Orange College of Breda between Dr. Pell and this Scholar of his, whose death hath deprived this worthy Doctor of an ingeniose Companion and a usefull Friend." Orange College of Breda The Orange College of Breda () was a college of higher learning at Breda in the Dutch Republic in the middle of the 17th century, teaching divinity, philosophy, mathematics, and law. In English it was sometimes called the Aurangian College, in Dutch , , or , and in French . Breda was the seat in the Netherlands of the House of Orange-Nassau, although the city was several times lost to the Spanish. At
Michiel van Breda Michiel van Breda Michiel van Breda, a South African, was a Merino farmer, founder of Bredasdorp, Mayor of Cape Town and a South African Freemason. Van Breda was born on 12 August 1775 in Cape Town. His parents were Pieter van Breda and Catharina Sophia Myburg. He married three times. Out of his marriages with Gesina van Reenen, Beatrix Elizabeth Lategan and Maria Adriana Smalberger he became the father of nine children. He died in Cape Town on 12 August 1847. In 1817 van Breda was farming on Zoetendals Vallei farm in the region which is today called Overberg. He