Willem Maurits Bruyninck
Willem Maurits Bruyninck | |
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25th Governor of Zeylan | |
In office 12 March 1740 – 8 January 1742 | |
Preceded by | Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff |
Succeeded by | Daniel Overbeek |
Willem Maurits Bruijninck (also Bruyninck, Bruijnink, Bruinink, Bruninck, etc.) (24 January 1689 Lichtenvoorde - ?) was the 25th Governor of Ceylon during the Dutch period in Ceylon. He was appointed on 12 March 1740 and was Governor until 8 January 1742. He was succeeded by Daniel Overbeek.[1]
Bruijninck was the oldest son of Wilhelmina Verwitt and Peter Bruijninck, voogd (custodian/governor) of Lichtenvoorde for the lord of Bronckhorst and Borculo.[2] Willem Maurits joined the Dutch East India Company and had risen to opperkoopman ("upper-merchant") before 1735. From 1735 to 1737 he was Governor of the Sumatran West Coast and commissary of the silver and gold mines of Salida near Padang.[3] He was married to Hermina Helena Tolling.[4]
References
- ^ Cahoon, Ben. "Dutch Governors". Worldstatesmen. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
- ^ G. Karsenberg, Peter Bruninck uit Lichtenvoorde
- ^ "Generale missiven van gouverneurs-generaal en raden aan heren XVII der Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie".
- ^ F.H. de Vos, Portraits of Dutch Governors of Ceylon, in The Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon, Volume V, Albion Press, Galle, 1912, pp. 14-18.
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Preceded by | Governor of Zeylan 1740-1742 | Succeeded by Daniel Overbeek |
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