Joan Gideon Loten, gouverneur van Ceylon

• 03-09-1759 Beroep: oud raad van Nederlands Indien, gouverneur en directeur van Ceylon

Joan Gideon Loten (also spelt Johan or John) (16 May 1710 – 25 February 1789) was a Dutch servant in the colonies of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the 29th Governor of Zeylan, Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 1760) and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (elected 1761).

During his time in the colonies he made collections of natural history. In 1758 he moved to Holland. Nine months after his return from the Dutch East Indies he moved to London, were he lived for 22 years and interacted with scholarly societies and shared his natural history illustrations and collections.

Joan Gideon Loten, born in Groenekan, near Utrecht he was the eldest son of secretary of the waterboard Joan Carel Loten (1669 - 1769) and Arnoldina Maria van Aerssen van Juchen (1685 - 1775). The Loten family originally came from the Southern Netherlands. Circa 1720 Loten lived with his parents and younger brother Arnout (1719-1801) in Utrecht. In 1726 he was a student of the Utrecht University. One of his teachers was Pieter van Musschenbroek. In March 1728 he left University and became a clerk of the Amsterdam Chamber of the Dutch East India Company. By means of patronage of members of his family Loten was appointed junior merchant of the Company in 1731.

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Heraldry of South African Families / Coats of arms, crests, ancestry by C.PAMA/ A. A. Balkema, 1972

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VAN BEAUMONT.

Azure, a three-masted ship or, on a chief also or a lion passant sable armed and langued gules, Crest: a demi-lion sable, armed and langued gules, between a pair of wings, dexter or and sinister sable (fig. 27) [26]

Cornelis van Beaumont, fr. Breda (Neth.) [27] d. 14.6.1724. In 1713 Fiscal Independent of the Cape Colony. Marr. Deliana Blesius, d.o. Johan Blesius, Fiscal Independent of the Cape.

The above arms were no doubt copied from his tomb or hatchment in the Groote Kerk, Cape Town, demolished in 1835/36. Bell also described his four quarterings being, in addition to van Beaumont:

DE WITT. Vert in chief a hare chased by a talbot, in base a hound looking up at the hare, all argent (fig 28); [28]

BECKER. Argent, on a chevron azure between two trefoils or and a wreath sable flowered or, five mullets of six also or (fig 29);[29]

DANKAERT REYN BOUTS. Tiercé in fess, or, azure and vair, in chief a demi-eagle displayed sable, issuant from the fess, in point a mullet radiant or (fig 30);[30]

[26] The arms appear in many Dutch sources, among them M. Smallegange's 'Zeelandt veredelt' (1696); M. Balen, 'Beschrijvinge van Dordrecht' (1677) and other. The crest has been added as in AG.

[27] Although born in Breda he was a member of an old Dordrecht family of whom many served in the Dutch East India Company. They often married within the same circle. Anna Henrietta van Beaumont, a daughter of Cornelis, b. Cape Town 13.11.1716, d. Colombo (Ceylon) 10.8.1755, m. Johan Gideon Loten, counc. extraordin. of the Indies (1750) who 14.10.1757 became Commissioner of the Company at the Cape. Anna Henrietta's tombstone may still be seen in the Colombo Wolvendaal Church acc. to Wynaendts van Resandt, 'Gezaghebbers', p.78.

[28] According to Bell the arms were:azure, three hounds in pale argent and the name 'Witte'. This is evidently wrong. Meant is the Dordrecht patrician family De Witt. They bore originally: vert, a hare, a talbot and a brak (kind of hound) argent, placed 2 and 1, acc. to Balen, 'Beschryvinge', p. 1293. Later they adopted the arms described here, acc. to NH III, 179. The crest is a demi-talbot argent, between a pair of wings dexter vert and sinister argent (AG).

[29] Hendrick Becker, counc. of Amsterdam (1672) bore a wreath vert acc. to 'Wapenkaart Ed. Achtb. Heeren XXXVI raaden der Stad Amsterdam'; and Steven Becker, burgomaster of Middelburg (1643, 1646) bore a wreath gules ('Wapenkaart Burgermeesters van Middelburg'). Later a trefoil was substituted for the wreath as app. from the arms of Johan Becker, burgomaster of Middelburg (1675) (ms. Van Engelen), and a hatchment in the church at Nigtevecht (1677) (BTP, Utrecht, 134).

[30] Arms of the Flemish family Reynbouts (nobel 1555, viscounts 1694). Vide: 'Theatre sacré de Brabant', I, 2, 226, and NAV 1858, 331. Crest: a mullet as in the arms between a pair of wings sable; mantling:azure and or (AG).

Added by Y. DROST, 7 AUG 2017

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Joan Gideon Loten (also spelt Johan or John) (16 May 1710 – 25 February 1789) was a Dutch servant in the colonies of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the 29th Governor of Zeylan, Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 1760) and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (elected 1761).

During his time in the colonies he made collections of natural history. In 1758 he moved to Holland. Nine months after his return from the Dutch East Indies he moved to London, were he lived for 22 years and interacted with scholarly societies and shared his natural history illustrations and collections.

Joan Gideon Loten, born in Groenekan, near Utrecht he was the eldest son of secretary of the waterboard Joan Carel Loten (1669 - 1769) and Arnoldina Maria van Aerssen van Juchen (1685 - 1775). The Loten family originally came from the Southern Netherlands. Circa 1720 Loten lived with his parents and younger brother Arnout (1719-1801) in Utrecht. In 1726 he was a student of the Utrecht University. One of his teachers was Pieter van Musschenbroek. In March 1728 he left University and became a clerk of the Amsterdam Chamber of the Dutch East India Company. By means of patronage of members of his family Loten was appointed junior merchant of the Company in 1731.

Reference

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Gideon_Loten

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• Zie Wikipedia...
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