Petrus Johannes Truter (17 December 1747, in
Cape Town – 31 January 1825, in
Swellendam,
Overberg) was an explorer and official in the (Dutch?)
East India Company, a Member of the Court of Justice, and a Commissioner of Police.
P.J. Truter was one of 14 children born to Jan Andries Truter and Maria Kuypermann. He married Johanna Ernestina Blankenberg on 18 April 1773, who bore him 7 children including
Anna Maria Truter
Anna Maria Truter, Lady Barrow (17 August 1777 – 15 December 1857) was a Cape Colony botanical artist. By the time she left the Cape in 1803, she had assembled the first known portfolio of Cape flower studies and landscapes. Her husband, Sir Jo ...
, who later became the wife of
Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet.
In 1801 P.J. Truter helped lead the
Truter-Somerville Expedition along with
William Somerville. The expedition included
John Barrow (who would later marry one of his daughters),
Samuel Daniell
Samuel Daniell (1775 – 16 December 1811) was an English painter of natural history and other scenes in Africa and Ceylon. He first went to South Africa in 1799.
Life
Daniell is perhaps best known as the appointed artist for a 1799-18 ...
, and missionaries Jan Matthys Kok and William Edwards.
References
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1747 births
1825 deaths
People from Cape Town