Adriaan van der Meyden

Adriaan van der Meyden

5th Governor of Zeylan
In office 11 October 1653 – 12 May 1660
Preceded by	Jacob van Kittensteyn
Succeeded by	Rijckloff van Goens
7th Governor of Zeylan
In office 1661–1663
Preceded by	Rijckloff van Goens
Succeeded by	Rijckloff van Goens

Adriaan van der Meyden was the two time Governor of Zeylan during the Dutch period in Ceylon. He was first appointed on 11 October 1653 and was Governor until 12 May 1660, when he was succeeded by Rijckloff van Goens. His second term lasted from 1663 to 1663.^[1]

References

↑ Cahoon, Ben. "Dutch Governors". Worldstatesmen. Retrieved 1 March 2013.

Government offices
Preceded by Jacob van Kittensteyn	Governor of Zeylan 1653-1660	Succeeded by Rijckloff van Goens
Preceded by Rijckloff van Goens	Governor of Zeylan 1661-1663	Succeeded by Rijckloff van Goens

Governors of Dutch Ceylon (1640–1796)

Coster (1640) Payart (1640–46) Maetsuycker (1646–50) Van Kittensteyn (1650–53) Van der Meyden (1653–60) Van Goens (1660–61) Van der Meyden (1661–63) Van Goens (1663) Hustaert (1663–64) Van Goens (1665–75) Van Goens de Jonge (1675–79) Van Pyl (1680–93) Van Rhee (1693–95) Van Rhoo (1695–97) De Heere (1697–1702) Simons (1703–07) Becker (1707–16) Rumpf (1716–23) Moll (1723–24) Hertenberg (1724–25) Schaghen (1725–26) Vuyst (1726–29) Versluys (1729–32) Woutersz (1732) Pielat (1732–34) Van Domburg (1734–36) Macaré (1736) Van Imhoff (1736–40) Bruyninck (1740–42) Overbeek (1742–43) Van Gollenesse (1743–51) Vreeland (1751–52) De Jong (1752) Loten (1752–57) Schreuder (1757–62) Van Eck (1762–65) Mooyart (1765) Falck (1765–85) Hughes* Suffren* Van de Graaf (1785–94) Van Angelbeek (1794–96)

Acting, *Military Governors

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