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    Cornelius de Vos or de Vois or Devosse (fl. 1565-1585), was a Dutch or Flemish mine entrepreneur and mineral prospector working in England and Scotland...
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    net worth of $5.1 billion. DeVos was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Ethel Ruth (Dekker) and Simon Cornelius DeVos, Dutch Americans who worked...
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    Dutch miner Cornelius de Vos, a shareholder in the English Company of Mines Royal, came to Scotland in 1566 to prospect for gold. De Vos went to consult...
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    Cornelis de Vos (1584 - 9 May 1651) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and art dealer. He was one of the leading portrait painters in Antwerp and is best...
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    the English painter Nicholas Hilliard. With a painter or prospector, Cornelius de Vos, Bronckhorst went to Scotland to invest in gold mining, meeting Regent...
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  • and then was not resumed until around 1695. One of the German miners Cornelius de Vos left to set up gold mines in Scotland. In July 1594 Emanuel Hochstetter...
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    which was used to make the Scottish Crown. Early gold miners included Cornelius de Vos, George Bowes, and Bevis Bulmer. Wanlockhead became known as "God's...
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  • probably hearing of the work of George Douglas of Parkhead and of Cornelius de Vos who had strong links with the mines in Keswick. He wrote in 1603 that...
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    Around the year 1574 Hilliard invested in a gold mine in Scotland with Cornelius de Vos and lost money. In 1599 Hilliard secured an annual allowance from the...
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  • 1st Earl of Leicester William Humfrey of the Mint Benedict Spinola Cornelius de Vos Jeffrey Duckett Richard Springham, alderman James Blount, 6th Baron...
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