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Jan Willem Janssens | |
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![]() Portrait by Jan Willem Pieneman. | |
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies | |
In office 15 May – 18 September 1811 | |
Monarch | Napoleon Bonaparte |
Preceded by | Herman Willem Daendels |
Succeeded by | Abolished Robert Rollo Gillespie Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen under British rule |
Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony | |
In office 1803–1806 | |
Preceded by | Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist |
Succeeded by | David Baird (British administration) |
Personal details | |
Born | Nijmegen, Guelders, Dutch Republic | 12 October 1762
Died | 23 May 1838 The Hague, Netherlands | (aged 75)
Spouses | Anna Barbara Balneavis
(m. 1786; died 1801)Sara Louisa Hartsen
(m. 1822) |
Children | with Anna Barbara Balneavis
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Jonkheer Jan Willem Janssens GCMWO (12 October 1762 – 23 May 1838) was a Dutch nobleman, soldier and statesman who served both as the governor of the Dutch Cape Colony and governor-general of the Dutch East Indies.[1]