biography
| name: |
Oppenheimer, Harry (Frederick)
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pronunciation:
[openhiymer]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1908–2000)
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| biography:
| Industrialist, born in Kimberley, C South Africa, the son of Sir Ernest Oppenheimer. He studied at Oxford, and succeeded his father as chairman of Anglo-American (1957–83). As an MP (from 1947) he was a critic of the South African government's policy of apartheid. His son, Nicholas Frederick (1945– ), born in Johannesburg and educated at Oxford, was chairman of de Beers (1984–5). |
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