OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 9 December 1930, Page 11

OBITUARY.

SIR OTTO BEIT. v L*N* Jt *:L> l»H KSS ASSOCI AT lON' —BY ELECTRIC TKLIIGIIAI'H • COI'YIUCHT.) LONDON, December 7. The lias occurred of Sir Otto Ucit, Aged C 5 .years. [Otto John Beit. 0110 of tho best known A nglo-South A fricans and a great beneiactor to hospitals and other institutions, was born in December, ISGo Mis father was Alfred licit, a Hamburg Jew, who acquired great wealth in South Africa, became one of Khodes's ablest and most loyal financial supporters, founded .it Oxi'.rd a Chair of Colonial History, and iett htr;_!e bequests to Cape Town. Johannesburg, and London for educational purposes. The business side of Otto lieit's life was chieflv concerned with lus directorships of the British South A l 'rica Company and Rhodesia Railways. Ltd. During; the World War, however, he way a zealous hospital worker, and he always showed that his interest in the alleviation of human suffering was very wide and practical. He founded tho Heit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research and was a member of the govern inn body of the Imperial Colleger of Science and Technology, and a trustee of the Rhodes Trust. Tho Imperial College and many other :n----stitutionx have hen"fited largely by the generosity which Otto Reit had shown in his desire to encourage research in science and medicine. fn November, IC2B. when the progress in the understanding of the of radium for the treatment of cancer led to a great demand for the rre-'ious remedy he contributed £;">0,(X!0 for the purchase of radium to be lent to hospitals in need of it. This sum was sufficient to buy four grammes—a spoonful—but a very lar "e quantity as radium goes. Shortly before th's he had given £13,000 in response to a Red Cross appeal for funds to establish a clinic for tho treatment of rheumatic diseases. He was given a baronetcy in 1924, and was an honorary LL.I>. of Cape Town I'Diversity and a Fellow of the Royal Society.] MR ANDREW WYLIE. (press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, December 8. Mr Andrew Wylie, barrister and solicitor, a well-ltrpwn old resident of Wellington, died suddenly yesterday at his Heretannga residence. Although lie had not been in good health for some time past, he was well enough on Saturday to take part in a game of golf. He was 70 years of age.