Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (Onze Jan)

Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr
Minister without portfolio
In office
May 1881 – November 1881
MonarchVictoria
Prime MinisterThomas Charles Scanlen
GovernorHercules Robinson
Member of the Cape House of Assembly for Stellenbosch
In office
1879 – 11 October 1909
MonarchsVictoria
Edward VII
Prime MinisterSir John Gordon Sprigg
Thomas Charles Scanlen
Thomas Upington
Sir John Gordon Sprigg
Cecil Rhodes
Sir John Gordon Sprigg
William Philip Schreiner
Sir John Gordon Sprigg
Leander Starr Jameson
John X. Merriman
GovernorSir William Gordon Cameron
Hercules Robinson
Sir William Howley Goodenough
Alfred Milner
Sir William Francis Butler
Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson
ConstituencyStellenbosch
Personal details
Born(1845-07-04)4 July 1845
Cape Town, Cape Colony
Died11 October 1909(1909-10-11) (aged 64)
Westminster, London,
United Kingdom
Resting placeCape Town, Western Cape,
South Africa
Political partyAfrikaner Bond
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionJournalist
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Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (4 July 1845 – 11 October 1909) was a politician in the Cape Colony. He was affectionately known as Onze Jan, "our Jan" in Dutch.


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