Adriaan Constant Tutein-Nolthenius (16 September 1892– 13 October 1954) was a Dutch-born Ceylonese tea planter, amateur naturalist, author and appointed member of

parliament In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...

. Adriaan Constant Tutein-Nolthenius was born on 16 September 1892 in

Vlissingen Vlissingen (; ) is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands on the island of Walcheren. With its strategic location between the Scheldt river and the North Sea, Vlissingen has been an importan ...

, Netherlands, the oldest son and second child of Henri Paul Jules Tutein Nolthenius (1861–1930), a

Burgemeester Burgomaster (alternatively spelled burgermeister, ) is the English form of various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chief magistrate or executive of a city or town. The name in English was derived from the Dutch . In so ...

, and Petronella Adriana van Haeften (1868–1942). He emigrated to

Ceylon Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

, taking on British nationality in 1921. Tutein-Nolthenius married Marjorie née Fellowes-Gordon (1885–?), Harry Fellowes-Gordon's sister and Denis Rynd's widow (1883–?). In 1925 he owned a tea plantation in West

Haputale Haputale (; ) is a town of Badulla District in the Uva Province, Sri Lanka, governed by an Urban Council. The elevation is 1431 m (4695 ft) above the sea level. The area has a rich bio-diversity dense with numerous varieties of flora an ...

, adjoining the

Horton Plains National Park Horton Plains National Park () is a national park in the central highlands of Sri Lanka that was designated in 1988. It covers an area of 31km² and borders Thotupalakanda Nature Reserve. It is located at an elevation of and encompasses montane ...

. In late 1931, he authored ''37 years of Game Protection in Ceylon. A short history of the Ceylon Game and Fauna Protection Society, 1894 to 1931'', which records the activities of the Ceylon Game and Fauna Protection Society from when it was first established on 23 May 1894 by E. Gordon Reeves as the Ceylon Game Protection Society to the date of the publication. The book documents the Society's campaign to prevent the indiscriminate slaughter of game for profit. An amateur naturalist, he was responsible for collecting several species of animals from the central highlands, including the Sri Lankan Highland Tree Mouse (''Vandeleuria nolthenii'') in 1929, the Sri Lankan shrew (''Suncus fellowesgordoni'') in 1932, and a pair of rare Horton Plains slender loris (''Loris tardigradus nycticeboides'') in 1937. He was appointed a member of the

Parliament of Ceylon The Parliament of Ceylon was the legislative body of British Ceylon & Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) established in 1947 by the Soulbury Constitution, prior to independence on 4 February 1948. Parliament replaced the State Council of Ceylon. ...

on 9 June 1952 and died on 13 October 1954 in

Bandarawela Bandarawela (Sinhala language, Sinhala: බණ්ඩාරවෙල, pronounced ; ) is the second largest town in the Badulla District which is away from Badulla. Bandarawela is away from Colombo and about away from Kandy, the two largest cit ...

. He was buried at St. Andrews Church, Haputale.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tutein-Notlhenius, A. C. 1892 births 1954 deaths Members of the 2nd Parliament of Ceylon Sri Lankan people of Dutch descent Dutch emigrants to former British colonies and protectorates in Asia Immigrants to British Ceylon Planters from British Ceylon 20th-century Sri Lankan people