Landdrost

British  

/ ˈlændrɒst /

noun

1. history the chief magistrate of a district

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Etymology

Origin of Landdrost

C18: Afrikaans, from Dutch land country + drost sheriff, bailiff

Example Sentences

Mare, then member of the Volksraad for Utrecht, now Landdrost of Boksburg, shares in the defendant Company to the value of �500.

From The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir

I then went into the house with the Landdrost, and spent a good deal of time in writing with him.

From Three Years' War by De Wet, Christiaan Rudolf

He was stopped by a party of armed Boers and taken before Landdrost Marais at Malmani, where the despatches were opened and read.

From The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir

I found the dispensary closed, the proprietor having departed with the English, and the Landdrost, fearing to get himself into trouble, was not inclined to open it.

From My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War by Van Breda, P.

Landdrost Stofberg: It means therefore that the language medium will be English, but that Dutch will also be allowed.

From The peace negotiations between the governments of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and the representatives of the British government, which terminated in the peace concluded at Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902 by Velden, D. E. van