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Name:	Chester Beatty
Birth Date:	February 7, 1875
Death Date:	January 19, 1968
Nationality:	British
Gender:	Male

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Biography of Chester Beatty
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Arthur J. Wilson opens his 1985 biography of Chester Beatty with the story of the ten-year-old Beatty's acquisition at an auction of a pink calcite specimen; it was, according to Wilson, "not his first auction-room purchase." By the time he died Beatty...

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Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875 – 19 January 1968)[1] was a 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...

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The Chester Beatty Library and its East Asian Collections: the new CBL Galleries.(Brief Article)
09/01/2000: 830 words, approx. 3 pages

The Chester Beatty Library is home to a rich collection of manuscripts, prints, miniature paintings, printed books and works of art from countries across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe -- the result of a lifetime of collecting by its founder,...

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American collector's award-winning library. (Dublin).(The Chester Beatty Library.)
11/01/2002: 840 words, approx. 3 pages

* It is probably one of the most exciting an comprehensive collections of its kind in the world, located in the heart of Dublin and named earlier this year as European Museum of the Year--the first Irish museum to achieve this distinction. ...

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