Pieter van Rheede van Oudtshoorn
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Baron Pieter van Reede van Oudtshoorn |
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| Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony | |
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In office 1772 – 23 January 1773 |
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| Preceded by | Joachim van Plettenberg |
| Succeeded by | Joachim van Plettenberg |
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| Born |
8 July 1714 Utrecht, the Netherlands |
| Died | 23 January 1773 (aged 58) At sea |
| Resting place | Groote Kerk, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Spouse(s) | Sophia Catharina Boesses |
| Religion | Dutch Reformed |
Baron Pieter van Reede (or van Rheede)van Oudtshoorn (8 July 1714 – 23 January 1773) was a senior official and Governor designate of the Dutch Cape Colony. He was appointed Governor of the Cape Colony in 1772 to succeed the deceased Governor Ryk Tulbagh but died at sea on his way to the Cape Colony to take up his post. The Western Cape town of Oudtshoorn is named after him. He is the progenitor of the van R(h)eede van Oudtshoorn family in South Africa.
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Born the son of a nobleman in Utrecht, van Reede van Oudtshoorn first arrived in the Cape Colony aboard de Duijff as an employee of the Dutch East India Company in 1741.
In 1743 then Cape Governor Hendrik Swellengrebel granted him land in the Table Mountain valley named Garden Oudtshoorn, bounded by Hof Street and Kloof Street in the present-day suburb of Gardens. After van Reede van Oudtshoorn's death the developed estate was subdivided into three separate properties named La Belle Alliance, Trafalgar and Mount Nelson where the Mount Nelson Hotel stands today.
He was fiscal independent from September 1741 to September 1762, and Secunde (deputy Governor) of the Cape Colony from December 1760 to April 1766 after Ryk Tulbagh had succeeded Swellengrebel as Governor. He returned to the Netherlands in 1766, and bought the Drakensteyn castle. He was later re-appointed to the vacant Secunde position in the Cape Colony and in 1772, following the arrival of news of Tulbagh's death before he had departed for the Cape Colony, appointed as Tulbagh's successor. However, he became ill and died at sea aboard Asia on his voyage to take up his post as Governor. His body was transported to Cape Town in a coffin he had carried aboard on the same voyage. On 17 April 1773 he was given a state funeral in Cape Town and buried at the Groote Kerk. After the church building was enlarged in 1841, the stone that had covered his grave was attached to the church's eastern wall. A print depicting his funeral procession is preserved in the Atlas van Stolk museum in Rotterdam.
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