Jan Pieter Theodoor Huydecoper


Jan Pieter Theodoor Huydecoper was an administrator of the Dutch West India Company. He served as DirectorGeneral of the Dutch Gold Coast between 1759 and 1760 and from 1764 until his death in 1767.

Jan Pieter Theodoor Huydecoper was born in Hellevoetsluis to Adriaan Huydecoper , chief commissioner of the navy depot at Hellevoetsluis, the port of call of the Admiralty of the Maze, one of five constituent admiralties of the Dutch Navy, and Sara Maria van Asch van Wijk , who died in the year he was born. The young Huydecoper was then brought to his godparents, Pieter Theodoor van Herzeele and his wife, in Utrecht. After a scandal involving Mrs Van Herzeele, Huydecoper was taken to Amsterdam by his Aunt Sophia Huydecoper. He attended the French and Latin school in Amsterdam.

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