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Willem Frederik Lamoraal Boissevain (1852–1919) was a Dutch colonial administrator in the
After sixteen years of service he became assistant-resident of Blora (1890), and then swapped this district for the districts Berbek (1892), Toeban (1897) and Toeloeng Agoeng (1899). Mainly in the districts of Blora and Toeban did he have the opportunity to show himself to be a good policeman. More than 28 years passed after his entrance into office before Boissevain was appointed as resident of Madioen. After 4 years of having ruled the Madioen district, Boissevain was called away by the government in 1907, to the more developed district Preanger-Regencies.
Boissevain Family
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Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...
. He was a member of the Boissevain family
Boissevain is the name of a Dutch patrician family of Huguenot origin.
History
The family originates from the Dordogne in France.
Lucas Bouyssavy (1660–1705) appears to have been the founder of today's Boissevain family.
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Boissevain was born in Arnhem, Netherlands
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on November 28, 1852. He began working in the Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...
in 1874, and became controller in the districts of Japara and Cheribon.
Early life
After sixteen years of service he became assistant-resident of Blora (1890), and then swapped this district for the districts Berbek (1892), Toeban (1897) and Toeloeng Agoeng (1899). Mainly in the districts of Blora and Toeban did he have the opportunity to show himself to be a good policeman. More than 28 years passed after his entrance into office before Boissevain was appointed as resident of Madioen. After 4 years of having ruled the Madioen district, Boissevain was called away by the government in 1907, to the more developed district Preanger-Regencies.
Colonial government
For four years, from 1907 until 1911 (only interrupted by a half year leave to Europe, while retaining his position), he oversaw the district. The ruling of the Preanger people had slowly gone slack, business was merely sustained; administration was kept, but it wasn’t governed and among the local bureaucrats a sort of family-government was created with disastrous results. Boissevain put an end to this and when he resigned in 1911, he could hand over the governing of the district to his successor in a much better condition than in which he had received it.Retirement
After retiring Boissevain oversaw the affairs of the corps Internal Affairs, as he was on the committee of the Union of Civil Servants in Internal Affairs for quite a while. He applied for retirement early in 1911, at 58 years of age. As resident of Madioen he received the Cross of the Dutch Lion.External links
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References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boissevain, Willem Frederik Lomoraal Royal Netherlands Army personnel People from the Dutch East Indies 1852 births 1919 deaths People from Arnhem Willem Frederik Lomoraal