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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon VAN HULSTEYN, Willem, Sir Born: 1865 12 13 Died: 1939 08 14 Honorary President of the TIA Was born in the Netherlands in 1865 and emigrated to South Africa at the age of fifteen. He became a leading lawyer in Johannesburg and was head of the solicitors firm Van Hulsteyn, Feltham and Fry. He was a member of the South African Parliament for many years including MP for Maraisburg from 1915 – 1920, representing the South African Party. During the South African War, he became an advisor to Lord Milner, the Governor of the Cape Colony, and was knighted by King Edward VII in 1902 (See Geni). Elected as Honorary President of the TIA on the 1916 08 24 (Jnl ASA 1916, 1(3):33). He died in Nelspruit. His ashes were interred in the columbarium at the Braamfontein Cemetery, Johannesburg.