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Rhodes (q.v.). In 1889 Rhodes and Beit effected the amalgamation of various interests in the De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited. It was largely owing to the See also:

capital and enterprise of Beit that the deep-level See also:

MINING

mining in the Witwatersrand See also:

DISTRICT

district of the See also:

TRANSVAAL

Transvaal was started, and he had a large See also:

SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

COMPANY

company, the See also:

RAND

Rand Mines Limited. The See also:

FIRM

firm of Wernher, Beit & Co. gradually transferred the centre of their See also:

FINANCIAL

financial operations to See also:

LONDON

London, where they became the leading See also:

house in the dealings in South African mines. The rapid progress made in developing the diamond and See also:

gold output made Beit a See also:

man of enormous See also:

WEALTH

wealth, and he utilized it lavishly in pursuit of Rhodes's South African policy. He was one of the See also:

ORIGINAL

original See also:

DIRECTORS

directors of the British South Africa company, and was included with Rhodes in the censure passed by the House of See also:

COMMONS

Commons See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

Commission of Inquiry on the See also:

Jameson See also:

RAID

Raid (1896). He was subsequently one of Rhodes's trustees. Personally of a modest, See also:

GENTLE (through the Fr. gentil, from Lat. gentilis, belonging to the same gens, or family)

gentle, generous and retiring disposition, and strongly imbued with Rhodes's ideas of British imperialism, he was one of the South African millionaires of See also:

German See also:

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth against whom the See also:

ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-imperialist See also:

section in See also:

England were never tired of employing their sarcastic invective. But though shrinking from ostentation in any See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form, his See also:

PURSE (Late Lat. bursa, adapted from Gr. Gupta, hide, skin; possibly O. Eng. pusa, bag, has influenced the change from b to p)

purse was continually opened for public See also:

OBJECTS

objects, notably his support of the Imperial See also:

LIGHT

Light See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

Horse and Imperial See also:

YEOMANRY

Yeomanry in the South African See also:

War of 1899-19o2, and his endowment of the professorship of colonial See also:

HISTORY

history at See also:

Oxford (1905). He gave £1oo,000 to establish a university in his native See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Hamburg and £200,000 for a university in See also:

JOHANNESBURG

Johannesburg.

He built a See also:

FINE

fine house in See also:

Park See also:

Lane, London, but was never prominent in social See also:

LIFE

life. He died, unmarried, on the 16th of See also:

JULY

July 1906.

End of Article: BEIT, ALFRED (1853-1906)

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