Alfred, Count de Baillet Latour (1901 – 28 September 1980) was a Belgian count.
End of the House of Baillet
Alfred was the last grandson of
Ferdinand de Baillet-Latour,
Governor of Antwerp and a nephew of
Henri II, Count de Baillet-Latour (1876–1942): 3rd president of the International Olympic Committee.
His mother was viscountess
Antoinette de Spoelberch, and belonged to the owners of Artois holding. He started his professional career at the
Artois
Artois ( ; ; nl, Artesië; English adjective: ''Artesian'') is a region of northern France. Its territory covers an area of about 4,000 km2 and it has a population of about one million. Its principal cities are Arras (Dutch: ''Atrecht'') ...
brewery in 1936 and became its president in 1947.
He died without heirs, and the family fortune was, according to his will, used to found the
Artois-Baillet Latour Foundation.
Sources
* Francis Dierckxsens, ''Familie de Baillet-Latour. Van Bourgondië tot Brasschaat'', Brasschaat
Biografie van de familie de Baillet Latour
Counts of Baillet-Latour
20th-century Belgian businesspeople
Belgian philanthropists
1901 births
1980 deaths
20th-century philanthropists
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