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Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Park

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Williams was closely associated, variously as an employee of, advisor to, and partner with
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Comité Spécial du Katanga (1900–1950). page 41, Cuypers publishing, Brussels, 327 pp.
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showing Robert Williams, a contract in his pocket, giving Portugal a railway line in
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until Rhodes's death in 1902. Williams planned and executed the creation of the
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In 1902, Williams took over the construction and completed the connection to
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in his many enterprises from the time of their first meeting in 1885 at the
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in 1928, of Park, Aberdeenshire. He also became a grand officer of the
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he bought Park House, a mansion with several hundred acres of land at
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Newspaper clippings about Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Park
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Robert's People: The Life of Sir Robert Williams, bart, 1860-1938
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Hutchinson, Robert Clarke; Martelli, George (1971).
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Robert Williams (disambiguation)

Celso Herminio
Lobito
Aberdeen
JP
DL
Scottish
Africa
copper
Katanga Province
Democratic Republic of Congo
Northern Rhodesia
Zambia
Aberdeen
Cecil Rhodes
De Beers
diamond mine
Kimberley
Benguela railway
Portuguese West Africa
Angola

Luau
Belgian Congo
Tanganyika Concessions
Compagnie de Chemin de fer du Katanga
King Leopold II
Union Minière du Haut-Katanga
World War I

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