Article: Stolen Rubens painting recovered by police

Article: Russborough House on list of endangered heritage ...
The Irish Times;  October 7, 2009 ;     386 words ...RUSSBOROUGH HOUSE, Co Wicklow, has been included on a list of 93 endangered cultural and heritage sites around ... 1978 by owners Sir Alfred and Lady Beit. The house is open to the public and is managed by the Alfred Beit Foundation.

Article: Beyond compare. (appreciation of architectural beauty of ...
World of Hibernia;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... twice from the generosity of the owners of Russborough. Sir Alfred Beit (1903-1994) purchased the Russborough property in 1952 ... Clementine, resides there today. It now belongs to the Alfred Beit Foundation, a charitable and educational trust which Sir ...

Article: General's right hand man in pounds 50m art raid; ...
The Mirror (London, England);  September 30, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... believed to have masterminded a g50million art raid at Russborough House yesterday - one of the biggest anywhere in the world ... grounds yesterday; MURDERED: Martin Cahill; ROBBERIES: Russborough House near Blessington in Co Wicklow has now been robbed by organised ...

Article: Revealed: the secret Sir Alfred Beit diaries that ...
Sunday Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  September 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... wealthy art collector Sir Alfred Beit, and are now held ... Beit, who lived at Russborough House near Blessington ... the queen. Both Sir Alfred Beit and Lady Beit, who ... the diaries of Sir Alfred Beit are then to be handed ...

Article: Obituary: Sir Alfred Beit Bt
The Independent - London;  May 14, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... Mitford; died Dublin 12 May 1994. ALFRED BEIT's tremendous generosity to Ireland ... of the burglary severely. I had met Alfred Beit occasionally in the Thirties at luncheon ... name was that of his celebrated uncle Alfred Beit, Sir Otto's elder brother, the intimate ...

Article: Recuperan obras robadas de la coleccion Alfred ...
Reforma (México D.F., México);  December 23, 2002 ;     483 words ... ... capital, Dubln. Las obras, que forman parte de la coleccin Alfred Beit y estn valoradas en ms de 40 millones de euros (unos 410 ... cuarta ocasin en que la coleccin de arte -reunida por Sir Alfred Beit, antiguo parlamentario britnico e hijo del magnate de los ...

Encyclopedia entry: Alfred Beit
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      369 words ...Alfred Beit , 1853-1906, South African financier, b. Hamburg. He went to South Africa in 1875, grew rich from the development of diamond ...