Maurits Adriaan de Savornin Lohman

Maurits Adriaan de Savornin Lohman (9 January 1832 — 12 July 1899) was the Dutch Governor of Surinam from 1889 to 1891.

De Savornin Lohman studied Roman and contemporary law from 1850 to 1855 at the University of Groningen.

In 1886 he was appointed Advocate General at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, which position he held until October 1888.

[2] On 18 September 1890, pastor G. C. Steijnis spoke out against De Savornin Lohman from the pulpit of the Martin Luther Church.

[5] His daughter Catharina Anna Maria de Savornin Lohman was a writer,[7] critic and journalist, and his younger brother Alexander de Savornin Lohman was a politician who briefly served as the Dutch Minister of the Interior.