Bertrand Philip, count of Gronsveld
Bertrand Philip, graaf van (count of) Gronsveld-van Diepenbroick-Impel (1712 – 1772) was a former Dutch envoy in Berlin to Frederick the Great. From 1749, he was a member of the Ridderschap of Holland, drost of Muiden and president of the Admiralty of Amsterdam. In 1749 he oversaw a proposal by stadholder William IV of a binding college. The Count of Gronsveld fell in 1758 at the instigation of Willem Bentinck van Rhoon.
Bertrand Philip then started a porcelain factory in Weesp with Louis Gerverot as a painter, the first porcelain factory in the Netherlands. However, it went bankrupt and its goods and clays were temporarily stored in the Muiderslot and then sold to the minister Joannes de Mol.
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- Gabriëls, A.J.C.M. (1990) De heren als dienaren en de dienaar als heer. Het stadhouderlijk stelsel in de tweede helft van de achttiende eeuw, p. 120-1, 170.
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