Gerrit de Graeff (II) van Zuid-Polsbroek

He belonged to the patrician class of Amsterdam and held the feudal titles Free Lord of Zuid-Polsbroek as those of Purmerland and Ilpendam.

[1] Gerrit was related through his father's marriages to the ambassador Mattheus Lestevenon and Apollonius Jan Cornelis Lampsins, nominally Baron of Tobago.

In 1785 he married Christina van Herzeele,[1] with whom he had two children:[4] Gerrit de Graeff was a Remonstrant and patriotic politician in the tradition of the 17th century regents of the Dutch States Party.

In 1787, after the invasion of Prussian troops in Holland and the reinstatement of Stadtholder William V of Orange, he was expelled from the city government together with burgomaster Hendrik Daniëlsz Hooft because of his democratic sentiments and attitude.

[1][5] After the French troops had invaded and the Batavian Republic was founded, Gerrit De Graeff was again admitted to the city government in June 1795[6] together with a number of old vroedschap members such as Willem Backer, Daniel Hooft, Cornelis van der Hoop and Jan Bernd Bicker.