B. I. Barnato: A Memoir by Harry Raymond (1897)

B. I. Barnato: A Memoir is a biographical work by Harry Raymond, first published in 1897 by Isbister and Company. It chronicles the life of Barnett Isaacs (better known as Barney Barnato), a prominent British-born South African mining magnate and one of the founders of De Beers Consolidated Mines.

Ex Libris R.K Fraay who lived in the Herbert Baker house ‘Endstead” in Parktown.

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Barney Barnato (born Barnet Isaacs; 21 February 1851 – 14 June 1897) was a British Randlord and diamond magnate who was one of the entrepreneurs who gained control of diamond mining, and later, gold mining in South Africa from the 1870s up to World War I. He was known as a rival of Cecil Rhodes.

R.K. Fraay (Robert Klaas Fraay) was a prominent South African financier and businessman best known as the founder and chairman of Unit Securities and Trust Company, a major financial institution in Johannesburg during the mid-20th century. Under his leadership, Unit Securities became a significant player in the South African economy, notably becoming the largest shareholder in the Union Whaling Company in Durban during the 1950s. He endowed the R.K. Fraay Chair of Afrikaans Language and Folklore (Afrikaanse Taal- en Volkskunde) at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1947.

A whale catcher vessel, originally named the Suderoff VII, was renamed the R.K. Fraay in his honour after its purchase by Unit Securities. Between 1934 and 1964, he was the owner of Endstead, a historic home in Parktown, Johannesburg, originally built by Ernest Wilmot Sloper.

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