Gaston van of Werve and Schilde

Gaston , Baron van of Werve and Schilde (1867 - 1923).

The baron Gaston van of Werve and Schilde is the son of the Baron Henri and Jeanne De Béthisy. He married in 1890 with Lombise Francoise Of Boëssière-Thiennes, girl of the Marquis Gaetan and the Comtesse Louise of Lannoy and of the Holy roman Empire.

In 1893 it is named to advise provincial for the canton of Zandhoven. In 1912 he became governor of the Province of Antwerp.

August 4th 1914, Belgium is invaded and Zivilverwaltung dislocates it its functions and consigns it like hostage in his hotel. Deprived of the exercise of the capacity, the Baron Gaston makes of his hotel a patriotic hearth of resistance and good works. The finished war, it takes again the performance of its duties of Governor.

In these years of rebuilding of the city if tested by acts of war, the activity of the Governor was considerable. It chairs and attends any patriotic demonstration, studies with the greatest care the great questions of provincial interest. Its speeches with the opening of the sessions of the Provincial Council are repertories of fertile ideas and projects useful: annexation of left bank of the Scheldt and installation of the Polder of Borgerweert, electrification of the province, generalized establishment of the distribution of water and the sewers. Organization of the agricultural vocational training and, improvement of the mode of the roads and the channels, acquisition of the field of Rivierenhof, etc It had also to chair the organization of the Olympic Games of Antwerp in 1920.

The Baron Gaston van of Werve and Schilde died on August 18th 1923 with 17:15 of a congestion célébrale. The death of a Governor of province in function required national funeral. They took place on August 23rd, 1923 in the Cathédrale Notre-Dame of Antwerp.

It belongs to the Maison van of Werve

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