Record ID:
35015894 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 79112307
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1875-02-07
  • New York (N.Y.)
Death:
  • 1968-01-19
  • Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
Associated with:
  • United States England Ireland
Lived/located in:
  • Dublin (Ireland)
Occupations:
  • Mining engineers
  • Art collectors
Used for:
  • Beatty, Alfred Chester, Sir, 1875-1968
  • Beatty, Chester, Sir, 1875-1968
Notes:
  • The library of A. Chester Beatty, a descriptive catalogue of the Western manuscripts. Volume 1, 1927: title page (A. Chester Beatty)
  • Chester Beatty Library. A handlist of the Arabic manuscripts. Volume 1, 1955: page viii (foreword signed A. Chester Beatty)
  • Wikipedia, viewed November 22, 2019 (Alfred Chester Beatty; Sir Alfred Chester Beatty; he always signed his name "A. Chester Beatty"; born February 7, 1875, in New York; died January 19, 1968, in Monte Carlo, Monaco; he established what became the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin in 1953)
  • Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed online on November 22, 2019 (Beatty, Sir (Alfred) Chester, mining engineer and art collector; born February 7, 1875, in New York City; studied at Princeton and Columbia; he moved to England in 1911 and became a British subject in 1933; he settled in Dublin, Ireland, in 1950; he built up a unique collection of Indian and Persian miniatures and manuscripts and early Bibles; died in Monte Carlo, Monaco, on January 19, 1968)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)100870
  • 000000015999
  • abv00034530
  • (AuCNL)853234
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC NNPM DLC MoSU