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Alfred Chester Beatty
Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (7 February 1875 – 19 January 1968)〔Seanad 1985: "Chester Beatty died at the Princess Grace Clinic, Monte Carlo, on 19 January 1968, ()" (some sources give this as 20 January).〕 was an Irish-American mining magnate and millionaire, often called the "King of Copper". U.S.-born, he was naturalised British in 1933, and made an honorary citizen of Ireland in 1957. A collector of Oriental art and books, he bequeathed the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri to the British Museum〔 and the Chester Beatty Library to Dublin, Ireland.
==Early life==
Alfred Chester Beatty was born in New York City, the youngest of three sons. He attended Columbia University, graduating as a mining engineer in 1898. He moved to Denver, Colorado where his first job in the mines earned him $2 per day as a 'mucker',clearing away rock and soil from mine tunnels. He was promoted quickly, being named mine superintendent within a few months. In 1899 he decide to start his own consultancy firm. By 1900 he had relocated to the gold mines in Cripple Creek, Colorado, where he made the bulk of his fortune. He was often called the "King of Copper". In 1900 Beatty married Grace Rickard, with whom he had two children. By 1907, at the age of thirty-two, he was a millionaire as a director of several American mining companies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/it-was-all-a-great-adventure-alfred-chester-beatty-the-formation-of-his-library/ )〕 When Grace died suddenly in 1911, Beatty moved to London with the children, establishing Selection Trust,a mining firm. In 1913 he married Edith Dunn of New York. Beatty became a naturalised British citizen in 1933.
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