Ryk Tulbagh
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Ryk or "Rijk Tulbagh (14 May 1699, Utrecht - 11 August 1771, Cape Town) was Governor of the Cape Colony from 27 February 1751 to 11 August 1771.
Tulbagh was the son of Dirk Tulbagh and Catharina Cattepoel, who moved their family to Bergen op Zoom when Rijk was still an infant. As a 16-year old he enlisted with the Dutch East India Company and in 1716 embarked on the ship Terhorst to South Africa.
The town of Tulbagh was named after him.
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- George McCall Theal, History of South Africa 1691-1795], pp 137-183, Swan Sonnenschein 1888
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