biography
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| lived:
| (1819–99)
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| biography:
| Sugar magnate, art patron, and philanthropist, born in Chorley, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He patented a method for cutting up sugar loaves (1872), came to London (1880), and rapidly made a large fortune from ‘Tate's cube sugar’. At Park Hill, Streatham, he formed a valuable collection of works by contemporary masters, which he offered to the nation on condition that the government should find a site for a gallery which he would build. The building was erected on ground formerly occupied by Millbank penitentiary (demolished, 1893) and opened (1897) as the National Gallery of British Art (later known as the Tate Gallery). |
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