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Pirie, Robert S

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Personal name headingPirie, Robert S.
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Birth date19340508
Death date20150115
Place of birthChicago (Ill.)
Place of deathManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activityConsolidation and merger of corporations Investment banking Book collecting
Profession or occupationCorporate lawyers Investment bankers Book collectors
Found inBooks and manuscripts from the collection of Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Pirie, 1963.
LC in RLIN, 5/23/1996 (hdg.: Pirie, Robert S.; usage: Robert S. Pirie)
New York times (online), viewed Jan. 29, 2015 (in obituary published Jan. 28: Robert S Pirie; b. May 8, 1934, Chicago; the initial "S" appears on his birth certificate although he had no middle name; d. Jan. 15, Manhattan, aged 80; combative corporate lawyer when the risky but lucrative field of mergers and acquisitions was emerging; later a prominent investment banker on Wall Street; maintained a large and widely noted library of thousands of books, many of them rare copies that have been put on exhibition)