page_title: Tuyll
section_title: 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Tuyll / History / 19th century
caption_attribution_description: Teyl van Seraskerken (1771 – 1826) russian general Русский: Фёдор Васильевич Тейль ван Сераскеркен (1771 – 1826) — генерал-майор Российской Империи. Портрет художника Джорджа Доу.
context_page_description: Tuyll is the name of a noble Dutch family, with familial and historical links to England, whose full name is Van Tuyll van Serooskerken. Several knights, members of various courts, literary figures, generals, ambassadors, statesmen and explorers carried the family name.
context_section_description: In 1822, The High Council of Nobility, declared members of the family were competent since early times to carry the oldest title of nobility, baron. They are "noblesse immemoriale", without ennoblement, predating 1351, from when on nobles of non-knightly origin were created in Italy. This does not correspond with the modern Dutch genealogists view that the family was originally a patrician, but not ancient noble family.
  The "baron de Tuyll" (Diederik Jacob, 1772–1826), Major General in the Russian army was Russian envoy at the court of the King of Portugal and Brazil, and from 1815 Russian plenipotentiary to the Holy See, had colloquies in regard to the union of the two Churches, and from 1822 to 1827, Russian minister to the United States and resident of Decatur House. He represented the Holy Alliance in the United States. As a consequence of his stay, a part of the silver collection of the White House carries the family coat of arms.
  General Sir William Tuyll, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order and Knight of the Bath was aide-de-camp to Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey and accompanied him to Portugal, Spain and the Walcheren expedition. Colonel, commander of the 7th Queen's Own Hussars, the senior light cavalry regiment of the British Army, where he fought in India. He was private secretary to the Viceroy of Ireland. He was one of the founders of the Oriental Club.
  Baron Carel Lodewijk van Tuyll (1784-1835) in recognition of services rendered during the Napoleonic Wars, was permitted to purchase 4000 acres of land from the Canada Company in 1832 and founded the town of Bayfield, Ontario. In 1851, his son Vincent van Tuyll (1812–1860), in partnership with Prince Henry of Orange, joined John F. Loudon in the discovery of the biggest tin deposit until today on the island of Billiton. Together they founded what is now the world's largest diversified resources company, Billiton.
  Vincent's son Reginald van Tuyll (1845–1903) may have inspired the eponymous character in Pelham Grenville Wodehouse's book Indiscretions of Archie, 1921. He married in 1881 Countess Anna Mathilda van Limburg Stirum (1854–1932) after the death of the Crown Prince Willem of the Netherlands (1840–1879), who had been refused permission to marry her, probably as she was the illegitimate child of William III of the Netherlands.
caption: Diederik Jacob van Tuyll van Serooskerken, Major General in the Russian army
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