Lucas Bols to a stream. By 1612 the city's walls had expanded to encompass the distillery, and the stream was dug out into a canal called the because of rose nurseries in the area. Around the same time, a new stone building was constructed to house the distillery. The first official mention is in 1640 in Amsterdam town papers, where "Pieter Jacobszoon Bols" is documented as operator of "t Lootsje" on the "Rozengracht". Lucas Bols was born in 1652. His era corresponded with the Dutch golden age, when the Netherlands were a colonial power, and led the world in international commerce. The
Louis Bols Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner of Palestine, in an often-quoted document: In 1921 he was made Colonel of the Devonshire Regiment. From 1927 to his death he was Governor of Bermuda. He died in 1930 in a Bath nursing home. He had married Augusta Blanche Strickland; their son was Major-General Eric Louis Bols. Louis Bols Lieutenant General Sir Louis Jean Bols (23 November 1867 – 13 September 1930, Bath) was a distinguished British military officer who served as Edmund Allenby's Third Army Chief of Staff on the Western front and Sinai and Palestine campaigns of World War I.