Biography

Gijsbert Jan van Hardenbroek. (1720-1788) (aka. Heer van Bergestein; Baron van Hardenbroek)

He bought Bergestein from the Borre de Amerongen family in 1755. Stewart-General of Utrecht.

Life with James Boswell:

At the Assembly at the Mademoisells Bottestein on March 27, 1764, Boswell conversed with Hardenbroek and Madame Geelvinck. Hardenbroek said to the latter "You are the loadstone" to which remark Boswell commented "I am the steel".

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