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Belgian businessman
Viscount
Philippe de Spoelberch
(23 May 1941) is a
Belgian
businessman and
dendrologist
.
Family
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He is the son of Vicomte Werner de Spoelberch (1902-1987) and Eleonore de Haas de Teichen (1916). He is married to Diane,
Vicomtesse de Jonghe d'Ardoye
.
Career
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He is an administrator of the
InBev-Baillet Latour Fund
,
[1]
and a former member of the board of the
Brazilian conglomerate
InBev
, one of the biggest breweries in the world. With an estimated fortune of more than three
billion
euros
, he is one of Belgium's wealthiest people.
A keen
gardener
he is president of the
Belgische Dendrologie Belge
.
[2]
He is also President of the International Dendrology Society. He was awarded the
Veitch Memorial Medal
of the
Royal Horticultural Society
in 2003.
[3]
In 2007 he donated the
Arboretum Wespelaar
to the Foundation Arboretum Wespelaar, which was set up to guarantee the future of the collections and arrange for their opening to the public in 2011.
Bibliography
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- Bomen in Belgie : dendrologische inventaris 1987 - 1992 / Jean-Claude Baudouin, Philippe de Spoelberch, Jef Van Meulder. -Brussel : Stichting Spoelberch-Artois, 1992
- Arboretum Robert Lenoir : molen van Bardonwez te Rendeux / Philippe de Spoelberch, Jean-Claude Baudouin
References
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- ^
"Acceuil"
. inbevbailletlatour.com
. Retrieved
13 September
2013
.
- ^
Architectural digest 1985- Volume 42 - Page 22 "Every man should have a hobby, something besides his business", he declares. See page 80. Gardens: Woodland Domain Vicomte Philippe de Spoelberch tends his twelve-acre garden at
Herkenrode
, outside Brussels, with only the help of"
- ^
"RHS Green Manual"
. RHS. Archived from
the original
on 4 March 2016
. Retrieved
23 December
2016
.
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