Alfred Beit memorial at the entrance to the Royal School of Mines, South Kensington, London.

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Alfred Beit (15 February 1853 – 16 July 1906) was a British South African, gold and diamond magnate and a major donor and profiteer of infrastructure development in central and Southern Africa, and of university education and research in several countries, including being the "silent partner" who financed the Rhodes Scholarship. In recognition of his bequests the Royal School of Mines, a faculty of Imperial College London, erected a large memorial to Beit flanking the entrance to its building. The Imperial College residential halls on Prince Consort Road was named 'Beit Hall' after him.

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