Sylvain van de Weyer

Sylvain van de Weyer ( born January 19, 1802 in Leuven, † May 23 1874 in London) was a Belgian statesman. He studied at Louvain Law and was then practiced as a lawyer before he was appointed city librarian of Brussels, curator of the Burgundian archive and professor at the museum. As one of the leaders of the opposition to the government of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and as co-editor of the opposition newspaper Courrier des Pays -Bas but he lost these posts again.

At the outbreak of the Belgian Revolution of 1830 he was trying to protect you from all the nation from anarchy. He was appointed a member of the Safety Commission and the provisional government. In the formation of a diplomatic van de Weyer Committee was appointed its president and on 26 February 1831 Foreign Minister. His political activity was directed against the French party, who wanted to carry a port of Belgium to France. He campaigned for the election of Prince Leopold King of the Belgians. After this had ascended the throne, he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of London and later at the London Conference.

He held until he was in 1845 appointed to head the new Cabinet and entrusted with the Home Office this position. As prime minister, he was unable to reconcile the two rival factions of Liberals and the Catholics; so he resigned after only one year.

Then he again took over the embassy posts in London, he laid down until 1867.