Maurits Adriaan de Savornin Lohman
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Maurits Adriaan de Savornin Lohman (9 January 1832 — 12 July 1899) was the Dutch Governor of Surinam from 1889 to 1891.
De Savornin Lohman studied Roman and contemporary law (PhD on propositions) from 1850 to 1855 at the Hogeschool in Groningen.
From 1861 to 1870 he was deputy prosecutor in Assen, then until 1886 prosecutor. In 1886 he was appointed Advocate General at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, which position he held until October 1888. Subsequently, he served as the Governor of Surinam from 30 January 1889 to 27 June 1891.
His daughter Jkvr. Catharina Anna Maria de Savornin Lohman was a writer, critic and journalist, and his younger brother Alexander de Savornin Lohman was a politician who briefly served as the Dutch minister of the interior.
References
- "Maurits Adriaan de Savornin Lohman (1832-1899) » Genealogie van der Mersch-De Knijff » Genealogie Online".
- Cook, Chris; Moore, Bob; Kirk, Tim (1989-06-12). Sources in European Political History: Volume 2: Diplomacy and International Affairs. ISBN 9781349050987.
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