Jules Félicien Romain Stanislas van den Bossche (born 4 September 1819 – 12 January 1889) was a Dutch military officer and colonial government official.
[1] When he was on home leave in the Netherlands in 1857, Van den Bossche was appointed governor of the Dutch Gold Coast, where he only served for four months.
In 1859, Van den Bossche returned to the colonial administration of the Dutch East Indies, serving as resident of consecutively Bangka Island and Besuki, before becoming governor of Sumatra's West Coast in late 1862.
While on his way to oversee the building and exploitation of a coal mine and railway line in Central Sumatra, he died aboard the French mail ship Djemnah near Aden, Yemen.
[1] After his return to the Dutch East Indies in 1858, he fathered Albertine Felicie van den Bossche (1861) with an unknown woman.