Pieter van Reede van Oudtshoorn

Baron
Pieter van Reede van Oudtshoorn
of Nederhorst
The funeral of Baron van Rheede
10th Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony
In office
1772 – 23 January 1773
Preceded byJoachim van Plettenberg (acting)
Succeeded byJoachim van Plettenberg
Personal details
Born(1714-07-08)8 July 1714
Utrecht, the Netherlands
Died23 January 1773(1773-01-23) (aged 58)
At sea
Resting placeGroote Kerk, Cape Town, South Africa
SpouseSophia Catharina Boesses

Baron Pieter van Reede (or van Rheede)[1] van Oudtshoorn (8 July 1714 – 23 January 1773) was a senior official and Governor designate of the Dutch Cape Colony. He was appointed Governor of the Cape Colony in 1772 to succeed the deceased Governor Ryk Tulbagh but died at sea on his way to the Cape Colony to take up his post.[2][3] The Western Cape town of Oudtshoorn is named after him.[4][5][6] He is the progenitor of the van R(h)eede van Oudtshoorn family in South Africa.[6][7]

  1. ^ "1063153-3-1, Lassy Dependency Structure, LASSY: Large Scale Syntactic Annotation of written Dutch". University of Groningen. Retrieved 28 July 2014. Dutch: Van Reede of Van Rheede is een Nederlands adellijk geslacht waarvan de leden de titel van baron voeren en voorheen die van graaf. English: Van Reede or Van Rheede is a Dutch noble family whose members carry the title of baron and formerly of earl.
  2. ^ Verwey, E.J., ed. (1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, Volume 1. Pretoria: HSRC Publishers. p. 795. ISBN 9780796916488. Retrieved 25 July 2014. See online extract[usurped] in Afrikaans.
  3. ^ Pilkington Kilpin, Ralph (1930). The Romance of a Colonial Parliament: being a narrative of the Parliament and Councils of the Cape of Good Hope from the founding of the colony by Van Riebeeck in 1652 to the Union of South Africa in 1910. Longmans, Green and Co. p. 116. Retrieved 31 July 2014. Pieter Baron van Rheede van Oudtshoorn, appointed Governor 1772, but died at sea on voyage out in January 1773.
  4. ^ Raper, P.E. (1987). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Johannesburg: Lowry. ISBN 9780947042066. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  5. ^ "SAGNS – Local Authorities for All Provinces". South African Geographical Names Council. Archived from the original on 13 February 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  6. ^ a b "Oudtshoorn South Africa". Historische Vereniging Alphen aan den Rijn. Archived from the original on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  7. ^ De Villiers, Christoffel Coetzee (1894). Geslacht-Register der Oude Kaapsche Familien Deel 2 (in Dutch). Cape Town: Van de Sandt de Villiers & Co. pp. 518–519. Retrieved 25 July 2014.