Robert Melvil van Lynden

Robert Melvil van Lynden (1901)

Robert Melvil Baron van Lynden (born March 6, 1843 in Amsterdam , † April 27, 1910 in The Hague ) was a Dutch lawyer and politician of the Anti-Revolutionaire Partij (ARP), a member of the First Chamber of the States General and Secretary General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration was in The Hague. Between 1901 and 1905 he was foreign minister in the Kuyper cabinet , with Prime Minister Abraham Kuyper having far greater importance in foreign policy at the time.

Life

Robert Melvil Baron van Lynden came from the Lynden noble family of Utrecht and was a half-brother of Constantijn Theodoor van Lynden van Sandenburg , who was Minister of Justice between 1874 and 1877, Foreign Minister from 1879 to 1881, Prime Minister between 1879 and 1883 and Minister of Finance from 1881 to 1883 was. He himself became a judge in Utrecht in 1877 and began his political career in local politics as a member of the Utrecht Municipal Council , to which he was a member from September 4, 1883 to January 1, 1901. For a time he was also a member of the Provinciale Staten of the Province of Utrecht .

On December 28, 1883, Baron van Lynden became a member of the First Chamber of the States General for the Anti-Revolutionaire Partij (ARP) for the first time , in which he represented the interests of the Province of Utrecht until August 1, 1901, with a brief interruption. During this time, between June 10, 1888 and May 1890, he was a member of the State Commission for the preparation of a conscription law (Staatscommissie-Bergansius), named after its chairman Johannes Willem Bergansius . He also acted between December 1893 and May 1894 as a member of the Central Department of the First Chamber and also became chairman of the Driebergen Water Association in 1899 . He served between January 1 and August 1, 1901 as Secretary General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

On August 1, 1901, Robert Melvil van Lynden became Foreign Minister (Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken) in the Kuyper cabinet . However, his influence as a minister remained relatively small, since Prime Minister Abraham Kuyper was much more important in the foreign policy of the time. On March 9, 1905, he therefore resigned and was temporarily replaced by Vice-Admiral Abraham George Ellis , Vice-Admiral of the Navy , before Willem Marcus van Weede van Berencamp became the new Foreign Minister on April 22, 1905, and his previous ambassador to Austria-Hungary . After his death, he was buried in the family grave in Neerlangbroek on May 2, 1910 .

Web links

• Robert Melvil van Lynden in Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ^ Constantijn Theodoor van Lynden van Sandenburg in Parlement
2. ↑ Kuyper's cabinet in Parliament
3. ^ Kabinett Kuyper in De Nederlandse kabinetten from 1901 to 1945
4. ↑ The Netherlands: Ministries (Rulers)