Hector van Cuylenburg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hector van Cuylenburg

Ceylonese lawyer, newspaper proprietor and politician

Date of Birth: 23-Jan-1847

Place of Birth: Kalutara, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Date of Death: 11-Dec-1915

Profession: lawyer, politician, newspaper proprietor

Nationality: Sri Lanka

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Hector van Cuylenburg

  • Sir Hector William van Cuylenburg (23 January 1847 – 11 December 1915) was a Ceylonese lawyer, newspaper proprietor and politician. Hector William van Cuylenburg was born on 23 January 1847, the son of Petrus Henricus van Cuylenburg (the Assistant Colonial Surgeon in the Colonial Medical Department of Ceylon) and Eliza Morgan, the fourth of nine children. He was educated at S.
  • Thomas' College and Queen's College in Colombo.
  • He then served an apprenticeship with Charles Ambrose Lorenz and in 1868 was called to the bar.On 10 July 1872 he married his cousin, Joselina Sissouw née Morgan (the daughter of Sir Richard Morgan, the 13th Queen's Advocate of Ceylon and acting Chief Justice of Ceylon) and they had one child, Hector Richard Henry Morgan (b.
  • 3 November 1875).In 1876 he was engaged as a Crown Proctor by the Queen's Advocate, following which he became a member of Gray's Inn.In 1881 he was among the first individuals to join the Ceylon Volunteer Force, and continued to serve on their active list until 1911, when he retired with the brevet rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
  • In 1886 he competed in the Wimbledon Cup and in 1894 in the Queen's Prize.In 1888 van Cuylenberg together with William Maitland, established the first daily morning paper, the Ceylon Independent, the first edition of which was published on 4 July.
  • The paper's initial editor was Mr Heath, the former Reuters Agent in Colombo, however he died a few months after the paper was established.
  • In 1889 a new editor for the paper, George Wall, was appointed, who agitated for a more responsible form of government for the country.
  • Van Cuylenberg remained editor-in-chief until 1898 when he relinquished the position to J.
  • Scott Coates. In 1911 van Cuylenburg became the first elected Burgher representative in the Legislative Council of Ceylon, a position he retained until his death in December 1915.In 1913 he was elected as the fourth president of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon. In 1914 van Cuylenburg was appointed a Knight Bachelor.

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