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MEN OF THE TIMES: Joseph A. DE KOCK.
(Contributed by Carol Beneke) 

Mr. Joseph A. de Kock was born in 1859 in the Malmesbury District, at Kolberg. He is the second son of the late Mr. M.W. de Kock, the well-known wine farmer, and is descended from the oldest Huguenot stock, the famous French novelist, Paul de Kock, in all probability being a member of this illustrious family. Mr. J.A. de Kock was educated privately at Wynberg, and afterwards assisted in the management of his father’s estate, “Wettevrede”, Constantia, which heinherited on his death. The advancement and study of the Cape wine farming industry has been his life’s work, having been employed actively in agricultural pursuits until the year 1891, when hedecided to settle in the beautiful Cape suburb of Wynberg. 

Mr. de Kock has been a J.P., and also Veld Cornet for twelve years, being one of the favoured three individuals who were allowed to act in the combined capacity in the Colony. A prominent member of the Dutch Reform Church, Mr. de Kock is a man of high culture, owning all sympathies and despising none, having travelled extensively in Egypt and Palestine, and resided for three years in various parts of the Continent, including the countries of Russia, Turkey and Greece.

Mr. de Kock is full of interesting reminiscences of his travels, being a raconteur of exceptional ability, and able to draw with abundant fertility of anecdote on his wide range of knowledge, and a man whose noble ideals and great natural gifts render him peculiarly fitted to hold the responsible position in life of a large landed proprietor, owning, as he does, in Wynberg alone a great amount of property. His chief recreation now is the study of literature in the highest sense of the word. He is married, and the proud father of six children, residing now in his secluded home in Plumstead.

His forefathers were driven from France by the Edict of Nantes in 1692, from which times he directly descends.

Source: Old Colonists of the Cape Colony and Orange River Colony. - page 112
Printed by – Eyre and Spottiswood His Majesty’s Printers in 1906.

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    Day of death August 25, 1901

    • The temperature on August 25, 1901 was between 5.2 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (84%). Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1901: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
      • February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
      • July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
      • August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
      • October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
      • November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.
      • December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
    

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