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. Bruijninck was the oldest son of Wilhelmina Verwitt and Peter Bruijninck, ''voogd'' (custodian/governor) of Lichtenvoorde for the lord of

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and Borculo. 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

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n West Coast and commissary of the silver and gold mines of Salida near Padang. He was married to Hermina Helena Tolling.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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bruijnink, Willem Maurits 1689 births Year of death unknown 18th-century Dutch people Dutch expatriates in Sri Lanka Governors of Dutch Ceylon People from Lichtenvoorde Dutch East India Company people