Willem Frederik Lamoraal Boissevain

He began working in the Dutch East Indies in 1874, and became controller in the districts of Japara and Cheribon.

Mainly in the districts of Blora and Toeban did he have the opportunity to show himself to be a good policeman.

More than 28 years passed after his entrance into office before Boissevain was appointed as resident of Madioen.

The ruling of the Preanger people had slowly gone slack, business was merely sustained; administration was kept, but it wasn’t governed and among the local bureaucrats a sort of family-government was created with disastrous results.

Boissevain put an end to this and when he resigned in 1911, he could hand over the governing of the district to his successor in a much better condition than in which he had received it.