Jeremias van Riemsdijk
Jeremias van Riemsdijk was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as GovernorGeneral of the Dutch East Indies from 1775 to 1777.
Jeremias van Riemsdijk was born onOctober 1712 in Utrecht, the son to Scipio van Riemsdijk, the minister of Bunnik near Houten, and Johanna Bogaert. He entered service with the Dutch East India Company as a sergeant left for the Indies, aboard the van de Proostwijk, onFebruary 1735. Very shortly after his arrival in BataviaJakarta onSeptember 1735, he entered the civil service. Jeremias was the nephew of the future GovernorGeneral Adriaan Valckenier , who at the time was still a member of the Council of the Indies. H could therefore expect to make rapid progress in his career.
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