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Rudolf Ulrich van Sporken - Baron Sporck

Personal data
Name
Rudolf Ulrich van Sporken
Born 1696
Died 1766
Alias
Baron Sporck
Biography

Married (1721) to Susanna van Slingelandt (1700-1737). The couple had several children including Charlotte Louise (1733-1816).1

Von Sporck served as Envoy Extraordinary to the Hague for Hannover.

Life with Boswell

Boswell visited the Baron on December 28, 1763, at The Hague.

  • 1Charltote Louise van Sporcken married (1763) Seneca Ingwersen (1715-1786), who had amassed a substantial fortune in the Dutch East Indies before being ennobled as Baron Geltingen by King Frederick V of Denmark in 1758.

Mentioned in

  • 1Charltote Louise van Sporcken married (1763) Seneca Ingwersen (1715-1786), who had amassed a substantial fortune in the Dutch East Indies before being ennobled as Baron Geltingen by King Frederick V of Denmark in 1758.

Unless otherwise noted, the source for a dated quotation of Boswell's is generally the corresponding volume of the Yale Trade Editions of Boswell's journals. 

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