# Julius Beer

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{{Short description|English businessman}}
{{For|the politician|Julius Beer (politician)}}
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{{Use British English|date=March 2014}}
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| birth_date         = 1836
| birth_place        = Frankfurt, Germany
| death_date         = 1 March 1880
| death_place        = London, England
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| burial_place       = Highgate Cemetery
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| occupation         = Businessman, banker, newspaper baron
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| spouse             = Thyrza Beer
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| relatives          = [Rachel Sassoon Beer](/source/Rachel_Sassoon_Beer) <small>(daughter-in-law)</small>
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'''Julius Beer''' (1836&ndash;1880) was a German-born English businessman, banker and newspaper baron. He owned ''[The Observer](/source/The_Observer)'' from 1870 to 1880.

==Biography==

===Early life===
Julius Beer was born in 1836 in Frankfurt, Germany.<ref name="egremont">[https://books.google.com/books?id=icFRTFWBbDwC&dq=%22julius+beer%22&pg=PA17 Max Egremont, ''Siegfried Sassoon'', Pan Macmillan, 2006, p. 17]</ref>

===Career===
Beer made his fortune in the [London Stock Exchange](/source/London_Stock_Exchange).<ref name="listed">[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-478248-mausoleum-of-julius-beer-in-highgate-wes British Listed Buildings: Mausoleum of Julius Beer in Highgate (Western) Cemetery, Camden]</ref> He was a member of the [London Banking Association](/source/London_Banking_Association).<ref>Phillip Cottrell, ''Investment Banking in England 1856-1881'', Routledge, 2013, p. 495 [https://books.google.com/books?id=_o2ds7SWcisC&dq=%22julius+beer%22&pg=PA495]</ref>

In 1870, he purchased ''The Observer'' newspaper, which he owned until his death in 1880.<ref name="listed"/>

===Personal life===
Beer was married to Thyrza Beer (died 1881).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=7az8vQW_RtcC&dq=Thyrza+Beer+1881&pg=PA113 ''First Lady of Fleet Street'']</ref> They had a son and a daughter:
*Frederick Arthur Beer (died 1901; married [Rachel Sassoon](/source/Rachel_Beer) (1858–1927)).<ref>[https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Beer-Rachel-Sassoon Jewish Women's Archive]</ref>
*Ada Sophia Beer (1867&ndash;1875, died aged 8 years old) The main sculpture by [Henry Hugh Armstead](/source/Henry_Hugh_Armstead) inside the Beer Mausoleum at [Highgate Cemetery](/source/Highgate_Cemetery) represents this young girl being protected by an angel.

thumb|upright|Beer's mausoleum in Highgate Cemetery
Beer died in 1880.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=spOxzrifZjcC&dq=julius+beer+1880&pg=PT153 ''Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History'']</ref> His mausoleum in [Highgate Cemetery](/source/Highgate_Cemetery) has been [listed as Grade II](/source/Grade_II*_listed_buildings_in_the_London_Borough_of_Camden) since 14 May 1974.<ref name="listed"/><ref>Elisabeth Hewes, ''Betty's Travel Journals'', Paragon Publishing, 2011, p. 152 [https://books.google.com/books?id=guXzlxHKHJkC&dq=%22julius+beer%22&pg=PA152]</ref> It was designed by the French/Dutch architect William Bouwens van der Boijen (1801–1907). The English architect [John Oldrid Scott](/source/John_Oldrid_Scott) (1841–1913) was the executant architect overseeing construction. Scott made some small changes to van der Boijen's design.<ref>Dungavell, I. 2023. 'The real designer of Highgate’s Beer mausoleum' in ''Mausola'', Summer 2023, pp. 6-15.</ref> Scott had, before recent research, been named as the architect in various sources.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rVHqBvtuLyMC&dq=%22julius+beer%22&pg=PA354 Bridget Cherry, ''London: North'', Yale University Press, 1998, p. 354]</ref> Interred in it are:
* Ada Sophia Beer (his daughter, d.1875)
* Julius Beer (d.1880)
* Thyrza Beer (his wife, d.1881)
* Arnold Beer (his brother, d.1880)
* Frederick (his son, d.1901)

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Category:1836 births
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Category:Burials at Highgate Cemetery
Category:English bankers
Category:Emigrants from the German Confederation to the United Kingdom
Category:19th-century German Jews
Category:The Observer people
Category:Businesspeople from Frankfurt
Category:19th-century English journalists
Category:19th-century English male journalists
Category:19th-century English writers
Category:British people of German-Jewish descent
Category:Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
Category:19th-century English businesspeople

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