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Beit, Sir Alfred (1853–1906) South African financier and philanthropist. Of German origin, he settled in Kimberley as a diamond merchant in 1875 and became a close friend of Cecil RHODES. His interest in gold greatly contributed to the development of the Rand and the British South African Company, and later of RHODESIA. He made benefactions to scholarship and the arts.

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Alfred Beit , 1853-1906, South African financier, b. Hamburg. He went to South Africa in 1875, grew rich from the development of diamond mines, and was a colleague and lieutenant of Cecil Rhodes in Rhodesia. A philanthropist, he founded a chair for colonial history at the Univ. of Oxford and made many gifts for educational purposes in London, Hamburg, and South Africa.

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