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Calouste Gulbenkian
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development and is credited with being the first person to exploit Iraqi oil. Following the "Red Line Agreement", a fixed 5% of the shares of the Turkish Petroleum Company were to be consistently owned by him, for which he earned…
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business · British-Armenian businessman (1869–1955) · businessperson · entrepreneur · engineer · diplomat · patron of the arts · adventurer · smuggler · art collector · writer · also Calouste Gulbenkian, Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, Calouste S. Gulbenkian, Gulbenkian
Born 23 March 1869 · Died 20 July 1955 · Q345538
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1956· 1 entry
By his bequest and continues to promote arts, charity, education, and science throughout the world
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1955· 1 entry
Died 1955-07-20.
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1952· 1 entry
Refused being appointed as Knight Commander, and therefore the possibility of being styled as Sir, to the Order of the British Empire
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ (1950).
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1938· 1 entry
Before the beginning of World War II, Gulbenkian incorporated a Panamanian company to hold his assets in the oil industry
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1937· 1 entry
Gulbenkian purchased a property near Deauville and called it Les Enclos
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1936· 1 entry
When he lent thirty paintings to the National Gallery, London, and his Egyptian sculpture to the British Museum
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1930· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1930–1932).
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1929· 1 entry
Was the chief benefactor to the establishment of an extensive library at the St
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1912· 1 entry
Gulbenkian was the driving force behind the creation of the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC)—a consortium of the largest European oil companies aimed at cooperatively procuring oil exploration and development rights in th
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1907· 1 entry
Helped arrange the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company with "Shell" Transport and Trading Company Ltd
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1897· 1 entry
Where he arranged deals in the oil business
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1896· 1 entry
Gulbenkian and his family fled the empire due to the Hamidian massacres of Armenians
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1887· 3 entries
At the age of 18 with a first-class degree in engineering and applied sciences
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Studied at King's College London (1887).
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Had Calouste prepare an oil survey of Mesopotamia
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1884· 1 entry
When he moved to Marseille at the age of 15 to perfect his French at a high school there
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1879· 1 entry
Sarkis acquired the lucrative collection of taxes for the Privy Purse of Mesopotamia
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1869· 1 entry
Born 1869-03-23.
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