Hendrik Jan van de Graaff
Dutch jurist
Hendrik Jan van de Graaff (7 September 1782 – 1 March 1827) was a Dutch jurist who became a Raad van Indië (member of the High Government of the Dutch East Indies) in 1820, and was an ally of governor-general Godert van der Capellen, until he was recalled in 1826.
Life
Personal life
Van de Graaff was the son of Christina Elisabeth van Angelbeek and Willem Jacob van de Graaf, who was director of the factory of the VOC in Dutch Suratte at the time of Hendrik Jan's birth. As a youth he was sent to Europe for his studies. He studied law at the universities of Groningen, Berlin and Utrecht. He first married Maria Anna van Ness, and after her death, Agatha de Dieu (on 22 May 1803), with whom he had eleven children.
Career
Van de Graaf had become a citizen of Alkmaar in 1801. In 1803 he became one of the three secretaries of that municipality. In 1811 (i.e. while the Netherlands were part of the First French Empire) he was appointed a judge in the local court, and in 1812 a member of the municipal council of Alkmaar. After the Netherlands reemerged as an independent country, he was appointed a member of the City Council of Alkmaar in 1815.
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