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BIRMINGHAM.—The University has suffered a severe loss by the death of the Vice-Chancellor, Alderman Charles Gabriel Beale, at the early age of 69. Alderman Bjsale, who was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, was one of the most prominent citizens of Birmingham, having been elected to the mayoral chair no fewer than four times. He was mainly instrumental in carrying to a successful conclusion the great scheme for supplying the city with water from the Welsh mountains. He was, from the outset, a most energetic supporter of the movement for establishing a University in Birmingham, and was largely responsible for the working-out of the scheme, for which his legal training and experience qualified him in an unusual degree. When the University became an accomplished fact in 1900, his services to the cause were fittingly recognised by his appointment as the first Vice-Chancellor. His ideas were on a large scale, and he believed in the importance of associating the University with buildings which by their imposing size and appearance should appeal to local patriotism and serve to k-ep before the inhabitants of a great industrial centre fhe claims of higher education. Within the University he was known to the undergraduates for his special interest in their social welfare.
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University and Educational Intelligence. . Nature 90, 29–30 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090029b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/090029b0