Anthony Mooyart, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAnthony Mooyart
Dutch colonial governor
Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1698
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1767
Profession: colonial administrator
Nationality: Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Anthony Mooyart
- Anthony Mooyart (6 December 1698, Jaffna – 1 January 1767, Jaffna) was an acting Governor of Ceylon during the Dutch period in Ceylon.
- He was appointed on 13 May 1765 and was Governor until 7 August 1765.
- He was succeeded by Iman Willem Falck.Mooyart was the son of Nicolaas Mooyart, of Galle, and Johanna van Eschweiler, both burghers from Ceylon.
- Mooyart studied at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
- He married Elizabeth Ursula Woutersz in 1725 in Jaffna.
- By 1739 he was an undermerchant and bookkeeper in Colombo, in 1743 a merchant in Batticaloa and by 1754 an administrator in Jaffna.
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