107:, chairman of the Rio Tinto Company, and Guillermo (Wilhelm) Sundheim he built up a railway line in Andalucia: The »Compañía del Ferrocarril de Zafra a Huelva«. Doetsch held a patent in Canada for an extraction process to remove copper from its ores, registered in September 1879, so he was involved in mining and production of copper in Río Tinto by the so-called »Doetsch process«. But the use of Teladas poisoned the air and many residents became ill or died. Henry Doetsch fell out with Hugh Matheson on the issue of supply of the Miners (Sundheim had left the RTCL in 1876). During an uprising of the miners in 1888 more than 100 civilians were killed by Spanish soldiers. Doetsch left Spain in autumn 1884, after he had invited his old friend »Fred« Burnaby to spend a month at Huelva. A few weeks later Burnaby gave up all his engagements, and fared forth for the Soudan. The three times offered title of a »Marqués de Río Tinto« by the Spanish King
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J. P. Richter, Ph. Dr., Catalogue of the Highly
Important Collection of Pictures by Old Masters of Henry Doetsch, Esq., deceased, late of 7 New Burlington Street, which (by Order of the Executers) will be sold by Auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods. 8 King Street, St. James Square (London
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In London Henry
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Abhandlungen. Zur vierhundertjährigen Feier der Entdeckung Amerikas: Natur und hervorragende Erzeugnisse Spaniens: Bergbau in der Provinz Huelva (Río Tinto). Leipzig, Engelmann, 1892
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Willmar-Doetsch from Frankfurt/Main, as volunteer a British company. A few years later he was founder of the »Firma Sundheim y Doetsch« in
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Zamorano: Huelva. La construcción de una ciudad. Excelentísimo Ayuntamiento de Huelva, Huelva, 1999.
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refused Enrique Doetsch. He was awarded the grand cross of the
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