John Feeney newspaper proprietor and philanthropist, was one of a proprietor of the Birmingham Post

Birmingham Post

The Birmingham Post newspaper was originally published under the name Daily Post in Birmingham, England, in 1857 by John Frederick Feeney. It was the largest selling broadsheet in the West Midlands, though it faced little if any competition in this category. It changed to tabloid size in 2008...

, in partnership with John Jaffray

John Jaffray

Sir John Jaffray, 1st Baronet was a Scottish journalist and newspaper proprietor.Born in Stirling, he moved to Birmingham in 1844, to work for John Frederick Feeney on the Birmingham Journal, and became a partner in it in 1852. Together they founded the Birmingham Daily Post, in 1857...

 (later Sir John Jaffray, baronet) in succession to his father John Frederick Feeney

John Frederick Feeney

John Frederick Feeney was an Irish journalist and newspaper proprietor.Spending most of his adult life in Birmingham, England, he owned the Birmingham Journal and, with John Jaffray, founded the Birmingham Post. He emigrated from Sligo, Ireland in 1836 to the UK via Liverpool and changed the...

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In his will, he left most of his considerable fortune to charity, mostly for the benefit of the City of Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

. By this or in his lifetime:

• He provided £50,000 to provide a further gallery for Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
• He gave £20,000 to endowed a professorship in the University of Birmingham
  University of Birmingham
  The University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
  
  , which became that in Metallurgy
  Metallurgy
  Metallurgy is a domain of materials science that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys. It is also the technology of metals: the way in which science is applied to their practical use...
  
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• He gave nine-hundredths of the residue to establish the John Feeney Charitable Trust, which exists for the benefit of:
  • The Public Charities in the City of Birmingham
  • The promotion and cultivation of Art in the city
  • The acquisition and manitenace of public parks, recreation ground, and open spaces in or near the city.