Dirck van Cloon was Eurasian Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. He died of malaria at the age of 46. He was born in Batavia sometime in 1684. For his education and training he was sent to the Netherlands. He graduated in Law at Leiden University on 1 April 1707. He returned he to Batavia on the clipper ‘Donkervliet’ and spent some time in Coromandel. He was among other things a district overseer in Sadraspatnam.

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  • Dirck van Cloon was Eurasian Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. He died of malaria at the age of 46. He was born in Batavia sometime in 1684. For his education and training he was sent to the Netherlands. He graduated in Law at Leiden University on 1 April 1707. He returned he to Batavia on the clipper ‘Donkervliet’ and spent some time in Coromandel. He was among other things a district overseer in Sadraspatnam. He got into a fight with the governor of Coromandel, Adriaan de Visser, who accused Van Cloon of delivering bad quality goods. The government in Batavia sent Van Cloon back to the Netherlands, but he persuaded the Directors of the Dutch East India Company that de Visser was not to be trusted. Van Cloon was reinstated and he left for the Indies on 4 November 1719 on board the ‘van de Huis te Assenburg’ as Supercargo. In 1720, he became district chief at Negapatnam. In 1723, he became governor of Coromandel. In 1724, he returned to Batavia to advise the Governor-General and in 1730, he became “Raad-ordinair” (chief advisor) of the Indies. On the 9th of October 1731 the Directors of the Dutch East India Company named Dirck van Cloon Governor-General of the Indies, to which he succeed on 28 May 1732, following the disgrace of Diederik Durven. By 20 December 1733 van Cloon was asking to resign because of sickness. He died in post, however, and it was not until after he had died that his successor took over. Van Cloon was involved in a stand-off with the nascent Swedish East India Company, but he resolved it amicably. Less happy was an insurrection of unemployed Chinese sugar plantation workers. This was caused by the collapse of the sugar market, due to over-production and government mishandling. Van Cloon's career may well have also ended in disgrace, if he had not died.
  • Dirck van Cloon of Dirk van Cloon, ook wel Theodoor van Cloon genoemd, was een koloniaal ambtenaar in Nederlands-Indië van Euraziatische afkomst die, na afgestudeerd te zijn in de rechten te Leiden, binnen de VOC carrière maakte in Coromandel (Zuid India). Van 1732 tot 1735 was Dirck van Cloon Gouverneur-Generaal van Nederlands-Indië. Tijdens zijn bestuursperiode bracht hij verbetering aan in de wantoestanden die waren ontstaan gedurende het bewind van zijn voorganger Diederik Durven.
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  • 1732–1735
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  • Dirck van Cloon was Eurasian Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. He died of malaria at the age of 46. He was born in Batavia sometime in 1684. For his education and training he was sent to the Netherlands. He graduated in Law at Leiden University on 1 April 1707. He returned he to Batavia on the clipper ‘Donkervliet’ and spent some time in Coromandel. He was among other things a district overseer in Sadraspatnam.
  • Dirck van Cloon of Dirk van Cloon, ook wel Theodoor van Cloon genoemd, was een koloniaal ambtenaar in Nederlands-Indië van Euraziatische afkomst die, na afgestudeerd te zijn in de rechten te Leiden, binnen de VOC carrière maakte in Coromandel (Zuid India). Van 1732 tot 1735 was Dirck van Cloon Gouverneur-Generaal van Nederlands-Indië. Tijdens zijn bestuursperiode bracht hij verbetering aan in de wantoestanden die waren ontstaan gedurende het bewind van zijn voorganger Diederik Durven.
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  • Dirck van Cloon
  • Dirk van Cloon
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