Gaston Saint-Paul de Sinçay | |
Birth Name: | Adrien Gaston Calley Saint-Paul de Sinçay |
Nationality: | Belgian |
Education: | Faculty of Law of Paris |
Occupation: | Industrialist |
Birth Date: | 9 July 1854 |
Birth Place: | Angleur, Belgium |
Death Place: | Brussels, Belgium |
Awards: | Officer of the Legion of Honour |
Adrien Gaston Calley Saint-Paul de Sinçay (9 July 1854 - 19 March 1938) was a Belgian industrialist and equestrian. He was appointed an officer of the Legion of Honour.[1]
Calley Saint-Paul de Sinçay was born in Angleur on 9 July 1854, into a family with French bourgeois roots. He studied at the Faculty of Law of Paris, graduating in 1879.
He joined the Société des Mines et Fonderies de Zinc de la Vieille-Montagne in 1877. He became secretary of the board of directors in 1884, and succeeded his father as managing director in 1890.[2]
Calley Saint-Paul de Sinçay was president of the Chambre Française de Commerce et de l'Industrie de Belgique.
Calley Saint-Paul de Sinçay competed in the equestrian mail coach event at the 1900 Summer Olympics.[3] [4]
He married a Russian countess, Hélène Bloudoff;[5] they had a daughter:
Calley Saint-Paul de Sinçay died in Brussels on 19 March 1938.[4]