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Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl
The Honourable Major Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl (21 February 1889 – 21 January 1975), MC, was a South African soldier and statesman. In South African politics, he was a member of the liberal South African party and then the United Party from 1929 to 1966 and a member of Jan Smuts' cabinet from 1939 to 1948, during which time, he was minister of Native Affairs.〔South African Who's Who, 1912-1958〕 Major Piet (as he was commonly known) was a chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Honorary Colonel of the University of Cape Town Regiment,〔http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol033wb.html〕 as well as receiving the Military Cross and the King George VI Coronation medal.〔
==Family history and early life==
The first van der Byl to arrive in the Cape was Gerrit van der Byl in 1668.〔J. van der Bijl, Vander Bijl-geslagsregister, Cape Town, 1958〕 Over the centuries, the van der Byls became powerful landowners by acquiring estates such as: Vredenberg, Klavervlei, Joostenberg, De Leeuwenhoek, Welmoed, Spier, Fairfield (where the family still resides) and Groote Schuur (the current residence of the president of South Africa and the estate came into the family’s possession from Hester Anne Myburgh. It was later sold to Cecil John Rhodes).〔Groote Schuur〕
Born in 21 February 1889 in Caledon, Cape Colony, van der Byl was the youngest of Adelaide Taylor and Tim van der Byl's four children. His father chose to educate his children locally, instead of sending them abroad, so van der Byl attended Diocesan College, in Cape Town, and then continued the family tradition of studying in Pembroke College, Cambridge.〔PVG Van der Byl, ''From playgrounds to battlefields'', Cape Town, H Timmins, 1971〕 He fared feebly at school due to serious illness, however when he went to Cambridge, van der Byl excelled at rowing, partaking several times in the Oxford-Cambridge boat race and in his final year he received a Blue, becoming possibly the first South African to do so for rowing.〔Obituaries: ''The Argus'', 21 January 1975, ''Die Burger'', 22 January 1975, ''Cape Times'', 22 January 1975〕
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