband, Sir Alfred, were exceptionally generous patrons of the arts in Ireland.
		Lady Beit and Sir Alfred Beit, had donated many of the famous paintings in their collection to the National Gallery of Ireland.
		Lady Beit was a former member of the Board of Governors and Guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland.
	www.artscouncil.ie /news/press212.htm (235 words)

	Paintings
		Lady Clementine Beit, who passed away in August 2005, was, with her late husband, Sir Alfred Beit, one of the world's most exceptionally generous patrons of the arts.
		In 1976, Sir Alfred and Lady Clementine established the Alfred Beit Foundation to ensure that the eighteenth-century mansion would be maintained for the nation.
		Following the death of Sir Alfred in May 1994, Lady Beit continued to build on the work that her husband had started, and continued to be actively involved in promoting Russborugh and its affairs right up to the last weeks preceding her death.
	www.nationalgallery.ie /html/paintings.html (821 words)

	Social Diary 12/27/05 - Lady Beit
		Lady Beit was born a Mitford and a cousin of the celebrated sisters.
		Her husband Sir Alfred Beit had one of the great private art collections in Britain.
		It had been accumulated by Sir Alfred’s father, a South African diamond millionaire at the turn of the 20th century.
	newyorksocialdiary.com /socialdiary/2005/12_27_05/socialdiary12_27_05.php (1343 words)

	Cecil Rhodes' Imperialism and the Rhodes Scholarships
		Beit had made his first money in Kimberley by letting a dozen corrugated-iron offices on the edge of a mine for eighteen hundred pounds a month.
		Beit - with the pride of a craftsman - preferred to be admired for the solidity and cleanness of his financial transactions.
		Beit contributed £250,000 to the battle-fund and the Rothschilds were willing to put £2-3 million at their disposal.
	users.cyberone.com.au /myers/rhodes-scholars.html (7755 words)

	The Boer War Remembered
		In the 1890s the most powerful South African financial house was Wernher, Beit and Co., which was controlled and run by a Jewish speculator from Germany named Alfred Beit.
		Beit and Lionel Phillips, a Jewish millionaire from England, together controlled H. Eckstein and Co., the largest South African mining syndicate.
		By 1894, Beit and Phillips were conspiring behind the backs of Briton and Boer alike to "improve" the Transvaal Volksraad (parliament) with tens of thousands of pounds in bribe money.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v18/v18n3p14_Weber.html (6613 words)

	IRISH GAME - Matthew Hart - Penguin Books
		Happily, the lavish interiors of Russborough escaped the censure of the parish, and it was these interiors that attracted Sir Alfred Beit, baronet, heir to a nineteenth-century South African diamond fortune.
		It was Julius Wernher and the first Alfred Beit who bankrolled the young Ernest Oppenheimer, the man who ended up with control of De Beers Consolidated Mines, and through it, the entire diamond world.
		The Beit collection passed from Alfred to his brother Sir Otto, and from Sir Otto to Sir Alfred, who crated it up and shipped it across the Irish Sea.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0670044733,00.html?sym=EXC (1686 words)

	Guardian \| Priceless Rubens works stolen in raid on mansion
		The five pieces from the Alfred Beit collection were taken in a raid on Russborough House, in Blessington, south of Dublin, just after 6am yesterday.
		Russborough House - the home of the late art collector and philanthropist Sir Alfred Beit - is no stranger to high-profile thefts.
		Sir Alfred, a former Tory MP whose family wealth came from gold mines and diamond dealing in South Africa, inherited a collection of old masters from his father.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4511452-103681,00.html (413 words)

	UC2003 - Sir Julius Wernher Memorial Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Alfred Beit had a house in Park Lane, and an estate in Hertfordshire.
		And this was odd, because Julius was a cautious, retiring man, so overshadowed by Beit that many thought that the 'Wernher' of Wernher, Beit and Company was Beit's first name.
		Cecil Rhodes used to say that as fast as Beit bought interests in speculative ventures in South Africa, Wernher sold before they reached London, and perhaps that was the secret of his fortune.
	www.tunnelbuilder.com /uc2003_lecture.htm (673 words)

	British Eugenics Society - E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Beit Fellowships were founded by Otto John Beit (1865-1930) in honor of his brother, Alfred Beit (1853-1906).
		Alfred Beit was the close friend and adviser of Cecil Rhodes at the time of the amalgamation of the Kimberley Diamond Mines as De Beers Consolidated Mines in 1888.
		Alfred and Otto Beit were born in Germany of Jewish descent.
	www.eugenics-watch.com /briteugen/eug_e.html (2571 words)

	Electronic Monday Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In 1906 Alfred Beit, one of Cecil John Rhodes' greatest collaborators, had died and left £200 000 for the creation of a university in Johannesburg.
		Beit's brother, Otto, and another mining magnate, Sir Julius Wernher, were persuaded to allow the Beit Bequest to be used to pursue Rhodes's dream and to add a further £300 000 to the sum.
		With Beit's bequest due to expire in 1916, the SAC made an "audacious bid" to secure its goal.
	www.uct.ac.za /news/emp/index.php?id=2048 (1423 words)

	Three Unfortunate Accidents Of Geography
		The Boer War, which cost the lives of 26 000 women and children in British-run concentration camps, was financed, instigated and made possible in particular by the Jews Alfred Beit and his partner Julius Wernher [The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham (1979) pp 49, 88, 108, 119, 490)].
		In this latter war, two independent republics were 'liberated' so that the Anglo American or more accurately Jewish (controlled) Corporation could quietly become the economic master of the entire region, the world diamond cartel/monopoly De Beers ultimately being controlled by the same Oppenheimer family who still call the shots in the gold industry.
		The Palestinian tragedy is that the Palestinian people have continuously lived for some millenia on property that the international Jewish community decided about a century ago should become their own 'national home', on the basis of a delusion that their extremely distant ancestors had lived there.
	www.rense.com /general37/acc.htm (506 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Stolen Rubens found in Ireland
		The unnamed portrait was among 18 paintings stolen 16 years ago from the home of the late English art collector and philanthropist Sir Alfred Beit, at Russborough House, south of Dublin.
		It was set up in 1976 to give financial assistance to many arts organisations and to award scholarships in the fields of visual arts, music, and dance.
		Beit, whose family wealth came from gold mines and diamond dealing in South Africa, inherited a collection of Old Masters from his father.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/2180103.stm (368 words)

	The Boer War Remembered
		The most powerful South African financial house was Wernher, Beit and Co., which was controlled and run by a speculator from Germany named Alfred Beit.
		Beit and Lionel Phillips, a millionaire from England, together controlled H. Eckstein and Co., the largest South African mining syndicate.
		By 1894, Beit and Phillips were conspiring behind the backs of Briton and Boer alike to "improve" the Transvaal parliament with tens of thousands of pounds in bribe money.
	www.boer.co.za /boerwar/weber.html (2966 words)

	Table of contents
		Beit Theresienstadt, an organization dedicated to the memory of those who perished in Terezin.
		Beit Theresienstadt at Kibbutz Givat Chaym Ichud was erected in memory of the Jews of Ghetto Theresienstadt who perished during the Nazi persecution.
		Alfred Porges Vienna 1902-1978 who had a prominent role in the Austrian Government in the 1970's, and his siblings who live in Austria, Australia and U.S.A. Alois Porges (b.
	www.porges.net /TableOfContents.html (2063 words)

	USATODAY.com - Stolen paintings found in Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It was the fourth time thieves had targeted the house south of Dublin, which is open to the public.
		Two more paintings, Thomas Gainsborough's portrait of Madame Bacelli and Bernardo Bellotto's "View of Florence," were stolen in June 2001 and later found at a house in Dublin.
		Beit, whose family wealth came from gold mines and diamond dealing in South Africa, inherited the art collection, and in 1952 he bought and restored Russborough House to house it.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002-12-21-ireland-paintings_x.htm (386 words)

	globeandmail.com : The Irish Game
		Sir Alfred's uncle and namesake had been a partner in Wernher, Beit and Company, diamond financiers.
		It was Julius Wernher and the first Sir Alfred and Lady Beit (Irish Times) Alfred Beit who bankrolled the young Ernest Oppenheimer, the man who ended up with control of De Beers Consolidated Mines, and through it, the entire diamond world.
		Not only that, the Beits were English-historically, reviled by the Irish as oppressors.
	www.theglobeandmail.com /servlet/story/RTGAM.20040617.bkchp0619/BNStory/SpecialEvents (1573 words)

	Chirundu, Zimbabwe, Township, Suburbs, Neighbourhoods, colleges, Zimbabwen schools, Pictures, Memories, Music, Friends, ...
		The Otto Beit Bridge was named after Sir Otto Beit, brother and heir to the estate of benefactor Alfred Beit.
		Alfred Beit had bequeathed ₤120 000 for the Cape-Cairo Railway Trust fund, which fund had made available funds for the construction of the bridge.
		Otto Beit Bridge was Designed by Sir Ralph Freeman, and built by Messrs Dorman Long (ltd), in Middlesborough, England.
	www.zimdays.com /nbrdetails.php?nid=339 (1167 words)

	:: PEACEFUL PARK HIDES EXPLOSIVE PAST :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The gate house, all that is left of Alfred Beit's hunting lodge
		But thanks to Alfred Nobel, the creator of the Nobel prizes, and his discovery of dynamite, the rich gold reef of the Witwatersrand was opened up.
		But the park has associations with another, more famous man. In the 1880s Alfred Beit had a hunting lodge built in the area, before Modderfontein was established.
	www.joburg.org.za /2005/dec/dec13_modderfontein.stm (2076 words)

	MUSEUM SECURITY MAILINGLIST REPORTS
		Self-made millionaire Alfred Taubman faces up to three years in jail, and a fine of more than $1billion, after being found guilty of conspiring with rival auctioneers Christie’s to cheat art sellers out millions of dollars.
		The five masterpieces were found by police on Friday night, nearly three months after they disappeared from Russborough House, the stately home of the late South African diamond millionaire, Sir Alfred Beit.
		Sir Alfred, a former British MP whose wealth came from South African gold mines and diamond dealing, inherited a collection of Old Masters and in 1952 he bought and restored Russborough House to house them.
	www.museum-security.org /02/154.html (9697 words)

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