LC control no. | nr 96019582 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Pirie, Robert S. |
Birth date | 19340508 |
Death date | 20150115 |
Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
Field of activity | Consolidation and merger of corporations Investment banking Book collecting |
Profession or occupation | Corporate lawyers Investment bankers Book collectors |
Found in | Books 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) |