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| name = Daniel Anthony Overbeek<br />
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| office = [[Resident (title)|Resident]] of [[Dutch Bengal]]<br />
| status = <br />
| monarch = [[William I of the Netherlands|William I]]<br />
| governor_general = [[Godert van der Capellen]]<br />
| term_start = 15 September 1817<br />
| term_end = 7 May 1825<br />
| predecessor = ''British occupation''<br />
| successor = ''position abolished''<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1765|2|6}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Netherlands]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1840|9|25|1765|2|6}}<br />
| death_place = [[Chinsurah]], India<br />
| party = <br />
| spouse = Sarah Leonora Jacoba Eilbrecht <br />
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'''Daniel Anthony Overbeek''' (6 February 1765&nbsp;– 25 September 1840) was the last [[resident (title)|resident]] of [[Dutch Bengal]] between 1817 and 1825.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Daniel Anthony Overbeek was born to Daniel Overbeek (1727–1770) and Theodora Petronella Immens.<ref name="genealogieonline">{{cite web |url=https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-bisschop-lindeman/I82315720.php |title=Daniel Anthony Overbeek |last= |first= |date= |website=genealogieonline.nl |publisher= |access-date=24 August 2020 |quote=}}</ref> Relatives on his father's side had long been employees of the [[Dutch East India Company]], with the brother of his grandfather Nicolaas Overbeek, who was also called [[Daniel Overbeek]], even serving as governor of [[Dutch Ceylon]]. Like his father, Daniel Anthony Overbeek made a career in [[Dutch Bengal]], until in 1795 the Dutch possessions were ceded to the British [[Kew Letters|by instruction]] of Dutch stadtholder [[William V, Prince of Orange|William V]], who wanted to prevent revolutionary France from taking possession of the Dutch holdings in Asia.<br />
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Under the terms of the [[Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814]], [[Dutch Bengal]] was to be restored to Dutch rule, and a commission under the leadership of [[Jacob Andries van Braam]] was installed by the [[Dutch East Indies]] government on 28 June 1817 to effect the transfer of the Dutch possessions on the Indian subcontinent.{{sfn|Van der Kemp|1901|p=290}} Van Braam arrived in Chinsurah on 28 August 1817 and met with the British colonial administrator Gordon Forbes, who officially handed over the Dutch possessions on 15 September 1817. Van Braam installed Overbeek as resident of Dutch Bengal.{{sfn|Van der Kemp|1901|pp=293-298}}<br />
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In 1822, Overbeek laid the foundation stone for the spire of the [[Armenian Church of St. John the Baptist]] in Chinsurah.{{sfn|Seth|1937|p=306}} In 1823, Overbeek became a corresponding member of the [[Royal Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences]], to which he donated a silver [[Vishnu]] from [[Birma]].{{sfn|Groot|2009|p=229}}<br />
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In 1824, the Dutch conceded to [[Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824|relinquishing all their possessions on the Indian subcontinent in return for control over Bencoolen]].{{sfn|Van der Kemp|1901|pp=471-474}} This meant that the Dutch possessions in Bengal were to become British again. Overbeek was in [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Batavia]] when the transfer was supposed to take place, leading acting resident B. C. D. Bouman to effect the transfer of sovereignty on 7 May 1825.{{sfn|Bhaduri|2020}}{{sfn|Van der Kemp|1918|p=124}}<br />
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Daniel Anthony Overbeek returned to [[Chinsurah]] after the transfer of sovereignty and lived there until his death on 25 September 1840. He is buried in the [[Dutch Cemetery, Chinsurah|Dutch cemetery of Chinsurah]].<br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
Daniel Anthony Overbeek married Sarah Leonora Jacoba Eilbrecht, with whom he had three daughters and one son. His daughter Johanna Leonora Christina Overbeek was the mother of orientalist [[William Wright (orientalist)|William Wright]].<ref name="genealogieonline" /><br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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== References ==<br />
* {{cite book |last=Bhaduri |first=Saugata |year=2020 |title=Polycoloniality: European Transactions with Bengal from the 13th to the 19th Century |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic India |location=New Delhi |isbn= 9789388271417 }}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Groot |first=H. |year=2009 |title=Van Batavia naar Weltevreden: Het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, 1778-1867 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden |doi=10.1163/9789004253803 |isbn=9789004253803 |doi-access=free}}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last=Van der Kemp |first=P.H. |year=1899 |title=De teruggave der Nederlandsche factorijen in Hindostan krachtens het Londensch Tractaat van 13 Augustus 1814 |journal=Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=247–283 |doi=10.1163/22134379-90000013 |doi-access=free}}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last=Van der Kemp |first=P.H. |year=1901 |title=De Nederlandsche factorijen in vóór-Indië in den aanvang der 19e eeuw |journal=Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |volume=53 |issue=1 |pages=286–507 |doi=10.1163/22134379-90002075 |doi-access=free}}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last=Van der Kemp |first=P.H. |year=1918 |title=De jaren 1817-1825 der Nederlandsche factorijen van Hindostans Oostkust |journal=Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |volume=74 |issue=1 |pages=1–137 |doi=10.1163/22134379-90001648 |doi-access=free}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Seth |first=M.J. |year=1937 |title=Armenians in India, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Work of Original Research |publisher=|location=Calcutta |isbn=81-206-0812-7 }}<br />
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