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Barney Barnato

Diamond-mining businessman; one of the four first holders of De Beers Consolidated Mines.

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  1. board member of De Beers 1888–1897

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  • De Beers 12 Mar 1888 one of four first shareholders Scholarship & press 1

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  1. 1888–1897 Barney Barnato board member of De Beers
  2. 12 Mar 1888 Barney Barnato founded De Beers
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  1. The Diamond Mines of South Africa: Some Account of Their Rise and Development, Gardner F. Williams, general manager of De Beers Consolidated Mines (scan on Internet Archive), 1902. Scholarship & press
    Four men held all but twenty-five shares of its stock.
  2. Why a Diamond Means Forever: The Creation of the Diamond Engagement Ring Tradition in the United States, 1939-1996, Jennifer Lynn Pequignot, doctoral dissertation, Auburn University (drawing on the N. W. Ayer records at the Smithsonian), 2019. Scholarship & press
    Rhodes was named the company’s founding chairman and Barnato became a director of the company until his death in 1897.
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