Career

Born in "s-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands in 1809, Vintcent emigrated to the Cape Colony in 1844 and became a farmer. Vintcent declined due to ill-health however, and the position was then offered to Doctor Henry White. Vintcent died the next year in 1873.

Vintcent married Maria Catharina van Ryssen, and had a large family.

Another of his family was Charles Vintcent the cricketer, and Charle"s son Nevill Vintcent the aviator. Sir Joseph Vintcent Jnr.

(12 November 1861-1814 August 1914) was Advocate of the Supreme Court of the Cape Colony, Crown Prosecutor of British Bechuanaland (1886-1894), Judge of the High Court of Matabeleland (1894-1898), Senior Judge of the High Court of South Rhodesia (1898-1914), and was knighted in 1910.

Achievements

• When responsible government was attained in 1872, the new Prime Minister John Molteno offered Vintcent the position of Treasurer General.

Politics

He was elected to the Legislative Council, where he was a keen supporter of responsible government (democratic self-rule), voluntaryism (separation of church & state), and of public works expansion.