Dutch billionaire conservationist dies
Billionaire Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, one of Scotland’s wealthiest foreign residents, who owned an 80,000-acre estate, has died of cancer, his personal secretary said today. He was 65.
Van Vlissingen resigned as chairman of SHV Holdings NV after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in May 2005 and returned to his castle in Langbroek, Netherlands, from his estate in Scotland.