Pol Clovis Boël

Pol-Clovis Boël
Pol-Clovis Boël
Born	Pol-Clovis, Baron Boël; 2 August 1868; Saint-Vaast, Belgium
Died	13 July 1941 (aged 72); Brussels, Belgium
Nationality	Belgium
Occupation	industrialist, politician

Pol-Clovis, Baron Boël (2 August 1868 – 13 July 1941) was a Belgian industrialist, Director of the Usines Gustave Boël in La Louvière, and liberal politician.

Born in Saint-Vaast, he was a son of Gustave Boël. He married Marthe de Kerchove de Denterghem. They had 4 children (3 boys and 1 girl): René Boël (1899–1990) married first Yvonne Solvay (1896–1930) and later Mathilde de Jonghe (1909 - 2008); Max Boël (1901 - 1975) married Anne Guinotte); Lucien Boël (1903 - 1999) married Micheline Mallet; and their daughter Marie-Anne Boël (1909 - 1996) married Charles-Emmanuel Janssen. Pol-Clovis youngest sister Eva Ernestine Boël (1883–1956) married Felix Goblet d'Alviella.

Career

When Gustave Boël died in 1912, his son Pol-Clovis carried on the diversification of the family business. One of his most prominent successes in this area was in chemicals with the Société anonyme de fabrication des engrais azoté (Safea) (nitrate fertilizers). Pol-Clovis also invested in Union Chimique Belge (UCB), founded by Emmanuel Janssen (the father of his son-in-law Charles-Emmanuel Janssen), and in Solvay, founded by Ernest Solvay, the grandfather of his daughter-in-law Yvonne Solvay.

In 1928, Pol-Clovis Boël founded a financial entity: l'Union financière Boël, ancestor of several financial holdings, such as Sofina, Henex, Glaces de Moustier-sur-Sambre. After World War I, \Boël entered the world of Belgian finance, taking part in the creation of the Bank of Brussels and the Société Générale de Belgique. In 1929, he was granted the title of baron by King Albert I of Belgium.

Pol Clovis died in Brussels in 1941.

Sources

Dutrieue, Anne-Myriam, in : Kurgan-van Hentenrijk, Ginette, Jaumain, Serge, Montens, Valérie, ea, Dictionnaire des patrons en Belgique. Les hommes, les entreprises, les reseaux, Bruxelles, De Boeck and Larcier, 1996, p. 61-62.
Douxchamps, José, Présence nobiliaire au parlement belge (1830–1970). Notes généalogiques, Wépion-Namen, José Douxchamps, 2003, p. 13.

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