Alfred Chester Beatty

Sir Alfred Chester Beatty
Born(1875-02-07)7 February 1875
New York City, US
Died19 January 1968(1968-01-19) (aged 92)
Monte Carlo, Monaco
EducationColumbia School of Mines
OccupationBusinessman
Spouses
Grace Rickard
(m. 1900; died 1911)
  • Edith Dunn
Signature

Alfred Chester Beatty (7 February 1875 – 19 January 1968) was an American-British mining magnate and philanthropist. A successful businessman, Beatty was given the epithet "the King of Copper" in reference to his fortune. He became a naturalised British subject in 1933, was knighted in 1954, and was made an honorary citizen of Ireland in 1957.

He collected African, Asian, European and Middle Eastern manuscripts, rare printed books, prints and objets d'art. After moving to Dublin in 1950, he established the Chester Beatty Library on Shrewsbury Road to house his collection; it opened to the public in 1954. The collections were bequeathed to the Irish people and entrusted to the care of the state in his Irish will. He donated several papyrus documents to the British Museum, his second wife's (Edith Dunn Beatty) collection of Marie Antoinette's personal furniture to the Louvre and a number of his personal paintings that once hung in the picture gallery of his London home to the National Gallery of Ireland. He also made possible the expansion and relocation of the Cancer Research Institute, which was renamed the Chester Beatty Institute, and later renamed the Institute of Cancer Research, in 1939.[1]

Early life

A. Chester Beatty, known to friends and family as Chester or "Chet", was born into a middle-class New York family in 1875 on the site of what is now Rockefeller Center, the youngest of three sons, Chester, Robert and Gedney. He was born to Hetty and John Beatty, a banker and stockbroker.[2]

He graduated from Columbia School of Mines in 1898 and bought a one-way train ticket to Denver, Colorado. His first job in the mines earned him $2 per day as a "mucker", clearing away rock and soil from mine tunnels.[3] He was quickly promoted to supervisor of the Kektonga Silver Mine.

His first mentor was T. A. Rickard, a mining engineer. Rickard also introduced Beatty to his sister-in-law, Grace "Ninette" Rickard, whom Beatty married in Denver in 1900. In 1903 he joined John Hayes Hammond on the management team of the Guggenheim Exploration Company.[4] This position soon made Beatty wealthy. In 1908, when he left the Guggenheims, he was regarded as one of the country's leading mining engineers.[citation needed]

He bought a house on the East Side of New York and set up an office on Broadway as an independent mining consultant. Ninette and their daughter (little Ninette) joined him during the summer of 1907, and in October their son, Chester Jr, was born.[5]

In 1911, Grace died suddenly of typhoid fever. In 1912 he purchased Baroda House in Kensington Palace Gardens and moved with his two young children to London the following year. Shortly after the move, he married his second wife, Edith Dunn, in the Kensington Registry Office. He and Edith were both avid collectors.

In 1914, Beatty founded the London-based mining company, Selection Trust. The First World War delayed the company's expansion, but during the 1920s the business expanded to acquire interests in countries including the USSR, the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) and the Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone.[5]

Beatty made his fortune in Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia) and the Belgian Congo (present-day Democratic Republic of Congo), where he exploited the Copper Belt.[5] For this, he became known as the "King of Copper".[citation needed]

Collector

Door to the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin

An early family anecdote recalls that, as a young boy, Chester caught the collection bug, bidding at auction for mining samples.[6] He recalled attending an auction with his father at the age of ten, and bidding 10 cents on a piece of pink calcite.[7] During his time in Denver he began collecting stamps, which grew into an award-winning collection.[8] Before his move to London he had already started collecting Chinese snuff bottles and Japanese netsuke, inro and tsuba.

Due to a condition of the lungs called silicosis, which he had acquired through his years working in American mines, Beatty and his family would winter in Egypt, until the outbreak of World War II, and after the war in the south of France. During his first trip to Cairo in the winter of 1913/14, he became interested in papyrus and Islamic manuscripts.

In 1931 an announcement in The Times cast Beatty as a great collector. He had acquired an important collection of Biblical manuscripts, now known as the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri. The discovery changed the existing understanding of pre-Constantinian textual history. With the New Testament books – Gospels and Acts (BP I), Pauline Epistles (BP II) and Revelation (BP III) – all dated to the third century, these documents were not only surprising for having survived the Diocletian persecutions at the beginning of the next century, but the dating moved New Testament scholarship back by at least one hundred years. The dating specifically of BP I (p45) to the mid-third century moved the understanding of when Christians accepted the four gospels as canonical to earlier than had previously been presumed.

In 1917, recovering from a bout of pneumonia and Spanish influenza, Beatty, Edith and his daughter Ninette, traveled by boat to Japan and China.[5] During this trip he acquired painted albums and scrolls and he continued to purchase Chinese, Japanese and south-east Asian manuscripts, textiles and artefacts for the rest of his life.

Beatty's reputation as a collector grew, and so did his network of advisers and agents. As in his business life, Beatty relied on the advice of experienced specialists but made the final decision on any purchase himself. By this time Edith was also establishing herself as a serious collector in her own right. While she was buying Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings and French furniture, Beatty was acquiring important Islamic material, including an exceptional collection of illuminated copies of the Quran, and Mughal, Turkish and Persian manuscripts. His Western holdings were enhanced by acquisitions of Coptic, Syriac, Armenian and Greek manuscripts. To his Asian holdings he added Tibetan, Thai, Burmese and Sumatran manuscripts. His eye was drawn to richly illustrated material, fine bindings and beautiful calligraphy, but he was also deeply committed to preserving texts for their historic value. He concerned himself only with works of the finest quality, and this became the hallmark of his collection.[9]

Initially, Beatty was a competitive force in the burgeoning Orientalist art market of the early 20th century. The major library and museum institutions anticipated his presence when prospecting acquisitions. However, in 1925, Beatty began what would later become a robust partnership with the British Museum. Though in later cases he would purchase an object and simply donate it, for the manuscript now known as the Minto Album, Beatty amicably agreed to split the folios. The lot was sold to Sir Eric Maclagan, Director of the British Museum, as part of a joint-purchase agreement with Beatty for $3,950. Beatty had first pick of the folios, the museum bought the remainder for $2000, and Beatty charitably donated an additional folio.[10] The Beattys were also patrons of the British Museum, donating 19 ancient Egyptian papyri to the Museum.[11]

Between 1939 and 1949, Beatty acquired over 140 nineteenth-century paintings to display in the picture gallery of his London home. The gallery had been built as a result of the conversion of the stables to a library in 1934; the gallery linked the main house to the garden library.[12] In 1940, Beatty packed up the paintings and shipped them to New York for safekeeping during the Second World War. In 1949, Beatty decided to donate part of his collection of French nineteenth-century paintings to the Irish nation as a token of appreciation to the Taoiseach of the day, John A. Costello, for his support in facilitating Beatty's move from London.[13] These are now part of the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland. One of the paintings was an idealized version of peasant life called The Gleaners by Jules Breton.[14]

Move to Dublin

Beatty had supported the war effort, contributing a large amount of raw materials to the Allies. He received a belated knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in the 1954 Birthday Honours List for his contribution to the wartime effort.

By the late 1940s, however, he had become disillusioned with Britain. Political deviations from his free-market values, coupled with increased foreign exchange restrictions impacted both his personal and collecting interests in Britain. Though he had initially envisioned deepening his relationship with the British Museum by donating his collection in its entirety (he had personally funded many of the museum acquisitions, and received expert consultations from the curators), he changed his mind when the new director insisted on deciding for himself whether Beatty's collection met the museum's quality standards. The director also would not assure Beatty that his collection would remain intact, rather than being parcelled out to different departments.

In 1950, at the age of 75, Chester Beatty handed over the reins of Selection Trust to his son Chester Jr and relocated to Dublin, taking many by surprise. The reason often cited is Beatty's growing frustration with post-war Britain, not least the defeat of the Conservative party in the 1945 general election. Having committed himself to the Allied war effort during the Second World War and served on a number of Churchill's committees, he was shocked by the Labour party victory. He told a meeting of stockholders that London was no longer the centre of the mining world and that "the position would deteriorate while high taxation, unjust duties and rigid controls stopped new mining projects being launched". There were other, personal, considerations, however, and his old spirit of adventure surely played a part. His son had bought a home in County Kildare in 1948, which probably prompted Beatty to look favourably on Ireland as a home, especially given his Irish roots: both his paternal grandparents were born in Ireland. Beatty was also seriously considering long-term plans for his collection. Concerned that it would be dispersed if he were to leave it to a large institution, he found another solution. His purpose-built library on Shrewsbury Road in a suburb of Dublin opened in 1953, first for researchers and later to the public.[15]

He bought a large townhouse for himself on Ailesbury Road in the Ballsbridge area of Dublin, and a site on nearby Shrewsbury Road, also in Ballsbridge, for the construction of the Chester Beatty Library. The library, which housed his collection, opened on 8 August 1953. It was moved to its current location at Dublin Castle in 2000.[16]

Beatty spent the remainder of his life between Dublin and the south of France. He was made a Freeman of Dublin in 1954 and was the first person granted honorary citizenship of Ireland in 1957. He continued to collect in the 1950s and 1960s, acquiring important Ethiopian manuscripts and Japanese printed material during that period.

Beatty died in Monte Carlo in Monaco in 1968;[17] his Irish estate was valued at £7 million.[18] He was accorded a state funeral by the Irish government – the first private citizen in Irish history to receive such an honour.[citation needed] He is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.

The Chester Beatty Library on Shrewsbury Road and the collection it housed was bequeathed to a trust on behalf of the people of Ireland. In 2000, it opened in its current location: the eighteenth-century Clock Tower building in the grounds of Dublin Castle.

Personal life and descendants

In 1900, in Denver, Beatty married Grace Rickard, known as Ninette, the sister of his mentor T. A. Rickard.[4] They had a daughter, Ninette, and a son, Chester Jr, who was born in 1907. In 1911, his wife died suddenly of typhoid fever. In 1912 he bought a house in Kensington Palace Gardens, London, and moved there with his two children in 1913. Shortly after this, he married secondly Edith Dunn, in Kensington.[5]

In 1929, in Westminster Cathedral, Ninette Beatty married Captain Edward Newling. A daughter, Anne, was born in Marylebone in 1930.[19]

In 1933, Beatty married thirdly Elizabeth Pamela Belas. They had one daughter, Sarah Anne Chester Beatty.[20]

He married fourthly Enid Groome, daughter of Stanley Hugh Groome, in 1938.[21]

In 1956, Beatty's daughter Sarah married David Greville, Earl Brooke, heir to the Warwick Castle estate,[22][23] and had two children, Guy Greville, 9th Earl of Warwick (born 1957), and Lady Charlotte Greville (1958), both of whom have children.[21]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Brunning, D.A.; Dukes, C.E. (1965). "The Origin and Early History of the Institute of Cancer Research of the Royal Cancer Hospital". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 58 (1): 33–36. doi:10.1177/003591576505800109. PMC 1898295. PMID 14267496.
  2. ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XIV. James T. White & Company. 1910. pp. 238–239. Retrieved 16 December 2020 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Horton, Charles (2003). Alfred Chester Beatty: From Miner to Bibliophile. Dublin: TownHouse. ISBN 1-86059-163-9.
  4. ^ a b Croke, Fionnuala (2017). Director's Choice. Dublin: Chester Beatty Library. pp. 8–9. ISBN 978-1-78551-062-5.
  5. ^ a b c d e Fionnuala, Croke (2017). Chester Beatty Library : director's choice. Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Limited. ISBN 9781785510625. OCLC 960494584.
  6. ^ Croke, Fionnuala (2017). Director's Choice. Dublin: Chester Beatty Library. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-78551-062-5.
  7. ^ Horton, Charles (2003). Alfred Chester Beatty : from miner to bibliophile. TownHouse. ISBN 1860591639. OCLC 55625031.
  8. ^ "'It was all a great adventure'…Alfred Chester Beatty & the formation of his library". History Ireland. 7 February 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  9. ^ Croke, Fionnuala (2017). Director's Choice. Chester Beatty Library. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-1-78551-062-5.
  10. ^ Wright, Elaine (2008). Muraqqaʻ Imperial Mughal albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Art Services International. p. 8. ISBN 978-0883971536. OCLC 156784967.
  11. ^ Marry 2004.
  12. ^ Croke, Fionnuala (2012). Chester Beatty, the paintings : from the National Gallery of Ireland. Chester Beatty Library. pp. 18–19. ISBN 9780957399808. OCLC 812067516.
  13. ^ Croke, Fionnuala (2012). Chester Beatty, the paintings : from the National Gallery of Ireland. Chester Beatty Library. p. 9. ISBN 9780957399808. OCLC 812067516.
  14. ^ Fionnuala, Croke (2017). Chester Beatty Library : director's choice. Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Limited. pp. 8–9. ISBN 9781785510625. OCLC 960494584.
  15. ^ Exhibition of rare treasures going on display at Chester Beatty Library www.rte.ie, Thursday 10 July 2014.
  16. ^ Seanad 1985: "Chester Beatty died at the Princess Grace Clinic, Monte Carlo, on 19 January 1968, [...]" (some sources give this as 20 January)
  17. ^ Oxford DNB article: Beatty, Sir (Alfred) Chester: Oxford DNB article: Beatty, Sir (Alfred) Chester, accessdate: October 10, 2016
  18. ^ "Hillside, Granville Road", stmargaretshistory.org.uk, accessed 13 March 2024; "Newling, Anne / Beatty / Marylebone, Vol. 1a, p. 639" in Births in England and Wales, September Quarter, 1930
  19. ^ Peter W. Hammond, ed., The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 115
  20. ^ a b Burke's Peerage volume 2 (2003), p. 2070
  21. ^ "SARAH BEATTY FIANCEE; Engaged to Lord Brooke, Son of the Earl of Warwick", The New York Times, 28 June 1956 (subscription required)
  22. ^ "The Earl of Warwick", obituary, The Herald (Glasgow), 27 January 1996, accessed 13 March 2024

References

  • CBL.ie – Chester Beatty Library website
  • Obituary - Northern Mine Research Society

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