Dutch Cape Colony and Boer Secessions
The office was also introduced in the Dutch colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
However it only came to more gubernatorial significance in some of the Boer polities that seceded shortly after the British took over the colony, notably:
- Graaff-Reinet had only one "national" Landdrost, 6 February 1795 – 22 August 1796: Friedrich Carl David Gerotz (1739–1828)
- The Utrecht Republic had three consecutive Landdrosts:
- 1852 – 1855: Andreas Theodorus Spies (1800–1889), who was already in office before the settlement declared itself a republic
- 1855 – February 1856: J.C. Styen
- February 1856 – 8 May 1858: Andreas Theodorus Spies (2nd time)
A similar gubernatorial role in other Boer polities was played by officials styled Kaptyn ('captain', in the original sense of Headman).
In the Cape Colony, an ordinance passed in 1827 abolished the old Dutch "landdrost" and "heemraden" courts, instead substituting British-type resident magistrates, who would act only in English. "Landdros" is now used as the Afrikaans term for a magistrate.
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