NO. 58. — 1907.] JOAN GIDEON LOTEN, F.R.S. 



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Utrecht was Loten's earlier place of residence.* From my 

 papers I can also add to this that, as appears from a letter 

 dated Colombo, 27th January 1756, treating of a consignment 

 of natural curiosities, there then lived in Utrecht also a 

 brother, Arnoud Loten, who also became burgomaster of this 

 town, and died only in 1801, and in the female line was an 

 ancestor of the present Grothe family.f 



On the authority of Prof. Veth, van der Aa also adopts 

 erroneously the year 1732 as that in which Loten was ap- 

 pointed fiscal at Samarang (" before his arrival at Batavia," 

 says the relater) and on 24th August of the same was married. 

 The information that both here forgot is to be found in the 

 epitaph of Mrs. Loten, nee van Beaumont, in the old Dutch 

 church inside the fort % at Colombo, to be found on plate 25 in 

 the work cited by van der Aa himself, Lapidarium Zeylanicum, 

 being a Collection of Monumental Inscriptions of the Dutch 

 Churches and Churchyards of Ceylon, by L. Ludovici, Colombo, 

 1877. § We there read that she was born on 13th November 

 1716 at the Cape of Good Hope, married 24th August 1733, 

 and died 10th August (not 11th August, as Prof. Veth stated) 

 1755. 



Van der Aa surmises that Mrs. Loten was a daughter of the 

 independent fiscal Cornells van Beaumont, who died at the 

 Cape of Good Hope in 1724.|| According to the same 



* But not his birthplace : see infra. 



f See further regarding Arnoud Loten under Sec. III. According to 

 Valentyn (i. 290), a " Josef Lothen, independent fiscal," commanded 

 the return fleet from Java to Holland in 1721 ; and in the additional 

 list of subscribers to Valentyn's great work (given at the end of vol. v. 

 pt. 2) appears " Joseph Loten, lord of Bunnick and Vechten, Witte- 

 vrouwen and Abstede, as also canon to the chapter of the cathedral at 

 Utrecht," who evidently was a relative of Joan Gideon's. 



| Wolvendaal church is outside the Colombo' fort. 



§ See also C. As. Soc. Jl. xv. 235, xvii. 18. 



|| Kornelis van Beaumont, under-merchant and dispensier at Colombo , 

 appointed independent fiscal at the Cape of Good Hope 1712, and 

 arrived there 1713 (Val. Beschr. v. Bat. iv. 383) ; held office 1712-24, 

 when he died (Id. Beschr. v. d. Kaap d. G. H. 41). See also C. As. Soc. 

 Jl. xvii. 16, where van Beaumont's wife's name is given as Deliana 

 Blesius, and she is said (? erroneously) to have died in Colombo on the 

 same day as her daughter, Loten's wife. :i (She is also confused with her 

 sister, Johanna Gysberta.) 



