Johannes Brill

Dr. W.G. Brill, the Utrecht University Professor and his spouse Adriana Cornelia Petronella Hasebroek had four children. Jan Brill conferred his degree in old literature. Willem Alexander Brill, after diligent study, conferred a doctor's degree, cum laude, in two branches of law at Utrecht University. Adriaan C.P. Brill Henriëtte Maria Brill. Dr. Jan Brill during a cold winter caught a bad cold endangering his health and the physicians advised him to find a country with a milder climate. Just then, a committee of three persons from South Africa stayed in the Netherlands. They studied Dutch teaching institutions and were looking for persons to conduct education in Transvaal, Orange Free State and the Cape Colony and they laid eyes on the young, but already famous doctor in literature J. Brill. That is how J. Brill decided to leave the Netherlands and took up his task in South Africa as headmaster of Grey's College. Brill-house at Grey's College, Bloemfontein Meanwhile Dr. J. Brill had married his full cousin Anna de Beveren. Lodewijk de Beveren, Anna's father, came from a famous family. The De Beverens belonged to a well-known family in Dordrecht. There portraits still are in the city hall.