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William Minet

1851 – 1933

British philanthropist

Philanthropist Large estate owner
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Lived 1851 – 1933 (aged 81–82). William Minet was a British philanthropist and large estate owner.

William Minet (1851–1933) was a British landowner and philanthropist, of Huguenot descent.

Early life He was the son of James Lewis Minet (1807–1885) and Elizabeth Iggulden, and a descendant of Isaac Minet (1660–1745), a Huguenot, who left France after the 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes to settle in London, and his grandson Hughes Minet (1731–1813).

Career Minet donated the 14½ acres that became London's Myatt's Fields Park in 1890.

Minet paid for the construction of the Minet Library, which was built in 1890, and housed Lambeth Archives until they moved to a purpose-built facility in 2024.

They had a daughter Susan (1884–1976), who inherited the family properties in Hayes and Camberwell, and the estate was administered from the Minet Estate Office in Brixton. On her death, the properties were inherited by a distant cousin, Peter Briffault Minet, and since his death in 1992, the remaining properties have been run by a charitable trust, the Minet Trust.

His second wife was Mary Rayner.

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British philanthropist

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William Minet was born in 1851.

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William Minet died in 1933.

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William Minet was a philanthropist and large estate owner.

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William Minet was British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: William Minet

· Wikidata: Q29913525

· DBpedia: William Minet

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