Intimations of Mortality Slit,-Mr Alan Brien seeks information about Julius
Beer, whose mausoleum be has discovered in High- gate Cemetery.
Julius Beer died of apoplexy in Mentone. He was buried at Highgate Cemetery on March 8, 1880, the funeral leaving 27 Portland Place 'at eleven o'clock precisely.' He was born in Frankfurt in 1836. He became the proprietor of the Observer in 1870, and the paper passed to his son, F. A. Beer, on his death.
F. A. Beer married Rachel Sassoon, and she in due course acquired the Sunday Times. This remark- able woman edited both the Observer and the Sunday Times, but eventually suffered a mental breakdown. Mr Siegfried Sassoon, whose aunt she was, describes her in The Old Century (Faber, 1938).
Julius Beer was a financier. I do not know whether he was, as Mr Brien suggests, a diamond merchant as well. He is supposed to have been a close friend of Gladstone.
If any of your readers can add to this information, I-like Mr Brien-would like to know more. In particular, I should like to hear of any portrait or
Director and Manager 'The Observer,' 160 Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4
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