An Post Sir Alfred Chester Beatty

AN POST (Ireland) in 2018, on the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, issued a  commemorative mini sheetlet with four stamps honouring him. He was an American mining magnate, philanthropist and one of the most successful businessmen of his generation, who was given the epithet the "King of Copper" as a reference to his fortune. He became a naturalised British citizen in 1933, knighted in 1954 and made an honorary citizen of Ireland in 1957. He was a collector of African, Asian, European and Middle Eastern manuscripts, rare printed books, prints and objets d'art. Upon his move 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, hence the reason for this commemorative set from An Post.

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