Hendrik Fagel - Greffier
Biography
Birth: 1706
Death: 1790
2nd Greffier of the States-General (1742-1744), 1st Greffier of the States-General (1744/1790).1
The 4th Earl of Chesterfield wrote that "[Greffier Fagel] had the deepest knowledge of business, and the soundest judgment, of any man I ever knew in my life;"2
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Life with James Boswell
Boswell met the Greffier Fagel on May 13, 1764, at Count Rhoon's, and wrote that the Greffier had seemed pleased with him.
Notes
Note 1: The governmental position of Greffier roughly resembles that of a Secretary of State. Fagel had inherited the position from his uncle.
Note 2: In The Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, p. 610 (Read it now at Questia)
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