Dutch governors of Zeylan - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The following is a list of Dutch governors of Zeylan. The Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

arrived on the island of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

on 2 May 1639 and parts of the island were incorporated as a Dutch colony by the name of Zeylan

Dutch period in Ceylon

Ceylon was a governorate of the Dutch East India Company between 1658 and 1798 on the island currently known as Sri Lanka.In the early 17th century, Sri Lanka was partly ruled by the Portuguese and the Sinhala kingdom, who were constantly battling each other...

on 12 May 1656. The first Dutch Governor, Willem Jacobszoon Coster was appointed on 13 Mar 1640.

List of Governors (13 Mar 1640–16 Feb 1796)

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Governor From	Governor Until	Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Willem Jacobszoon Coster	-	1640	13 March 1640	1 August 1640	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Jan Thyszoon Payart	-	-	1 August 1640	24 March 1646	No Sovereign
	Joan Maetsuyker	14 October 1606	24 January 1678	24 March 1646	26 February 1650	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Jacob van Kittensteyn	-	-	26 February 1650	11 October 1653	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Adriaan van der Meyden	-	-	11 October 1653	12 May 1660	No Sovereign
	Rijckloff van Goens Rijckloff van Goens Rijckloff van Goens was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1678-1681. He wrote extensively about his travels to Ceylon and India....	1619	1682	12 May 1660	1661	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Adriaan van der Meyden (2nd time)	-	-	1661	1663	No Sovereign
	Rijckloff van Goens Rijckloff van Goens Rijckloff van Goens was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1678-1681. He wrote extensively about his travels to Ceylon and India.... (2nd time) (Semiannual)	1619	1682	1663	1663	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Jacob Hustaert	-	-	27 December 1663	19 November 1664	No Sovereign
	Rijckloff van Goens Rijckloff van Goens Rijckloff van Goens was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1678-1681. He wrote extensively about his travels to Ceylon and India.... (3rd time) (Semiannual)	1619	1682	19 November 1664	1675	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Ryklof van Goens de jonge	-	-	1675	1680	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Laurens Peil	-	-	3 December 1680	19 June 1693	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Thomas van Rhee	-	-	19 June 1693	29 January 1695	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Paulus van Rhoo	-	-	29 January 1695	22 February 1697	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Gerrit de Heere	1657	1702	22 February 1697	26 November 1702	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Cornelis Joannes Simonszoon (or Simonsz)	-	-	11 May 1703	22 November 1707	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Hendrik Bekker	-	-	22 November 1707	5 December 1716	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Isaak Augustyn Rumpf	-	-	5 December 1716	21 June 1723	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Arnold Mold (acting)	-	-	21 June 1723	12 January 1724	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Johannes Hertenberg	-	-	12 January 1724	19 October 1725	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Jan Paulus Schagen (acting)	-	-	19 October 1725	16 September 1726	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Petrus Vuyst	-	1729	16 September 1726	27 August 1729	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Stephanus Versluys	-	-	27 August 1729	25 August 1732	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Gualterus Woutersz (acting)	-	-	25 August 1732	2 December 1732	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Jacob Christian Pielaat (Commissioner)	-	-	2 December 1732	27 January 1734	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Diederik van Domburg (or Domburch)	-	1736	27 January 1734	7 June 1736	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Jan Maccare (acting)	-	-	7 June 1736	23 July 1736	No Sovereign
	Gustaaf Willem baron van Imhoff Gustaaf Willem baron van Imhoff Gustaaf Willem, Baron van Imhoff was the governor of Ceylon and then the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch East India Company .-Early years:...	8 August 1705	1 November 1750	23 July 1736	12 March 1740	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Willem Maurits Bruyninck	-	-	12 March 1740	8 January 1742	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Daniel Overbeek	-	-	8 January 1742	11 May 1743	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Julius Valentyn Stein van Gollenesse	-	-	11 May 1743	6 May 1751	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Gerard Joan Vreeland	-	-	6 May 1751	26 February 1752	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Jacob de Jong (acting)	-	-	26 February 1752	10 September 1752	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Joan Gideon Loten Joan Gideon Loten right\|150 px\|thumb\|Medallion with the portrait of Joan Gideon Loten.Joan Gideon Loten was a Dutch servant in the colonies of the Dutch East India Company , Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London...	16 May 1710	25 February 1789	10 September 1752	17 March 1757	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Jan Schreuder	-	-	17 March 1757	17 September 1762	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Lubbert Jan baron van Eck	1719	1765	17 September 1762	13 May 1765	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Anthony Mooyart (acting)	-	-	13 May 1765	7 August 1765	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Iman Willem Falck	1736	1785	7 August 1765	5 February 1785	No Sovereign
	Edward Hughes (British Commander)	1720	1794	8 January 1782	30 August 1782	British military control
	Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez Admiral comte Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, bailli de Suffren , French admiral, was the third son of the marquis de Saint Tropez, head of a family of nobles of Provence which claimed to have emigrated from Lucca in the 14th century... (French Commander)	1729	1788	30 August 1782	January 1784	French military control
\|align="center"\|Willem Jacob van de Graaf	-	1794	7 February 1785	15 July 1794	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Johan Gerard van Angelbeek	1727	1799	15 July 1794	16 February 1796	No Sovereign

List of Military Governors (Aug 1795–12 Oct 1798)

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Governor From	Governor Until
\|align="center"\|Patrick Alexander Agnew (in Trincomalee Trincomalee Trincomalee is a port city in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka and lies on the east coast of the island, about 113 miles south of Jaffna. It has a population of approximately 100,000 . The city is built on a peninsula, which divides the inner and outer harbours. Overlooking the Kottiyar Bay,... )	1765	1813	Aug 1795	1 Mar 1796	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|James Stewart	-	-	1 Mar 1796	1 Jan 1797	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Welbore Ellis Doyle Welbore Ellis Doyle -Military Service:Welbore Ellis Doyle was born in 1758 in Dublin, brother of John Doyle. He joined the army in 1770 as an Ensign in the 55th Foot, and was promoted Lieutenant in September 1773. He served in North America with his brother from 1775, seeing action in the American War of Independence....	1758	1797	1 Jan 1797	2 Jul 1797	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Peter Bonnevaux	c.1752	1797	2 Jul 1797	12 Jul 1797	No Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Pierre Frédéric de Meuron	1788	1813	12 Jul 1797	12 Oct 1798	No Sovereign

Resident of Zeylan (12 Feb 1796 - 12 Oct 1798)

Portrait	Name	Birth	Death	Resident From	Resident Until	Sovereign
\|align="center"\|Robert Andrews	-	-	12 Feb 1796	12 Oct 1798	No Sovereign

List of Governors (13 Mar 1640–16 Feb 1796)

List of Military Governors (Aug 1795–12 Oct 1798)

Resident of Zeylan (12 Feb 1796 - 12 Oct 1798)

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