People/financier, victim

Woolf Joel

Woolf Joel, financier, victim, from United Kingdom. Linked to gold.

The lucky break

Took over management of the business affairs of his uncle Barney Barnato after Barnato's death in 1897.1

The downfall

Assassinated at Johannesburg in March 1898 and buried at Willesden on 19 April.1

Legacy

Nephew of Barney Barnato. His brother S. B. Joel sat on the Johannesburg reform committee after the Jameson raid.1

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Where next

People

FamilyBarney BarnatoThe nephew who inherited Barnato's empire was shot dead within a year.1

Sources

  1. Barnato, Barnett Isaacs Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement (public-domain text on Wikisource), article by A. F. Pollard

Pictures on this page: Barney Barnato00.jpg, Unknown author (Public domain).

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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