Chuck Feeney obituary: Philanthropist who lived more like a Benedictine monk than a billionaire

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Born: April 23rd, 1931 Died: October 9th, 2023 Chuck Feeney was an Irish-American who made a fortune as a worldwide retailer of luxury goods, and then spent the last four decades of his life giving it all away, mostly in clandestine fashion. By the time of his death on October 9th, aged 92, he had donated more than $8 billion (€7.5 billion) to education, medical research, healthcare, ageing and civil society through his foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, in the United States, Ireland, Vietnam, Australia, Bermuda and South Africa. Feeney was unique as a major, global philanthropist in that he never...