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Anthony Mooyart

Field	Value
name	Anthony Mooyart
order	Acting
office	Governor of Zeylan
term_start	13 May 1765
term_end	7 August 1765
predecessor	Lubbert Jan baron van Eck
successor	Iman Willem Falck
birth_date	1736
death_date	1785
otherparty
partner

|honorific-prefix = |honorific-suffix = 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.

References

Cahoon, Ben. "Dutch Governors". Worldstatesmen.
[http://genealogy.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+c-mooyart80834+5-0-0-1-0 Genealogy of Antonij Mooyart]

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