Elbert de Hochepied, 2nd Baron de Hochepied (6 January 1706 – 11 February 1763) was a

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politician and diplomat, who represented the

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at the

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Early life

Hochepied was born in Smyrna on 6 January 1706. He was the son of Clara Catharina Colyer (1657–1733) and Daniël Johan de Hochepied, 1st Baron de Hochepied (1657–1723), who was Dutch Consul at Smyrna, from 1688 to 1723. Among his siblings were Justinus Constantinus de Hochepied, Jacobus Byzantinus de Hochepied (who married Margarita Constantia van der Wielen), Daniël Alexander, Count de Hochepied (wife of Catherine Frémeaux), Petronella Jacoba de Hochepied (who married Gaspard de Fontenu), and Gertrude de Hochepied (wife of John Cooke, English Consul at Smyrna). His maternal grandparents were Maria Engelbert and Justinus Colyer, the Dutch Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1668 to 1782 (who was a half-brother to

Sir Alexander Colyear, 1st Baronet Sir Alexander Colyear, 1st Baronet (born Robertson alias Colyear) ( – ) was a Scottish gentleman who lived most of his life in the Netherlands. He was created a baronet in the Baronetage of England in 1677 and is the ancestor of the Earls of Port ...

). His uncle, Jacobus Colyer, was also the Dutch Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. His paternal grandparents were Geertruyd Spiegel and silk merchant Jan Baptista Bathiste de Hochepied,

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of Amsterdam. His uncle, Jan Baptista de Hochepied, married Agneta

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, a daughter of

Pieter de Graeff Pieter de Graeff (15 August 1638 – 3 June 1707), was a member of the De Graeff-family from the Dutch Golden Age. He was an Amsterdam Regent during the late 1660s and the early 1670s, and held the titles as Lord of the semi-sovereign Fief Zui ...

, republican minded aristocrat and Amsterdam

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, president-bewindhebber of the

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and brother-in-law of Grand Pensionary

Johan de Witt Johan de Witt (; 24 September 1625 – 20 August 1672), ''lord of Zuid- en Noord-Linschoten, Snelrewaard, Hekendorp en IJsselvere'', was a Dutch statesman and a major political figure in the Dutch Republic in the mid-17th century, the ...

Career

The title of Baron and Magnate was conferred on his father, with limitation to his issue, by letters patent of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, under the great seal of the

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, given at Vienna, at the 8th April 1704. In 1747, he succeeded Cornelis Calkoen to become the Dutch Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Hochepied served under stadtholders

William IV William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded h ...

(from 1747 to 1751) and

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(from 1751 to 1763) during the reign of sultans Mahmud I (from 1747 to 1754),

Osman III Osman III ( ota, عثمان ثالث ''Osmān-i sālis'';‎ 2 January 1699 – 30 October 1757) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 to 1757. Early life Osman III was born on 2 January 1699 in the Edirne Palace. His father was Must ...

(from 1754 to 1757), and Mustafa III (from 1757 to 1763).

Personal life

Sir Martin Archer Shee portrait Anna Margaretta Larpent in a white dress with a blue sash

On 15 November 1735, Hochepied was married to Anna Margaretha Boelema (1715–1756) at Haarlem. She was the only daughter of Gerard Boelema,

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of Haarlem, and Anna Craye. Together, they were the parents of: * Clarissa Catherine de Hochepied (1736–), who married Sir James Porter, the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, in 1755. * Gerard Johannes de Hochepied, 3rd Baron de Hochepied (1742–1779), who married Sarah-Anne Gerlacias, daughter of John-Hermann Gerlacias. Anna died on 12 September 1756. Hochepied died at Pera on 11 February 1763.

Descendants

Through his son Gerard, he was a grandfather of Adrian William Elbert de Hochepied, 4th Baron de Hochepied (1780–1817), who died unmarried at the Hague and was succeeded by his brother, Hugo Balthazar de Hochepied, 5th Baron de Hochepied (1787–1819), who also died unmarried at the Hague. The title reverted, under the limitation of the letters patent, to his first cousin,

George Porter George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham (6 December 1920 – 31 August 2002) was a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Education and early life Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne, in the then West ...

. Through his daughter Clarissa, he was a grandfather of

Anna Porter Anna Maria Porter, is a Canadian publisher and novelist. Life and career Born Anna Szigethy in Budapest, she emigrated to New Zealand in 1956. She received a bachelor's degree and Master of Arts degree from the University of Canterbury. She star ...

(1758–1832) and George de Hochepied, 6th Baron de Hochepied (1760–1828).

References

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