Antonius Hermanus Johannes Lovink (12 July 1902 – 27 March 1995) was a Dutch diplomat who served as the last
High Commissioner of the Crown in the Dutch East Indies from 18 May 1949 until 27 December 1949, the year the
Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (; ), was a Dutch Empire, Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, declared independence on 17 Au ...
declared independence from the Netherlands, and renamed itself Indonesia. He was the son of former member of parliament
Hermanus Johannes Lovink, who was also mayor of
Alphen.
In May 1942, he arrived in London from the
Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies. Lovink became secretary-general of the
Department of General Warfare of the
Dutch government in exile. Lovink, after a diplomatic and civil service career, succeeded
Beel as High Representative of the Crown in the Dutch East Indies in May 1949. His time in that position was not always a happy one, and he did not stay in Indonesia after the transfer of sovereignty in December 1949, as initially intended. He later served as Dutch Ambassador to
Canada
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where he was also dean of the
Corps Diplomatique, and Australia, and then back again to Canada in 1960. He continued to live in Ottawa after he resigned in 1967, until his death in 1995.
References
1902 births
1995 deaths
Governors-general of the Dutch East Indies
Diplomats from The Hague
Ambassadors of the Netherlands to Canada
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