Industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. Born Dunfermline, Scotland in a one-room cottage. 1848 the family emigrated to Pennsylvania, USA. Only about 5 feet in height and garrulous, Carnegie entered the business world and became extremely wealthy, mainly through his steel empire. In the early 1900s he sold the Carnegie Steel Company for a huge amount of money which he then used for his philanthropic career. Unusually he was not motivated by religion but by social values.
His gifts included 3,000 public libraries ( lists over 20 in London), mainly in English-speaking countries. He also created a number of institutions in Dunfermline and Scotland generally. We've searched for, but not found, a list of the gifts that he made in London.
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