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See also:LAMBERMONT, AUGUSTE, See also:BARON (1819-1905) , Belgian statesman, was See also:born at See also:Dion-le-Val in See also:Brabant on the 25th of See also:March 1819. He came of a See also:family of small See also:farmer proprietors, who had held See also:land during three centuries. He was intended for the priesthood and entered the See also:seminary of Floreffe, but his energies claimed a more active See also:sphere. He See also:left the monastery for See also:Louvain University. Here he studied See also:law, and also prepared himself for the military See also:examinations. At that juncture the first Carlist See also:war See also:broke out, and Lambermont hastened to the See also:scene of See also:action. His services were accepted (See also:April 1838) and he was entrusted with the command of two small See also:cannon. He also acted as A.D.C. to See also:Colonel See also:Durando. He greatly distinguished himself, and for his intrepidity on one occasion he was decorated with the See also:Cross of the highest military See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order of St See also:Ferdinand. Returning to See also:Belgium he entered the See also:Ministry for See also:Foreign Affairs in 1842. He served in this See also:department sixty-three years. He was closely associated with several of the most important questions in Belgian See also:history during the last See also:half of the 19th See also:century—notably the freeing of the See also:Scheldt. He was one of the very first Belgians to see the importance of developing the See also:trade of their See also:country, and at his own See also:request he was attached to the commercial See also:branch of the foreign See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office. The tolls imposed by the Dutch on See also:navigation on the Scheldt strangled Belgian trade, for See also:Antwerp was the only See also:port of the country. The Dutch had the right to make this See also:levy under See also:treaties going back to the treaty of See also:Munster in 1648, and they clung to it still more tenaciously after Belgium separated herself in 183o-1831 from the See also:united See also:kingdom of the See also:Netherlands—the See also:London See also:conference in 1839 fixing the See also:toll payable to See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland at 1.5o florins (3s.) per ton. From 1856 to 1863 Lambermont devoted most of his energies to the removal of this impediment. In 1856 he See also:drew up a See also:plan of action, and he prosecuted it with untiring perseverance until he saw it embodied in an See also:international See also:convention seven years later. Twenty-one See also:powers and states attended a conference held on the question at See also:Brussels in 1863, and on the 15th of See also:July the treaty freeing the Scheldt was signed. For this achievement Lambermont was made a baron. Among other important conferences in which Lambermont took a leading See also:part were those of Brussels (1874) on the usages of war, See also:Berlin (1884-1885) on See also:Africa and the See also:Congo region, and Brussels (189o) on Central See also:African Affairs and the Slave Trade. He was See also:joint reporter with Baron de Courcel of the Berlin conference in 1884-1885, and on several occasions he was chosen as arbitrator by one or other of the See also:great See also:European powers. But his great achievement was the freeing of the Scheldt, and in token of its gratitude the See also:city of Antwerp erected a See also:fine See also:monument to his memory. He died on the 7th of March 1905.
End of Article: LAMBERMONT, AUGUSTE, BARON (1819-1905)
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