Alfred Chester Beatty
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Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875 – 19 January 1968)[1] was born in New York City; he graduated from Columbia University as a mining engineer. He made his fortune mining in Cripple Creek, Colorado, and other mining concerns the world over. He was often called the "King of Copper". A collector from an early age, he had, by the 1940s, built up a remarkable and impressive collection of Oriental and Western material. He moved his collections to Dublin, Ireland, in 1950. The Chester Beatty Library which houses the collection was moved to Dublin Castle from Shrewsbury road in 2000. Knighted in 1954, Beatty was made an honorary citizen of Ireland in 1957, and on his death in 1968, he was accorded a state funeral—the only private citizen in Irish history to receive such an honour. He is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.
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- ^ Seanad Éireann - Volume 110 - 19 December, 1985 - Date of death; some sources give this as 20 January
