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Beit, Alfred

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Beit, Alfred (bīt), 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 Oxford Univ. and made many gifts for educational purposes in London, Hamburg, and South Africa.


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