Willem Maurits Bruijninck (also Bruyninck, Bruijnink, Bruinink, Bruninck, etc.)
[1] Bruijninck was the oldest son of Wilhelmina Verwitt and Peter Bruijninck, voogd (custodian/governor) of Lichtenvoorde for the lord of Bronckhorst and Borculo.
[2] Willem Maurits joined the Dutch East India Company and had risen to opperkoopman ("upper-merchant") before 1735.
From 1735 to 1737 he was Governor of the Sumatran West Coast and commissary of the silver and gold mines of Salida near Padang.
[3] He was married to Hermina Helena Tolling.