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| Governors-General of the Dutch East Indies: | Pieter Both (1610-1614): the first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Not much is known of his early years. In 1599, Both was already an admiral in the New, ... Gerard Reynst (1614-1615): a Dutch merchant, father of a museum curator, and later the second Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. On the request of his elders i... Laurens Reael (1615-1619): an employee of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1616 to 1619 and an admiral of the Dutch n... more | Pieter Both (1610-1614): the first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Not much is known of his early years. In 1599, Both was already an admiral in the New, ... Gerard Reynst (1614-1615): a Dutch merchant, father of a museum curator, and later the second Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. On the request of his elders i... Laurens Reael (1615-1619): an employee of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1616 to 1619 and an admiral of the Dutch n... Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1619-1623): an officer of the Dutch East India Company in Indonesia (VOC) in the early seventeenth century, holding two terms as its Governor-General of... Pieter de Carpentier (1623-1627): a Dutch, administrator of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) who served as Governor-General there from 1623 to 1627. The Gulf of Carpentaria... Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1627-1629): an officer of the Dutch East India Company in Indonesia (VOC) in the early seventeenth century, holding two terms as its Governor-General of... Jacques Specx (1629-1632): a Dutch merchant, who founded the trade on Japan and Korea in 1609. Jacques Specx received the support of William Adams to obtain extensive ... Hendrik Brouwer (1632-1636): a Dutch explorer, admiral, and colonial administrator both in Japan and the Dutch East Indies. He is thought to first have sailed to the Eas... Anthony van Diemen (1636-1645): a Dutch colonial governor. In 1616 he moved to Amsterdam, in hope of improving his fortune as a merchant; in this he failed and was declared... Cornelis van der Lijn (1645-1650): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1646 until 1650. He went, in 1627, as Assistant to Batavia, Dutch East Indies aboard the Wap... Carel Reyniersz (1650-1653): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1650 until 1653. He left for the Indies in 1627 as Upperbuyer (opperkoopman) on the Dutch Co... Joan Maetsuycker (1653-1678): the Governor of Zeylan during the Dutch period in Ceylon and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1653 to 1678. He was appointed a... Rijcklof van Goens (1678-1681): the Governor of Zeylan and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. He was the Governor of Zeylan from 12 May 1660 to 1661, then in 1663 a... Cornelis Speelman (1681-1684): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1681 to 1684. In his 16th year, he left aboard the Hillegersberg for the Indies. He was emplo... Johannes Camphuys (1684-1691): the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1684 to 1691. Camphuys was born in Haarlem, in the Republic of the United Netherlands. In... Willem van Outhoorn (1691-1704): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1691 to 1704. He was born and died in the Dutch East Indies. His father was a Dutch East Ind... Joan van Hoorn (1704-1709): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1704 until 1709. In 1665, when he was still only 12 years old, Joan van Hoorn was already Und... Abraham van Riebeeck (1709-1713): a merchant with the Dutch East India Company and the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1709 to 1713. After his studies, he beca... Christoffel van Swoll (1713-1718): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 17 November 1713 until his death. On 19 December 1683, he left for Batavia on board the Juff... Hendrick Zwaardecroon (1718-1725): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1718 until 1725. Zwaardecroon left for the East Indies as a midshipman aboard the Purmer in ... Mattheus de Haan (1725-1729): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1725 to 1729. On 26 October 1671 he left for the Indies, where his father had been appointed ... Diederik Durven (1729-1732): a Dutch colonial administrator and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1729 to 1732. Durven studied Law at Leiden University wher... Dirck van Cloon (1732-1735): Eurasian Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. He died of malaria at the age of 46. He was born in Batavia sometime in 1684. For his e... Abraham Patras (1735-1737): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 11 March 1735 until 3 May 1737. He was born in Grenoble of a refugee French Huguenot family.... Adriaan Valckenier (1737-1741): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1737 to 1741. Mainly remembered for his involvement in the 1740 Batavia massacre, Valckenier ... Johannes Thedens (1741-1743): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 6 November 1741 until 28 May 1743.
Thedens, born in a largely Dutch settlement in Friedrich... Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff (1743-1750): a Dutch colonial administrator for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He served as Governor of Ceylon from 1736 to 1740 and as Governor-Gen... Jacob Mossel (1750-1761): went from being a common sailor to become Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1750 to 1761. He was of noble birth, born in Enkhui... Petrus Albertus van der Parra (1761-1775): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1761 to 1775. In 1728, he began his career at fourteen years old. As everyone had to start a... Jeremias van Riemsdijk (1775-1777): a Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1775 to 1777. He entered service with the Dutch ... Reynier de Klerck (1777-1780): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1778 until 1780. De Klerk's date of birth is not known but he was baptised on 19 November 17... Willem Arnold Alting (1780-1796): a Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1780 to 1797. Born in Groningen, Alting studied ... Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten (1796-1801): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1796 until 1801. He was the last Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company, which was... Johannes Siberg (1801-1805): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1801 to 1805, during which time control of the Dutch Indies passed from the Dutch East India ... Albertus Henricus Wiese (1805-1808): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1805 to 1808, during which time the United Provinces became, during the French Revolutionary... Herman Willem Daendels (1808-1811): a Dutch politician who served as the 36th Governor General of the Dutch East Indies between 1808 and 1811. Louis Bonaparte made Daendels col... Jan Willem Janssens (1811): a Dutch nobleman, soldier and statesman who served both as the governor of the Cape Colony and governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. Bo... Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1811): a Scottish diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1776 and 1795. He was viceroy of the short-lived Anglo-Corsican K... Stamford Raffles (1811-1816): a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his f... Stamford Raffles (1816): a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his f... Godert van der Capellen (1816-1826): a Dutch statesman from Utrecht. He was made Prefect of Friesland in 1808 and soon thereafter Minister of the Interior and a member of the Pr... Leonard du Bus de Gisignies (1826-1830): a soldier and politician in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. He was born as Leonard Pierre Joseph Dubus, but on 14 June 1822, de Gisig... Johannes van den Bosch (1830-1833): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1830–1833), commander of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, Minister of Colonies, and Min... Jean Chretien Baud (1833-1836): Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1833 until 1836. He was a civil servant and politician who served under William I and Willia... Dominique Jacques de Eerens (1836-1840): a Dutch major general, politician and administrator, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and knight of the Military William Order. He ... Carel Sirardus Willem van Hogendorp (1840-1841): acting Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies in 1840–1841. After having distinguished himself in a mutiny on the warship Neptunus, he... Pieter Merkus (1841-1844): a Dutch colonial administrator and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1841 to 1844. He also served as governor of the Molucca Is... Joan Cornelis Reynst (1844-1845): acting Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies in 1844–1845. Jan Jacob Rochussen (1845-1851): a Dutch politician. He served as Finance Minister from 1840 to 1843 and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1845 to 1851. He serv... Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist (1851-1856): the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1851 to 1856. In the middle of the nineteenth century led the moderate liberals (moderate... Charles Ferdinand Pahud (1856-1861): the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies in 1856–1861. Cinchona pahudiana, the variety of C. calisaya introduced to the Dutch East In... less | ||
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