Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (
1875 -
1968) was born in
New York city, he graduated from
Columbia University as a mining engineer. 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 present library and museum was opened in
Dublin Castle in
2000. He 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.
External link
Chester Beatty Library website (http://www.cbl.ie)
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