biography
| name: |
Barnato, Barney
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originally Barnett Isaacs
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pronunciation:
[bah(r)nahtoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1852–97)
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| biography:
| Financier and speculator, born in London, UK. He went out to Kimberley, South Africa, with a small circus in 1873, made a fortune in diamonds there, and engineered the Kaffir boom in mining stocks (1895). |
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