Reinier d'Ozy

Reinier d'Ozy (also Dozy, or d'Ozij) (Steenwijk, 15 April 1773 - at Sea, near Westkapelle, 1 March 1827) was a Dutch colonial administrator who rose to be a member of the High Government of the Dutch East Indies.

Life Personal life D'Ozy was the son of Abraham Hendrik d'Ozy, lieutenant of the regiment Hessen-Cassel, and Titia Kiers. He married Maria Philippina Meurs, with whom he had two daughters: Henrietta Maria and Helena Jacoba.

Career After first having spent some years at the office of his cousin, the Leiden civil-law notary JP Klinkenberg Dozy, d'Ozy accompanied his elder brother Roelof Jacobus in 1791 to China, where he did up the experience that qualified him to be a secretary of the embassy of Isaac Titsingh, Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest, and Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes to the court of the Qianlong Emperor in 1794–1795. In 1796 he went to the Dutch Cape Colony that was returned to Dutch authority in 1803 after the Peace of Amiens. He was appointed secretary of the local desolate boedelkamer by governor Jacob Abraham de Mist. When the latter was replaced by Jan Willem Janssens d'Ozy was appointed the governor's secret secretary, and later promoted to second government secretary.

In 1804 Janssens entrusted d'Ozy with a confidential mission regarding the colony to the govenmnent of the Batavian Republic at The Hague, which he fulfilled wo the satisfaction of the Asiatic Council of the Staatsbewind and Grand Pensionary Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck.

In 1824 governor-General Van der Capellen became embroiled in a scandal which would cause his downfall. D'Ozy was recalled by Commissioner-General Leonard du Bus de Gisignies to the Netherlands, together with his colleague Hendrik Jan van de Graaff, to give evidence and to be made to account for his own conduct in the matter. He made the voyage home aboard the ship Java Paket (capt. H. Kortemeijer), which foundered on 1 March 1827, on the Noorder Rassen in the Deurlo (near Westkapelle). D'Ozy and his daughter Helena Jacoba, and a number of other passengters, drowned in this accident.