Gerrit Willem van Oosten de Bruyn

Biography

He was born in Amersfoort. After he studied law in Utrecht he moved to Haarlem, where he joined several societies and consorted with Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, who appointed him in his testament as a member of Teylers Tweede Genootschap. He was an Orangist and during the Orangist uprising he became mayor of Haarlem in 1789 and 1790, but was ousted from the council in 1795 during the French occupation. He published an update of Samuel Ampzing's History of Haarlem and was a regent of the Hofje van Noblet. He had a summer house in Amersfoort called Randenbroek, which is where he died.