Tony Lovink

Personal detailsBorn(1902-07-12)12 July 1902
The Hague, NetherlandsDied27 March 1995(1995-03-27) (aged 92)
Ottawa, CanadaSpouseClara Roeline NagelAlma materHeidelberg UniversityProfessionDiplomat, aeronautic

Antonius Hermanus Johannes Lovink (12 July 1902 – 27 March 1995) was a Dutch diplomat who served as the last High Commissioner of the Crown in the Dutch East Indies from May 1949 until 27 December 1949 , the year the Dutch East Indies declared independence from the Netherlands, and renamed itself Indonesia.^[1] He was the son of former Member of Parliament Hermanus Johannes Lovink, who was also mayor of Alphen.

In May 1942, he arrived in London from the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies. Lovink became secretary-general of the Department of General Warfare of the Dutch government in exile. Lovink, after a diplomatic and civil service career, succeeded Beel as High Representative of the Crown in the Dutch East Indies in May 1949. He did not always act happily in that position and did not stay in Indonesia after the transfer of sovereignty in December 1949, as initially intended. He later served as Dutch Ambassador to Canada, where he was also dean of the Corps Diplomatique, and Australia, and then again to Canada in 1960. There he also continued to live in after he resigned in 1967.^[2]

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