Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter, Baron von Reuter was a German-born British entrepreneur who was a pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting. He was a reporter and media owner, and the founder of Reuters News Agency, which became part of the Thomson Reuters conglomerate in 2008.
Alfred Beit was a British-German gold and diamond magnate in South Africa, and a major donor and profiteer of infrastructure development on the African continent. He also donated much money to university education and research in several countries, and was the "silent partner" who structured the capital flight from post-Boer War South Africa to Rhodesia, and the Rhodes Scholarship, named after his employee, Cecil Rhodes. Beit's assets were structured around the so-called Corner House Group, which through its holdings in various companies controlled 37 per cent of the gold produced at the Witwatersrand's goldfields in Johannesburg in 1913.
Russborough House is a stately house situated near the Blessington Lakes in County Wicklow, Ireland, between the towns of Blessington and Ballymore Eustace and is reputed to be the longest house in Ireland, with a frontage measuring 210 m/700 ft. It is an example of Palladian architecture, designed by Richard Cassels for Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown and built between 1741 and 1755. The interior of the house contains some ornate plasterwork on the ceilings by the Lafranchini brothers, who also collaborated with Cassels on Carton House.
Sutro is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Sir Otto Moses Jaffe, JP, also spelt Jaffé, was a German-born British businessman, who was twice elected Lord Mayor of Belfast.
Randlords were the entrepreneurs who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa in its pioneer phase from the 1870s up to World War I.
Sir Alfred Lane Beit, 2nd Baronet was a British Conservative Party politician, art collector and philanthropist and honorary Irish citizen.
Sir Lionel Phillips, 1st Baronet was a British-born South African financier, mining magnate and politician.
Sir John Henry Birchenough, 1st Baronet, was an English businessman and public servant.
Sir Otto John Beit, 1st Baronet, KCMG, FRS was a German-born British financier, philanthropist and art connoisseur.
The Beit Baronetcy, of Tewin Water, in the parish of Tewin, in the County of Hertford, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 24 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 for St Pancras South East the baronetcy became extinct.
Straussler, Straeußler,Strässler,Sträßler,Strauss,Straessler,Stroessner,Strasser,Strassler, etc. may refer to:
Anthony John John Poole, FRBS, Hon. FRBSA,. Was a British freelance sculptor, and winner of 2 Otto Beit medals.
Im Banne des Unheimlichen ; English title The Zombie Walks, a.k.a. The Hand of Power) is a 1968 West German crime film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Joachim Fuchsberger and Siw Mattson. It is part of a series of German screen adaptations of Edgar Wallace's thriller novels.
Lilienthal is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Speyer family is a prominent Jewish family of German descent. It can be traced back to Michael Isaac Speyer (1644–1692), who had briefly been the head of the Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main in 1691–92. The family originates from Speyer in Palatinate, hence the surname. In the late eighteenth century, the Speyers were the wealthiest Jewish family in Frankfurt, well above the Rothschild family.
49 Belgrave Square is a Grade II* listed house in Belgrave Square, Belgravia, London.
The Beit Memorial Medical Fellowships were one of the most prestigious and competitive fellowships for post-doctoral or medical degree research in medicine in the United Kingdom. The Fellowships were founded in 1909 by Sir Otto Beit, a German-born British financier, philanthropist and art connoisseur, in memory of his brother Alfred Beit.
The Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate is the source for the 1810–11 portrait of her by Goya or his studio.
