Willem Maurits Bruyninck, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 24-Jan-1689
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Profession: colonial administrator
Nationality: Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Willem Maurits Bruyninck
- Willem Maurits Bruijninck (also Bruyninck, Bruijnink, Bruinink, Bruninck, etc.) (24 January 1689 Lichtenvoorde - ?) was the 25th Governor of Ceylon during the Dutch period in Ceylon.
- He was appointed on 12 March 1740 and was Governor until 8 January 1742.
- He was succeeded by Daniel Overbeek.Bruijninck was the oldest son of Wilhelmina Verwitt and Peter Bruijninck, voogd (custodian/governor) of Lichtenvoorde for the lord of Bronckhorst and Borculo.
- Willem Maurits joined the Dutch East India Company and had risen to opperkoopman ("upper-merchant") before 1735.
- From 1735 to 1737 he was Governor of the Sumatran West Coast and commissary of the silver and gold mines of Salida near Padang.
- He was married to Hermina Helena Tolling.
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