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    Sir Otto John Beit, 1st Baronet, KCMG, FRS (7 December 1865 – 7 December 1930) was a German-born British financier, philanthropist and art connoisseur...
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    Jewish-German citizen of Hamburg. His younger siblings included Otto Beit. Alfred Beit was an unpromising scholar and was apprenticed to Jules Porgès &...
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    river. The first Chirundu Bridge is the Otto Beit Bridge built in 1938-9 by Dorman Long and financed by the Beit Trust, which funded most of central and...
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    Alfred Beit, a South African mining millionaire, after whom he was named when he was born in London on 19 January 1903. His father Otto Beit (1865–1930)...
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    For many years the society awarded the Otto Beit medal, named after and funded by the philanthropist Sir Otto Beit. Winners of the medal include Michael...
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  • Beit is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alfred Beit (1853–1906), German-South African businessman, brother of Otto Sir Otto Beit, 1st...
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  • of the Beit Trust". Beittrust.org.uk. Retrieved 26 March 2023. "Ponte sospeso "Sir Otto Beit Bridge" (Zambia)" [Suspension bridge "Sir Otto Beit Bridge"...
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    was subsequently acquired by Alfred Beit, and his brother Sir Otto Beit inherited it in 1906. His son Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet, grew up there and on...
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  • of the Beit Trust". Beittrust.org.uk. Retrieved March 26, 2023. "Ponte sospeso "Sir Otto Beit Bridge" (Zambia)" [Suspension bridge "Sir Otto Beit Bridge"...
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    of the Rhodes Trust Busts of early Rhodes Trustees Viscount Milner and Otto Beit Canadian neuroscientist Wilder Penfield Former Australian Prime Minister...
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  • October 1924 for the financier, philanthropist and art connoisseur Sir Otto Beit, KCMG. With the death of his son, the second Baronet, a member of parliament...
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  • New Zealand) Kaveh Alamouti (investment banker) Alfred Beit (gold and diamond magnate) Otto Beit (financier) Stan Bharti (founder of Forbes & Manhattan)...
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  • Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel, in 1999. Among other honors Belsky won the Otto Beit Medal of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 1976 for excellence...
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    Kariba Dam carries the paved Kariba/Siavonga highway across the river Otto Beit Bridge at Chirundu, road, 382 m (1,253 ft), 1939 Second Chirundu Bridge...
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    in 1909 by Sir Otto Beit, a German-born British financier, philanthropist and art connoisseur, in memory of his brother Alfred Beit. Beit Memorial Fellows...
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    A. Roebling's double decker railroad and carriage bridge (1855). The Otto Beit Bridge (1938–1939) was the first modern suspension bridge outside the...
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    It later passed from Rae to the joint ownership of Arthur Du Cros and Otto Beit and it was purchased from them by the Tate Gallery in 1916 via the NACF...
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    The Otto Beit or Chirundu Bridge...
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  • of Stoke Poges, in the County of Buckingham (1921), extinct 2020 Sir Otto Beit, 1st Baronet, of Tewin Water (1924), extinct 1994 Sir Lewis Richardson...
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  • Bailey, 1st Bt (1864–1940) Barney Barnato (1852–1897) Alfred Beit (1853–1906) Sir Otto Beit, 1st Bt (1865–1930) Hermann Ludwig Eckstein (1847–1893) Sir...
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    Worcestershire, 2 September 2009) was a British freelance sculptor and winner of 2 Otto Beit medals. Poole grew up in Hall Green, Birmingham, attending Hall Green...
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  • Bernard Grenville Oppenheimer, 3rd Baronet Beit baronets of Tewin Water Sir Otto Beit, 1st Baronet Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet D'Avigdor-Goldsmid baronets...
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  • suffix ARBS) in 1934, and fellow (FRBS) in 1938. He also won the latter's Otto Beit Medal. Retiring from the School of Art in 1956 he moved to Solihull. He...
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    Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate (1805) (category Beit collection)
    was bought in London by Sir Otto Beit, who exhibited it at Russborough House and bequeathed it to his son Sir Alfred Beit. It was stolen from Russborough...
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    sculpture standing outside the public library, and which won the Sir Otto Beit Prize for 1963. The statue is by Robert John Royden Thomas and represents...
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  • on the basis of the Alfred Beit bequest and additional substantial gifts from mining magnates Julius Wernher and Otto Beit. The new university also attracted...
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    elements of the Zambian Army over a period of three days and nights near the Otto Beit Bridge. Elements of the Rhodesian Defence Regiment (RDR) were also involved...
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  • British Sculptors and two years after that he was presented with the Sir Otto Beit Medal by Sir Charles Wheeler. As a man who "lived by and for his art"...
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  • designer, automotive broadcaster, winner of the 1994 International Sir Otto Beit Award For Public Sculpture Excellence James Stevens Curl (History of Art)...
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    the Royal Society of British Sculptors and received the Society's Sir Otto Beit Medal for his stone carving of St. Martha of Bethany at Guildford Cathedral...
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