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PREFACE 

It  is  not  without  certain  misgivings  that  the  first  edition  of  the  Anglo- African  Who's 
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CONTENTS 


Abbreviations    .     .  •      • 

Addenda  .     .     •     •     • 

Advertisements  {see  Classified 

Index  to  Advertisements)    . 

Appendix 

Biographies        

,,  Addenda 

,,  Obituaries 

British  South  Africa  Co.  (see 

Rhodesia). 
Cape  of  Good  Hope  .  .  . 
Agent-General  in  London  . 
Agriculture,  Department  of 
Attornev-General's  Dept.  . 
Cabinet  Ministers  .  .  . 
Civil  Establishments 
Colonial  Secretary's  Dept . 
Convict  Stations  .      • 

Customs  Officials  .      . 

Defence  Department 
Education  Department 
Executive  Council 
Forestry  Department 

Governors 

Health  Branch 

High    Commissioners    for 

Africa 

Hospitals  and  Asylums 
Legislative  Assembly 

,,  Council 

Magistrates        .... 
Native  Affairs  Department 

Police  

Post  Office  Establishment 
Prime  Minister's  Office 
Public  Worl£S  Department 

Railways 

Supreme  Court 
Surveyor-General's  Office 
Treasurer's  Department     . 
Veterinary  Branch 
Colonial  Office  Officials 
East  Africa  Protectorate 
Editorial  Notice     .     . 
Egyptian  Army        .     .     ■ 
,,     Local  Ranks. 
High  Commissioner  for  South 

Africa 

Imperial  British  East  Africa 

Co 

Intercolonial  Council,  Mem 
hers    


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211 
220 
213 
203 
208 
209 
211 
212 
244 
211 
203 
221 
202 
209 


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210 
207 
206 
208,  214 
208 
217 
212 
208 
218 
218 
213 
221 
211 
220 
201 
230 
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253 
254 


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230 


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mLITARY  FORCES  IN  AFRICA  :  — 

Cape  Colony,  Defence  Dept.  .  -i44 
Cape  Colony,  Imperial  Forces 

in i4Z,  ^44 

Cape  Colony,  Volunteers  .     245 

Cape  Mounted  Riflemen  .     ^4& 

Eavptian  Army      .      •      •    .  •     -^^ 

,        Local  Ranks  in    254 

Gambia         245,249 

Gold  Coast  Colony  ■  ■  ■  itl 
Gold  Coast  Regiment  •  •  ■  ^1° 
King's  African  Riiles    .      .  ^  .^  25^ 

nXi  .".■.■.  '229- 242',  244 
Orange  River  Colony  .  ^4Z,  Z4d 
Northern  Nigeria  Regiment    .     ^4b 

St.  Helena <,;«  oIq 

Sierra  Leone  ....  246,249 
Somaliland  Field  Force  .  .  ^oz. 
South  Africa,  Imperial  Forces 

:  ,       .      242 

Southern  Nigeria     •      •      •      •  246 

Southern  Nigeria  Regiment    .  24» 

Sudan  Administration  .  •  254 
Transvaal            ....  242,  243 

West  African  Forces           .      .  ^4& 

West  African  Frontier  Force  .  24b 

Natal  and  Zululand  : —  ^ 

Administrators        .      •      • .     •  Hi 

Agriculture,  Department  ol     .  ^^» 

Attornev-General's  Office         .  227 

Civil  Commissioner's  Dept.      .  2^6 

Civil  Establishments          .      .  ^o 

Colonial  Secretary's  Office       .  225 

Education  Department      .      .  -^8 

Governors           .      .      •      •      •  --"^ 

Immigration  Department        .  ^^5 

Justice,  Ministry  of      •      •      :  2-7 

Land  and  M^orks  Department  229 

Legislative  Assembly         .      .  -"4 

Legislative  Council       .      .      .  2-Z4 

Magistrates ^^^ 

Medical  Departments         .      .  2Zb 

Miives  Department        •      •      '  990 

Ministries           ^^^ 

Ministry  of  Justice        ■     :      ■  "H 

Native  Affairs  Department     .  ^^» 

Postal  and  Telegraph  Depts.  .  225 

Railways 229 

Treasury -^» 

Volunteer  Forces          .      .      •  f  ^° 

Obituaries i^^ 


PAQB 

Orange  River  Colony  :— 

Executive  Council        .      .      •     ^^^ 

Governor 235 

Intercolonial  Council  .      .     ^^» 

Legislative  Council       .      .      •     23& 

Preface         ^''" 

Rhodesia  : —  „ 

Administrators  ....  ^^» 
Administrator's  Division  .  .  ^3/ 
Agriculture,  Department  of  .  ^4U 
Attorney-General's  Division  .  239 
Charter,  Story  of  the  .      •     ^^' 

Chief  Secretary's  Division       .     j<i' 

Defence        tTi 

Directors,  B.S.A.  Co.    •     •      •     ?^^ 

Education ^^° 

Executive  Council  •  '  '  907 
Health  Department  ■  ■  ■  iiL 
Legisative  Council,  .  .  •  ^^' 
London  Officals,  B.S.A.  Co.     .     -3b 

MatabeleWar ~^ 

Matabele  Rebellion  •  •  •  5,0 
Native  Department  .  .  •  •  ^-^^ 
North-Eastern  Rhodesia,  om- 

cjals  ''*" 

North-Western  Rhodesia,  Offi-     ^^^ 

cift's 2in 

Police  .  .  .  •  •  •  -905, 
Public  Works  Department      .     |3^ 

Railways  in 90^ 

Treasurer's  Division     .      .      •     ^^» 

Victoria  Falls  .      .      •  ^6*.  28- 

Special  Articles      ■     •     •     •     ili 

Sudan  Administration       .     •     ■^=»* 

TR.1NSVAAL  Colony  : —  ^ 

Administrators        .      .      •      •     ~„^ 

Executive  Council        •      ■      '     9^7 

Gold  Mining  Groups      •      •      •     f,^ 

Intercolonial  Council    .      .      .     ^^^ 

Johannesburg  Municipality     .     |^| 

Legislative  Council       .      •     •     ^^^ 

Militarv  Forces  in     .      •      •''*''•  9?^ 

Transvaal  Chamber  of  Mines  .     -J^ 

UGANDA  «  protectorate      COM- 
k  <K     MISSIOXERS 

West  African  dredging    .     .     ^^° 

ZANZIBAR  PROTECTORATE  :  — 

British  Agency  Officials      .      .     |^^ 
Government  Officials  .      • 

Judicial  Establishment      •      .     -^ 

Zululand  (see  Natal).  d 


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HOW  TO  REACH  RHODESIA 


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ABBREVIATIONS. 


A.A.G.     Assistant  Adjutant-General. 

A. B.C.     African  Banking  Corporation. 

Acct.     Account  (ant). 

Acct.-Gen.     Accountant-General. 

A.D.C.     Aide-de-Camp. 

Ad.  eund.  grad.     Admitted  to  tlie  same  degree. 

Adjt.     Adjutant. 

Adjt.-Gen.     Adjutant-General. 

A.M.I.C.E.     Associate  Member  of  the  Institute 

of  Civil  Engineers. 
A.M.S.     Army  Medical  Staff. 
Apr.     April. 

A.R.A.     Associate   of   the   Royal   Academy. 
A.R.I.B.A.     Associate    of    the    Royal    Institute 

of  British  Architects. 
A.R.M.     Assistant  Resident  Magistrate. 
A.S.C.     Army  Service  Corps. 
Assist.,  Asst.     Assistant. 
Assoc.     Associate  ;    Association. 
Aug.     August. 

B.A.     Bachelor  of  Arts. 
Bart.     Baronet. 
Batt.     Battalion. 

B.B.P.     Bechuanaland    Border   Police. 
B.C.L.     Bachelor  of  Civil  Law. 
B.D.     Bachelor  of  Divinity. 
Beds.     Bedfordshire. 
B.F.F.     Belingwe  Field  Force. 
Br.,  Brev.      Brevet. 
Brig.     Brigade  ;  Brigadier. 
Brig.-Gen.     Brigadier-General. 
Bro.     Brother. 
Bros.     Brothers. 
B.S.     Bachelor  of  Surgery. 
B.S.A.     British  South  Africa(n). 
B.S.  A. Co.     British     South     Africa     (Chartered) 
Co. 

Camb.     Cambridge. 
Capt.     Captain. 

C.B.     Companion   of  the  Bath. 
C.C.     Cape  Colony ;   Cape   Colonial  ;   Civil  Com- 
missioner. 


C.C.F.     Cape  Colonial  Forces. 

C.D.F.     Colonial  Defence  Force. 

C.E.     Civil  Engineer;   Church  of  England. 

C.G.R.     Cape  Goverrunent  Railways. 

Chm.     Chairman. 

C.I.C.     Conunander-in-Chief. 

CLE.     Companion  of  the  Indian  Empire. 

C.I.V.     City  of  London  Imperial  Volunteers. 

CM.     Church  Missionary. 

C.M.G.     Companion    of    St.    Michael    and    St, 

George. 
C.M.R.     Cape  Mounted  Rifles. 
C.M.S.     Church  Missionary  Society. 
Co.     County  ;   Company. 
C  of  E.     Church  of  England. 
Col.     Colonel  ;  Colony  ;  Colonial. 
Coll.     College. 
Comdt.     Commandant. 
Comn.     Comniission(er). 
Cos.     Companies. 
Coy.     Company. 
Cr.     Created. 

CS.I.     Companion  of  the  Star  of  India. 
C.S.O.     Chief  Staff  Officer. 
CT.     Cape  Town. 
CV.O.     Commander    of    the    Royal    Victorian 

Order. 

D.     Died. 

D.A.A.G.     Deputy-Assistant  Adjutant-General. 

D.A.G.     Deputy  Adjutant-General. 

D.A.Q.M.G.  Deputy-Assistant  Quartermaster- 
General. 

Dau.     Daughter. 

D.C.L.     Doctor  of  Civil  Law. 

D.C.O.     Duke    of    Cambridge's    Own. 

Dec.     December. 

D.D.     Doctor  of  Divinity. 

D.D.G.M.     Deputy  District  Grand  Master. 

Dec.     December. 

D.E.O.V.R.  Duke  of  Edinbm-gh's  Own  Volun- 
teer Rifles. 

Dept.     Department  (al). 

D.F.H.     Diamond  Fields  Horse. 


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Abbreviations  (continued) 


D.G.     Dragoon  Guards. 

Dist.     District. 

D.L.     Deputy-Lieutenant. 

D.M.     Diamond     Mine(s). 

D.M.T.     District  Mounted  Troops. 

D.P.H.     Diploma  of  Public  Health. 

Dr.     Debit. 

D.R.     Dutch  Reformed. 

D.Sc.     Doctor  of  Science. 

D.S.O.     Distinguished  Service  Order. 

E.     East(ern). 
E.G.     East  Central. 
Ed.     Editor;  edited. 
Edin.     Edinburgh. 
Eng.     England. 

F.A.S.     Fellow  of  the  Society  of  Arts. 

F.C.     Football  Club. 

Feb.     February. 

Fel.     Fellow. 

F.G.S.     Fellow  of  the  Geological  Society. 

F.I.Inst.     Fellow  of  the  Imperial  Institute. 

F.L.H.     Frontier  Light  Horse. 

F.L.S.     Fellow  of  the  Linnaean  Society. 

F.R.A.S.     Fellow    of    the    Royal    Astronomical 
Society. 

F.R.C.I.     Fellow    of    the    Royal    Colonial    In- 
stitute. 

F.R.C.P.     Fellow  of  the  Royal  College  of  Phy- 
sicians. 

F.R.C.P.E.     Fellow    of    the    Royal    College    of 
Physicians,  Edinburgh. 

F.R.C.Sl     Fellow  of  the  Royal  College  of  Sur- 
geons. 

F.R.C.S.E.     Fellow    of    the    Royal    College    of 
Surgeons.  Edinburgh. 

F.R.G.S.     Fellow    of    the    Royal    Geographical 
Society. 

F.R.Hist.S.     Fellow    of    the    Royal    Historical 
Socety. 

F.R.Hort.S. 
Society. 

F.R.Met.S."   Fellow  of  the  Royal  Meteorological 
Society. 

F.R.M.S.     Fellow    of    the   Royal    Microscopical 
Society. 

F.R.S.     Fellow  of   the  Royal   Society. 

F.R.S.E.     Fellow  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Edin- 
burgh. 

F.S.A.     Fellow  of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries. 

F.R.S.S.     Fellow     of     the     Royal     Statistical 
Society. 

F.Z.S.     Fellow  of  the  Zoological  Society. 

G.C.B.     Knight  Grand  Cross  of  the  Bath. 


Fellow  of  the  Royal  Horticultural 


G.C.M.G.     Knight  Grand  Cross  of   St.   Michael 

and  St.  George. 
G.C.I.E.     Knight    Grand    Commander    of    the 

Indian  Empire. 
G.G.     Grenadier  Guards. 
G.C.S.I.     Knight  Grand  Commander  of  the  Star 

of  India. 
Gen.     General. 

Gen.  Man.     General  Manager. 
Glos.     Gloucester  (shire). 
G.M.     Gold  Mine;   Gold  Mining;   Grand  Master 

(Masonic). 
Govt.     Goyernment. 
G.P.O.     General  Post  Office. 
Gram.     Grammar(ian). 
Gren.     Grenadier. 

H.B.M.     His  (Her)  Britannic  Majesty('s). 

H.E.     His  Excellency. 

H.E.I.C.S.     Honourable  East  India  Company's 

Service. 
Herts.     Hertfordshire. 
Hon.     Honourable,  Honorary. 
H.M.     His  (Her)  Majesty. 
H.M.S.     His   (Her)  Majesty's  Ship. 
H.R.H.     His    (Her)   Royaf  Highness. 
H.S.H.     His   (Her)   Serene   Highness. 

I.Br.     Im.  Breisgau. 

I.C.S.     Indian  Civil  Service. 

I.D.B.     Illicit  Diamond  Buying. 

I.G.B.     Illicit  Gold  Buying. 

I.L.H.     Imperial  Light  Horse. 

III.     Illinois. 

Imp.     Imperial. 

Imp.  Yeo.     Imperial  Yeomanry. 

I.M.R.     Imperial  Militarj^  Railways. 

Ind.  Med.     Indian  Medical. 

Inf.      Infantry. 

Invest.     Investment. 

Intell.     Intelligence. 

I.S.C.     Indian  Staff  Corps. 

I.S.O.     Imperial  Service  Order. 

I.W.     Isle  of  Wight. 

I.Y.     Imperial  Yeomanry. 

Jan.     January. 

J.M.  R.     Johannesburg  Mounted  Rifles. 

J.P.     Justice  of  the  Peace. 

K.A.R.     King's  African  Rifles. 

K.C.     King's  Counsel. 

K.C.B.     Ivnight  Commander  of  the  Bath. 

K.C.M.G.     Knight   Commander   of   St.   Michael 

and  St.  George. 


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K.  C.S.I.     Knight    Commander   of    the    Star    of 

India. 
K.F.S.     Kitchener's  Fighting  Scouts. 
K.G.     Knight  of  the  Garter. 
Knt.     Knight. 
K.R.     Kaffrarian  Rifles. 
K.R.R.     King's  Royal  Rifles. 
K.  W.  T.     King  WiUiam'  s  Town. 

L.C.C.     London  County  Council. 

Ld.     Lord  ;    Limited. 

L.L     Light  Infantry. 

Lieut.     Lieutenant. 

Lieut.-Col.     Lieutenant-Colonel. 

Lieut.-Gen.     Lieutenant-General. 

Lit.     Literary. 

LL.B.     Bachelor  of  Laws. 

LL.D.     Doctor  of  Laws. 

LL.M.     Master  of  Laws. 

L.M.S.     London  Missionary  Society. 

Lond.     London. 

L.R.C.P.     Licentiate   of    the    Royal    College    of 

Physicians. 
Ltd.     Limited. 

M.A.     Master  of  Arts. 

Maritzburg.     Pietermaritzburg. 

Maj.     Major. 

Maj.-Gen.     Major-General. 

M.B.     Bachelor  of  Medicine. 

M.C.C.     Marylebone  Cricket  Club. 

Mch.     March. 

M.D.     Doctor  of  Medicine. 

M.E.     Mining  Engineer. 

Med.     Medical  ;  Medicine. 

Mem.     Member. 

M.L     Mounted  Infantry. 

M.I.E.E.  Member  of  the  Institution  of  Elec- 
trical Engineers. 

M.LM.E.  Member  of  Institution  of  Mechanical 
Engineers. 

M.Inst.C.E.  Member  of  Institution  of  Civil 
Engineers. 

M.L. A.     Member    of    Legislativ^e    Assembly. 

M.L.C.     Member  of  Legislative   Council. 

M.M.P.     Mashonaland  Mounted  Police. 

M.0.0.     Money  Order  Office. 

M.P.     Member  of  Parliament. 

M.R.     Main  Reef. 

M.R.A.S.     Member   of   Roj'al   Asiatic    Society. 

M.R.C.I.  Member  of  the"  Royal  Colonial  in- 
stitute. 

M.R.C.P.  Member  of  the  Royal  College  of 
Physicians. 

M.R.C.P.E.  Member  of  the  Royal  College  of 
Physicians.  Edinburgh. 


M.R.C.S.  Member  of  the  Royal  College  of  Sur- 
geons. 

M.R.C.S.E.  Member  of  the  Royal  College  of 
Sm-geons,  Edinburgh. 

Mus.  Bac.     Bachelor  of  Music. 

M.V.O.     Member  of  the  Royal  Victorian  Order. 

N.     North. 

Nat.     National  ;    Native. 

N.B.     North  Britain;  Nota  bene   (note  well). 

N.C.     Natal  Carabineers. 

N.C.O.     Non-Commissioned  officer. 

N.E.     North-east. 

N.M.P.     Natal  Mounted  Police. 

No.     Number. 

Northants.     Northamptonshire. 

Nov.     November. 

N.S.W.     New  South  Wales. 

N.W.P.     North-West  Province. 

N.Z.     New  Zealand.  .'i 

Oct.     October. 

O.F.S.     Orange  Free  State. 

O.H.M.S.     On  His   (Her)  Majesty's  Service. 

O.M.     On   Maine,    Order   of   Merit. 

O.R.C.     Orange  River  Colony. 

Oxon.     Oxford,  Oxfordshire.  ' 

P.A.G.     Prince  Alfred' s  Guards. 

P.     and     0.     Peninsular    and    Oriental    Steam 

Navigation  Co. 
P.C.     Privy  Comicillor. 
P.E.     Port'Ehzabeth. 
P.H.     Paget' s  Horse. 
Ph.  D.     Doctor  of  Philosophy. 
P.G.D.     Past    Grand   Director    (Masonic). 
P.G.M.     Past  Grand  Master  (Masonic). 
P.M.B.     Pietermaritzburg. 
P.M.G.     Postmaster-General. 
P.M.O.     Principal  Medical  Officer. 
P.O.     Post  Office. 
Priv.     Private. 
Prof.     Professor. 

P.R.S.     President  of  the  Royal  Society. 
P.S.C.     Passed  Staff  College. 
Pub.     Public. 
P.  W.     Public  Works. 

Q.C.     Queen's  Counsel. 

Q.M.     Quartermaster. 

Q.M.G.     Quartermaster-General. 

Q.M.L     Queenstown    Moimted    Infantry. 

q.V.     Quod  vide,  which  see. 

R.     Royal. 

R.A.     Royal   Academician;  Royal  Artillery. 


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Raad.     Volksraad. 

R.A.M.C.     Royal    Army    Medical    Corps. 

R.E.     Royal  Engineers. 

Regt.     Regiment  (al). 

Rev.     Reverend. 

R.F.A.     Royal  Field  Artillery. 

R.G.A.     Royal  Garrison  Artillery. 

R.H.     Roberts'  Horse. 

R.H.A.     Royal  Horse  Artillery. 

R.H.V.     Rhodesia  Horse  Volunteers. 

R.M.     Royal  Marine (s);    Resident  Magistrate. 

R.M.A.     Royal  Marine  Artillery. 

R.M.L.I.     Royal  Marine  Light  Infantry. 

R.M.S.     Royal  Mail  Steamer. 

R.N.     Royal  Navy;  Royal  Naval. 

R.N.R.     Royal  Naval  Reserve. 

R.R.     Rand  Rifles. 

R.S.O.     Railwav  Sub-Office. 

Rt.     Right. 

R.V.     Rifle  Volunteers. 

S.     South. 

s.     Son. 

S.A.     South  Africa(n). 

S.A.C.     South  African  Constabulary. 

S.A.  Coll.     South  African  College. 

S.A.L.H.     South  African  Light  Horse. 

S.A.M.I.F.     South    African    Mounted    Infantry 

Forces. 
S.A.R.     South  African  Republic;  South  African 

Railways. 
S.D.     Senior  Deacon  (Masonic). 
Sc.D.Camb.     Doctor  of  Science,  Cambridge. 
Sch.     School ;  Scholar. 
S.E.     South-east  ;  Stock  Exchange. 
Sec.     Second  ;  Secretary  ;  seconded. 
Sept.     September. 
Secy.     Secretary. 


S.F.F.     Somaliland  Field  Force. 

S.H.     Scottish  Horse. 

S.L.F.F.     Sierra  Leone  Field  Force. 

S.M.O.     Senior  Medical  Officer. 

Soc.     Society. 

Squad.     Squadron. 

St.     Street ;    Saint. 

S.V.O.     Senior  Veterinary  Officer. 

Supt.     Superintendent. 

Surg.     Surgeon. 

Surg.-Capt.     Surgeon-Captain. 

Trans.     Transvaal ;  translate. 

Univ.     University. 

U.K.     United  Kingdom. 

U.S.     United  States. 

U.S.A.     United  States  of  America. 

V.     Against. 

V.     van. 

V.C.     Victoria  Cross. 

V.D.     Veterinary  Department;    Volunteer  Offi' 

cers'  Decoration, 
v.d.     van  der 
Yen.     Venerable. 
Vice-Pres.     Vice-President. 
Vol(s).     Volume(s). 

W.     West. 

W.A.     West  Africa(n). 

W.A.F.F.     West   African   Field  Force. 

W.C.     West  Central. 

Wilts.     Wiltshire. 

W.M.R.     Winterberg  Mounted   Rifles. 

Yorks.     Yorkshire. 


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ABBIT,  William,  B.A.,  F.R.C.I.,  of  College 
Road  Pietermaritzbiirg  ;  son  of  the  late  W. 
Abbit ;  was  born  Dec.  25,  1872  ;  was  educated 
at  Beaumaris  Gram.  Sch.,  where  he  won  a 
leaving  exhibition,  and  also  an  exhibition  granted 
by  the  Clothworkers  Company.  He  entered 
Downing  Coll.,  Camb.,  graduating  with  honours 
in  mathematics  in  1892,  when  he  proceeded  to 
S.A.  ;  fovmded  a  literary  society  on  Berea, 
Durban ;  founded  Sandow  Club,  Durban ; 
became  Assist.  Master,  Govt.  Coll.,  Maritzburg, 
1902. 

ABERCORN  (James  Hamilton),  Duke  of, 
P.C,  K.G.,  C.B.,  of  60  and  61,  Green  Street,  W.  ; 
Baronscourt,  Newtown  Stewart,  Ireland  ;  Dud- 
dingston  House,  Edinburgh  ;  and  of  the  Carlton, 
Travellers',  Turf,  and  Marlborough  Clubs  ;  was 
born  in  1838.  He  succeeded  the  first  duke  in  1885, 
and  adds  to  his  other  titles  :  Baron  of  Paisley, 
Baron  Abercorn,  Baron  Hamilton,  the  Earl  of 
Abercom,  Baron  of  Strabane,  Viscount  of 
Strabane,  Baron  Hamilton,  Marquess  of  Aber- 
corn, and  Marquess  of  Hamilton  He  is  also 
Kjit.  of  the  Danneburg  Order,  of  St.  Anne  of 
Russia,  and  of  the  Iron  Crown  of  Austria.  Ho 
was  educated  at  Harrow  and  Clirist  Church, 
Oxford,  where  he  graduated  M.A.  He  was 
Hon.  Col.  of  Donegal  Mihtia  from  1860-91  ; 
represented  Donegal  as  Conservative  M.P.  from 
1 860-80  ;  was  Lord  of  the  Bedchamber  to  the 
Prince  of  Wales  from  1866-86  ;  and  is  President 
of  Ulster  Assoc. 

For  many  years,  which  date  from  the  inception 
of  the  Company,  the  Duke  of  Abercorn  has  taken 
a  strong  personal  and  political  interest  in  the 
Chartered  Company,  of  which  he  is  President, 
lending  the  full  weight  of  his  influence  and  a 
great  deal  of  his  time  to  the  development  of 
Rhodesia.  He  has  travelled  through  the  country 
and  is  in  no  sense  merely  a  figurehead,  his 
counsel  and  advice  always  carrying  great  weight 
with  the  directors  and  shareholders.  He  married 
in  1889  Lady  Mary  Anna  Curzon,  dau.  of  the  first 
Earl  Howe. 


ABRAHAMSON,  Louis,  went  to  S.A.  from 
Melbourne  as  a  youth  and  was  engaged  in 
business  in  Cape  Colony  for  several  years. 
Going  up  to  the  Rand  in  the  early  days,  he  was 
amongst  the  first  to  take  an  interest  in  floating 
the  deep  levels,  includuig  the  May  Deep,  S.  Prim- 
rose, Wemmer,  Worcester,  and  Robinson  Deep. 
Returning  to  the  Cape  he  settled  down  to  farm- 
ing in  the  Somerset  East  Dist.,  and  in  1894  was 
nominated  by  the  Bond  to  contest  Somerset 
East,  for  which  constituency  he  was  returned  at 
the  top  of  the  poll.  He  married  in  1892  the 
eldest  dau.  of  Hougham  Hudson,  late  C.C.  of 
Graaff-Reinet. 

ADAMS,  Major  Sir  Hamilton  John  Goold- 
(See  Goold- Adams. ) 

ADENDORFF,  A.  R.,  M.L.A.,  was  elected 
as  Bond  representative  of  Fort  Beaufort  in 
the  Cape  House  of  Assembly  at  the  general 
election  in  1904. 

ALDERSON,  Brig.-Gen.  Edwin  Alfred 
Hervey,  C.B.  (cr.  1900),  of  the  Marlborough 
and  Naval  and  Military  Clubs,  son  of  Col.  Ed- 
ward Mott  Alderson,  of  Poyle  House,  Ipswich  ; 
was  bom  in  1859  ;  was  educated  at  Ipswich 
Gram.  Sch.  ;  entered  97th  Regt.  1878,  became 
Capt.  Roy.  W.  Kent  Regt.  1886,  Major  1896, 
Brevet  Lieut.-Col.  1897,  and  Brevet  Col.  1901. 
He  served  in  Transvaal  Campaign  with  Moimted 
Inf.  in  1881,  during  Egyptian  Campaign  of 
1882,  with  Mounted  Inf.,  being  present  at 
actions  of  Mahuta  and  Masameh,  battles  of 
Kasassin  and  Tel-el-Kebir,  and  the  occupa- 
tion of  Cairo  (medal  with  clasp,  bronze  star), 
in  Soudan  Campaign  1884-5  with  Moimted 
Inf.  Camel  Regt.,  when  he  was  present  at  the 
battles  of  Abu  Klea,  El  Gubat,  and  Metenineh 
(two  clasps).  He  did  good  work  in  Mashona- 
land,  1896,  with  Moimted  Inf.  and  in  command 
of  troops  (despatches,  medal.  Brevet  Lieut.- 
Col.),  and  in  S.  Africa  1899-1901  in  command 
of  4  different  Mounted  Inf.  Brigs.,  being  present 


Anglo- African  Who's  Who 


at  relief  of  Kimberley,  battles  of  Paardeber , 
and  Driefontein,  and  the  occupation  of  Bloeni- 
fontein  and  Pretoria,  (several  times  mentioned 
in  despatches,  C.B.,  A.D.C.  to  the  King,  Brevet 
Col.) ;  was  D.A.A.G.  and  Comdg.  Mounted 
Inf.,  Aldershot  1897-9  ;  appointed  to  command 
Mounted  Inf.  in  S.  Africa  1900,  Inspector-Gen. 
thereof,  with  rank  of  Brig. -Gen.  ;  appointed 
Brig. -Gen. -on-Staff  Comdg.  2nd  Brig.  (1st 
Div.)  1st  Army  Corps,  1903  ;  has  been  an 
Extra  A.D.C.  to  H.M.  Queen  Victoria  and 
H.M.  King  Edward  VII.  since  1900  ;  received 
Royal  Humane  Society's  medal  1885  ;  author 
of  "  With  the  Mounted  Infantry  and  the 
Mashonaland  Field  Force,  1896  "  ;  also  of  "  Pink 
£ind  Scarlet,  or  Hunting  as  a  School  for  Soldier- 
ing." Ho  married  in  1886,  Alice  Mary,  2nd 
dau.  of  Rev.  O.  P.  Sergeant. 

ALEXANDER,  Lieut.  Boyd,  F.Z.S.,  was 
born  Jan.  16,  1873  ;  joined  the  Rifle  Brigade 
in  1900,  and  served  in  the  Gold  Coast  Constab- 
ulary and  with  the  West  African  Frontier  Force 
in  the  reUef  of  Kumasi  ;  made  an  ornithological 
survey  on  the  Gold  Coast,  and  in  Sept.,  1902, 
proceeded  to  the  Benin  Islands  to  investigate 
their  avifauna.  Early  in  1894,  Lieut.-  Boyd 
Alexander  left  England  in  charge  of  an  expedi- 
tion to  conduct  a  survey  of  part  of  the  eastern 
portions  of  the  Northern  Nigerian  Protectorate, 
and  also  to  make  zoological  collections. 

ALEXANDER,  Lieut.  G.,  Scots  Guards, 
is  a  brother  of  Lieut.  Boyd  Alexander  (q.v.), 
whom  he  is  accompanying  on  a  survey  expedi- 
tion to  N.E.  Nigeria.  The  pajty  will  also 
make  zoological  collections,  and  wiU  proceed 
direct  up  the  Niger  to  Lokoja,  thence  along 
the  Benue,  and  ultimately  to  Lake  Chad,  which 
will  probably  be  reached  about  the  end  of  1904. 

ALLDRIDGE,  T.  J.,  J.P.,  F.R.G.S.,  F.Z.S., 
F.R.C.I.,  of  Godakning,  Surrey  ;  Goverrmaent 
House,  Bonthe,  Sherbro,  W.C.  Africa,  and  the 
Royal  Societies  Club,  was  born  in  1847  ;  is 
2nd  son  of  the  late  R.  W.  Alldridge,  of  Old 
Charlton,  Kent,  and  was  educated  at  the 
Blackheath  Proprietary  School.  He  was 
Travelling  Commissioner  for  Sierra  Leone 
1889-93,  doing  pioneer  work  to  the  remote 
hinterland,  especially  in  the  Upper  Mendi 
country,  placing  many  of  the  paramount  chiefs 
in  treaty  with  the  British  Govt.  He  made 
peace  between  the  Yonnis  and  Timinis  at 
Robari  in  1890,  and  was  on  other  peace  missions. 
He  served  through  the  native  rebellion  in  1898 


(medal  and  clasp),  and  was  awarded  the  Cuthbert 
Peek  grant  in  1900  in  recognition  of  his  geograplii- 
cal  work  in  the  interior  of  Sierra  Leone.  He 
is  J. P.  for  the  Colony  ;  Commissioner  of  the 
Court  of  Requests ;  Coroner  for  Sherbro 
District ;  Hon.  Corresponding  Secy,  of  the 
Royal  Colonial  Institute,  and  the  author  of 
"  The  Sherbro  and  its  Hinterland." 

ALLEN,  Rev.  Henbt  William  Chaeles, 
of  Utrecht,  Natal ;  was  ordained  in  the  Zululand 
diocese  ;  was  Priest-in-charge  of  St.  Andrew's 
Mission,  Lower  Tugela ;  Priest-in-charge  of 
Annesdale  (Zululand)  for  three  years,  and  was 
then  preferred  to  the  living  of  Utrecht. 

AMESHOF,  Judge  ;  was  formerly  Judge  of 
the  High  Court  of  the  S.A.R.  He  was 
one  of  the  Commission  of  three  appointed  by 
the  Government  of  the  S.A.R.  to  confer 
with  a  deputation  of  the  Reformers  with  a  view 
to  an  amicable  settlement  of  differences  being 
arrived  at.  In  giving  evidence  subsequently 
at  the  preliminary  examination  of  the  Reformers 
he  refused  to  say  anything  which  might  be  to 
the  advantage  of  the  prisoners,  on  the  grovmd 
that  the  meeting  was  privileged.  His  objection 
was  sustained  by  the  Court,  who  ruled  that  the 
interview  was  privileged  as  far  as  the 
Government  was  concerned,  but  not  in  so  far 
as  it  could  benefit  the  Reformers. 

Jud^e  Ameshof,  in  common  with  the  Chief 
Justice  and  Mr.  Gregorowski,  made  a  stand 
against  the  provisions  of  Law  I.  of  1897  (vide 
particulars  under  Gregorowski),  in  consequence 
of  which  he  was  summarily  dismissed. 

AMPHLETT,  George  Thomas,  F.R.C.I.,  of 
Uhlenhorst,  Rondebosch,  Cape  Colony,  and  the 
Imperial  Colonies  Club  ;  was  born  in  London 
Jan.  1,  1852  ;  was  educated  at  the  Philological 
School,  Marylebone,  and  King's  Coll.,  London. 
He  was  one  of  the  only  two  who  passed  the  first 
exam,  of  the  English  Bankers'  Inst.,  and  is  Secy. 
in  Cape  Town  of  the  Standard  Bank  of  S.A.  He 
won  the  sculling  championship  of  Hamburg  in 
1874,  and  is  Vice-Pres.  of  the  Mountain  Club  of 
S.A.  In  Feby.  1902,  he  rescued  three  N.C.O.'s 
from  a  perilous  position  on  Devil's  Peak,  Cape 
Town,  after  55  hours'  detention  on  a  narrow 
ledge,  receixdng  the  thanks  of  the  Chief  Army 
Paymaster  and  Staff  with  a  presentation. 
During  the  late  S.A.  War  he  was  Capt.  in  the 
Town  Guard,  Cape  Town.  He  is  an  Assoc,  of 
the  Inst,  of  Bankers ;  mem.  of  the  Philoso- 
phical Society  (C.T.);  mem.  of  the  S.A.  Assoc. 


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for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  and  is  Past 
Grand  Warden  of  the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge 
of  S.A. 

ANDERSON,  Thomas  Johnson,  M.L.A., 
represents  Cape  Town  in  the  Progressive  interest 
in  the  House  of  Assembly  ;  he  was  last  elected 
at  the  general  election  in  1904. 

ARCHER,  Hon.  Francis  BissET,  M.L.C., 
J.P.,  of  Bathurst,  the  Gambia;  of  71,  Bishop's 
Mansions,  Bishop's  Park  Rd.,  S.W.  ;  and  of 
the  Grosvenor  Club  ;  eldest  son  of  Capt.  F.  G. 
Archer,  late  of  the  Commissariat  Dept.  by  a  niece 
of  Sir  Henry  Fox  Dristowe,  late  Vice  Chancellor 
of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,  and  grandson  of 
Commissary-Gen.  Archer  ;  was  born  in  Biitish 
Honduras  Aug.  1,  1868.  In  Feb.,  1894,  joined 
the  Colonial  Service,  as  Principal  Clerk,  Col. 
Secy's  office.  Gold  Coast  ;  promoted  Chief 
Clerk  1896,  and  acted  as  Asst.  Col.  Secy.,  Clerk 
of  Execvitive  and  Legislative  Councils.  He  held 
a  Commission  in  the  Gold  Coast  Volunteers, 
acting  as  Adjt.  for  some  time.  He  holds  a 
Field  Officer's  certificate.  In  1897  he  was 
transferred  to  Lagos  as  Asst.  Col.  Secy.  ;  1st 
Asst.  in  1899,  and  had  charge  of  the  Dept.  during 
the  various  periods  when  Sir  Geo.  Denton  (q.v.) 
administered  the  Govt,  between  1899  and  1902  ; 
he  acted  as  Col.  Treasurer,  as  Member  of  tlie 
Legislative  and  Executive  Councils,  and  was 
appointed  Receiver-Gen.   of  the  Gambia,  Jbji., 

1903.  He  acted  as  Col.  Secy.  Feb.-Aug,  1903, 
is  J. P.    for  the  Colony.     He  married,   Mch.  15, 

1904,  Daisy,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  Dr.  J. 
G.  Thompson,  D.D.,  M.A. 

ASCHAM,  Roger,  Organist  to  the  Munici- 
pality of  Port  Elizabeth,  of  Harrowdale,  Have- 
lock  St.,  Port  Elizabeth,  and  of  the  Deutsche 
Liedertafel  Club  ;  was  born  at  Bonner  Rd., 
Victoria  Park,  Aug.  28,  1864,  and  was  educated 
at  the  Royal  Normal  College  of  Music  for  the 
Blind,  Upper  Norwood.  Mr.  Ascham  comes 
of  musical  parents,  and  received  his  first  tuition 
in  music  when  six  years  old  at  the  hands  of  his 
mother.  A  few  years  later  he  joined  the  choir 
of  St.  Clement's,  Bournemouth,  studying  under 
the  church  organist.  Dr.  Linter.  On  the 
departure  of  Dr.  Linter,  he  succeeded  him  as 
organist  at  the  age  of  thirteen  years,  and  held 
the  post  for  two  years.  As  the  services  of  St. 
Clement's  were  "  high  "  and  the  music  some- 
what elaborate,  the  youthful  organist  might 
have  justly  been  regarded  as  an  infant  prodigy. 
After  leaving  Bournemouth  the  young  musician 


went  to  the  Royal  Normal  College  in  Upper 
Norwood  as  music  reader,  where  he  remained 
3J  years,  teaching  the  piano  during  his  last 
year.  At  this  time  he  was  studying  under 
Fritz  Hartvigson  and  Dr.  Hopkins,  choral 
singing  under  W.  H.  Cummings,  and  harmony 
under  H.  C.  Banister.  After  leaving  the 
College  Mr.  Ascham  became  Organist  and 
Choirmaster  of  All  Saints'  Church,  Wellington, 
Northamptonshire,  and  during  this  period 
frequently  gave  recitals  at  Northampton, 
Kettering  and  Oimdle.  In  1890  he  went 
to  S.A.  having  accepted  the  post  of 
Music  Master  to  the  Girls'  Collegiate 
School  at  Port  Elizabeth,  which  position  he 
holds  at  the  present  day,  together  with  the 
Organship  of  Trinity,  the  principal  church  at 
the  Bay.  Mr.  Ascham  holds  the  appointment 
of  Town  Organist  at  Port  Elizabeth  and  is 
doing  splendid  work  in  giving  Sunday  evening 
Organ  Recitals  at  the  Feather  Market.  He 
has  written  a  large  number  of  compositions, 
of  which  over  seventeen  are  pubhshed.  They 
include  works  for  the  piano,  violin,  organ  and 
violoncello,  and  German  and  English  songs. 
One  of  his  most  popular  compositions  for  the 
organ  is  entitled  "Slumber  and  Rest;"  of  his 
songs  two  favourites  are  "Annable  Lee"  and 
"  Ich  Liebe  Dich."  He  married  first,  July  20, 
1885,  Margaret  Jane  Reece,  a  former  student  of 
the  Royal  Normal  College,  who  was  blind  (died 
1897),  and  secondly  Miss  Alice  Thompson, 
formerly  of  Welhngboro'. 

ASHBURNHAM,  John  Anchitel,  of  Bloem- 
fontein,  O.R.C.,  was  born  Feb.  6,  1865.  He  is 
son  of  John  Woodgate  Ashburnham,  belonging 
to  an  old  Sussex  family,  whose  ancestor,  Bertram 
Ashburnham,  was  Constable  of  Dover  Castle 
at  the  time  of  the  conquest,  and  was  beheaded 
by  the  Conqueror  immediately  after  his  acces- 
sion. Mr.  J.  A.  Ashburnham  was  educated 
at  Lancing  Coll.,  and  Exeter  Coll.,  Oxford. 
In  1888  he  was  appointed  Secy,  to  the  British 
Bechuanaland  Adininistration.  He  was  Asst. 
Commissioner,  Bechuanaland  Protectorate, 
1895-1901,  Actg.  Resident  Commissioner  1901, 
and  became  Resident  Magistrate  at  Bloemf  ontein 
in  the  same  year.  This  position  he  still  holds. 
He  accompanied  the  High  Commissioner  to 
the  conferences  between  H.  E.  and  the  Pres. 
of  the  late  S.A.R.  at  Brignant's  Pont  in  March, 
1890,  and  at  Colesburg  in  April,  1893,  and  was 
Chairman  of  the  Land  Laws  Enquiry  Commission, 
O.R.C.,  Oct.,  1901.  He  married,  June  20, 
1894,  Jean,  dau .  of  the  late  Rev.  R.  Price. 


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ATHERSTONE,  Guybon  Damant,  M.Inst. 
C.E.,  M.R.C.I.,  of  Grahamstown  (Cape  Colony), 
and  of  the  Port  Elizabeth,  Bloemfontein,  and 
Albany  (Grahamstown)  Clubs ;  was  born  at 
Grahamstown  June  20,  1843  ;  is  son  of  the  late 
Hon.  W.  G.  Atherstone,  M.D.,  M.L.C.,  and 
was  educated  at  St.  Andrew's  Coll.,  Grahams- 
town, and  King's  Coll.,  London,  of  which  he  is 
an  Associate.  Mr.  Atherstone  was  employed 
as  engineer  to  the  Cape  Govt.  Railways  from 
July,  1873,  to  Dec.  31,  1896,  when  his  services 
were  transferred  to  the  Railway  Dept.  of  the 
O.F.S.,  of  which  he  was  Chief  Engineer  until 
March,  1900,  when  this  office  was  abolished 
and  he  was  pensioned.  However,  he  is  now 
re-employed  by  the  Cape  Govt,  as  engineer 
in  charge  of  the  Alexandria  Surveys. 

ATHERSTONE,  W.  J.,  of  Rhodesia,  was 
selected  at  the  latter  end  of  1903  for  the  office 
of  Surveyer-Gen.  of  S.  Rhodesia  in  succession 
to  Mr.  J.  M.  Orpen  (q.v.). 

ATKINSON,  Lewis,  of  the  African  and 
Imperial  Service  Clubs,  was  born  Sept.  20,  1855, 
in  London.  He  was  educated  privately,  and 
entered  into  business  with  a  firm  of  diamond 
and  precious  stone  cutters.  In  1881  the  free- 
dom of  the  City  of  London  was  conferred  upon 
him,  and  later  he  received  the  Livery  of  the 
Worshipful  Company  of  Turners.  In  1886  he 
managed  the  Diamond  Washing,  Cutting,  and 
Polishing  Works  in  the  Cape  Court  of  the  Colonial 
and  Indian  Exhibition,  and  in  1889  was 
manager  of  the  Diamond  Cutting  Works  at  the 
Glasgow  Exhibition.  He  took  charge  of  the 
De  Beers  and  Cape  Govt,  exhibits  at  the  Paris 
Exhibition  in  1900,  and  was  afterwards  manager 
of  the  International  Exhibition  at  Kimberley. 
In  1902  he  was  appointed  Emigration  Officer 
to  the  Cape  Govt,  in  London. 

AVEBURY,  The  Rt.  Hon.  Baron,  Baet., 
P.C,  F.R.S.,  D.C.L.,  LL.D.,  Camb.,  Edin.  and 
Dubl.,  and  M.D.,Wurzburg,  of  High  Elms,  Down, 
Kent ;  King  Gate  Castle,  Kingsgate,  Tlaanet  ;  6, 
St.  James'  Sq.  ;  and  of  the  Athenfeum,  National 
Liberal,  and  City  Liberal  Clubs ;  born  April 
30,  1834,  at  29,  Eaton  Place,  educ.  at  Eton, 
represented  the  constituency  of  Maidstone 
1870-80,  and  the  Univ.  of  London  in  the 
Unionist  interest  1880-1900.  He  is  the 
head  of  the  great  baiiking  house  of  Robarts, 
Lubbock  &  Co.,  and  was  the  second  Pres.  of 
the  African  Society.  Lord  Avebury  is  known 
in    the   literary  world   as  the  author  of    "  The 


Scenery  of  England,"  "  The  Scenery  of  Switzer- 
land," "  The  Use  of  Life,"  "  The  Beauties  of 
Nature,"  "  Tlie  Pleasures  of  Life,"  (Parts  I 
and  II),  "  British  Wild  Flowers  Considered  in 
Relation  to  Insects,"  "  Flowers,  Fruit  and 
Leaves,"  "  The  Origin  and  Metamorphoses  of 
Insects,"  "  On  Seedlings,"  "  Ants,  Bees  and 
Wasps,"  "  On  the  Senses,  Instincts,  and  In- 
telUgence  of  Animals,"  "  Chapters  in  Popular 
Natural  History,"  "  Monograph  on  the  Col- 
lembola  and  Thysanura,"  "  Prehistoric  Times," 
"  The  Origin  of  CiviUzation  and  the  Primitive 
Condition  of  Man,"  "  On  Representation," 
"  On  Buds  and  Stipules,"  "  La  Vie  des  Plantes," 
"  Coins  and  Currency,"  "  Scientific  Lectures," 
and  "  Fifty  Years  of  Science,"  being  the 
Address  delivered  to  the  British  Association 
in  1881.  Many  of  these  works  are  translated 
into  foreign  languages,  including  Russian, 
Polish,  Bohemian,  Estonian,  Greek,  Arabic, 
Hindustani,  Gujerati,  Mahrattee  and  Japanese, 
but  more  popularly  he  will  be  remembered 
when  he  was  simph''  Sir  John  Lubbock  (the 
4th  Bart.),  as  having  selected  the  "hundred 
best  books "  published  by  Messrs.  Harms- 
worth.  He  is  also  the  author  of  over  100 
Memoirs  published  by  the  Royal  and  other 
scientific  societies.  Tlie  German  Order  "  Pour 
le  Merite "  was  conferred  vipon  him  in  1902. 
Lord  Avebury  has  been  twice  married :  first, 
in  1856  to  Miss  Hordern,  dau.  of  the 
Rev.  P.  Hordern;  and  second,  in  1881, to  Miss 
Fox-Pitt-Rivers,  dau.  of    Gen.  Fox -Pitt-Rivers. 

BADENHORST,  F.,  M.L.A.,  sits  in  the  Cape 
House  of  Assembly  as  member  for  Swellendam. 
He  belongs  to  the  S.A.  Party,  and  was  last 
elected  in  Feb.,  1904. 

BADENHORST,  J.  F.,  M.L.A.,  represents 
the  constituency  of  Riversdale  in  the  Cape 
House  of  Assembly,  and  is  a  supporter  of  the 
Bond.  He  was  returned  unopposed  at  the 
General  Election  in  1904. 

BAILEY,  Abe,  M.L.A.,  J.P.  (Sussex),  D.L. 
(City  of  London),  Capt.  Sussex  Imp.  Yeomanry, 
of  Yewhurst,  East  Grinstead ;  Clewer  House, 
Johannesburg  ;  and  of  the  Raleigh,  WelUngton, 
Rand,  Kimberley  and  Civil  Service  (C.T.) 
Clubs  ;  was  born  in  Cape  Colony  in  1865.  He 
is  only  son  of  T.  Bailey  (q.v.),  was  educated 
in  England,  and  proceeded  first  to  Barberton 
and  then  to  Johannesburg  in  the  early  days, 
aad  soon  acquired  large  mining  interests.     He 


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was  an  active  member  of  the  Reform  Com- 
mittee ;  was  tried  for  high  treason  against  the 
Govt,  of  the  late  S.A.R.  ;  was  imprisoned,  and 
only  released  on  payment  of  the  generally 
imposed  fine  of  £2,000. 

At  the  commencement  of  the  S.A.  War  he 
served  as  Intelligence  Officer  with  Lord  Roberts, 
and  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  formation 
and  organization  of  Roberts'  Horse  and  the 
S.A.  Light  Horse,  largely  contributing  to 
the  expense  of  their  equipment,  and  after- 
wards proceeded  to  the  front  with  the  rank  of 
Major  as  second  in  command  with  Gorringe's 
Flying  Column,  which  he  was  also  partly  instru- 
mental in  raising.  After  the  war  (in  Oct.,  1902), 
he  was  appointed  to  the  command  of  Kitchener's 
Fighting  Scouts.  Mr.  Bailey  entered  the 
arena  of  Cape  Colonial  politics  in  1902,  when  he 
was  elected  unopposed  in  the  Progressive 
interest  for  Barkly  West — the  only  constituency 
which  the  late  Cecil  Rhodes  ever  represented 
in  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly.  He  was 
re-elected  at  the  general  election  in  Feb.,  1904. 
He  is  Whip  of  the  Progressive  Party.  He  is  a 
keen  patron  of  all  forms  of  sport ;  racing  in 
both  S.  Africa  and  England,  and  indulges  par- 
ticularly in  shooting  and  cricket.  He  was 
elected  Pres.  of  the  Wanderers'  Club  (Johannes- 
bui'g)  in  1902,  and  is  a  member  of  the  M.C.C. 
and  many  other  sporting  clubs.  He  married 
Caroline,  elder  dau.  of  John  Paddon,  who  died 
in  1902,  leaving  him  with  two  children  :  John 
Milner  (godson  of  Lord  Milner),  and  Cecil 
Marguerite  SidweU  (godchild  of  the  late  Cecil 
Rhodes). 

BAILEY,  Amos,  M.L.A.,  represents  the  con- 
stituency of  Woodstock  in  the  Progressive 
interest  in  the  Cape  House  of  Assembly,  and 
was  last  elected  in  Feb.,  1904. 

BAILEY,  Thomas,  of  Queenstown,  Cape 
Colony,  was  born  in  the  parish  of  Keighley, 
Yorks.,  Jan.  30,  1836,  where  he  was  educated. 
He  went  to  the  Cape  in  1858,  and  settled  in 
Craddock,  subsequently  removing  to  the 
Albany  District,  to  Bailey  Jimction,  and 
finally  to  Queenstown,  where  he  established  a 
large  wholesale  general  business. 

He  was  returned  to  the  Cape  Legislative 
Council  as  senior  member  of  the  Eastern  Circle 
at  the  general  election  in  1888,  and  was  Mayor 
of  Queenstown  in  1887-8-9.  Mr.  Bailey 
married  Annie,  dau.  of  Peter  McEwan,  of 
Muthill,  Crieff,  Perthshire,  by  whom  he  has 
one   Bon,  Abe  (q.v.)  and  three  daughters. 


BAIN,  Chaele-s  Alfred  Oliver,  of  the 
Constitutional  Club,  London,  and  of  the  Rand 
and  New  Clubs,  Johannesburg,  was  born  at 
Port  Elizabeth,  Aug.  12,  1864.  He  is  son 
of  Samuel  Bain,  whose  father,  Thomas  Bain 
(of  the  East  India  Co.'s  Servace)  settled  in  1850 
at  Port  Elizabeth,  where  he  was  a  prominent 
citizen  and  Councillor  and  was  Mayor  (twice) 
and  District  Grand  Master  of  the  Eastern 
Province  Masonic  Lodge.  Mr.  C.  A.  O.  Bain 
was  educated  at  Grey  Institute,  P.E.,  and  at 
Driffield  Coll.,  Yorks.  In  1886  he  made  an 
attempt  to  open  up  the  Millwood  Goldfields 
at  Knysna,  but  recognizing  that  those  fields 
were  doomed  to  failure,  went  to  the  Transvaal 
in  Dec.,  1887,  and  became  associated  with  the 
African  Estates  group  in  1894.  In  1898,  with 
the  intention  of  retiring  from  business,  he 
returned  to  England,  but  became  Chairman  of 
the  Estate  Finance  and  Mines  Corporation  in 
London,  finally  returning  in  1893  to  S.A.  as 
Managing  Director  of  that  Company  in  Johan- 
nesburg. 

Mr.  Bain  used  to  be  prominent  in  football 
and  gyminastics,  and  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Olympic  F.C.,  the  most  unportant  in  the 
Eastern  Province.  He  was  Pres.  of  the  Musical 
Section  of  the  Wanderers'  Club,  1888-9,  and 
Acting-Pres.  of  the  Transvaal  Game  Protection 
Society.  He  married,  Feb.  2,  1887,  Jane 
Tread  well,  voimgest  dau.  of  D.  G.  de  Villiers 
of  Beaufort"  West,  C.C. 

BAINBRIDGE,  John,  M.L.A.,  F.G.S.,  son 
of  Geo.  Peacock  Bainbridge,  of  Dutton  Hall, 
Yorks.,  was  educated  at  St.  Peter's  Gram. 
Sch.,  York,  and  at  Rathbury  Gram. 
Sch.,  Northumberland.  He  served  in  the 
1st  Batt.  of  the  West  York  Rifle  Volxmteers, 
and  shot  for  the  Silver  Medal,  Queen's  Prize, 
at  Wimbledon,  in  1860.  He  went  to  Natal 
in  1 870 ;  engaged  in  farming ;  was  elected  to  a 
seat  on  the  Legislative  Coimcil  in  1884,  which 
he  resigned  four  years  Later.  He  was  re-elected 
in  1890,  and  represents  the  Khp  River  Division 
in  the  Natal  Assembly. 

BALE,  Sir  Henry,  K.C.M.G.  (1901),  K.C. 
(1897),  of  Ingleside,  Maritzburg  ;  Craigellachie, 
Hilton  Road  ;  and  the  Victoria  Club,  Maritz- 
burg, Natal,  was  born  Jan.  12,  1854  ;  is  the  son 
of  W.  E.  Bale,  J. P.,  formerly  Mayor  of  Pieter- 
maritzbm-g,  and  was  educated  at  the  High 
Sch.,  P.M.B.,  and  the  Gram.  Sch.,  Exeter, 
England.  Sir  Henry  practised  as  Attorney 
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1875,  and  as  Advocate  from  1878  ;  was  member 
of  the  Committee  of  the  Zulu  War  Relief  Fund, 
1879  ;  member  of  the  late  Council  of  Education, 
1886-93  ;  nominee  member  of  the  Legislative 
Council,  1890 ;  M.L.A.  for  Pietermaritzburg 
City,  1893-1901.  He  was  twice  sent  for  to 
form  a  Ministry,  but  declined.  However,  he 
acted  as  Attorney-General  and  Minister  of 
Education  from  1879-1901.  During  the  late 
Boer  War  he  acted  as  Prociu-ator-General, 
for  which  he  received  the  thanks  of  the  Secy,  of 
State.  He  became  Chief  Justice  of  Natal  in 
1901,  and  acted  as  Administrator  of  that  Colony 
during  the  illness  of  the  Governor,  June  and 
July,  1903.  Sir  Henry  married  in  1887  Ehza 
(d.  1890),  dau.  of  W.  B.  Wood  of  Edinburgh. 

BALFOUR,  De.  Andrew,  M.D.,  CM..  B.Sc. 
(Pubhc  Health),  Edin.,  M.R.C.P.E.,  D.P.H. 
(Camb)  ;  of  Khartoum,  and  of  the  Drumsheugh 
Baths  Club,  Edin.,  the  Turf  Club,  Cairo,  and 
the  Sudan  Club,  Khartoimn,  was  born  at  Edin- 
burg  in  1873.  He  is  the  son  of  T.  A.  G.  Bal- 
four, M.D.,  F.R.C.P.E.,  etc..  Curator  of  the 
Museum  of  the  Royal  College  of  Physicians, 
Edin.,  who  married  Miss  Margaret  Christall,  of 
Elgin,  Morayshire.  Dr.  A.  Baifour  was 
educated  at  George  Watson's  Coll.,  Edin- 
burgh, Edinburgh  University,  and  Caius  Coll., 
Cambridge,  graduating  M.B.,  CM.,  Edinbiu-gh, 
1894.  After  practising  privately  and  at  the 
Fever  Ho.spital,  Edinburgh,  where  he  was 
Asst.  Physician,  he  went  to  Cambridge,  taking 
D.P.H.  in  1897,  M.D.  (gold  medal  thesis) 
1898,  and  B.Sc.  in  Public  Health  1890.  He 
went  to  S.  Africa  as  Civil  Surgeon  in  April  of 
that  year,  being  attached  to  the  No.  7  General 
Hospital  at  Estcourt  and  Pretoria,  and  after- 
v/ards  in  charge  of  the  British  Garrison  and 
Boer  Laagers  at  Kaapsche  Hoop,  E.  Transvaal 
(medal  and  clasps).  He  returned  in  April,  1901,  and 
took  his  M.R.CP.E.  in  1902.  In  the  same  year  he 
wasappointedDirectorof  Govt.  Research  Labora- 
tories, Gordon  Memorial  College,  Elliartoum. 

Dr.  Balfour  collaborated  in  the  production 
of  a  book  on  Public  Health,  and  is  the  author  of 
of  "  By  Stroke  of  Sword,"  "  To  Arms,"  "  Ven- 
geance is  Mine,'  "  Cashiered  ;  and  Other  War 
Tales,"  and  "The  Golden  Kingdom."  He 
also  wrote  a  war  play,  "The  Camp  Catch,"  which 
was  produced  at  Estcourt  and  at  the  Empress 
Theatre,  Pretoria,  for  the  benefit  of  hospitals. 
Dr.  Balfour  was  a  Scottish  International  Rugby 
football  player,  a  Cambridge  "Blue,"  and  cap- 
tained the  Watsonian  XV.  and  the  Edinburgh 
XV,  in  Edinburgh  against   the   Paris   team  re- 


cently. He  is  a  good  swimmer,  and  is  fond  of 
shooting.  He  married,  Sept.,  1902,  Grace,  dau. 
of  G.   Nutter,  of  Sideup,  Kent. 

BARLOW,  Alfrkd,  J.P.,  F.R.C.I.,  of  Kelve- 
don,  Bloemfontoin,  and  the  Bloemfontein  and 
Rand  Clubs ;  3rd  son  of  Nathaniel  Barlow, 
M.R.C.S.,  and  grandson  of  Dr.  Wm.  Barlow, 
who  raised  and  commanded  the  Writtle  (Essex) 
Volunteers  in  1805,  was  born  at  Blackmore, 
near  Chehusford,  Essex,  Aug.  15,  1836  ;  was 
educated  Ongar  Gram.  Sch.  ;  went  to  the 
O.F.S.  in  1859,  where  he  has  resided  practi- 
cally ever  since.  He  was  a  Director  of  the 
Bloemfontein  Bank  from  1872  to  1887,  and 
represented  the  town  of  Smithfield  in  the  O.F.S. 
Volksraad  from  1887  to  1890.  He  edited  the 
"  Friend  of  the  Free  State  "  from  1866  to  1899, 
and  is  now  Chairman  of  the  National  Bank 
of  the  O.R.C,  Chairman  of  the  Bloemfontein 
Board  of  Executors,  and  J. P.  for  the  whole  of 
the  O.R.C.  He  married,  April  30,  1874,  Kate, 
dau.  of  John  Brereton,  of  Cheshire,  England. 

BARNATO,  Heney  Isaac,  of  Joharmesburg  ; 
of  23,  Upper  Hamilton  Terrace,  London,  N.W., 
and  of  10  and  11,  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.C, 
is  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Barnato  Bros., 
founded  by  his  popular  but  ill-fated  brother 
"  Barney "  Barnato.  He  is  a  permanent 
Director  in  Johannesburg  of  the  Barnato  Con- 
solidated Mines,  and  is  on  the  Board  of  the 
Johannesburg  ConsoUdated  Investment  Co., 
Ltd.  His  main  recreation  appears  to  be  horse- 
racing,  but  he  has  the  family  fondness  for  the 
drama. 


BARNES,  John  Feedeeick  Evelyn,  C.M.G., 
M.Inst.CE.,  M.lnst.C.E.Id.,  F.R.C.I.,  of  Pieter- 
maritzburg, Natal,  and  of  the  Victoria  Club, 
P.M  B.,  was  born  in  co.  Kilkenny,  Jan. 
21,  1851.  He  is  the  son  of  the  late  F.  P.  Barnes, 
C.E.,  and  of  Matilda,  dau.  of  the  lata  Rev.  Geo. 
Armstrong,  of  Listerlyn,  co.  Kilkenny,  and 
was  educated  privately  and  at  Trinity  Coll., 
Dublin.  In  1871,  having  completed  his?"  term 
of  pupilage,  as  also  his  second  or  senior  Fresh- 
man year  in  Trinity  Coll.,  Dublin,  he  began 
his  career  as  an  engineer  under  the^County 
Surveyor  of  Antrim.  In  1872,  and^for  six 
years  subsequently,  he  held  the  post  of 
engineer  and  surveyor  on  the  Irish  estates  of 
the  Duke  of  Abercorn,  also  practising  privately. 
He  engineered  the  Flood  Protection  works  on 


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the  Moiirne  at  Strabane,  the  Strabane  Water- 
works, as  also  large  sub-soil  drainage  and 
plantation  schemes  under  the  Public  Works 
Loans  Act.  The  land  troubles  of  1877-8 
caused  him  to  turn  his  attention  to  other  fields 
of  labour,  with  the  result  that  in  Feb.,  1880,  he 
landed  in  Natal,  passed  the  examination,  and 
obtained  the  licence  to  practise  as  a  Govt.  Land 
Surveyor  in  that  Colony.  La  1882  Mr.  Barnes 
was  appointed  Boro'  Engineer  of  Diirban,  and 
held  that  post  for  six  years.  He  carried  out 
the  Umbilo  Waterworks,  many  town  improve- 
m:ents,  and  constructed  over  thirty  miles  of 
streets  and  footpaths.  At  the  Natal  Exhibi- 
tion of  1883  he  was  awarded  a  silver  medal 
for  specialities  in  concrete  work,  and  prior  to 
his  entering  the  service  of  the  Natal  Govt,  the 
Corporation  voted  him  a  bonus  of  £500  as  a 
token  of  appreciation  of  his  services.  In  Jany., 
1888,  he  received  the  appointment  of  Asst. 
Colonial  Engineer  and  Surveyor-General  of 
Natal,  and  throughout  the  six  years,  following 
he  held  frequent  appointments  as  Acting 
Colonial  Engineer,  with  seats  on  the  Executive 
and  Legislative  Councils  of  the  Colony.  With 
the  first  responsible  Govt,  of  Natal,  Mr.  Barnes 
was  entrusted  with  the  charge  of  the  Public 
Works  Dept.  That  appointment  he  still  holds 
vmder  the  title  of  Chief  Engineer  Pubhc  Works 
Dept.  Throughout  the  late  Boer  War  his 
dept.  lent  valviable  assistance  to  the  military, 
co-operating  with  the  G.O.C.  lines  of  commvmica- 
tion,  the  R.E.,  the  R.A.M.C,  and  other  branches 
of  the  service.  His  dept.  raised  and  super- 
vised a  Pioneer  Corps  of  Artizans  for  the  building 
of  bridges,  forts,  buildings,  and  such  like ;  a 
Native  Labour  Corps  of  3,000  Kaffirs  for  un- 
skilled work,  and  an  Indian  Ambulance  Corps 
of  1,200  Indian  coohe  stretcher-bearers.  For 
these  services  Mr.  Barnes  and  the  staff  of  his 
dept.  were  thanked  publicly,  and  in  despatches 
by  Lord  Roberts  and  by  Gen.  BuUer,  while, 
on  the  recommendation  of  Governor  Sir  Henry 
McCuUum,  Gen.  Hildyard,  and  the  Natal 
Ministry,  of  which  Col.  Sir  A.  H.  Hime  was 
Premier,  he  received  the  Order  of  C.M.G.  at 
the  hands  of  H.R.H.  the  Duke  of  York.  He 
married,  in  1879,  Mary  Sanbach,  dau.  of  the 
late  E.  E.  Graves. 

BARNETT,  Percy  Abthub,  M.A.,  of 
Heatherleigh,  Isleworth,  Eng.,  Burnt  Hill 
House,  Bradfield,  Reading,  Eng.,  Maritz- 
burg,  Natal  ;  of  the  Savile  Club,  London,  and 
the  Victoria  Club,  Maritzburg ;  was  born  in 
1858,  and  was  educated  at  the  City  of  London 


Sch.  and  at  Trinity  Coll.,  Oxford.  He 
was  Scholar  of  Trinity,  1877  ;  Prof,  of  EngUsh 
at  the  University  CoU.,  Sheffield,  1881  ; 
Principal  of  Isleworth  Training  Coll.,  1888  ; 
H.M.  Inspector  of  Schools,  1892 ;  H.M.  Asst. 
Inspector  of  Training  Colleges,  1893,  and 
received  his  present  appointment  as  Superin- 
tendent of  Education  for  Natal  in  1903.  It  is 
understood,  however,  that  he  handed  in  his 
resignation  of  this  post  in  the  summer  of  1903, 
to  take  effect  in  a  year's  time,  Mr.  Barnett 
not  being  satisfied  with  the  manner  in  which 
his  proposals  for  educational  reforms  were 
treated.  He  represents  Natal  on  the  Council 
of  the  Cape  University.  In  addition  to  this 
he  has  spent  some  time  in  Egypt  and  the  Sudan, 
organizing  secondary  education  at  the  time  that 
Lord  Milner  was  Financial  Secy.  He  also  assisted 
in  the  selection  of  the  Enghsh  teachers  recently 
engaged  for  service  in  the  Boer  Concentration 
Camps.  Mr.  Barnett  edited  and  contributed 
to  "  Teaching  and  Organization,"  and  is  the 
author  of  "  Common  Sense  in  Education  "  and 
various  magazine  articles  and  reviews. 

BARRINGTON,  Hon.  Rupert  Edward 
Selbourn,  of  Potchefstroom,  Transvaal  ;  was 
born  at  Brackley,  Dec.  10,  1875.  He  is  son 
of  Viscount  Barrington  by  Mary  Isabella, 
dau.  of  the  Rev.  R.  Rogne  ;  was  educated  at 
Charterhouse ;  went  to  S.A.  as  a  Trooper 
in  the  I.Y.  ;  received  a  Lieut.'s  Commission, 
afterwards  transferring  to  the  S.A.C.,  in  which 
force  he  also  holds  a  Commission.  He  married 
in  1903  Mary,  dau.  of  Col.  and  the  Hon.  Mrs. 
Ferguson,  of  Pitfour. 

BARTER,  William  Joseph  Henry,  of  the 
Lydenburg  Club,  Transvaal,  was  born  at 
Grahamstown  in  1865  ;  is  the  eldest  son  of  the 
late  W.  H.  Barter,  of  Cork,  Ireland,  formerly 
High  Sheriff  of  the  Eastern  District  Court  and 
Native  Commissioner  of  the  Lydenburg  Dist. 
(1880).  Mr.  W.  J.  H.  Barter  was  on  the 
Lydenburg  goldfields  in  1874,  and  one  of  the 
pioneers  of  the  De  Kaap.  There  he  was  elected 
seven  years  in  succession  as  member  of  the 
North  De  Kaap  Diggers'  Committee,  and 
interested  himself  in  the  politics  of  his  adopted 
country,  supporting  such  local  progressive 
representatives  as  the  late  Jan  Celliers,  R.  K. 
Loveday,  and  Frank  Watkins  as  members 
for  De  Kaap.  He  was  Chairman  of  Gen. 
Joubert's  election  committee  on  two  occasions, 
and  at  the  last  Presidential  election  worked  for 
Mr.  Schalk  Burger.     He  was  also    one    of  the 


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Vice-Presidents  of  the  De  Kaap  Agricultural 
Soc.  In  Lydenburg,  later,  he  was  member  of 
the  Health  Board,  Hospital  Board,  and  Treasurer 
of  the  Lydenburg  Agricultural  Soc.  When 
war  broke  out  he  was  one  of  the  delegates 
elected  to  go  to  Paardekraal  to  oppose  the  "war 
talk  "  ;  but  Botha  appointed  him  Military  Com- 
missioner of  the  S.A.R.  He  was  also  Treasurer 
of  the  State  Mint  which  coined  the  Z.A.R. 
"  Een  Pond,  1902,"  and  was  deputed  by  the 
Boer  Gen.  to  protect  the  Lydenburg  Mines. 
Upon  peace  being  proclaimed,  he  resumed  his 
business  in  Lydenburg,  serving  also  on  the 
Railway  Committee,  the  Lydenburg  Agricultural 
Soc,  and  other  bodies.  Mr.  Barter  married  in 
1887  Miss  H.  H.  C.  Paskin,  dau.  of  the  late 
J.  J.  Paskin,  of  Wildemere,  Verulam. 

BARTON,  FoLLiOTT  Cybil  Montgomeky.  of 
the  Roj^al  Colonial  Institute  and  the  United 
Sporting  Club,  was  bom  Jime  4,  1875,  at  Gra- 
hamstown,  S.  Africa,  and  is  of  Irish  parentage. 
He  was  educated  at  St.  Paul's  Sch.,  Lond., 
and  was  appointed  Clerk  in  the  Colonial  Audit 
Branch  of  the  Exchequer  and  Audit  Dept., 
Lond.,  in  1895  ;  Assist.  Local  Auditor  British 
Central  Africa  Protectorate  in  1889,  and  in 
June  of  the  same  year  he  became  Acting  Local 
Auditor,  remaining  so  until  June,  1900.  On 
Sept.  12,  1903,  he  was  appointed  1st  Class  Clerk, 
Audit  Office,  in  the  Financial  Civil  Service. 

BAYLY,  Col.  Hon.  L.  S.,  M.L.C,  is  member 
of  the  Cape  Legislative  Council  for  the  Eastern 
Circle,  having  been  last  re-elected  in  1904. 

BAYNES,  Joseph,  C.M.G.  (1902),  M.L.A., 
J. P.,  of  Nel's  Rust,  near  Maritzburg,  Natal,  and 
the  Victoria  Club,  P.M.B.,  is  the  son  of  the  late 
Richard  Baynes,  and  was  born  at  Austwick, 
near  Settle,  Yorks.,  on  March  2,  1842.  He 
arrived  in  Natal  in  1860,  and  commenced 
farming  on  Lawkland,  near  York,  and  since 
1862  has  farmed  at  Nel's  Rust.  He  has  acted 
as  a  member  of  several  Govt.  Commissions ; 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Indian  Immigration 
Board  since  1887,  and  was  Chairman  in  1891-2  , 
is  J.P.  for  the  County  of  Pietermaritzburg ; 
Pres.  of  the  Richmond  Agricultural  Soc.  ; 
member  of  the  Legislative  Council  for  the  Ixopo 
Division  1890-3,  when  under  the  new  constitu- 
tion he  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Assembly. 
He  is  a  sound  protectionist,  and  has  worked 
hard  for  the  agricultural  and  industrial  develop- 
ment of  Natal.  He  strongly  supported  the 
movement  in  the  Assembly  in  1897  which  led 


to  the  Customs  Convention  between  the  Cape 
Colony,  Orange  Free  State  and  Natal ;  he  moved 
also  in  that  House  the  resolution  approving 
and  supporting  the  action  of  the  Imperial  Govt, 
in  its  endeavours  to  obtain  equal  rights  for  all 
civihzed  people  in  S.  A.  He  is  Minister  of  Lands 
and  Works  in  the  present  Natal  Ministry. 
He  married  :  first,  in  1874,  Maria  H.,  2nd  dau. 
of  Paul  Hermanns  Zietsman,  J.P.  ;  and  2nd, 
in  1878,  Sarah  A.,  elder  dau.  of  Ed.  Tomlin- 
son,  who  was  four  times  Mayor  of  Maritzburg. 

BAYNES,  William,  M.L.A.,  J.P.,  of  Settle, 
near  Pietermaritzburg  ;  Glen  Dushie,  P.M.B., 
316,  Longmarket  St.,  P.M.B.,  and  the  Victoria 
Club,  P.M.B.,  was  born  at  Austwick,  Yorks, 
May  22,  1840.  He  is  son  of  the  late  Richard 
Baynes,  of  Settle  and  Nel's  Rust,  Natal  ;  was 
educated  at  Lancaster  and  Giggleswick  Gram. 
Schools,  and  settled  in  Natal  as  a  farmer 
in  1860.  He  was  twice  elected  to  the  Legisla- 
tive Council  as  member  for  Lion's  River  Divi- 
sion (1890-1893)  as  an  opponent  of  Responsible 
Government,  but  on  this  being  granted  to  the 
Colony  he  was  elected  to  represent  Umgeni  in 
the  Natal  House  of  Assembly.  Mr.  Baynes 
married,  Aug.  2,  fl870,  Ellen,  third  dau.  of 
Richard  Stone,  of  Faversham,  Kent. 

BEAL,  Col.  Robert  ;  served  as  a  sergeant  in 
the  B.B.P.,  and  in  Sir  Chas.  Warren's  expedi- 
tion. He  subsequently  held  a  commission 
with  the  Mashonaland  Pioneers,  served  in  the 
Matabele  War  of  1893,  and  in  the  rebelhon  of 
1896  he  commanded  the  Salisbury  -  Gwelo 
column  for  the  reUef  of  Bulawayo,  and  did  good 
service  at  the  action  at  the  Umgusa,  also  in 
repairing  telegraph  lines,  with  patrols,  and 
afterwards  as  transport  officer  on  the  Umtali- 
Beira  road. 

BEAUFORT,  Judge  ;  was  formerly  Governor 
and  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Colony  of 
Labuan  and  the  State  of  North  Borneo,  1895- 
1900.  He  is  now  in  charge  of  the  High  Court 
of  North-Eastern  Rhodesia  established  at  Fort 
Jameson. 

BEAUMONT,  Hon.  William  Henry,  of  10, 
Burgher  St.,  Maritzburg,  Natal,  and  the  Victoria 
Club,  Maritzburg,  was  born  in  India,  Feb.  24, 
1851  ;  is  the  son  of  the  late  Lieut. -Col.  W. 
Beamnont,  of  the  23rd  Madras  Light  Infantry  ; 
was  educated  at  Sherborne  and  Sandhurst, 
and  joined  the  75th  (Stirlingshire)  Regt.  as  Ensign 
in  Aug.  1870  ;  Lieut.  1870,  and  retired  in  Aug. 


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1875.  He  became  Private  Secy,  to  Lieut. - 
Governor  Sir  Benjamin  Pine,  and  Clerk  to  the 
Executive  Council  of  Natal  in  1873 ;  acting 
R.M.  Umlazi  Divn.,  1874 ;  Governor's  Clerk 
and  Clerk  to  the  Executive  Council,  Oct.,  1875  ; 
Magistrate,  1878  ;  Acting  Puisne  Judge  of  the 
Supreme  Court  for  various  periods  from  Feb. 
1895,  to  Oct.  1902  ;  Judge  of  the  Special  Treason 
Court,  Oct.  1901  ;  and  received  his  present 
appointment  as  Puisne  Judge  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Natal,  Nov.  1,  1902. 

I  Judge  Beaumont  served  on  the  Langali- 
balele  Expedition,  1873  ;  was  Colonial  Com- 
mandant of  No.  1  District,  Natal,  at  the  com- 
mencement of  the  Zulu  War,  Jan.  1879,  when 
he  raised  native  levies  for  the  defence  of  the 
border,  and  a  troop  of  mounted  natives  called 
the  "  Newcastle  Scouts "  (medal).  He  also 
served  as  Commandant  of  the  Pietermaritzburg 
Town  Guard  during  the  late  Boer  War.  He 
has  always  been  an  enthusiastic  sportsman, 
and  has  during  the  last  few  years  been  Capt. 
of  the  Maritzburg  Golf  Club.     He  was  married, 

1876,  to  Alice,  dau.  of  the  late  Hon.  John 
Millar,  M.L.C.,  of  Durban. 

BECK,  Dr.  Johannes  Hendricus  Meiring, 
M.L.A.,  has  represented  the  electoral  division 
of  Worcester  in  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly 
for  some  years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Bond, 
and  was  last  returned  unopposed  at  the  General 
Election  in  1904. 

BEHR,  H.  C,  Consulting  Mechanical  Engi- 
neer to  the  Consolidated  Goldfields  of  S.A.  He 
was  the  first  winner  of  the  gold  medal  and  pre- 
miima  of  50  guineas  for  the  best  paper  contri- 
buted on  Deep  Level  Mining  questions  to  the 
Institution  of  Mining  and  Metallurgy.  His 
subject  was  "  Winding  Plants  for  Great  Depths." 

BEIT,  Alfred,  of  26,  Park  Lane,  W.,  of 
Jewin  Water,  near  Welwyn,  Herts,  and  of 
London  Wall  Buildings,  E.C.,  was  born  in 
Hamburg  in  1853,  and  after  receiving  a  sound 
commercial  education,  went  with  a  few  thou- 
sand pounds  to  Kimberley,  where  the  great 
firm  of  Wernher,  Beit  &  Co.  was  originally 
founded.  But  the  discovery  of  the  Rand  Gold- 
fields  greatly  increased  the  sphere  of  the  fii-m's 
operations.  Already  exercising  the  greatest 
influence  over  the  destinies  of  the  De  Beers 
Mines,  of  which  he  is  a  life  governor,  Mr.  Beit 
soon  began  to  acquire  the  control  of  a  large 
proportion  of  the  pick  of  the  Rand  outcrop 
claims,    supplementing   these   holdings    with   a 


more  or  less  continuous  line  of  deep  level  claims 
along  the  main  reef  series,  which  were  soon 
merged  in  the  huge  mining  corporation  known 
as  the  Rand  Mines,  Limited,  of  which  Mr. 
Beit  is  a  Johannesbiu-g  director,  with  a  seat 
on  the  London  Committee.  To  mention  the 
other  naining  undertakings  which  come  entirely 
or  partly  under  the  segis  of  Mr.  Beit's  firm 
would  be  to  name  some  thirty  or  forty  of  the 
most  prosperous  and  best  managed  of  the  Rand 
properties,  although  of  these,  in  addition  to  the 
Rand  Mines,  Ltd.,  he  only  figures  on  the  Boards 
of  the  Robinson  Coy.,  and  the  "  H.F."  Coy. 
He  is  also  a  director  of  the  ConsoUdated  Co., 
Bultfontein  mine. 

But  Mr.  Beit's  interests  are  not  limited  to 
gold  and  diamonds.  From  the  inception  of  the 
Chartered  Co.  he  has  been  one  of  its  most  active 
directors,  and  a  strong  supporter  of  Mr.  Rhodes 
in  his  policy  of  Imperial,  territorial,  and  railway 
expansion.  His  earnest  desire  to  carry  out 
the  partly  completed  projects  bequeathed  to 
hina  by  his  friend  and  colleague,  led  him  to  make 
an  extended  tour  through  Rhodesia  in  the 
autumn  of  1902,  the  immediate  effect  of  which 
was  the  removal  of  the  more  pressing  hind- 
rances to  the  prosperity  of  its  colonists,  more 
especially  those  which  affected  the  working 
element.  The  old  faulty  mining  law  was  to  be 
amended  ;  the  50  per  cent,  clause  to  be  reduced 
to  30  per  cent.  ;  diamond  prospecting  to  be 
allowed  ;  post  and  telegraph  rates  to  be  reduced  ; 
department  for  native  affairs  and  agriculture 
to  be  instituted,  and  railway  construction  to 
be  pushed   on. 

A  man  with  such  responsibilities  and  interests 
needs  to  be  something  more  than  a  financial 
genius,  and  perhaps  one  of  his  most  fortunate 
attributes  is  his  perspicuity  in  judging  character 
and  associating  himself  with  the  right  people. 
Thus  it  is  safe  to  say  that  no  otlier  firm  contains 
such  a  combination  of  men  of  brains  and  finan- 
cial probity  as  the  firm  of  Wernher,  Beit  &  Co. 
and  the  allied  firm  of  H.  Eckstein  &  Co.,  who 
act  as  their  Transvaal  representatives,  and 
between  them  they  are  perhaps  second  only  to 
the  house  of  Rothschild  in  the  magnitude  of 
their  operations  and  the  amplitude  of  their 
financial  resources.  Mr.  Beit's  firm  is  of  course 
not  free  from  those  attacks  which  are  periodi- 
cally directed  against  the  great  financial  houses. 
In  the  case  of  the  libel  uttered  by  Mr.  A.  B. 
Markham,  M.P.  (q.v.),  which  was  so  unre- 
reservedly  withdrawn,  it  is  characteristic  of  the 
firm  that  they  abstained  from  asking  for  the 
costs  in  the  case. 


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Anglo-African  Who's  Who 


Mr.  Beit  himself  is  reserved  and  somewhat 
delicate,  as  most  men  are  who  develop  their 
intellectual  strength  at  the  expense  of  their 
physical  force.  Nevertheless,  he  has  an  extra- 
ordinary capacity  for  hard  work,  and  while  he 
commonly  calculates  in  millions  he  has  that 
grasp  of  detail  which  ensures  his  schemes  being 
successfully  carried  through.  Although  Ger- 
man by  birth,  he  is  a  naturalized  Englishman, 
and  apart  from  the  huge  tract  of  country  which 
he  has  helped  to  bring  under  the  British  flag, 
he  has  large  ideas  on  such  questions  of  national 
importance  as  technical  education,  to  advance 
which  his  firm  has  contributed  in  princely 
fashion. 

During  the  late  S.A.  War  he  was  a 
munificent  supporter  of  the  I.L.H.,  and  it  was 
owing  to  his  generous  financial  aid  that  the 
regiment  was,  after  the  relief  of  Ladysmith, 
re-horsed  in  time  for  it  to  take  part  in  the  relief 
of  Mafeking. 

Bramfontein  Forest,  Parktown,  near  Johan- 
nesburg, consisting  of  about  200  acres  of  free- 
hold ground,  was  recently  presented  to  the 
Johannesburg  Town  Council  by  Messrs.  Wern- 
her,  Beit  &  Co.  and  Mr.  Max  Michaelis  (a 
former  partner  in  the  firm)  for  the  purposes  of 
a  public  park,  which  will  be  known  as  the 
Hermann  Eckstein  Park.  Mr.  Beit  has  a  fine 
collection  of  pictures,  and  maintains  a  racing 
stable  in  Germany. 

BELFIELD,  Col.  Heebebt  Eversley,  C.B., 
D.S.O.,  of  Aldershot,  and  the  Junior  United 
Service  Club,  was  born  at  Dover  Sept.  25,  1857  ; 
is  son  of  Capt.  W.  Belfield,  J.P.,  and  was 
educated  at  Wellington  Coll.,  passing  into  the 
Army  in  1876,  rising  to  the  substantive  rank  of 
Col.  on  Dec.  18,  1899.  After  serving  as  Brig.- 
Maj.  and  D.A.A.G.  at  Aldershot,  he  was  on 
special  service  in  Ashanti  in  1895-6  as  C.S.O., 
being  honourably  mentioned  and  receiving  the 
Brev.  of  Lieut.-Col.  and  the  Star.  In  the  late 
S.A.  War  he  acted  as  A.A.G.,  S.A.,  from 
Dec.  1899,  until  Jan.  1902,  when  he  became 
Inspector-Gen.  of  I.Y.  in  S.A.,  taking  part  in 
the  operations  in  the  O.R.C.,  Transvaal,  and 
later  in  the  Cape  Colony,  including  the  actions 
at  Venterskroon,  Lindley,  and  Rhenoster  River. 
He  was  twice  mentioned  in  despatches ;  re- 
ceived the  King's  medal  with  two  clasps,  and 
was  decorated  with  the  C.B.  and  D.S.O.  Col. 
Belfield  was  appointed  A.A.G.  of  the  1st 
Army  Corps  at  Aldershot  Dec.  11,  1902.  He 
married  1st,  in  1887,  Emily  Mary,  dau.  of  the 
Rt.    Rev.    Hibbert    Binney,    Bishop    of    Nova 


Scotia  ;  and  2nd,  in  1888,  Evelyn  Mary,S[dau. 
of  Albon  Taylor,  of  Barnes. 

BELL,  Lieut.-Col.  John  William,  CM  G., 
J. P.,  M.R.C.I.,  of  Pretoria,  Transvaal,  and  of 
the  Imperial  Service  and  Pretoria  Clubs ;  is 
the  son  of  Wilham  Bell,  of  Dumfries,  Scot- 
land, late  of  Grahamstown,  Cape  Colony,  Advo- 
cate and  M.L.A.  He  was  born  at  Edinburgh 
1848,  and  was  educated  at  the  High  Sch., 
Edin.  Col.  Bell  originally  practised  as  a 
solicitor  at  Queenstown,  Cape  Colony,  and  is 
now  Master  of  the  Supreme  Cotu-t  of  the  Trans- 
vaal. He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Queens- 
town  Rifle  Volunteers  since  the  formation  of 
the  corps  in  1873,  and  was  in  command  from 
1881  to  1901.  He  holds  the  S.A.  War 
medal  (1877-78),  and  was  granted  the  Long 
Service  medal  1898.  He  holds  the  Volunteer 
Officers'  Decoration,  and  was  decorated  for 
services  in  the  South  African  campaign  1899- 
1901.  He  married  in  1873  Ehza  Jane  Brad- 
field,  4tli  dau.  of  Edward  Mortimer  Turvey. 

BELL,  William  Henry  Somerset,  of  Johan- 
nesburg, and  the  Rand,  Pretoria,  Grahamstown 
and  Albany  (Grahamstown)  Clubs,  was  born 
near  Fort  Beaufort,  Eastern  Province,  Aug.  1, 
1856.  He  is  second  son  of  Col.  Charles  Bell, 
and  grandson  of  Geo.  Jarvis,  solicitor,  of 
Grahamstown.  He  was  educated  at  Douglas, 
Isle  of  Man,  and  at  St.  Andrew's  Coll.,  Grahams- 
town, At  the  early  age  of  foxu-teen  he,  in  con- 
junction with  an  elder  brother,  aged  16,  printed 
and  published  a  small  weekly  newspaper  called 
the  "  Kariega  News,"  which  ran  for  a  year, 
much  of  the  plant  being  made  by  these  two 
boys.  In  1877  Mr.  W.  H.  S.  Bell  served  with 
the  Albany  Mounted  Volunteers  in  the  Galeka 
Campaign.  He  was  admitted  as  an  Attorney 
of  the  Supreme  Court,  Cape  Colony,  in  1879, 
and  a  Notary  of  the  same  Court  in  1878.  In 
1884  he  founded  and  became  editor  of  the 
"  Cape  Law  Journal,"  of  which  he  continued 
editor  until  1896,  when  he  went  to  England  on 
account  of  ill-health  ;  he  resumed  the  editor- 
ship in  the  beginning  of  1900,  and  still  continues 
to  occupy  that  position.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Reforin  Committee  in  Dec,  1895  ;  was 
arrested  for  high  treason  against  the  S.A.R.  on 
Jan.  9,  1896,  and  lodged  in  the  Pretoria  gaol 
with  some  63  other  Reformers  ;  was  tried  in 
April,  1896,  and  with  59  others  was  convicted 
of  the  minor  offence  of  Lcesce  majestatis,  and 
sentenced  to  two  years'  imprisonment,  £2,000 
fiLne,     and     three     years'     banishment.     After 


Anglo-African  Who's  Who 


II 


serving  about  one  month's  imprisonment  his 
sentence  was  commuted  to  a  fine  of  £2,000. 
Towards  the  end  of  1896  he  gave  up  business 
in  Johannesburg,  and  went  to  England  for  rest 
and  change.  In  1898  he  became  Chairman  of 
the  Estate  Finance  and  Mines  Corporation, 
Ld.,  in  London,  which  position  he  resigned  at 
the  end  of  1899,  and  went  back  to  S.A.,  and 
devoted  himself  to  improving  the  ''  Cape  Law 
Journal,"  and  also  compiled  his  "  Digest  of  the 
Cape  Law  Journal,"  a  work  of  about  600  pages, 
pubhshed  1901.  In  that  year  he  altered  the 
name  of  the  "  Cape  Law  Journal "  to  the 
"  South  African  Law  Journal,"  and  in  June  of 
the  same  year  he  resumed  in  Johannesburg  his 
practice  as  a  solicitor.  He  joined  the  Rand 
Rifles,  and  was  a  captain  in  the  force  at  the 
time  it  was  disbanded.  In  1902  he,  in  conjunc- 
tion with  Mr.  Manfred  Nathan,  LL.D.,  com- 
piled and  published  the  "  Legal  Handbook  of 
British  South  Africa"  (about  750  pp.).  He 
was  one  of  the  representatives  of  the  O.R.C. 
in  the  Inter-Colonial  conference  on  the  Com- 
panies' Law. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Ayliff,  Bell 
&  Hutton,  and  later  of  Bell  &  Hutton,  in 
Grahamstown ;  of  Caldicott  &  Bell,  in  Kim- 
berley  ;  of  Bell  &  MuUins,  in  Johannesburg  ; 
and  since  1901  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Bell  &  Tancred,  of  Johannesburg.  He 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Coimoil  of  the  Incor- 
porated Law  Society  of  the  Transvaal  for  many 
years  ;  he  is  also  a  member  of  the  Council  of  the 
Incorporated  Law  Society  of  the  Cape  Colony. 
He  is  a  director  on  several  companies,  and  Chair- 
man of  the  African  Book  Co.,  Ltd.  He  married 
Aug.  3,  1880,  Charlotte  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  the 
late  Geo.  Wood,  juni'.,  of  Grahamstown. 

BELLAIRS,  Capt.  Norman  Edward  Breton, 
R.A.,  of  the  United  Service  Club,  London,  was 
born  Nov.  12,  1869,  at  Gibraltar.  He  is  son  of 
Lieut.-Gen.  Sir  WUliam  Bellairs  (q.v.)  ;  was 
educated  at  Chfton  Coll.  ;  served  in  the 
S.A.  War  1901-2,  commanding  the  R.G.A. 
in  the  O.R.C.  towards  the  end  of  the  war.  He 
subsequently  was  appointed  Adjt.  of  the  Cape 
Garrison  Artillery. 

BELLAIRS,  Lieut.-Gen.  Sib  W^illiam, 
K.C.M.G.,  C.B.,  Knight  of  the  Legion  of  Honour, 
and  Order  of  the  Medjidie,  of  Clevedon,  Somer- 
setshire, and  of  the  National  Liberal  Club,  was 
born  August  28,  1828,  at  Honfleur.  He  is  de- 
scended from  the  ancient  family  of  de  Beler, 
Bellers,  or  Bellars  (as  formerly  variously  spelt), 


of  Melton  Mowbray,  and  Kirby  Bellars,  Leicester- 
shire, in  which  churches  are  still  to  be  seen 
effigies  of  his  ancestors.  He  is  a  son  of  Sir 
WiUiam  Bellairs  (d.  1863),  a  distinguished 
officer  of  the  15th  King's  Hussars,  who  saw 
much  service  during  the  Peninsula  and  Water- 
loo, and  was  afterwards  Exon  of  the  Yeomen 
of  the  Guard  at  the  Court  of  Queen  Victoria. 
Sir  William  was  educated  privately,  and  entered 
the  army  in  1846,  retiring  as  a  Lieut.-Gen.  in 
1887.  As  Adjt.  of  the  49th  (now  the  Royal 
Berkshire)  Regt.,  he  was  present  at  the  battle 
of  the  Alma  ;  as  Capt.  at  the  Inkerman  com- 
bat of  the  26th  October,  and  at  the  battle  of 
Inkerman,  where  he  led  a  charge  with  only  three 
attenuated  companies,  which  overthrew  and 
dispersed  a  strong  Russian  column — an  episode 
related  in  Kinglake's  brilUant  pages.  Later, 
when  on  the  Q.M.-Gen.'s  staff,  he  was  present 
at  the  attacks  on  the  Redan  and  fall  of  Sebasto- 
pol,  being  then  rewarded  with  a  brevet  majority, 
French  and  Turkish  honours,  medals  and  clasps. 
He  was  one  of  the  comparative  few  (about  100) 
combatants  who  fought  through  the  Crimea 
from  first  to  last.  He  subsequently  served  on 
the  staff  of  the  Adjutant  and  Q.M.-Gen.'s 
departments  in  the  West  Indies,  Ireland,  Gibral- 
tar and  South  Africa ;  throughout  the  Kafir 
and  Zulu  campaigns  (S.  African  medal,  1877-9, 
and  distingushed  service  reward).  Then,  as 
Brig. -Gen.  commanding  the  troops  which  suc- 
cessfully defended  their  seven  isolated  posts  in 
the  Transvaal — Pretoria,  Potchefstroom,  Rust- 
enburg,  Marabastaal,  Lydenburg,  Standerton, 
and  Wakkerstroom — surrounded  as  they  were, 
for  three  months,  by  greater  Boer  forces.  Sir 
William  has  Ukewise  acted  in  various  civil 
capacities — as  Inspector-Gen.  of  Police,  Bar- 
bados, 1857  ;  Local  Inspector  of  Army  Schools, 
Gibraltar,  1868-73  ;  Col.  Secretary,  Gibraltar, 
1872  ;  Administrator,  Natal,  1880  ;  Member  of 
Executive  Coim.cil,  Transvaal,  1880-1  ;  and 
Administrator,  Transvaal,  1881,  after  the  war. 

Sir  William  wrote  the  "  Transvaal  War, 
1880-1,"  published  in  1885  (Blackwood).  In 
1902  the  liang  selected  him  for  the  Colonelcy  of 
the  Sherwood  Foresters  (Nottinghamshire  and 
Derbyshire  Regt.).  Sir  William  was  married: 
first,  in  1857,  to  Emily  Craven,  daughter  of 
Wm.  Barton  Gibbons,  J.P.,  and  second,  in  1867, 
to  Blanch  St.  John,  daughter  of  F.  A.  Mosch- 
zisker.  Ph.  D.  Sir  Wilham's  eldest  son, 
WiUiam  G.  Bellairs  (q.v.)  is  a  C.C.  and  R.M. 
in  the  Cape  Colony.  He  has  another  son,  Capt. 
N.  E.  B.  Bellairs,  R.A.,  attached  to  the  Cape 
Artillery,  and  a  daughter  married  to  Sir  David 


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Anglo-African  Who's  Who. 


Tennant,  late  Speaker    of  the  Cape  House  of 

Assembly. 

BELLAIRS,  William  G.,  eldest  son  of  Lieut.- 
Gen.  Sir  Wm.  Bellairs  (q.v.);  is  C.C.  and 
R.M.  in  the  Cape  Colony.  He  married  in  1901 
to  Augusta  Chiappini,  dau.  of  a  former  member 
of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly. 

BELLINGHAM,  Hon.  Philiptts  Solomon, 
M.L.C.,  was  born  in  1834  at  Uitenhage,  which 
he  represented  for  many  years  on  the  Divisional 
Council.  He  wag  an  office-bearer  in  the  D.R. 
Church,  and  a  prominent  Bond  leader  in  his 
division.  He  was  returned  at  the  head  of  the 
poll  in  1891  for  the  South-Eastern  Province 
in  the  Cape  Legislative  Council.  Mr.  Balling- 
ham  still  represents  this  division. 

BELLIS,  Thomas  K.,  of  Croydon,  Surrey, 
was  born  in  Liverpool  in  1841,  and  educated  at 
the  Liverpool  CoU.  At  the  early  age  of  fifteen 
he  entered  the  Liverpool  office  of  Messrs.  Forbes, 
Forbes  &  Co.,  East  India  merchants  of  London. 
Mr.  Bellis  shortly  afterwards  came  to  London, 
where  he  entered  seriously  upon  a  business 
career.  For  eighteen  years  he  remained  with 
a  well  known  firm  then  doing  an  important  West 
Indian  trade,  and  rose  from  the  lowest  position 
to  that  of  manager.  On  the  dissolution  of  the  firm 
in  the  West  India  trade,  he  started  for  lumself 
in  1874,  and  forseeing  the  great  future  of  the 
turtle  trade,  he  kept  it  well  before  him  in  the 
midst  of  his  other  undertakings.  To  a  man  of 
his  enterprising  character  and  business  capacity 
a  scheme  for  the  importation  of  the  living  annual, 
upon  a  scale  never  before  attempted,  was  no 
sooner  thought  of  than  he  maide  extensive 
arrangements  to  carry  it  out.  Mr.  Bellis  has 
earned  the  sobriquet  of  "  Turtle  King."  That 
title  is  beyond  dispute,  for  throughout  the 
length  and  breadth  of  the  land  there  is  not 
another  merchant  dealing  on  the  same  colossal 
scale,  as  a  visit  to  the  present  offices  in  Bury 
Street,  St.  Mary  Axe,  will  quickly  prove.  Every 
fortnight  the  West  India  Royal  Mail  brings  a 
siipply,  dealers  throughout  the  country  looking 
to  Mr.  Bellis  for  the  fulfilment  of  their  orders. 
Not  only  is  he  acknowledged  as  the  head  of  the 
business  in  England,  but  his  fame  is  equally 
recognized  throughout  Europe,  and  he  controls 
the  schooners  which  catch  the  turtles  from 
amongst  the  coral  islands  in  the  Mexican  Gulf. 
With  the  energy  and  enterprise  characteristic 
to  him,  Mr.  Bellis    has    not   limited  his  efforts 


to  one  branch  of  trade.  He  is  now  taking  a 
keenly  active  part  in  opening  a  trade  with 
Tarkwa,  on  the  Gold  Coast,  and  the  results  up 
to  the  present  time  have  amply  justified  his 
foresight.  He  has  also  for  the  past  seventeen 
years  been  engaged  in  importing  Turkish  leaf 
tobacco,  at  first  only  on  a  small  scale,  but  it 
has  developed  very  considerably,  and  is  now 
quite  an  important  business.  He  is  pro- 
moter and  director  of  the  Tarkwa  Gold  Coast 
Trading  Co. — now  a  successful  company.  His 
name  is  also  well  known  in  connection  with 
the  exploitation  of  the  Welsbach  Incandescent 
Light.  Many  other  minor  inventions  were 
also  brought  out  by  him,  including  the  Fleuss 
Tubeless  Tyre,  the  original  syndicate  proving  a 
great  success,  as  was  the  case  with  all  the  ven- 
tures to  which  he  has  lent  his  name  and  given 
his  consideration.  Mr.  Bellis  has  resided  for 
many  years  in  Croydon,  and  has  taken  an  active 
part  in  the  local  life  of  the  town,  but  has  never 
been  persuaded  to  accept  public  office  in  Croydon 
or  elsewhere. 

BENT,  Mrs.  Mabel  Virginia  Anna,  of  13, 
Great  Cumberland  Place,  W.,  and  of  the  Ladies' 
Empire  Club,  is  a  daughter  of  Robert  Westley 
Hall-Dare,  D.L.,  of  Theydon  Bois,  Wenning- 
ton  Hall,  Essex,  and  Newtownbarry  House, 
CO.  Wexford.  She  was  married  Aug.  2,  1877, 
to  the  late  Theodore  Bent,  of  Baildon  House, 
Yorks.  Mrs.  Bent  accompanied  her  husband 
in  all  his  explorations,  and  took  part  in  the 
excavations  with  which  lie  was  associated  in 
the  Greek  and  Turkish  Islands,  Asia  Minor, 
Abyssinia,  the  Great  Zimbabye  (Mashonaland), 
Persia,  and  elsewhere.  She  is  the  authoress  of 
' '  Southern  Arabia,  Soudan,  and  Sokotra,' '  compil- 
ed from  her  own  and  Mr.  Theodore  Bent's  notes. 

BERRINGTON,  Evelyn  Del.\hay,  A.I.M.M., 
F.R.C.I.,  F.S.A.,  is  the  son  of  A.  D.  Berring- 
ton,  late  Secretary  of  Fisheries.  He  was  born 
March  6,  1861,  at  Pant-y-goitre,  near  Aberga- 
venny, and  was  educated  at  Clifton  Coll. 
and  Geneva  Univ.  Mr.  Berrington  has  been 
conected  with  gold  mining  since  1882  in  various 
parts  of  the  world.  He  was  in  Venezuela 
1882-3,  in  Florida,  U.S.A.,  1884-6,  and  in 
Johannesburg  1887-8.  He  joined  the  pioneer 
force  into  Mashonaland  in  1890,  and  was  in 
Johannesburg  and  Matabeleland  from  1894  to 
1899.  He  acted  as  manager  to  the  Lomagunda 
Reefs,  Ltd.,  and  the  Ayrshire  Mine  in  Mashona- 
land from  1899  to  1903.  He  married,  June  2, 
1894,  Miss  Eleanor  A.  Witterton. 


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BERRY,  Hon.  Sir  William  Bisset,  Knt., 
M.L.A.,  M.A.,  M.D.,  of  Speaker's  Chambers, 
Parliament  House,  Cape  Town  ;  Ebden  Street, 
Queenstown,  and  the  Civil  Service  Club  (C.T.)  ; 
was  born  at  Aberdeen,  Scotland,  1839.  He 
had  a  public  school  and  university  education, 
and  followed  the  medical  profession  from  1864 
for  many  years  at  Queenstown,  Cape  Colony, 
which  he  was  elected  to  represent  in  the  Cape 
Parliament  in  1893,  being  last  re-elected  at  the 
general  election  in  1904.  In  politics  he  is  an 
ardent  Liberal,  an  occasional  speaker,  and  is 
identified  with  every  movement  for  the  better- 
ment of  the  people.  He  has  been  Speaker  of 
the  Cape  House  of  Assembly  since  1898,  and  is 
on  the  Council  of  the  Cape  University. 

He  has  contributed  largely  to  the  medical 
press,  and  married,  in  1864,  a  dau.  of  Wm. 
Beale. 

BESTER,  A.  J.,  of  Bethlehem,  O.R.C.,  was 
formerly  a  member  of  the  Orange  Free  State 
Volksraad. 

BIGHAM,  William  R.,  of  Wliite  City, 
Morris  County,  Kansas,  U.S.A.,  the  U.S.  Con- 
sulate-General, Cape  Town,  and  the  City  Club, 
Cape  Town,  was  born  at  Hamilton,  Ohio,  U.S.A., 
April  12,  1841  ;  is  of  Scotch  origin  on  both  his 
father's  and  mother's  side,  and  was  educated 
at  Hamilton,  Ohio.  He  acted  as  Mayor  of  the 
city  of  El  Porso,  111.,  for  three  terms  ;  com- 
pleted three  years  and  three  months  in  the  4th 
Regt.  of  111.  Cavalry  ;  served  as  representative 
for  the  60th  district  of  Kansas  two  terms ; 
Alderman  in  the  city  of  White  City  two  terms ; 
and  was  on  the  Education  Board  of  that  city 
for  a  similar  period  ;  was  a  director  of  Badger 
Lumber,  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  for  eleven  years.  In 
the  year,  1887-8  he  travelled  in  S.  America, 
Europe  and  the  U.K.,  and  was  appointed  U.S. 
Consul-General  in  Cape  Town  in  Aug.  1901,  by 
Pres.  McKinley. 

Mr.  Bigham  has  the  Masonic  Orders  Blue 
Lodge,  Chapter,  Comandry  and  Schrine ;  also 
the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  and  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen,  the  latter  being  an 
insurance  order.  He  married  Miss  Elizabeth 
H.  Bingham,  Sept.  1,  1868. 

BINNS,  Henry  ;  went  to  Natal  in  1858, 
and  engaged  in  planting.  He  was  a  nominee 
member  of  the  Natal  Council  in  1879,  and  was 
elected  to  the  Assembly  in  1883.  Was  Chair- 
man of  the  Indian  Immigration  Trust  Board, 
and  Delegate  to  the  Bloemfontein  Conference 
in  1889. 


BIRCHALL,  Charles,  of  Liverpool ;  was 
born  in  1842,  and  entered  the  service  of  the 
London  and  North-Western  Railway  Company 
at  a  very  early  age,  and  the  business  training 
he  received  in  the  few  years  he  remained  with 
that  concern  stood  him  in  such  good  stead  that 
the  intricacies  of  commercial  hfe  thereafter 
came  extremely  easy.  At  the  end  of  twenty 
years'  faithful  work  in  the  service  of  the  founder 
of  the  "  Journal  of  Commerce,"  he  became  sole 
proprietor  of  this  well-known  organ. 

In  a  quiet  and  unobtrusive  way  he  has  done 
a  great  deal  towards  the  improvement  of  South 
and  West  Africa,  for  as  proprietor  of  the  Liver- 
pool and  Manchester  "  Jom-nal  of  Commerce  " 
and  Chairman  of  the  company  which  o\vns  the 
"  Financier  and  Bullionist,"  all  the  weight  of 
his  influence  has  for  many  years  past  been 
exerted  in  the  direction  of  promoting  a  better 
knowledge  of  the  Dark  Continent  on  the  part 
of  Englishmen,  and  a  greater  development  of 
the  vast  resources  of  Africa  by  the  aid  of  British 
capital.  At  a  time  when  Western  Africa  was  a 
terra  incognita  to  the  vast  mass  of  the  people  of 
this  coiuitry,  the  newspapers  wliich  Mr.  Birch- 
all  so  ably  controls  in  the  North  of  England 
loudly  proclaimed  its  great  possibilities,  and 
boldly  asked  for  railways,  better  government, 
and  more  general  recognition,  an  advocacy 
which  can  claim  to  have  been  the  chief  means 
of  the  wonderful  latter-day  development  of 
such  places  as  Ashanti  and  the  Gold  Coast.  As 
one  of  the  principal  personages  who  regulate 
the  policy  of  the  "  Financier  and  Bullionist," 
both  South  and  West  Africa  have  to  thank  him 
for  the  uncompromising  and  unflinching  manner 
in  which  the  interests  of  that  country  have 
always  been  placed  before  the  pubUc,  whilst  his 
behef  in  the  future  of  Africa  has  ever  been 
very  practically  demonstrated  by  the  posses- 
sion of  large  financial  interests  in  many  of  the 
concerns  at  present  engaged  in  gold  production 
and  general  development.  Mr.  Birchall  is 
one  of  the  most  popular  and  influential  men 
in  the  city  of  Liverpool,  where,  besides  pro- 
ducing the  "  Journal  of  Commerce,"  he  con- 
ducts a  large  advertising  and  printing  business. 
The  whole  of  his  commercial  career  has  been 
lived  in  the  great  city  on  the  Mersey,  and  a 
nearly  equally  long  residential  connection  with 
the  Wirral  Peninsula  on  the  other  side  of  the 
river  has  led  to  his  taking  quite  a  number  of 
public  duties,  including  that  of  County  Council- 
lor for  Cheshire,  and  Chairman  of  the  School 
Attendance  Committee  of  the  local  School 
Board.     Perhaps  Mr.    Birchall' s    future    repu- 


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tation  rests  more  on  his  philanthropic  work 
than  on  anything  else,  for  in  establishing  the 
famous  Christmas  "  hot-pots "  at  Liverpool, 
he  has  founded  a  benevolent  scheme  whose 
fame  has  travelled  all  over  the  world.  In 
almost  every  plan  for  helping  the  poor  and  the 
needy  in  Liverpool  and  in  Wirral  he  takes  the 
keenest  interest,  and  on  the  School  Board  and 
the  County  Council,  with  which  he  has  been  so 
long  associated,  there  is  no  harder  worker. 

BIRDWOOD,  Herbert  Mills,  C.S.I.  (1893), 
J.P.  for  Middlesex,  Barrister-at-Law,  of  Dalkeith 
House,  Cambridge  Park,  Twickenliam  ;  the 
National  Liberal,  Mid-Siurey  Golf,  and  various 
Indian  Clubs,  was  born  at  Belgavun,  Bombay 
Presidency,  May  29,  1837,  and  is  son  of  the 
late  Gen.  Christopher  Birdwood,  Bombay 
Army.  He  was  educated  at  Plymouth  New 
Gram.  Sch.,  Mount  Radford  Sch.,  Edin. 
University,  and  Peterhouse,  Camb.,  where  he 
took  his  M.A.  and  LL.D.  He  is  also  Hon. 
Fellow  of  Peterhouse.  He  entered  the  Indian 
Civil  Service  (Bombav  Establishment)  Dec.  26, 
1858  ;  retired  April  24,  1897  ;  held  office  as 
Asst.  Collector  and  Magistrate,  1 859-62  ;  Asat. 
Judge,  1862-3  ;  Under-Secy.  to  the  Bombay 
Govt.,  1863-6 ;  Political  Assistant  in  Kattir- 
awad,  1866-7  ;  Registrar  of  the  High  Court, 
Bombay,  1867-71  ;  District  Judge  and  Sessions 
Judge  in  various  districts,  1871-80;  Judicial 
Commissioner  in  Sind  and  Judge  of  the  Sadar 
Court,  ^:a  881-85  ;  Judge  of  the  High  Court, 
Bombay,  1885-92  ;  Vice-Chancellor  of  the 
Bombay  University,  1891-2  ;  and  Member  of 
the  Executive  Council  of  the  Governor  of  Bom- 
bay, 1892—97,  during  which  period  he  was 
appointed  Acting-Governor  of  Bombay,  Feb. 
17,  1895. 

Mr.  Birdwood  is  a  Commissioner  of  Rich- 
mond Bridge,  a  Member  of  the  Twickenham 
Urban  Dist.  Covmcil,  and  a  director  of  a  few 
Rhodesian  companies.  He  edited  certain  vols, 
of  the  Laws  and  Regulations  in  force  in  the 
Bombay  Presidency,  and  is  the  author  of 
various  papers  and  articles  on  subjects  con- 
nected with  Indian  administration  and  Indian 
Botany.  He  married,  Jan.  29,  1861,  Edith 
Marian  Sidonie,  dau.  of  the  late  Surgeon-Maj. 
Elijah  Impey,  Bombay  Army,  some  time  P.M.G. 
of  Bombay. 

BIRKENST0CK,CoENR.4JiJ>  J.  A., of  Vryheid, 
Transvaal,  was  born  in  Pietermaritzburg  in 
1853.  In  1876  he  was  selected  by  the  Trans- 
vaal Govt,  to  accompany  G.  M.  Rudolph  and 


G.  van  Staden  on  the  last  mission  to  Cetewayo. 
He  acted  as  Secy,  to  C.  Joubert  and  Rudolph  on 
the  visit  to  Swazieland  to  crown  Umbandine 
as  king  in  1875.  He  joined  the  opposition 
during  the  annexation  of  the  Transvaal,  and 
fought  at  Laing's  Nek  in  the  War  of  Inde- 
pendence. In  1884  he  trekked  to  Zululand. 
He  assisted  in  estabhshing  the  New  Republic, 
and  was  chairman  of  its  Volksraad  of  tweh'e 
till  shortly  before  its  incorporation  with  tlie 
Transvaal.  He  was  elected  in  1890  to  represent 
Vryheid  in  the  First  Volksraad,  of  which  he 
was  one  of  the  most  progressive  members,  and 
a  worthy  colleague  of  the  late  Gen.  Lucas 
Meyer  whom  he  greatly  admired. 

BIRT,  Howard  Hawkins,  of  Bloemfontein, 
was  born  at  London,  Aug.  17,  1875,  and  is  the 
descendant  of  an  old  Baptist  family.  He  was 
educated  at  Devizes,  Wilts.,  and  lost  no  time 
in  turning  his  talents  in  the  direction  of  journal- 
ism. For  some  years  connected  with  the  London 
Press,  he  is  now  ed.  of  the  "  Bloemfontein  Post." 
He  has  also  published  various  short  stories, 
articles,  and  pamphlets,  mainly,  in  connection 
with  criminal  identification,  the  work  of  the 
London  Police,  and  the  investigations  of  the 
Theosophical  Society.  He  married,  in  1897, 
Emily,  dau.  of  H.  Becker,  of  London. 

BLACK,  Stephen  Cope,  of  Johannesbvirg, 
and  the  Rand  Club,  is  descended  on  the  paternal 
side  from  a  Scottish  family  who  settled  early 
in  the  19th  century  in  the  Cape,  where  Mr. 
S.  C.  Black  was  born.  He  left  the  Western 
Province  in  1889,  attracted  by  the  prospects 
of  the  Rand,  where  he  has  resided  ever  since. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Johannesburg  Stock 
Exchange  ;  an  executive  mem.  of  the  Chamber 
of  Mines,  and  director  of  the  Henry  Nourse, 
New  Modderfontein,  Jumpers,  Wolhuter,  and 
other  mining  and  industrial  companies,  besides 
being  joint  manager  in  S.A.  of  the  Transvaal 
Gold  Fields,  Ltd. 

BLACKBEARD,  Charles  Alexander,  J.P., 
of  Posno  Street,  Beaconsfield,  Cape  Colony, 
and  of  the  Kimberley  Club,  was  born  at  Gra- 
hamstown,  Dec.  19,  1848,  his  grandparents 
having  settled  in  the  Colony  in  1820.  He  is  an 
old  resident  on  the  Diamond  Fields,  has  for 
many  years  taken  a  prominent  interest  in  the 
municipal  affairs  of  Beaconsfield,  for  which 
town  he  was  several  times  elected  Mayor.  He 
was  re-elected  in  1902.  He  is  also  Chairman 
of  the  local  PubHc  School ;    the  local  branch  of 


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the  S.A.  League  ;  and  of  the  Kroonstad  Coal 
and  Estate  Co.,  and  Director  of  tlie  Griqualand 
West  D.M.  Co.  In  freemasonry  he  is  D.D.G.M. 
of  Central  South  Africa,  and  Eminent  Preceptor 
"Diamond  of  (he  Desert."  He  served  as  a 
trooper  in  the  D.F.H.  in  the  Kafir  war  of  1877-8  ; 
became  Capt.  in  that  corps  in  1889,  and  served 
as  Capt.  and  Adjt.  in  the  Beaconsfield  Town 
Guard  during  tlie  siege  in  the  S.A.  War,  and  was 
mentioned  in  Col.  Kekewich's  despatches.  He 
married,  Dec.  8,  1S75,  Miss  Annie  Robinson 
McKay. 

BLACKBURN,  Douglas  ;  of  Loteni  Valley, 
via  Fort  Nottingham,  Natal ;  eldest  son  of  the 
Rev.  Geo.  Blackburn ;  was  born  at  Aix,  Savoy, 
Aug.  6,  1857.  He  was  educated  at  Wylde's 
King  Edward  Gram.  Sch.,  Lowestoft,  and 
read  for  the  Bar.  He  has  been  connected  with 
jotirnalism  since  1892,  and  is  founder  of  "The 
Sentinel,"  a  Progressive  Boer  journal,  and  has 
incidentally  been  engaged  in  numerous  criminal 
and  civil  actions  for  libel  brought  by  the  Trans- 
vaal Govt,  officials.  He  is  author  of  two  books 
which  have  gained  him  a  very  favourable 
notoriety,  "  Prinsloo  of  Prinsloosdorp,"  and  "  A 
Btu-gher  Quixote"  (Blackwood),  and  he  has  now 
in  the  press  "  Richard  Hartley,  Prospector."  Mr. 
Blackburn  has  travelled  considerably.  He 
has  written  about  sailing  subjects,  and  has 
performed  several  vmusually  long  single-handed 
voyages  in  small  boats  in  British  and  Contin- 
ental waters.     Unmarried. 

BLAINE,  George,  M.L.A.,  represents  the 
electoral  division  of  Cathcart  in  the  Cape 
Legislative  Assembly,  and  votes  with  the 
Progressive  party. 

BLAKELEY,  Robert  Henry,  of  Johannes- 
burg, was  born  at  Harbury,  Yorks.,  Nov.  8, 1867  ; 
is  the  son  of  Wm.  Blakeley,  J. P.,  was  educated 
&t  Repton,  and  served  with  Roberts'  Horse 
dvuing  the  S.A.  War,  when  he  was  taken 
prisoner  at  Sauna's  Post  (Queen's  and  King's 
medals,  5  clasps).  He  is  very  fond  of  cricket, 
■football,  and  hockey  ;  is  an  authority  on  the 
Rugby  game,  and  was  for  seven  years  Hon. 
Secy,  of  the  Transvaal  Rugby  Football  Union. 

BLANE,  William,    F.R.C.I.,     of     31,     Karl 

Street,  Jeppestown,  Johannesburg  ;  of  the  New 
Club,  Johannesburg,  and  of  the  Jimior  Con- 
servative Club,  London,  is  the  eldest  son  of 
Robert  Blane,  of  Galston,  Ayrshire,  and  grand- 
son of  William  Blane,  of  Ayr,  who  was  the  first 


engineer  for  William  BaLrd&  Co.,  and  one  of  the 
most  successful  engineers  of  his  time.  He  was 
born  May  28,  1858,  at  Galston,  and  trained  in 
mining  and  engineering  with  Boyd,  Gilmour 
&  Co.,  Kihnarnock.  After  taking  various 
distinctions  and  prizes  for  scientific  studies  he 
went  to  S.A.  in  1883.  After  being  in  various 
parts  of  the  country  he  went  to  Johannesburg 
in  March,  1890,  and  was  gen.  manager  of  various 
gold  mining  companies  to  the  end  of  1893. 
From  that  year  until  1899  he  was  senior  partner 
of  the  firm  of  Blane  &  Co.,  Engineers,  Johannes- 
burg. Since  1899  he  has  been  Managing  Director 
of  Blane  &  Co.,  Ltd.  In  1901  he  was  selected 
by  the  Govt,  of  Queensland  to  inspect  the  gold 
fields  of  that  country  and  to  report  on  the  con- 
ditions and  mode  of  working  them.  He  is 
director  of  several  companies,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Institute  of  Mechanical  Engineers,  London ; 
of  the  Federated  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers, 
England  ;  of  the  S.A.  Association  of  Engineers  ; 
and  of  the  Mechanical  Engineers'  Association  of 
the  Witwatersrand,  Under  the  nom  de  plume 
of  "  Beta  "  he  was  a  frequent  contributor  of 
verses  to  "  Excalibar  "  in  the  eighties.  About 
this  period  a  vohune  of  his  verses  was  published 
in  Scotland  under  the  title  of  "  Lays  of  Life  and 
Hope,"  which  were  mostly  gathered  from  the 
columns  of  local  journals  and  papers.  He  is 
also  the  author  of  a  number  of  technical  articles 
on  mining  and  engineering  subjects  for  various 
publications,  but  still  occasionally  devotes  a 
spare  hotu*  to  the  Muses.  He  married  :  first. 
Miss  Jane  Kerr,  of  Corshill,  Kelwinning,  in 
December,  1879;  and  in  April,  1902,  he  married 
Bertha,  third  dau.  of  W.  H.  Roberts,  of  Somer- 
set House,  London,  and  sister  to  Morley  Roberts, 
author. 

BLELOCH,  William  Edwin,  F.R.C.L,  of 
Hazleyshaw,  Albemarle  St.,  Kensington, 
Johannesburg,  and  of  the  New  Rand,  and 
Athenaeum  Club,  London,  was  born  in  London, 
Oct.  2,  1863  ;  is  son  of  Robert  Bleloch,  of 
Hazleyshaw,  Clackmannanshire,  Scotland  ;  and 
was  educated  at  Saline  Public  Sch.,  Fifeshire. 
He  entered  commercial  life  at  Glasgow  in 
1879  ;  went  to  S.A.  in  1889  ;  spent  five  years 
travelling  in  Cape  Colony,  Orangia,  and  the 
Transvaal ;  settled  in  Johannesbiu-g  in  1894, 
and  engaged  in  mining.  On  outbreak  of  war 
in  1899  he  acted  as  war  correspondent  for  the 
''Standard"  with  Lord  Methuen's  Kimberley 
Rehef  Column,  then  with  Lord  Roberts'  Army 
to  Bloemfontein  and  Pretoria.  He  was  present 
at     Graspan,     Modder     River,     Magersfontein, 


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Paardeberg,  Poplar  Grove,  Driefontein,  and  all 
the  fights  up  to  Pretoria.  He  became  Special 
Correspondent  for  the  "Morning  Post,"  Sept. 
1900,  continuing  to  the  end  of  the  war.  He  wrote 
"The  New  South  Africa,"  published  by  Heinemann 
(1901).  In  1902  he  served  on  the  Commission 
appointed  to  inquire  into  the  Gold  Laws  of  the 
Transvaal,  and  in  May,  1902,  became  Joint 
Manager  in  Johannesburg  of  the  United  South 
Africa  Association,  Ltd.  He  is  a  Director  of 
the  Federation  Syndicate,  Ltd.,  Orangia  Main 
Reef,  Ltd.,  New  Transvaal  Coy.,  Ltd.,  Jooste 
Claims  Syndicate,  Ltd.,  New  Options  Syndicate, 
Ltd.,  East  Rand  Gold  Mine,  and  Alternate 
Director  of  The  Premier  Transvaal  Diamond 
Mining  Coy.,  Ltd.  His  recreations  are  the  study 
of  geology  and  economics.  Mr.  Bleloch  was 
married  on  July  11,  1901. 

BLOMFTELD,  Reab-Admibal  Richard  Mas- 
siE,  R.N.,  Orders  of  the  Osmanieh  {3rd  class)  and 
Medjidieh  (3rd  class)  ;  of  Alexandria,  Egypt  ; 
5,  Stanley  PI.,  Chester ;  and  of  the  United 
Service  and  Pall  Mall  Clubs,  was  born  at  Steven- 
age, Herts.  Mch.  3,  1835.  He  is  son  of  the  late 
Rev.  G.  B.  Blomfield,  Rector  of  Stevenage  and 
Canon  of  Chester  Cathedral,  whose  brother  was 
Bishop  of  London  from  1828  to  1856,  his  mother 
having  been  Frances  Maria,  dau.  of  the  Rev. 
Richard  Massie,  of  Coddington,  Cheshire.  The 
present  admiral  was  educated  at  the  Rev.  Jn. 
Seager's  Private  Classical  Sch.,  at  Stevenage, 
and  entering  the  R.N.  served  throughout  the 
Crimea  as  Mid-Mate  and  Lieut,  of  H.M.S. 
Agamemnon  and  Royal  Albert,  flagship  of  Sir 
Edmund  Lyons  ;  was  Mate  of  1st  launch  of  the 
Royal  Albert,  in  the  Azofi 'Expedition  in  1855  ;  and 
Capt.  W.  R.  Mends,  who  commanded  both  these 
ships  from  1853  to  1857,  on  giving  up  the  com- 
mand certified  that  "  Lieut.  Blomfield  is  dis- 
tinguished for  patience  and  coolness  in  a  moment 
of  trial.  I  have  had  a  good  opportunity  of 
judging  of  the  qualifications  of  officers  during 
the  war,  and  Lieut.  Blorafield's  are  of  a  high 
order."  (Crimean  medals,  Sebastopol,  and  Azoff 
clasps).  Lieut.  Blomfield  was  on  board  H.M.S. 
Hero  conveying  his  present  Majesty,  when 
Prince  of  Wales,  representing  the  Queen,  to 
the  British  American  Colonies  and  U.S.A., 
and  back  to  Eng.  in  1 860.  He  was  selected  as 
Commander  of  H.M.S.  Agincourt  when  the 
Admiralty  flag  was  first  hoisted ;  in  Executive 
command  of  the  Channel  and  Reserve  Squadrons 
in  Apr.,  1869  ;  was  mem.  of  the  Admiralty 
Confidential  Torpedo  Committee  from  May  23, 
1873,  to  July  28,  1876.     As  Capt.,  at  the  request 


of  Khedive  Ismail,  the  Admiralty  appointed 
him  Controller  of  the  Port  of  Alexandria  in 
Aug.,  1878,  and  he  held  that  post  from  May  19, 
1879,  to  July  1,  1901,  since  which  date  he  has 
been  Controller-Gen.  of  Egyptian  Ports  and 
Lighthouses.  The  Order  of  the  Medjidieh 
(3rd  cl.)  was  conferred  upon  him  in  Aug.,  1883, 
and  he  received  the  Egyptian  war  medal,  with 
Alexandria  clasp,  and  the  Egyptian  star  for 
services  rendered  to  the  British  and  Egyptian 
Govts,  during  the  events  of  1882.  He  was 
present  during  the  bombardment  of  Alexandria 
on  board  H.M.S.  Invincible,  by  invitation  of  the 
C.I.C.,  Sir  B.  Se5rmour,  and  landed  with  the  party 
under  the  commander  of  H.M.S.  Monarch  to 
take  possession  of  the  forts  and  town  on  the 
morning  of  July,  13.  Adm.  Blomfield  received 
an  official  letter  from  H.M.  Principal  Secy,  of 
State  for  Foreign  Affairs,  expressing  the  ap- 
preciation of  H.M.  Govt,  for  the  valuable 
services  rendered  by  him  to  the  Expeditionary 
Force  in  Egypt  during  the  campaign  of  1882, 
and  for  the  zeal  and  ability  with  which  he 
served  his  country  during  the  operations.  He 
married,  July  3,  1877,  Rosamond  Selina,  dau. 
of  the  late  Rt.  Rev.  C.  Graves,  D.D.,  Bishop 
of  Limerick,  by  whom  he  has  two  sons,  Capt. 
C.  G.  Massie  Blomfield,  6th  R.  Warwickshire 
Regt.  (b.  1878),  and  H.  Massie  Blomfield, 
B.A.,  of  Oriel  Coll.,  Oxon  (born  1881). 

BLYDEN,  Dr.  Edward  W.,  of  Sierra  Leone, 
was  bom  in  1832  in  St.  Thomas,  Danish  West 
Indies.  He  is  of  pure  negi'o  blood,  and  went 
to  the  United  States  at  the  age  of  seventeen  to 
improve  his  education.  Being  a  coloured  man 
he  found  racial  feeling  too  strong,  and  accord- 
ingly he  wont  to  the  black  repubUc  of  Liberia 
where  he  studied  further  and  became  a  Presby- 
terian preacher.  Dr.  Blyden  interested  Mr. 
Gladstone  in  his  schemes  in  1859,  and  two  years 
later  was  sent  by  the  Liberian  Govt,  to  the  West 
Indies  to  encom-age  a  return  of  negroes  to  West 
Africa.  He  was  accredited  Minister  for  Liberia 
at  the  Court  of  St.  James'  in  1877,  and  again  in 
1892.  He  has  travelled  in  Syria  and  Egypt; 
has  made  two  joiu-neys  in  the  hinterland  of 
Sierra  Leone  on  behalf  of  the  British  Govt., 
and  has  lectured  in  the  U.S.A.  on  Liberian  affairs. 
He  is  opposed  to  the  idea  of  the  Christian  faith 
being  suitable  for  African  negroes,  as  is  shown  in 
his  book  "  Christianity,  Islam,  and  the  Negro 
Races"  (1886),  and  has  since  preached  the 
Mxihammedan  doctrine  amongst  natives.  In 
1895  he  was  appointed  Agent  for  Native  Affairs 
in  Lagos.     He  then  occupied  a  similar  position 


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in  Old  Calabar,  and  in  1899  opened  up  Muhani- 
medan  schools  in  Sierra  Leone.  The  year  1900 
he  spent  as  professor  of  languages  (of  which  he 
speaks  four)  in  Liberia,  and  in  Aug.,  1901,  he 
was  appointed  Director  of  Muhammedan  Educa- 
tion for  Sierra  Leone  by  Mr.  J.  Chamberlain, 
vidth  the  object  of  opening  up  further  Moslem 
schools  in  that  colony.  Dr.  B  1yd en  visited 
England  in  1903,  and  was  entertained  there  at  a 
large  negro  banquet. 

BOGGIE,  Alexander,  of  Old  Meldrum, 
Aberdeenshire,  and  Bulawayo,  Rhodesia,  is  the 
eldest  son  of  the  late  Alexander  Boggie,  of 
Liverpool,  and  his  wife,  M.  A.  E.  Boggie,  who 
was  the  only  dau.  of  Dr  Milne,  of  the  Scottish 
Regiment,  and  connected  with  the  Argyle 
family  on  her  father's  side  He  was  born  May 
8,  1861,  at  Liverpool,  and  was  educated  privately 
and  at  various  public  schools  in  Aberdeen, 
Edinburgh  and  London.  Mr.  Boggie  went 
to  S.A.  in  1809  with  his  parents.  Ho  was 
at  the  Diamond  Fields  with  his  father  in  1871, 
when  the  Kimberley  Mine  was  discovered.  He 
returned  to  Scotland  with  his  mother,  on  the 
death  of  his  father  in  1875,  and  went  back  to 
S.A.  in  1883.  He  joined  in  the  rush  to  the 
Kaap  Gold  Fields  in  1884  ;  visited  Swaziland 
in  1886,  and  opened  negotiations  with  Um- 
bandine,  the  Swazi  King,  with  a  view  to  getting 
a  gold  concession  in  his  country.  This  he  suc- 
ceeded in  doing,  and  as  soon  as  this  became 
publicly  known  the  rush  for  concessions  to 
Swaziland  took  place.  In  1888  he  visited  the 
King  of  the  Matabele  on  a  similar  errand.  He 
was  through  the  Matabele  Rebellion,  and  during 
the  late  S.A.  War  acted  as  Special  Correspon- 
dent for  the  Rhodesian  Press  in  the  Natal 
Campaign.  Ever  since  the  occupation  of 
Rhodesia  he  has  taken  an  interest  in  its  affairs, 
both  commercial  and  otherwise.  He  is  on  the 
local  board  of  several  gold  mining,  land,  and 
other  companies  in  Bulawayo.  He  is  also  on 
the  board  of  most  of  the  local  pubUc  bodies  of 
that  town.  At  various  times  he  has  taken  part 
in  hunting  and  exploring  expeditions  to  various 
parts  of  S.A. 

BOLUS,  GiLLHAM,  of  Maldivia,  Wynberg, 
Cape  Colony,  and  of  the  City,  and  Civil  Service 
Clubs  (C.T.),  and  the  Rand  Club,  is  eldest  son  of 
Walter  Bolus,  of  Boiu-nemouth,  Hants.  He 
was  bom  at  Fort  Elizabeth,  Oct  11,  18G3,  and 
was  educated  at  King's  Sch.,  Canterbury. 
He  married,  July  23,  1889,  Maud  Constance, 
4th  dau.  of  Arthur  Gates,  J. P.  for  Cape  Colony. 


BONHAM,  Capt.  Walter  Floyd,  D.S.O., 
Essex  Regt.,  of  Arthmr's,  Junior  United  Service, 
and  Bath  Clubs,  is  the  eldest  son  of  the  late 
Edward  W.  Bonham,  H.B.M.'s  Consul  at  Calais. 
He  was  born  Jan.  3,  1869,  at  Naples,  Italy, 
and  was  educated  at  Charterhouse,  and  the 
Royal  Military  Coll.,  Sandhurst.  Capt.  Bonham 
entered  the  Army  1899,  and  graduated  at  the 
Staff  Coll.,  1899.  He  served  throughout  the 
S.A.  War,  and  was  twice  mentioned  in  des- 
patches, and  awarded  the  D.S.O.  In  Dec, 
1902,  he  was  selected  to  raise  and  command  100 
Boers  for  service  in  SomaMland.  The  Boer 
Contingent  under  his  command  sailed  from 
Durban  on  Jan.  15,  1903,  and  landed  at  Obbia, 
in  Italian  Somaliland,  on  Jan.  22.  The  Con- 
tingent formed  part  of  the  advanced  flying 
colunin  throughout  Gen.  Manning's  operations, 
being  present  at  the  occupation  of  Galkaya 
Wells,  on  March  4  ;  Dudub,  March  29,  and  the 
captiire  of  Galadi,  March  31.  On  the  night  of  the 
Gumburru  disaster,  April  17,  60  of  the  Boer 
Contingent,  under  Capt.  Bonham,  formed  part  of  a 
small  mounted  force  which  made  a  successful 
march  to  the  relief  of  Col.  Cobbe.  The  Con- 
tingent, at  the  conclusion  of  their  six  months' 
engagement,  returned  to  S.A.  in  July,  1903. 
For  his  services  with  the  Contingent  Capt. 
Bonham  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Brevet 
Major.     Urmiarried. 

BONHAM-CARTER,  Edg.\r  ;  Order  of  the 
Osmanieh(3rd  class)  ;  of  Khartoum,  of  5,  Hyde 
Park  Square,  London,  and  of  the  United 
University  Club  ;  was  born  in  London,  Apr.  2, 
1870.  He  is  son  of  Henry  Bonham-Carter  and 
Sibella,  dau.  of  Geo.  Warde  Norman.  He  was 
educated  at  Clifton  Coll.  and  New  Coll.,  Oxon., 
where  he  distinguished  himself  at  football, 
having  been  a  member  of  the  Oxford  Universitv 
Rugby  Football  XV  in  1890  and  1891,  whUst 
in  1890  he  played  in  the  English  Rugby  team  v. 
Scotland.  Mr.  Bonham-Carter  is  a  Barrister  of 
Lincoln's  Inn  ;  was  appointed  Legal  Secy,  to 
the  Sudan  Govt.,  and  Judicial  Commissioner  in 
1899,  and  is  the  author  of  a  note  on  the  History 
of  Legislation  in  Great  Britain  relating  to 
AlcohoUc  Liquors,  published  in  the  Report  of 
Lord  Peel's  Commission.     L^nmarried. 

BOSHOF,  Frederick,  of  the  Waterberg 
District,  Transvaal,  was  bom  at  Philippolis, 
O.R.C.,  in  1848.  His  father  fought  at  Boom- 
plaats,  and  then  trekked  across  the  Vaal  to  the 
northernmost  corner  of  the  Waterberg,  where 
young   Boshof   was   brought   up    ajnongst   only 

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Anglo- African  Who's  Who 


semi-eivilized  surroundings.  He  served  the 
Hervormde  Church  for  eight  years  as  deacon, 
and  for  four  years  as  elder,  and  in  1891  was 
elected  to  the  Second  Volksraad  of  the  S.A.R. 
as  member  for  Waterberg,  in  which  he  sat  as  an 
uncompromising  supporter  of  the  Govt. 

BOTHA,  Revd.J.  B.,a  wavering  minister  of 
the  Dutch  Reformed  Church,  who  apologized 
to  the  Afrikander  Bond  for  having  urged  the 
people  to  accept  British  rule  and  declaring  that 
the   continued   resistance  of   the   Boers  was    an 


BOTHA,  J.  N.  P.,  was  senior  member  of  the 
Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for  Aliwal  North 
until  the  general  election  of  1904,  when  he  did 
not  seek  re-election. 

BOTHA,  P.  M.,  a  farmer  of  the  Kroonstad 
District,  O.R.C.,  was  elected  member  of  the  Free 
State  Volksraad  in  May,  1879. 

BOTHA,  Hon.  R.  P.  ;  was  born  in  the 
Swellendam  dist.,  C.C.  ;  was  elected  member 
of  the  Capo  Legislative  Council  in  1883  ;  was 
returned  to  the  House  of  Assembly  in  1895  ; 
and  subsequently  represented  the  Midland 
Province  in  the  Cape  Legislative  Council.  He 
is  an  ardent  Afrikander  of  independent  views, 
and  was  once  Pres.  of  the  Bond. 

BOURKE;  Edmund  Francis,  M.L.C,  of  Bar- 
ton Keep,  Pretoria,  and  of  the  Pretoria,  Durban, 
and  City  (Cape  To\vn)  Clubs  ;  is  the  eldest  son  of 
John  Bourke,  one  of  the  early  colonists  of  Natal. 
He  was  educated  at  private  schools,  and  at 
Maritzburg  High  School.  He  received  his  busi- 
ness training  in  Natal,  and  went  to  the  Transvaal 
early  in  1887 — before  annexation  ;  returned  to 
Natal  for  a  short  time  in  1878,  and  settled  finally 
in  Pretoria  in  1879.  Immediately  taking  an 
interest  in  municipal  affairs,  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  first  Pretoria  Municipality.  This 
election  was  cancelled  upon  the  retrocession  of 
the  Transvaal  in  1881.  In  spite  of  taking  an 
active  part  in  the  mercantile  business  of  Bom'ke 
&  Co.,  and  other  commercial  undertakings,  and 
of  being  an  active  Director  on  the  Board  of  the 
National  Bank  prior  to  the  war,  he  devoted  him- 
self with  great  energy  and  public  spirit  to  many 
pubhc  and  philanthropic  institutions.  Before 
the  occupation  of  the  British  he  interested  him- 
self   very  largely  in  the  hospitals  and  nursing 


homes,  where  his  administrative  and  business 
abilities  were  of  the  utmost  value. 

Dm-ing  some  months  of  the  war  he  served  as 
Acting  Burgomaster  of  Pretoria  under  Gen.  Sir 
J.  G.  Maxwell,  and  was  appointed  to  a  seat  in  the 
Legislative  Council  of  the  Transvaal  after  tho 
war.  He  is  now  Chm.  of  the  Pretoria  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  Pres.  of  the  Irish  Association,  Chm. 
of  the  Bourke  Trust  &  Estate  Co.,  and  of  several 
mercantile  concerns,  and  was  elected  Mayor  of 
Pretoria  at  the  end  of  1903. 

Mr.  Bourke  has  also  been  associated  pro- 
minently with  all  athletic  sports.  It  was 
mainly  through  his  efforts  that  the  visits  of  the 
EngUsh  Professionals,  BrockwelJ,  Trott,  and 
Braund  to  Pretoria  took  place.  Mr.  Bourke 
married.  May  18,  1881,  Eleanor,  third  dau.  of 
Henry  Griffin,  of  Woodford,  Maritzburg,  Natal. 

BOUSFIELD,  LiEUT.-CoL.  Henry  Richings, 
C.M.G.,  J.P.,  of  St.  Andrew's  St.,  Durban,  and 
the  Durban  and  Royal  Natal  Yacht  Clubs,  was 
born  at  Winchester,  Hants,  May  3,  1863,  and 
is  the  eldest  son  of  the  late  Rt.  Rev.  Henry 
Brougham  Bousfield,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  Pre- 
toria, was  educated  at  All  Hallowes,  Honiton  and 
Sherborne.  He  was  attached  to  H.M.  Ordnance 
Dept.,  Transvaal,  1879-80  (Zulu  and  Sukukeri 
wars)  ;  joined  the  Transvaal  Civil  Service  (Col. 
Secy's.  Dept.),  1880,  and  was  employed  on 
staff  duties  during  the  siege  of  Pretoria  in  the 
Boer  War  of  1880-1  ;  attached  Acct.-Gen.'s 
Dept.  of  the  Army  at  Pretoria,  Aug.  1881,  and 
was  appointed  to  the  Natal  Civil  Service  in  the 
following  Sept.  Subsequently  he  became  Chief 
Clerk  and  Registrar  of  the  Circuit  Court ;  J.P. 
for  the  County,  1886  ;  and  acting  Magistrate 
in  Durban  in  1889.  He  resigned  the  Natal 
Civil  Service  in  Oct.,  1890,  and  was  called  to 
the  Bar  of  the  Inner  Temple  in  Nov.,  1892.  He 
was  admitted  Advocate  of  the  Supreme  Coiu-ts 
of  Natal  (1893),  and  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope 
(1899),  and  was  Commissioner  in  Natal  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  Transvaal  in   1902. 

He  joined  the  Royal  Durban  Rifles  as  Lieut, 
in  1886,  was  Capt.  in  Natal  Royal  Rifles  1888, 
receiving  his  majority  and  the  command  of 
the  Durban  Light  Infantry  in  1893,  and  trans- 
ferred to  the  Reserve,  Natal  Volunteers,  1895. 
During  the  S.A.  War  he  acted  as  Station  Staff 
Officer  at  Durban,  1899-1900,  being  mentioned 
in  despatches  and  receiving  the  C.M.G.,  1902. 
Col.  Bousfield  has  now  retired  from  the  service. 
He  married,  Apr.  22,  1890,  Coral,  second  dau. 
of  the  late  Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Harrv  Escombe,  P.C., 
Q.C.,  LL.D.,  M.L.A.,  late  Premier  of  Natal. 


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BOWRING,  Charles  Calvert,  of  Mombasa, 
E.  Africa  ;  was  educated  at  Clifton  Coll.,  and 
joined  the  Colonial  Audit  Branch  of  Exchecjuer 
and  Audit  Dept.,  Jan.  20,  1890  ;  was  sent  to 
Hong  Kong,  Dec.  12,  1897  ,  Local  Auditor 
British  Central  Africa,  Sept.  7,  1895  ;  Local 
Auditor  East  African  Protectorate  and  Uganda 
Railway,  Juno  5,  1899  ;  and  was  appointed 
Treasm'er  of  the  East  African  Protectorate, 
Oct.  1,  1901.  Mr.  Bowring  was  awarded  the 
Hong  Kong  Gold  Plague  Medal,  1894. 

BOYD,  CH.utLE.s  Walter,  of  1,  Whitehall 
Gardens,  Lond.,  S.W.,  and  of  the  Garrick  and 
National  Clubs,  is  son  of  the  late  Very  Rev. 
A.  K.  H.  Boyd,  D.D.,  of  St.  Andrew's,  N.B., 
where  he  was  born  Apr.  11,  1869.  Educated  at 
Fettes  Coll.,  Edin.,  and  at  Edinburgh  University, 
he  read  for  the  Scottish  Bar,  but  drifted  into 
journalism, contributing  articles  to  the  "  Saturday 
Review,"  "Times,"  and  various  other  journals 
and  magazines.  From  1 895-97  he  was  Priv.  Secy. 
to  the  Rt.  Hon.  G.  Wyndham,  M.P.,  and  from 
1897-98  he  acted  in  a  similar  capacity  to  Dr. 
L.  S.  Jameson.  He  was  also  for  some  time 
Political  Secy,  to  the  late  Rt.  Hon.  C.  J.  Rhodes. 
He  is  now  Joint  Secy,  of  the  Rhodes  Trust, 
Mem.  of  the  Executive  of  the  Imperial  S.A. 
Assoc,  and  Mem.  of  the  Committee  of  the  S..-\. 
Colonization  Soc,  and  of  the  Victoria  League. 
Unmarried. 

BOYD,  Henry  Crawford,  of  the  Rand  Club, 
Johannesburg,  and  of  tlie  Caledonian  and 
National  Clubs,  London,  is  5th  and  j'oungest 
son  of  the  late  Very  Rev.  A.  K.  H.  Boyd,  D.D., 
of  St.  Andrews,  N.B.,  where  he  was  born, 
Sept.  26,  1870.  He  was  educated  at  Fettes  Coll., 
Edin.,  and  is  at  present  on  the  staff  of  Messrs. 
H.  Eckstein  &  Co.  of  Johannesburg. 

BOYLES,  George  J.,  of  Bulawayo  ;  originally 
came  from  Lady  Frere,  Cape  Colony  ;  joined  the 
Border  Horse  in  the  late  S.A.  W"ar  ;  was  taken 
prisoner  and  released  after  four  months'  captivity 
by  Gen.  French  at  Nooitgedacht.  He  then 
continued  fighting  on  the  British  side,  and  gained 
a  Lieutenant's  Commission. 

BRABANT,  Brig.-Gen.,  Sir  Edward  Yewd, 
K.C.B.,C.M.G.,of  Goimubie  Park,  East  London, 
Cape  Colony,  and  of  the  Naval  and  Military 
Club  ;  was  born  in  1839,  and  has  had  a  long 
and  distinguished  career  in  politics  and  arms. 
He  entered  the  2nd  Derby  Militia  as  Ensign  in 
1855,  and  joined  the  Cape  Mounted  Rifles  with 


similar  rank  in  1855,  from  which  he  retired  on 
half  pay  with  Captain's  rank  in  1870.  He 
entered  the  arena  of  politics  as  M.L.A.  for  East 
London  in  1873,  and  was  re-elected  in  the 
following  year.  In  1878,  he  was  appointed 
P'ield-Commandant  of  the  Cape  Colonial  Forces  ; 
became  Colonel  of  the  1st  Cape  Yeomanry  in 
1879  ;  was  made  C.M.G.  in  1880  ;  was  re-elected 
member  for  East  London  in  1882,  and  again  in 
1888.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Defence  Com- 
mission in  1896,  and  in  1897  was  Pres.  of  the 
South  African  I^eague.  Gen.  Brabant  served 
through  the  S.A.  War,  at  first  in  command  of  the 
Colonial  Division  and  subsequently  as  Inspector- 
Gen,  of  the  Colonial  Defence  I'orce,  until  the  end 
of  1901,  when  he  retired  under  the  new  scheme 
of  Colonial  Defence  (despatches,  medal,  and 
clasps).  He  resimaed  his  duties  in  the  Cape 
Parliament,  and  soon  after  seceded  from  his 
old  pohtical  leader  Sir  Gordon  Sprigg,  and  joined 
the  new  Progressive  party  under  Dr.  Smaart, 
with  whom  he  was  associated  in  connection  with 
the  Suspension  movement.  He  resigned  his 
seat  in  Parliament  on  his  re-appointment  in 
Dec,  1902,  to  the  command  of  the  Cape  Colonial 
Forces,  from  which  he  retired  in  1904.  He  was 
a  keen  sympathiser  with  the  loyalists  who  suffered 
from  the  effects  of  the  war,  and  marked  his 
departure  from  England  after  the  Coronation  by 
the  public  declaration  that  "  Loyalty  does  not 
pay."  Gen.  Brabant  married  Mary  Burnet, 
dau.  of  the  Rev.  Canon  Robertson,  of  Canter- 
bury. 

BRADFIELD,  Hon.  John  Linden,  M.L.C, 
J. P.,  of  Dordrecht,  Cape  Colony  ;  was  bom  in 
1838.  He  is  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  Brad- 
field  &  Bro.,  law  agents,  of  Dordrecht,  and  a 
deputy  sheriff  for  the  Wodehouse  Division.  He 
was  member  of  the  Tembuland  Commission  in 
1882  ;  represented  Wodehouse  in  the  House  of 
Assembly  from  1873  to  1883,  and  was  elected  to 
the  Legislative  Council  as  member  for  the 
Eastern  Province  in  1891.  Mr.  Bradfield  is  a 
widower. 

BRADFORD,  Thomas,  was  born  in  1877.  He 
is  a  professional  hunter  who  has  been  in  some  of 
the  wildest  parts  of  Africa.  In  six  months  with 
two  guns  he  shot  2,780  of  heavy  game,  including 
elephants,  lions,  hippopotami,  giraffes,  leopards, 
rhinoceroses,  etc.  At  his  headquarters  in  Africa 
he  has  the  carcase  of  an  elephant  that  stands 
1 5  ft.  9  in.  high — said  to  be  the  largest  elephant 
ever  shot.  Mr,  Bradford  served  throughout  the 
S.A.  War  (1899-02)  in  a  Colonial  Corps. 


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BRAMSTON,  Sir  John,  Knt.,  G.C.M.G.,  C.B., 
of  18,  Berkelej^  Place,  Wimbledon,  and  of  the 
Travellers'  Chib  ;  is  descended  from  Sir  John 
Bramston,  Knt.,  Chief  Justice  of  England  in  the 
time  of  Charles  I.,  and  is  the  second  son  of  T.  W. 
Bramston,  of  Skreens,  M.P.  for  South  Essex. 
He  was  born  at  Skreens,  Nov.  14,  1832 ; 
was  educated  at  Winchester,  and  Balliol  Coll., 
Oxon.,  Fel.  of  All  Souls'  Coll.,  1855.  Sir  John 
Bramston  has  had  a  very  distinguished  career. 
He  was  Private  Sec.  to  the  Governor  of 
Queensland,  1860-1  ;  M.L.C.  Queensland, 
1863-9  ;  Attorney-Gen.  of  Queensland,  1870-3  ; 
Attornev-Gen.  of  Hong  Kong,  1874-6  ;  Assistant 
Under  Secy,  of  State,  Colonial  Office,  1876-97"; 
and  is  Registrar  of  the  Order  of  St.  IMichael  and 
St.  George,  1892.  Sir  John  married,  Dec.  14, 
1872,  Eliza  Isabella,  dau.  of  the  Rev.  Harry 
Vane  Russell. 

BRANSON,  Mrs.  Kuhne,  the  well  known 
sculptor,  better  known  as  Mrs.  Beveridge,  of 
89,  Park  St.,  Mayfair,  is  the  dau.  of  Phils  Judson 
Beveridge  and  Ella  Beveridge,  now  Baroness 
von  Wrede.  She  was  born  at  Governor's 
Mansions,  111.,  U.S.A.  on  Oct.  31,  1878,  and  was 
educated  at  Dresden,  New  York,  and  Paris. 
Her  works  include  a  monument  of  Rough  Riders 
charging  San  Juan,  and  she  has  executed  statues 
of  Grover,  Cleveland,  Sarah  Bernhardt,  Cecil 
Rhodes,  Major  Ricard-Seaver,  E.  Windsor 
Richards,  Hon.  M.  W.  Elphinstone,  Tom  L. 
Johnson,  William  Jennings  Bryan,  H.  H.  Marks, 
M.P.,  Buffalo  Bill,  and  many  others.  Her 
statvie  of  Rhodesia  is  considered  a  very  fine  work 
of  art.  She  married  William  Branson,  of 
Johannesburg,  Aug.  25,  1903. 

BREBNER,  John  ;  is  eldest  son  of  the  Rev. 
John  Brebner  (died  Nov.,  1902),  at  one  time 
Minister  of  Education  for  the  O.F.S.  He 
was  Minister  of  Finance  for  the  late  S.A.R., 
and  was  one  of  the  signatories  of  the  Peace 
Convention. 

BRECKER,  B.  G.  ;  was  born  in  Namaqua- 
land  ;  was  educated  at  the  S.A.  Coll.,  and  went 
to  the  S.A.R.  in  1875,  trekking  through  the 
Kalahari,  Kimberley  and  the  Free  States,  and 
settling  in  Utrecht  Dist.  He  served  in  the  Zulu 
War  "  for  money,"  and  in  the  Transvaal  War 
for  his  adopted  country.  In  1884  he  joined  the 
filibusters  who  founded  the  New  Republic,  after- 
wards incorporated  with  the  Transvaal,  and 
recently  tacked  on  to  Natal.  He  was  elected 
for  Vryheid  in  the  Transvaal  Second  Volksraad^; 


was  balloted  out  of  the  Raad  in  1891,  but  waa 
afterwards  re-elected  by  a  large  majority. 

BRETTON,  Lord  Monk  ;  formerly  in  the 
service  of  the  Foreign  Office,  and  was  attached 
to  the  Embassies  in  Paris  and  Constantinople 
before  he  became  Assist.  Private  Sec.  to 
the  late  Lord  Salisbury.  His  lordship  subse- 
quently occupied  an  important  position  in  the 
I  Colonial  Office,  and  accompanied  Mr.  Chamber- 
j  lain  as  Principal  Private  Sec.  on  his  S.A.  tour 
in  1902. 

I  BROAD  WOOD,  Col.  (Temp.  Brig.-Gkn.) 
i  Robert  George  C.B.  (Mihtary),  4th  Class 
j  Osmanieh,  of  the  Naval  and  Military  Club,  ;  waa 
born  in  London,  Mar.  14,  1862  ;  is  son  of  Thos. 
[  Broadwood,  of  Hohnbush,  Crawley,  and  was 
educated  at  Charterhouse  and  Sandliurst,  passing 
into  the  12th  Lancers  in  1881.  He  joined  the 
Egyptian  Army  in  1892,  and  served  through  the 
Dongola  expedition  in  1896  (despatches,  Brev. 
of  Lt.-Col.,  Egyptian  medal  with  2  clasps  and 
medal).  In  the  Nile  Expedition  of  1897  and 
1898  he  was  present  at  the  action  of  Abu  Hamed, 
the  occupation  of  Berber,  and  the  battles  of  the 
Atbara  and  Khartoum  (despatches,  Osmanieh, 
4  clasps  to  Egvptian  medal,  and  medal).  In 
S.A.,  1899-1902,  after  commanding  the  2nd 
S.A.L.H.  he  commanded  the  2nd  Cavalry 
Brigade  with  rank  of  Brig. -Gen.  He  was 
several  times  mentioned  in  despatches ;  was 
appointed  A.D.C.  to  the  King,  and  received  the 
King's  medal  with  2  clasps,  and  the  C.B.  Col. 
Broadwood  is  now  in  command  of  the  troops  in 
Natal. 

BRODIE,  Douglas  Edward  ;  of  2,  London 
Wall  Buildings,  Lend.,  and  of  the  Bachelors' 
Club,  Lond.,  was  born  in  Aug.  1873  ; 
was  educated  at  Winchester,  and  entered  the 
service  of  the  B.S.A.  Co.  in  1897.  He  was 
appointed  Joint  Asst.  Secy,  of  the  Chartered  Co. 
and  Joint  Secy,  to  the  Rhodes  Trust  in  1902. 
Unmarried. 

BROOKS,  F.  G.  ;  was  educated  at  Bedford 
Gram.  Sch.  He  is  a  well  known  athlete,  and 
has  played  in  international  football.  He  went 
to  S.A.  in  Oct.,  1902  to  take  up  an  appointment 
in  the  Rhodesian  Civil  Service. 

BROWN,  Alfred  Forbes,  of  Khartoum, 
and  of  the  East  India,  United  Service  and  the 
Alpine  Clubs  ;  was  born  at  Treveandrom,  Tra- 
vancore,  India,  Apr.  27,  1858.     He  is  youngest 


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son  of  the  late  John  Allan  Brown,  F.R.S.,  late 
Director  of  Observatories,  Travancore,  and  was 
educated  at  Lausanne,  Stuttgart,  Paris,  at 
University  Coll.  and  Sch.,  London,  and  at  the 
French  Forest  Sch.,  Nancy.  Passing  into  the 
Indian  Forest  Service  in  Nov.,  1877,  he  was 
appointed  to  the  N.W.  Provinces,  Oudh,  Dec, 
1880,  as  Asst.  Conservator  of  Forests.  In  July, 
1888,  his  services  were  lent  to  the  Burmese 
Govt.,  and  he  was  again  lent  in  Dec.  of  that 
year  to  the  Govt,  of  Ceylon.  In  Dec,  1891,  he 
was  appointed  Conservator  of  Forests,  Ceylon,  and 
in  Dec,  1901,  he  became  Director  of  Woods  and 
Forests  under  the  Sudan  Govt.  His  sports  are 
big  game  shooting,  moiintaineering,  and  lawn 
tennis.  He  married,  Oct.  4,  1892,  Emily  Hilda 
Mahala,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  James  Howard, 
J.P.,  of  Clapham  Park,  Beds,  at  times  M.P.  for 
Beds  or  Bedford, 

BROAVN,  J.  Frank,  formerly  of  Pietermaritz- 
burg,  was  appointed  Postmaster-Gen.  of  the 
Transvaal  under  the  British  Administration. 

BRO"V\rN,  John,  C.M.G.,  of  the  Thatch, 
Rondebosch,  C.C.  ;  and  of  the  Civil  Service 
(C.T.)  and  Kimberley  Clubs.  ;  was  born 
Apr.  27,  1844  ;  is  eldest  son  of  the  late  John 
Brown,  of  Slarlborough,  Wilts  ;  was  educated 
at  Streatham,  and  was  articled  as  pupil  to  the 
late  Sir  John  Coode  at  Portland  Breakwater, 
and  served  under  him  as  Engineer  in  charge  of 
the  River  Barm  Navigation  Works  in  Ireland. 
He  was  for  some  time  engaged  on  the  Bristol  and 
Exeter  Railway  imder  Mr.  Francis  Fox,  and  for 
the  last  30  years  has  been  engaged  on  the  Cape 
Govt.  Railways.  He  married,  Dec.  3,  1867, 
Miss  Augusta  Sarah  Rhodes. 

BROWN,  John  Louis  Mitchell,  of  Cape 
Town  ;  was  born  at  Cape  Town  in  1835  ;  was 
educated  at  the  Normal  PubHc  Sch.  and  at 
J.  Gillard's  Academy.  Since  18G0  he  has  taken 
an  interest  in  aU  matters  political  and  social. 
He  was  Town  Councillor  in  1880-81,  unsuccess- 
fully contested  Cape  Town  in  1884,  but  was 
elected  for  that  constituency  in  1 894.  He  was 
for  many  years  an  active  member  of  the  Cape 
Town  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

BRUCE,  Col.  David,  R.A.M.C,  F.R.S.,  of 
68,  Victoria  St.,  S.W.,  was  born  at  Victoria, 
Australia,  May  29,  1855,  and  is  son  of  David 
Bruce,  who  put  up  the  first  quartz  crushing 
naill  in  B«>ndigo    about    1855.     Col.  Bruce   was 


educated  at  the  High  Sch.,  Stirling,  N.B.,  and 
Edin.  University,  where  he  took  his  M.B.,  CM., 
and  the  Cameron  Prize.  He  entered  the  R.A.M.C. 
in  Aug.  1883,  served  in  Malta  from  1884-9,  and 
while  there  worked  at  Malta  fever,  discovering 
its  cause  in  the  Micrococcus  Melitensis.  He 
taught  pathology  and  bacteriology  in  the  Army 
Med.  Sch:,  Netley,  from  1889-94;  served 
in  S.A.  from  1894—1901,  two  years  of  which 
(1895-6)  he  spent  in  Zululand  investigating  the 
Nagana  or  Tsetse  Fly  disease.  In  the  S.A. 
War  he  was  at  the  siege  of  Ladysmith,  and  was 
with  Gen.  Buller  in  his  march  to  Belfast.  He 
was  member  of  the  Parliamentary  Comm.  to 
investigate  the  cause  of  dysentery  and  enteric 
fever  in  the  Army.  He  received  special  pro- 
motion (medal,  7  clasps) :  was  appointed  mem- 
ber of  the  Advisory  Board,  War  Office,  1901,  and 
Director  of  the  Sleeping  Sickness  Comm.,  Royal 
Society,  Uganda,  1903 ;  became  Col.  Dec  10, 
1903.  Col.  Bruce  was  married  in  1883  to  Miss 
Mary  Elizabeth  Steele,  of  Reigate,  Surrey. 

BRYCE,  Right  Hon.  James,  P.C,  D.C.L., 
LL.D.,  F.R.S.,  M.P.  for  Aberdeen,  of  54,  Port- 
land Place,  London,  and  Hindleap,  Sussex,  and 
of  the  Athenseiim  and  National  Liberal  Clubs  ; 
is  the  son  of  James  Brice,  LL.D.,  and  Margaret, 
dau.  of  James  Yoimg,  was  born  at  Belfast, 
March  10,  1838,  and  was  educated  at  High 
Sch.  and  Univ.  of  Glasgow,  Trinity  Coll.,  Oxon, 
and  became  Fel.  of  Oriel  Coll. ,  Oxon  ;  graduating 
D.C.L.  of  Oxon.,  Hon.  Lit.D.  of  Camb.  and  of 
Victoria  Univ.,  and  Hon.  LL.D.  of  Edin., 
Glasgow,  St.  Andrew's  and  Michigan  Univer- 
sities ;  Doctor  of  Political  Science  of  Univ.  of 
Buda  Pest.  Prof.  Bryce  was  called  to  the  Bar 
of  Lincoln's  Inn  in  1867,  and  practised  as 
Barrister  for  several  years.  He  has  had  a 
distinguished  political  career,  entering  Parlia- 
ment in  1880  as  member  for  Tower  Hamlets, 
and  has  represented  Aberdeen  in  the  Liberal 
interest  since  1885.  He  was  Under  Secy,  at  the 
Foreign  Office  (1886),  and  thereafter  Chancellor 
of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster  in  Mr.  Gladstone's 
Cabinet  of  1892  ;  was  Pres.  of  the  Board  of 
Trade,  1894,  and  Chairman  of  the  Royal  Com- 
mission on  Secondary  Education  in  1894.  The 
following  year  he  made  a  hurried  tour  of 
S.A.,  including  a  trip  through  Rhodesia,  and 
recorded  his  "  Impressions  of  South  Africa  "  in 
1S97.  He  has  also  written  books  on  a  variety 
of  different  subjects,  his  last  work  being  "  Studies 
in  Contemporary  Biographies  "  (1903).  In  1904 
he  was  unanimously  elected  to  the  French 
Academy  in  the  place  of  the  late  Prof.  Lecky. 


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He  married,  July  23,  1889,  Elizabeth  Marion, 
dau.  of  Thomas  Ashton,  of  Fordbank,  near 
Manchester. 

BRYDEN,  Henry  Andeeson,  of  Down 
View,  Gore  Park  Road,  Eastbourne,  and  the 
Constitutional  Club,  S.W.,  son  of  the  late  Wm. 
Anderson  Bryden,  of  Surbiton,  Surrey,  and 
Maria,  dau.  of  the  late  Wm.  Cowper,  of 
Boddington,  Northants,  was  born  in  Oxford- 
shire in  1854,  and  educated  at  Cheltenham 
Coll.  and  at  the  Rev.  Brackenbury's,  Wimble- 
don. In  his  younger  days  he  was  known 
as  an  athlete,  representing  England  against 
Scotland  (Rugby  rules),  and  winning  some 
forty  prizes,  chiefly  for  long-distance  running. 
He  first  visited  S.A.  in  1876,  when  he 
resided  in  some  remote  and  wild  mountain 
country  near  the  eastern  extremity  of  the  Great 
Karroo,  interesting  himself  much  in  sport  and 
natural  liistory.  Has  since  visited  many  other 
parts  of  S.A.,  mainly  in  search  of  sport, 
nature,  and  wild  life.  Has  resided  in  British 
Bechuanaland,  traversed  the  Protectorate  and 
Khama's  country,  crossed  and  shot  through  the 
Northern  Kalahari,  and  hunted  big  game  in 
Ngamiland,  where  he  had  much  success.  Has 
travelled  in  the  Transvaal,  O.R.C.,  and  many 
parts  of  Cape  Colony.  His  travels  in  Ngami- 
land and  the  Kalahari  were  utilized  by  the  War 
Office,  and  various  desert  waters,  places  and 
roads,  now  found  in  the  maps  of  the  Intelligence 
Department,  are  the  results  of  his  observations. 
Is  a  keen  angler,  and  has  fished  much  in  Norway 
and  elsewhere.  Was  a  member  of  the  South 
African  Committee,  formed  during  the  Bechu- 
analand troubles  in  the  eighties,  and  served 
thereon  in  company  with  Mr.  Chamberlain, 
Mr.  H.  Arnold-Forster,  Sir  Thomas  Fowell 
Buxton,  the  late  Rev.  John  Mackenzie,  and 
others.  When  Khama  came  to  England  in 
1895  to  protest  against  his  country  being  dis- 
membered and  handed  over  to  the  Chartered 
Company,  Mr.  Bryden  lent  the  aid  of  his  pen 
towards  the  objects  of  the  Chief's  visits.  In 
the  result  Khama's  country  remains— as  the 
Chief  and  his  people  desired — under  direct 
Imperial  control.  Mr.  Bryden  has  written 
much  on  S.A.  Among  his  books  are 
to  be  mentioned  "  Kloof  and  Karroo  "  (1889), 
"  Gun  and  Camera  in  Southern  Africa  "  (1893), 
'  '  Tales  of  South  Africa  "  (1896),  "  Nature  and 
Sport  in  South  Africa  "  (1897),  "  The  Victorian 
Era  in  South  Africa  "  (1897),  "  An  Exiled  Scot  " 
(1899),  "Great  and  Small  Game  of  Africa" 
editor    and    part    author,    1899),   "  From  Veldt 


Camp-Fires"  (1900),  "Animals  of  Africa" 
(1901),  "A  History  of  South  Africa,"  and 
"  Don  Duarte's  Treasure"  (1903).  Mr.  Bry- 
den is  greatly  interested  in  all  kinds  of  field 
sports,  and  has  published,  in  addition,  "  Hare 
Hunting  and  Harriers"  (1903),  "How  to  Buy 
a  Gun  "  (part  author,  1903),  and  "  Nature  and 
Sport  in  Britain  "  (1903).  His  main  recreations 
are  natural  history,  shooting,  fishing,  hunting, 
lawn  tennis,  and  cycling.  He  married,  1881, 
Julia,  daughter  of  the  late  J.  P.  Wright,  of 
Priors  Marston,  Warwickshire. 

BRYTENBACH,  Isaac  Johann  ;  sat  in  the 
Second  Volksraad  as  member  for  Lydenburg, 
Transvaal.  He  almost  invariably  voted  with 
the  Conservatives. 

BUCHAN,  John,  of  3,  Temple  Gardens, 
London,  E.G.,  and  of  the  Bachelors,  Union,  and 
Vincent's  (Oxford)  Clubs,  is  the  eldest  son  of 
the  Rev.  John  Buchan  and  Helen,  dau.  of  John 
Masterton,  of  Broughton  Green,  Peeblesshire, 
He  was  born  at  Perth,  N.B.,  on  Aug.  26,  1875, 
and  was  educated  at  Glasgow  Univ.  and  at 
Braseno.se  Coll.,  Oxford,  whei*e  he  graduated 
B.A.,  and  took  the  Stanhope  Prize,  the  New- 
digate  Prize  ;  1st  class  Lit.  Hum.,  and  was  Pres. 
of  the  Oxford  Union.  When  he  left  Oxford  he 
acted  for  some  time  as  Assis.  Ed.  of  the  "  Spec- 
tator." He  had  then  the  good  fortvme  to  be- 
come Assist.  Private  See.  to  Lord  Milner  in 
1901,  and  retained  the  position  until  1903.  In 
the  latter  year  he  was  appointed  Acting  Com- 
missioner of  Lands  in  the  Transvaal,  and  Acting 
Sec.  to  the  Inter-Colonial  Council  of  the 
Transvaal  and  O.R.C.  Amongst  his  published 
works  are  several  novels,  "  A  Monograph  on  Sir 
Walter  Raleigh  "  (1S97),  a  "  History  of  Brasenose 
College"  (1898),  and  "  Tlie  African  Colony: 
Studies  in  the  Reconstruction"  (1903).  His 
recreations  are  shooting,  fishing,  mountaineering 
and  travel. 

BUCHANAN,  James  Macdonald  ;  son  of 
the  late  Justice  BtrcHANAN  of  Griqualand 
West  ;  married  Elizabeth,  eldest  dau.  of  Sir 
Pieter  Faure  (1902). 

BUCKNILL,  John  Alexandeb  Steachey, 
M.A.,  J.P.,  of  the  Pretoria  Club,  was  born  at 
Clifton,  Bristol,  Sept.  14,  1873  ;  was  educated 
at  Charterhouse  and  Keble  Coll.,  Oxen,  and  is  a 
Barrister-at-Law  of  the  Inner  Temple.  He  has 
filled  the  appointments  of  Commissioner  of 
Patents,    Registrar  of  Trade  Marks,  ar  d  Regis- 


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trar  of  Companies  for  the  Transvaal,  June,  1902  ; 
was  appointed  J.  P.  for  the  Transvaal  in  1902, 
and  member  of  the  committee  of  the  Transvaal 
Zoological  Gardens  in  the  same  year.  He  is  the 
author  of  "  Birds  of  Surrey,"  and  other  ornitholo- 
gical publications.  He  married,  Sept.  18,  1901, 
AUce  Mary,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  Admiral 
Sir  Geo.  Richards,  K.C.B. 

BULLOCK,  Col.  George  Mackworth,  C.B., 
of  the  Junior  United  Service  Club,  is  son  of 
T.  H.  Bullock,  Deputy  Commissioner  at 
Berar,  India,  where  Geo.  Bullock  was  born, 
Aug.  15,  1850.  He  was  educated  at  Cheltenham 
Coll.,  University  Coll.,  Oxford,  and  the  R.M.C., 
Sandhurst,  passing  into  the  old  11th  Foot  in  1872. 
He  cormnanded  the  2nd  Devons  from  Jan.,  1897, 
to  Nov.,  1900,  and  arrived  in  S.A.  from  India, 
where  he  held  several  staff  appointments,  in 
time  to  take  part  in  the  relief  of  Ladysmith 
and  battle  of  Colenso.  He  afterwards  com- 
manded the  Sub-Dist.  of  Volksrust,  and  from 
Apr.,  1901,  until  the  end  of  the  war  he  com- 
manded a  colimfin  (despatches,  brev.  of  Col., 
Queen's  medal  with  3  clasps.  King's  medal  with 
2  clasps,  C.B.).  Proceeding  to  Egypt,  Col. 
Bullock  acted  as  A.A.G.  from  Nov.  1902,  to 
Mar.  31,  1903,  when  he  was  appointed  C.S.O., 
Egypt.  He  married  Jxme  5,  1884,  Amy  Isabel, 
dau.  of  Jas.  Fred  Thomson. 

BURGER,  SCHALK  W.,  was  member  of  the 
Volksraad  for  Lydenbiu-g,  and  member  of  the 
Executive  Council  of  the  late  S.A.R.  He 
was  Chairman  of  the  Industrial  Commission 
appointed  to  inquire  into  conditions  of  the 
mining  industry.  The  report  was  a  general 
condemnation  of  evils  under  which  the  pros- 
perity of  the  country  languished,  and  many 
progressive  recommendations  were  made.  The 
President  characterized  Mr.  Burger  as  a  traitor 
to  his  country  for  having  signed  such  a  report, 
which  was  no  doubt  framed  with  an  honest  desire 
to  remove  abuses  and  to  introdiice  concessions 
which  would  benefit  both  the  mining  industry 
and  the  State.  He  became  Acting-Presi- 
dent of  the  S.A.R.  after  Mr.  Kriiger's  flight  to 
Europe. 

BURGHER,  Jacobus  Johannes  ;  was  born 
in  Lydenburg,  Transvaal,  in  1848,  his  father 
having  been  a  prominent  man  in  the  old  Re- 
public of  Lydenbiu-g.  At  the  time  of  the 
annexation  he  was  one  of  the  Committee  who 
kept  the  spirit  of  "passive  resistance"  alive 
until  the  time  for  striking  a  blow  arrived.     In 


the  war  of  independence  he  fought  as  Field- 
Comet  at  Majuba  and  Laing's  Nek.  In  1882  he 
was  elected  to  the  Raad  for  Lydenburg,  and 
when  the  Second  Raad  was  formed  in  1891  he 
was  returned  for  Ermelo,  and  was  unanimously 
elected  Chairman  of  the  New  Chamber.  "  Oom 
Kootje,"  as  he  is  called,  is  a  member  of  the 
United  Dutch  Reformed  Church. 

BURNHAM,  Major  F.  R.,  was  born  in  the 
United  States.  He  took  part  in  the  first  Mata- 
bele  War  (1893),  and  was  one  of  the  only  two 
who  escaped  from  Allan  Wilson's  fatal  Shangani 
patrol.  In  1895  he  took  charge  of  an  expedi- 
tion to  N.  Rhodesia.  He  rendered  some  fine 
scouting  services  during  the  second  Matabele 
War  (1896),  when  he  was  credited  with  having 
shot  the  M'Limo.  In  1899  he  visited  Klon- 
dyke,  and  is  now  representing  the  East  African 
Synd.,  of  which  he  is  Managing  Director,  near 
the  Anglo-German  frontier  line  on  Lake  Victoria. 
His  home  is  in  America,  and  he  has  a  son  in  the 
U.S.  Army. 

BURNS,  Leonard  BALFOUR,of  Parrock  Wood , 
Coleman's  Hatch,  Tunbridge  Wells,  and  the 
Royal  Thames  Yacht  Club,  was  born  in  1854. 
He  visited  Natal,  the  Rand  and  Kimberley  in 
1889,  and  subsequently  became  associated  with 
Sir  Charles  Metcalfe,  Mr.  B.  B.  Trench  and 
others  in  the  formation  of  the  S.A.  Trust  and 
Finance  Coy.,  Ltd.,  of  which  he  remained  a 
director  untd  its  absorption  by  the  Johannes- 
burg Consolidated  Invest.  Coy.  He  has  been 
a  Director  of  the  Van  Ryn  Gold  Mines  for  many 
years,  is  on  the  Board  of  the  Wassan  and  other 
W.  African  Cos.,  and  is  interested  in  some 
Rhodesian  enterprises. 

BURTON,  A.,  R.E.,  late  Editor  of  the 
"  Cape  Government  Agricultural  Journal," 
was  appointed  (1902)  editor  of  the  "  Agricultural 
Joiu-nal,"  a  journal  started  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Transvaal  Agricultural  Department.  He 
has  written  an  account  of  the  Cape  Colony's 
urban  and  rural  industries,  entitled  "  Cape 
Colony  for  Settlers  "  (P.  S.  King  &  Son). 

BURTON,  Henry,  M.L.A.,  represents  Albert 
in  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly,  for  which 
constituency  he  was  retiu-ned  unopposed  in  the 
Bond  interest  in  Nov.,  1902,  and  again  in  Feb., 
1904. 

CALDECOTT,  Harry  Stratford,  F.R.G.S., 
F.R.C.I.,  of  Johannesburg  and  the  Rand  Club, 


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was  bom  at  Port  Elizabeth,  Nov.  24,  1846  ;  is 
3rd  son  of  the  late  Hon.  Chas.  Henry  Caldecott, 
M.L.C.,  of  Grahamstown,  and  was  educated  at 
the  Diocesan  Coll,  Rondebosch,  and  St. 
Andrew's  CoU,  Grahamstown.  He  is  a 
Director  of  the  Johannesburg  Consolidated 
Investment  Co.,  Johannesburp;  Estate  Co., 
Glynn's  Lydenburg,  and  other  Cos.  He  is  also 
Chairman  of  the  Witwatersrand  Council  of 
Education,  and  Member  of  the  Technical 
Institute  recently  appointed  by  Govt.  During 
the  late  S.A.  War,  Mr.  Caldecott  rendered  good 
service  in  many  ways,  especially  as  Chairman 
of  the  Uitlander  Committee  in  Natal,  and  later 
as  Commandant  of  the  Boer  Refugee  Women's 
Camp  at  Howick,  for  whose  comfort  as  well  as 
for  the  physical  and  mental  education  of  their 
children  he  worked  indefatigably.  He  married, 
Mch.  1876,  Martha  Johanna,  dau.  of  the  late 
J.  J.  Sauer,  of  Aliwal  North. 

CALVERLEY,  Joseph  Ernest  Goodfllow, 
C.M.G.  (1901),  of  10,  Earl's  Avenue,  Folkestone, 
was  bom  in  London,  in  March,  1872.  He  was 
educated  at  Dulwich  Coll.  and  received  his 
medical  training  at  St.  Bartholomew's  Hospital, 
graduating  M.D.,  B.S.  Lend.,  M.R.C.S.  Eng., 
and  L.R.C.P.  Lend. 

He  served  in  the  S.A.  War  during  1899-1900, 
attached  to  the  Portland  Hospital,  receiving  the 
C.M.G.  in  connexion  with  services  then  rendered. 
He  married,  July  27,  1901,  Miss  Evel}^  Donee t. 

CAMPBELL,  Marshall,  M.L.C,  J.P.,  of 
Mount  Edgecombe,  Natal,  and  of  the  Durban 
Club  ;  is  the  son  of  William  Caixipbell,  of 
Muckle  Neuk.  He  was  born  July  10,  1848,  and 
was  educated  in  Natal.  Mr.  Campbell  landed 
in  Natal  when  eighteen  months  old.  His  father 
was  one  of  the  first  to  start  the  sugar  industry 
in  the  Colony  of  Natal,  which  he  has  successfully 
continued  to  the  present  time.  He  built  the 
Natal  Refinery  and  the  Tongaat  Central  Sugar 
Co.'s  Estate,  of  which  at  one  time  he  was  half 
owner.  Mr.  Marshall  Campbell  was  M.L.C. 
when  Natal  was  a  Crown  Colony.  On  Natal 
being  given  responsible  government,  he  was 
nominated  for  the  Upper  House  for  Victoria 
Country,  which  seat  he  holds  to  the  present  day. 
He  was  asked  by  Gen.  Buller  to  collect 
Indian  stretcher  bearers  during  the  war,  and 
sent  600  to  Colenso  and  700  to  Spion  Kop. 
Mr.  Campbell  was  appointed  as  the  Natal  Com- 
missioner in  the  Natal-Transvaal  Boundary 
Delimitation  Conmaission.  For  the  excellent 
work  he  did  while  on  this  CommisBion  he  re- 


ceived the  thanks  of  Lord  Milner  and  the 
Govt.  He  has  been  appointed  as  one  of 
the  two  Natal  Commissioners  on  the  South 
African  Native  Commission.  He  is  largely 
interested  in  the  Natal  Estates  Co.,  Ltd.,  holding 
the  position  of  Managing  Director ;  he  is  also 
acting  Chairman  of  the  Tongaat  Central  Sugar 
Co.,  Ltd.,  and  the  Molassine  Meal  Co.,  Ltd., 
and  is  Director  of  the  Elandslaagte,  Ltd. 
Mr.  Campbell  has  travelled  largely  in  S.A, 
and  in  1871  left  the  Cape  for  the  Victoria  Falls, 
but  just  failed  to  reach  them  tlirough  fever  and 
scarcity  of  water.  In  the  early  days  he  shot  a 
great  deal  over  Zululand,  and  won  the  cup  given 
by  the  Natal  Gun  Club  for  the  best  shot  in  1871. 
He  married,  in  1877,  Ellen  Blame5^ 

CAMPBELL,  Capt.  Samuel  George,  Natal 
Vol.  Med.  Corps,  J.P.,  of  Carndonagh,  Musgrave 
Road,  Durban,  and  the  Durban  Club,  was  born 
at  Muckle  Neuk,  Victoria  Co.,  Natal,  July  25, 
1881.  He  is  the  son  of  William  Campbell,  of 
Muckle  Neuli,  a  Natal  sugar  planter,  and  was 
educated  at  Hermansberg,  and  Bishop's  Coll., 
Natal,  and  at  Edinburgh  and  Vienna  Universi- 
ties, graduating  M.D.  Edin.,  F.R.C.S.  Edin., 
M.R.C.S.  Lond.,  and  D.P.H.  Edin.  He  served 
in  the  Natal  Civil  Service  as  Dist.  Siu-geon  and 
Indian  Med.  Officer  1883-5  ;  was  Med.  Officer 
of  Health,  Durban,  1890-1902,  and  served  with 
the  Natal  Volunteer  Med.  Corps  during  the  Boer 
War  (Siege  of  Ladysmith).  He  is  member  of 
the  Durban  Hospital  Board,  and  J. P.  (Natal). 

Capt.  Campbell  played  in  the  Rugby  Fifteen 
at  Edin.  L^niversity  in  1879,  and  was  elected 
Capt.  of  the  Diu-ban  Polo  Club,  1903.  He 
married,  in  1886,  Margaret  W.,  da\i.  of  Jas. 
Dunnachie,  J.P.,  of  Glenboig,  Scotland. 

CANNELL,  Cameron  Corlett,  F.R.G.S., 
M.R.C.I.,  of  Heatherdene,  Bagshot,  of  SaUsbury 
House,  London,  E.C.,  and  of  the  Blenheim, 
Sunningdale  Golf,  and  other  Clubs,  was  born 
at  Grahamstown,  Cape  Colony,  in  1862,  and 
was  educated  at  Grahamstown  and  Port  Alfred. 
Mr.  Cannell  was  one  of  the  early  pioneers  of  the 
Rand,  where  he  joined  the  Johannesburg  firm 
of  B.  M.  Woolan  &  Co.  Coming  to  England, 
Mr.  Cannell  took  up  the  London  Agency  of 
several  companies  controlled  by  the  Woollan 
group,  and  very  soon  entered  a  larger  sphere  of 
usefulness,  greatly  extending  his  interests  in  the 
Transvaal  and  Rhodesia.  He  is  a  Director  of 
the  Consolidated  Rand-Rhodesia  Trust,  the 
Bulawayo  Estate  and  Trust,  the  Elandsfontein 
Deep,    Monastery    Diamond    Mines,    the    Eur- 


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african  Corporation,  Belfast  G.M.  Co.,  the  Rand 
Investment  Corporation,  and  the  "African  Re- 
view." In  the  early  days  of  the  late  S.  A.  War 
he  acted  as  Hon.  Capt.  on  the  H.  Q.  Staff  of 
the  Army  Remount  Dept.  (1899).  He  is  keen 
on  shooting,  hunting,  and  motoring,  and  married, 
in  1891,  Miss  Eva  Bright. 

GARDEN,  John  Cecil,  of  Redhouse  and 
Port  Elizabeth,  Cape  Colony,  and  of  the  River 
Club,  is  the  2nd  son  of  the  late  Maj.-Gen. 
George  Carden,  who  commanded  the  2nd  Batt. 
of  the  Fifth  Northm-nberland  Fusiliers.  He  was 
born  August  3,  1870,  at  Glasgow,  Scotland,  and 
was  educated  at  Llandaff,  S.  Wales.  Mr.  Carden 
is  well  known  in  sporting  and  dramatic  circles. 
In  1892-3  he  was  Pres.  of  the  Eastern  Province 
Rugby  Football  Union,  and  in  the  latter  year 
he  was  president  of  the  South  African  Swimming 
Union.  He  is  the  stage  manager  and  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Port  Elizabeth  Amateur  Operatic 
Club.  After  a  successful  business  career  he  is 
now  junior  partner  in  the  old  established  mer- 
chant house  of  Blaine  &  Co.,  at  Port  Elizabeth. 
He  married,  Nov.  15,  1894,  Amy,  dau.  of  the 
late  WiUiam  CaldweU  Elhot. 

CARNWALL,  Moses,  J.P.,  Hon.  Assoc,  of  the 
Order  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem,  of  Erinville, 
Kimberley,  and  the  Kimberley  Club,  was  born 
in  Dublin,  July  6,  1841.  He  is  son  of  Wm. 
Carnwall  of  Dubhn,  by  his  wife  May  Teresa, 
dau.  of  Moses  d'Arcy  of  Wexford,  Ireland.  He 
emigrated  to  S.A.  in  1859,  and  was  one  of  the 
early  settlers  in  the  Diamond  Fields  in  1870. 
He  was  Mayor  of  Kimberley  in  1881,  1882,  and 
1898  ;  represented  the  district  of  Kimberley  in 
the  Cape  House  of  Assembly  from  1884-1888. 
He  was  for  many  years  member  of  the  Borough 
Council  and  Divisional  Council ;  is  chairman  of 
the  Kimberley  Hospital  Board,  the  Public 
Library,  and  the  Rhodes  Memorial  Committee. 
Mr.  Carnwall  served  in  the  Griqualand  West 
War  of  1878  as  a  volunteer  (medal  and  clasp), 
and  during  the  Boer  War  he  served  in  the  Kim- 
berley Town  Guard  (medal  and  clasp  and  Mayor's 
siege  medal).  He  married,  Feb.  29,  1864,  Mar- 
garet, dau.  of  Wm.  Lundie,  of  Co.  Monaghan, 
Ireland. 

CARRINGTON,  Maj.-Gen.  Sib  Fredekick, 
K.C.B.,  K.C.M.G.,  of  Perrott's  Brook,  Ciren- 
cester, and  of  the  Naval  and  Military  Club,  was 
born  at  Cheltenham,  Aug.  23,  1844,  and  is  son 
of  Edmimd  Carrington,  J.P.  of  that  town.  Sir 
Frederick    was   educated    at    Cheltenliam,    and 


passed  into  the  army  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  and 
has  seen  very  considerable  service  in  S.A.  ever 
since  1875,  when  he  organized  and  commanded 
the  Mounted  Infantry  in  the  Griqualand  West 
Expedition.  In  1877  he  raised  and  commanded 
the  F.L.H.  in  the  Kafir  War,  fighting  in  the 
battle  of  Quintana  and  in  the  later  operations 
in  the  Transkei  and  the  Peri  Bush  (despatches). 
He  also  commanded  the  Transvaal  Volunteer 
forces  again  Sekukuni  in  1878-9  (despatches, 
medal  with  clasp,  brevs.  of  Maj.  and  Lt.-Col., 
C.M.G.).  During  the  siege  of  Mafeteng  by  the 
Basutos  he  was  in  command  of  the  C.M.R.,  and 
later,  in  the  Basuto  War,  he  had  command  of 
the  Colonial  forces,  and  was  severely  wounded. 
Sir  Frederick  commanded  the  2nd  Mounted 
Rifles  in  1884—5,  and  was  commandant  of  Native 
Levies  in  Zululand  in  1888.  He  then  com- 
manded the  B.B.P.  mitil  1893,  when  he  was 
appointed  Military  Adviser  to  the  High  Com- 
missioner dui'ing  the  fu'st  Matabele  War.  He 
commanded  the  Infantry  Brigade  at  Gibraltar 
from  May,  1895,  until  March,  1899,  with  a  brief 
interval  in  '96,  when  he  commanded  the  troops 
in  the  Matabele  Rebellion  of  1896.  With  the 
local  rank  of  Lieut. -Gen.,  Sir  Frederick  com- 
manded the  Rhodesian  Field  Force  in  the  S.A. 
War,  Feb.  1900,  to  April,  1901,  taking  part  in 
the  operations  in  Rhodesia,  Western  Transvaal, 
including  the  actions  at  Elands  River,  the  Cape 
Colony,  and  the  North  of  the  O.R.C.  Gen. 
Carrington  married,  Nov.  18,  1897,  Miss  Susan 
Margaret  Elwes. 

CARS  WELL,  R.  G.,  of  the  Port  Elizabeth 
Swimming  Club.  In  the  1903  S.  A.  Swim- 
ming Championships  he  was  second  to  E.  M. 
Wearn  (q.v.)  in  both  the  500  and  200  yards, 
his  time  being  7  min.  24  4-6  sees,  for  the  former. 
In  the  latter  he  was  only  beaten  by  a  couple  of 
yards. 

CARTER,  Edgar  Bonham.  {See  E.  Bonham- 
Carter. ) 

CARTER,  Rev.  James,  M.A.,  was  Precentor 
of  Grahamstown  Cathedral  from  1890  to  1893, 
after  which  he  was  for  seven  years  Rector  of 
St.  Paul's,  Port  Elizabeth,  subsequently  holding 
the  living  of  Graaff  Reinet.  He  was  appointed 
to  the  living  of  Plymbridge,  near  Stonehouse,  in 
1902. 

CARTER,  Right  Rev.  William  Marl- 
borough, Bishop  of  Pretoria,  D.D.  (Oxon.), 
of   Bishop's   House,    Pretoria,    and   Beechwood 


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House,  Hook  Street,  Johannesburg,  is  the  son 
of  the  Rev.  W.  A.  Carter,  late  Fellow  of  Eton 
Coll.  He  was  born  in  1850  at  Eton,  and  edu- 
cated at  Eton  and  Pembroke  College,  Oxon. 
He  was  ordained  in  1874  by  Bishop  Selwyn,  of 
Lichfield,  and  was  appointed  curate  of  Christ 
Church,  West  Bromwich.  He  took  charge  of 
the  Eton  Mission,  Hackney  Wick,  E.,  from  1880- 
91,  during  which  time  the  misson  greatly  flour- 
ished and  the  name  of  Bishop  Carter  became  a 
household  word.  In  1891  he  was  appointed 
Bishop  of  Zululand,  but  after  a  year's  services 
in  this  diocese  he  received  the  appointment  of 
Bishop  of  Pretoria,  1902. 

CARTWRIGHT,  Albert,  of  Rosebank,  near 
Cape  Town,  was  born  at  Manchester,  Eng., 
Dec.  2.5,  1868,  and  is  the  son  of  a  Lancashire 
bookseller.  Ediacated  at  Davyhulme  Wesleyan 
Gram.  Sch.,  Lanes.,  he  emigrated  to  the  Cape 
at  the  beginning  of  1889  ;  served  three  years  on 
the  staff  of  the  "  Cape  Times"  ;  then  founded  a 
weekly  paper,"The  South  African,"  now  defunct ; 
became  sub-ed.  and  afterwards  asst.-ed.  of  the 
"Johannesburg  Star,"  from  which  paper  he  re- 
signed in  connexion  with  the  Raid  ;  then  edited 
the  "  Kimberley  Advertiser,"  until  in  1898  that 
paper's  pro-Rhodes  policy  necessitated  a  change 
in  the  editorial  direction.  In  18S9  he  became 
first  editor  of  the  "  South  African  News,"  and  was 
sentenced  diuring  the  war  to  a  year's  imprison- 
ment for  reproducing  from  English  papers  the 
letter  of  an  anonymous  British  officer,  asserting 
that  he  had  received  orders,  should  he  overtake 
Gen.  de  Wet,  to  take  no  prisoners.  In  1903 
Prof.  Fremantle  (q.v.)  became  associated  with 
Mr.  Cartwright  in  the  editorship  of  the  "  South 
African  News."  He  married  in  1901,  Anne,  dau. 
of  Christopher  H.  Robertson,  shipbuilder,  of 
Cape  Town. 

CARTWRIGHT,  John  Dean,  M.L.A.,  was 
returned  to  the  Cape  Parliament  as  one  of  the 
Progressive  representatives  of  Cape  Town  at  the 
general  election  in  Feb.,  1904. 

CASEMENT,  Thomas,  was  Acting  Commis- 
sioner of  Mines  at  Barberton  for  nearly  two  years 
when  (in  1902)  he  was  called  to  Johaimesburg 
to  take  up  an  important  position  in  the  Mines 
Department. 

CATLIN,  Robert  Mayo,  of  Vermont,  Nevada, 
California  ;^^  of  Johannesburg  ;  and  the  Rand 
and   New   Clubs,    Johannesburg,    was   born   at 


BurKngton,  Vermont,  June  8,  1853,  and  is  of 
English  descent.  He  was  educated  at  the 
University  of  Vermont.  Since  1875  he  has  been 
managing  mines,  including  the  Navajo,  Belle 
Isle,  N.  Belle  Isle,  Commonwealth,  Nevada 
Queen,  N.  Commonwealth,  Del  Monte,  Inde- 
pendence and  Mardin  in  America,  and  since 
1895  he  has  been  Gen.  Manager  for  the  Deep 
Level  Cos.  of  the  Consolidated  Gold  Fields  of 
S.A.,  Ltd.  in  Johannesburg.  He  was  elected 
Pres.  of  the  Association  of  Mine  Managers  of 
the  Witwatersrand  (1903),  and  Pres.  of  the 
Mechanical  Engineers  Assoc,  of  the  Witwaters- 
rand (1903).  Mr.  Catlin  was  married  to  Miss 
Ann  E.  Robertson,  June  15,  1882. 

CAVE,  Basil  Shillito,  C.B.,  M.R.A.C, 
F.R.G.S.,  of  the  British  Agency,  Zanzibar  ;  of 
14,  Redcliffe  Square,  London,  S.W.,  and  of  the 
St.  James'  Club  and  M.C.C.,  was  born  at  Mill 
Hill,  Middlesex,  Nov.  14,  1865  ;  is  youngest  son 
of  the  late  Thos.  Cave,  M.P.  for  Barnstaple, 
1865-80,  of  Richmond,  Surrey  ;  and  was  edu- 
cated at  Merchant  Taylors'  Sch.  and  the  Royal 
Agricultural  Coll.,  Cirencester,  of  which  latter 
he  is  a  member  by  examination,  as  he  is  also  of 
the  Royal  Agricultural  Society  of  Ireland. 
He  became  Professional  x\ssociate  of  the  Sur- 
veyors' Institution,  in  1885  ;  was  appointed 
Vice-Consul  for  B.E.A.,  Mch.  20,  1891  ;  Consul 
for  Zanzibar,  June  1,  1895 ;  has  frequently 
acted  as  Agent  and  Cons\il-Gen.  at  Zanzibar 
since  1896  ;  was  member  of  the  Council  of  the 
East  Africa  Protectorate  from  June  1896  to  Jan. 
1897,  and  from  Apr.-Dec.  1899,  and  was  acting 
Pres.  from  October  to  Dec.  1897.  Mr.  Cave 
was  decorated  for  service  in  connexion  with  the 
attempt  of  Seyzid  Khaled  to  usurp  the  Sultanate 
in  1896,  and  the  subsequent  bombardment  of 
the  Palace.  He  also  wears  the  Coronation 
Medal  (1902),  and  was  Pres.  of  the  International 
Maritime  Slave  Trade  Bureau  at  Zanzibar  in 
1903.  He  married,  Feb.  19,  1892,  Mary, 
younger  dau.  of  the  Rev.  J.  B.  McClellan,  Princi- 
pal of  the  Royal  Agricx,iltural  Coll.,  Cirencester. 

CAWSTON,  George,  of  56,  Upper  Brook 
Street,  W.,  and  of  the  Manor  House,  Cawston, 
Norfolk,  was  born  Feb.  13,  1851.  He  is  son  of 
the  late  S.  W.  Cawston,  and  has  been  a  member 
of  the  London  Stock  Exchange  since  1872.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Inner  Temple,  and  was 
called  to  the  Bar  in  1881. 

Mr.  Cawston  took  an  interest  in  South  Africa 
directly  after  Sir  Hercules  Robinson  made  the 
so-called  treaty^with  LobengulaonFeb.  11,  1888, 


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27 


by  which  the  latter  acknowledged  the  supremacy 
of  Great  Britain  in  Matabeleland.  Mr.  J.  Scott 
Keltie,  in  his  book,  "  The  Partition  of  Africa," 
says  it  would  seem  that  the  first  person  to  actually 
step  forward  and  make  proposals  to  the  British 
Government  with  regard  to  obtaining  conces- 
sions in  Matabeleland  was  Mr.  George  Cawston, 
who  on  May  4,  1888,  wrote  to  the  Colonial 
Office,  as  printed  in  the  South  African  Blue  Book  : 
"  It  is  the  intention  of  myself  in  conjunction 
with  others  to  send  a  representative  to  Matabele- 
land to  negotiate  with  Lobengula  for  a  treaty 
for  trading,  mining,  and  general  purposes." 
Further  correspondence  took  place  between  Lord 
Knutsford  and  Mr.  George  Cawston  and  his 
friends,  with  the  result  that  the  Exploring 
Company  was  formed  for  the  purpose.  But, 
adds  Mr.  Keltie,  though  Mr.  Cawston  seems  to 
have  been  the  first  to  approach  the  Govt.,  and 
although  he  lost  no  time,  after  he  had  satisfied 
the  Colonial  Office,  in  sending  out  Mr.  Marnid, 
another  company  or  syndicate,  the  moving 
spirit  of  which  was  Mr.  Rhodes,  was  already 
on  the  spot,  and  thus  had  the  advantage  of  him. 
An  arrangement  between  these  syndicates  was 
subsequently  come  to,  and  the  Exploring  Co. 
applied  to  H.M.  Govt,  for  the  grant  of  the 
Charter,  which  was  made  on  Oct.  31,  1889. 
Mr.  Cawston  was  one  of  the  signatories  of  the 
application  for  the  Charter,  and  became  one  of 
the  first  directors.  He  remained  on  the  Board 
until  the  directors  had  met  their  shareholders 
after  the  Raid,  and  then  resigned. 

CELLIERS,  J.  F.,  was  at  one  time  editor 
of  the  Dutch  paper  "  De  Volksstem."  At  the 
chaotic  time  when  the  S.A.R.  was  armexcd  by 
Sir  T.  Shepstone,  he  did  much  to  bring 
the  burghers  to  an  appreciation  of  the 
condition  of  the  country,  which  called  for  con- 
federation or  annexation.  He  advocated  the 
latter  in  preference  to  the  then  desperate  con- 
dition of  his  country.  Nevertheless,  two  years 
later  he  was  put  in  prison  by  Col.  Sir  O.  Lanyon 
on  a  charge  of  sedition,  because  he  attacked  the 
Administration  for  its  failure  to  keep  the  promises 
made  at  the  time  of  annexation. 

CHAKOUR,  Joseph  Gabriel,  Pacha,  Grand 
Officer  of  the  Medjedieh  (Tm-kish),  Commander 
of  Sts.  Maurice  and  Lazarus  of  Jtaly,  Com- 
mander of  the  Grecian  Order  of  the  Saviour  ; 
of  the  Oriental  Club,  Cairo,  was  born  at  Alex- 
andria, July  7,  1855.  He  is  son  of  Gabriel 
Chakour  and  Assine  Dahan,  and  was  educated 
at  Lyons,  France,  receiving  the  diploma  of  the 


French  University.  Chakour  Pacha  entered 
the  Ministry  of  France  under  the  Khedival 
Govt,  on  Jan.  1,  1877,  and  took  an  active  part 
in  the  reorganization  of  that  dept.  under  the 
British  Administration.  He  published  several 
works  on  real  estate,  and  the  assessment  of  the 
land  taxes  in  Egypt.  In  1890  he  had  charge  of 
the  organization  of  the  Mi^micipality  of  Alex- 
andria— the  first  and  only  institution  of  the 
kind  in  Egypt  in  which  the  foreign  colonies  then 
estabUshed  in  Alexandria  were  comVjined  with 
the  native  element  for  ad  inistering  the  affairs 
of  the  city.  In  1892  he  was  appointed  Director- 
Gen,  of  the  Municipality  with  the  office  of  Pres. 
of  the  Executive.  It  was  under  his  administra- 
tion that  the  town  was  most  fully  developed  by 
the  opening  up  of  roads  and  tramways,  the 
installation  of  the  electric  light,  construction  of 
quays,  resulting  in  the  most  beautiful  promenade 
of  Alexandria,  and  by  the  creation  of  a  fine 
quarter  formed  on  land  previously  intended  for 
the  deposit  of  town  rubbish.  Ho  occupied  this 
position  for  eleven  years,  dm-ing  which  period 
he  was  frequently  commended  in  the  reports  of 
Lord  Cromer.  At  the  beginning  of  1903  Chakour 
Pacha  retired  from  the  service  of  the  Egyptian 
Govt.,  since  when  he  has  devoted  himself  to 
financial,  and  more  especially  to  industrial 
affairs.  He  married,  Nov.  30,  1879,  Sophie  von 
Reinlein  von  Rautenbough. 

CHAMBERS,  Charles  Roland,  J.P.  for 
Richmond  (C.C.)  and  Smithfield  (O.R.C.),  of 
Middlemount,  Richmond  District,  Cape  Colony. 
He  is  the  son  of  S.  H.  Chambers,  Barrister-at- 
Law,  Inner  Temple,  and  his  mother  was  one  of 
the  family  of  Hares,  of  Hurstmonceaux  Castle, 
Sussex.  His  grandfather  was  Sir  Charles  H. 
Chambers,  Puisne  Judge,  Bombay,  and  his 
grandfather  on  the  maternal  side  was  Captain 
Marcus  Hare,  R.N.  of  Court  Grange,  Newton, 
Devon.  He  was  born  Nov.  I,  1863,  in  London, 
and  was  edvicated  at  Tonb ridge  Sch.  and 
Chfton  Coll.  He  went  to  Cape  Colony  in  1889 
and  piu"chased  the  property  of  Middlemount, 
in  the  District  of  Richmond,  and  was  appointed 
a  J.P.  in  1893.  On  the  S.A.  War  breaking  out 
he  served  in  the  Transport  Service  mider  General 
Paget  with  the  20th  Brigade  at  Lindley,  Bethle- 
hem, etc.,  and  subsequenth'^  in  the  Northern 
Transvaal.  He  joined  the  Scouts,  and  was  com- 
missioned in  tlie  S.  African  Irregular  Forces 
as  Lieut.  He  was  with  the  columns  in  O.R.C. 
and  Western  Transvaal,  and  was  finally  trans- 
ferred to  the  Field  Intelligence  Department  and 
given    the    rank    of    Capt.     At   the   conclusion 


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of  hostilities  he  was  appointed  Pres.  of  the 
Repatriation  Commission  for  the  District  of 
Smithfield,  O.R.C.,  by  the  Governor  of  the 
Colony,  and  subsequently  Administrator  of 
Relief  for  the  same  District.  He  has  the  Queen's 
medal  and  three  clasps,  and  the  King's  medal 
and  two  clasps.  He  married  Ruby  Mabel 
Montagu,  dau.  of  John  Montagu,  and  great- 
granddan.  of  John  Montagu,  Colonial  Sec. 
of  Cape  Colony. 

CHOLES,  Major  Frederick  John,  F.R.G.S., 
F.I.Inst.,  F.R.C.T.,  of  Scott  St.,  Pietermaritz- 
burg,  third  son  of  Jas.  Choles,  of  Devizes, 
Wilts,  was  born  at  Wolverhampton,  Stafford- 
shire, Dec.  24,  1847.  He  was  educated  at  the 
Wolverhampton  Gram.  Sch.,  and  received 
a  practical  training  as  an  engineer  in  the  London 
&  N.W.  Locomotive  Engineering  Depts.  In 
1869  he  was  selected  by  the  late  Maj.-Gen. 
Worgan,  R.A.,  Inspector-Gen.  of  Ordnance, 
Bombay,  for  special  duty  in  connection  with  the 
Powder  Mills  and  Ammunition  Factories  at 
Kirkee,  India.  Subsequently  his  services  were 
solicited  at  the  Grand  Arsenal  and  Government 
Dockyards,  Bombay,  to  supervise  the  erection 
of  the  18-ton  guns  for  H.M.  turret  ships, 
Abyssinia  and  Magdala,  of  the  Bombay  Harbour 
Defence.  In  1874  he  was  again  sent  forward  on 
special  duty  to  the  arsenals  at  Mhow  and 
Neemich,  Central  India.  In  1879  he  was  the 
successful  candidate  from  among  nearly  200 
applicants  for  the  post  of  Ordnance  Officer, 
Natal  Vohmteer  Dept.,  which  he  now  holds. 

Owing  to  his  many  years  of  experience  and 
his  natural  abilities  for  the  special  duties  per- 
taining to  Ordnance  work,  he  has  brought  the 
Ordnance  branch  of  the  Natal  Volunteer  Dept., 
of  which  he  is  the  chief,  from  its  infancy  to  a  state 
of  efficiency,  and  as  far  as  practicable  up  to 
date  in  all  details  of  military  requirements.  In 
1899,  he  had  the  responsibility  of  equipping  the 
Volunteers,  and  putting  forward  the  mobiliza- 
tion stores  for  the  whole  of  the  Natal  Force, 
which  were  railed  at  Pietermaritzburg  for 
Ladysmith  within  24  hours  from  the  time 
instructions  were  received  for  mobilization.  In 
Sept.  and  Oct.  of  the  same  year,  he  equipped 
those  smart  Irregular  Corps,  the  Imperial  Light 
Horse,  Bethune's  M.I.,  and  Thorneycroft's  M.I. 
He  was  at  the  base  of  operations,  Pietermaritz- 
burg, during  the  S.A.  War,  Sept.  13,  1899, 
to  May  31,  1902  (Queen's  and  King's  medals). 
H&  married  Johanna  Jane,  third  dau.  of 
Edward  and  Mary  Vale  of  Upper  Clapton, 
London,  on  Sept.  6,  1880. 


CILLIE,  Petrxjs  Johannes,  M.L.A.  is  mem- 
ber of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for  the 
Paarl,  and  was  last  re-elected  at  the  general 
election  in  Feb.,  1904.  He  sits  in  the  Bond 
interest. 

CLARK,  GowAN  Cresswell  Strangb, 
C.M.G.,  J.P.,  of  Cape  Town,  son  of  the  late 
Gowan  Clark,  of  Shrewsbury,  was  born  at 
Leominster,  Herefordshire,  Nov.  7,  1856  ;  was 
educated  at  Aberystwith  and  Ystradoncurig. 
He  was  for  some  time  in  the  Prince  Alfred's 
Guards,  in  which  he  rose  to  the  brevet  rank  of 
Lieut. -Col.  He  has  now  resigned  his  coixk- 
mission  in  that  corps  ;  he  wears  the  Volunteer 
Officers'  Decoration  ;  is  Chief  Traffic  Manager 
of  the  Cape  Govt.  Railways  ;  and  a  Justice  of 
the  Peace.  He  married  Apr.  9,  1885,  Miss 
Caroline  Ann  Kemsley. 

CLARK,  Robert  Douglas,  of  The  Oaks, 
Maritzburg,  Natal  ;  the  Imperial  Colonies  Club, 
London ;  the  Victoria  Club,  P.M.B.,  and  the 
Maritzbm-g  and  Durban  Savage  Clubs,  was  born 
at  Benholm,  Scotland,  May  19,  1846.  He  is 
the  2nd  son  of  David  Clark,  by  his  wife  Jean 
Dundas,  dau.  of  Williaixi  Dundas  and  Margaret 
Ramsay.  He  was  educated  at  Moray  House, 
Edin.  University,  New  Coll.  Oxford,  and  at  the 
Universities  of  Gottingen  and  Bonn-am-Rhein, 
graduating  M.A.  Edin.  and  New  Coll.  In  1878 
he  was  appointed  Asst.  Prof,  of  Latin  at  Edin. 
University.  He  was  principal  of  the  Maritz- 
bvirg  Coll.  from  1879  to  1902  ;  is  a  Barrister-at- 
Law  (Inner  Temple)  ;  Advocate  of  the  Suprenae 
Court  of  Natal ;  and  Member  of  the  Council  of 
the  University  of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope.  He 
is  also  Pres.  of  the  Caledonian  and  Natal 
Societies,  and  of  the  Savage  Club,  Maritzburg, 
and  was  for  some  tune  Capt.  of  the  Scottish 
Comp.  of  the  Natal  Royal  Rifles.  In  Masonry 
he  is  a  Past  District  Grand  Master  of  Natal, 
etc.  Mr.  Clark  had  the  distinction  of  having 
"A  Burger  Quixote  "  inscribed  to  him  for  his 
"  cultm-e,  wit  and  humour  which  have  estab- 
lished a  literary  standard  in  South  Africa."  Mr. 
Clark  is  a  lover  of  books  and  the  billiard  table. 
He  married,  July  3,  1882,  Caroline  Georgina 
Warrender,  yoimgest  dau.  of  Gen.  Sir  WiUiam 
Sewell,  K.C.B.,  and  niece  of  Sir  Hew  Dalrymple, 
Bart.,  of  Luchie  House,  N.B. 

CLARKE,  Major  William  James,  of  the 
Victoria  Club,  Maritzburg,  joined  the  NataJ 
Mounted  Police  in  Apr.  1878.  He  proceeded 
to  the  Zulu  Border  in  Nov.   of  that  year  and 


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crossed  the  Buffalo  River  with  the  column 
under  Lord  Chelmsford;  in  Jan.  1879,  was  with 
the  reconnoitring  party  under  Major  Dartnell 
when  the  Zulus  attacked  and  captured  the 
camp  at  Isandhlwana,  and  was  with  the  escort 
which  conveyed  the  remains  of  the  late  Prince 
Imperial  to  Durban  for  embarkation ;  served 
with  the  garrisons  of  Rorke's  Drift  and  Help- 
makaar  vmtil  Gen.  Sir  Garnet  Wolseley  arrived, 
when  the  N.M.P.  furnished  his  escort  to  Ulundi  ; 
Joined  the  escort  which  accompanied  the  ex- 
Empress  of  the  French  on  her  tour  through 
Natal  and  Zululand  in  1880  ;  served  with  the 
N.M.P.  on  the  Basutoland  Border  during  the 
war  of  1880.  Was  with  the  column  under 
Gen.  Colley  in  the  Boer  War  of  1881,  and  was 
present  at  the  battle  of  Laing's  Nek  ;  was  with. 
detachment  of  N.M.P.  on  the  Zululand  Border 
in  1884  during  the  disturbances  in  that  coimtry. 
He  accompanied  mission  to  Pondoland  in  1887 
to  get  treaty  signed  ;  joined  Col.  Martin  on  the 
British  Mission  to  Amatongaland  in  1888,  and 
was  also  with  that  officer  on  the  Swazi-Portuguese 
Boundary  Commission  in  the  same  year  ;  was 
on  the  Pondoland  Border  during  the  fighting 
of  1890-1  and  1893-4,  and  was  sent  on  a  special 
mission  into  that  country  to  confer  with  the 
Paramount  Chief.  Was  associated  with  Col. 
Dartnell  in  the  reorganization  of  the  Police 
Forces  in  1894,  and  was  entrusted  with  the 
organization  of  the  Criminal  Investigation 
Department,  of  which  he  is  still  the  head,  with 
the  rank  of  Inspector  in  the  Natal  Police.  He 
commanded  the  newly  raised  Field  Force  which 
was  despatched  early  in  1897  to  protect  the 
Southern  Border  during  Native  disturbances 
in  East  Griqualand,  and  afterwards  marched 
north  to  Zululand  when  that  covmtry  was 
annexed  to  Natal.  He  met  Dinizulu  and  other 
Zulu  Chiefs  on  their  return  from  banishment  at 
St.  Helena,  and  accompanied  them  to  their 
homes.  Shortly  before  the  outbreak  of  the 
S.A.  War  in  1899,  Inspt.  Clarke  was  again 
transferred  to  the  Field  Force  and  commanded 
a  detachment  at  Ladysmith  before,  and  during, 
the  siege  of  that  town  ;  was  present  at  the 
action  at  Rietfontein,  the  capture  of  Boer  guns 
on  Gun  HiU,  and  the  action  at  Caesar's  Camp 
on  Jan.  6,  1900  ;  acted  as  guide  to  the  Cavalry 
Brigade  at  the  capture  of  Botha's  Pass  in  June 
1900,  and  was  thereafter  employed  on  work  in 
connection  with  Field  Intelligence,  with  the 
local  rank  of  Major.  He  served  with  Gen. 
Dartnell,  as  Intelligence  Officer,  during  Gen. 
French's  operations  in  the  Eastern  Traansval 
in  1901,  and  later  with  Gen.  Bullock  in  the  same 


capacity  and  in  the  same  district.  He  was 
sent  by  Gen.  French  on  a  special  mission  to 
Zululand,  where  the  columns  were  working  on 
that  border  ;  was  Intelligence  Officer  to  Gen. 
Dartnell  in  the  O.R.C.  during  the  latter  part  of 

1901.  Early  in  1902,  he  was  again  sent  into 
Zululand  on  another  special  mission,  and  was 
then  appointed  Intelligence  Officer  to  Gen. 
Bruce  Hamilton,  in  place  of  Col.  WooUs-Samp- 
son.  Shortly  before  the  close  of  hostilities,  he 
returned  to  Natal  to  accompany  the  Prime 
Minister  to  England,  in  the  capacity  of  Secy.,  to 
attend  the  Coronation  of  H.M.  King  Edward  VII. 

Major  Clarke  has  received  the  following 
medals — the  Coronation  medal  of  1902,  the 
Zulu  War  medal  with  "  1879  "  clasp,  the  S.A. 
General  Service  medal  with  bar  for  Basutoland, 
the  Queen's  medal  for  the  S.A.  War,  with  4 
clasps,  and  the  King's  medal,  with  2  clasps, 
He  is  a  J.P-  for  the  Colony,  and  has  acted,  on 
several  occasions,  as  R.M.  and  Administrator 
of  Native  Law.  He  introduced  into  Natal  the 
system  of  identification  by  means  of  finger 
prints,  in  the  classffication  of  which  he  has 
qualified  as  an  expert.  Major  Clarke  married,  in 
1889,  the  eldest  dau.  of  Major  Giles,  magistrate 
of  Richmond,  and  late  of  the  14th  Hussars.  For 
many  years,  Mr.  Clarke  took  great  interest  in 
racing,  and  he  estabUshed  a  record  in  S.A, 
by  riding  seven  winners  in  one  day  at  the  Lady- 
smith  meeting  in  1893. 

CLOETE,  Hendrik,  M.L.A.,  J.P.,  C.M.G., 
of  Alphen,  Wynberg,  C.C,  and  of  the  Civil 
Service  (C.T.),  Rand  and  Pretoria  Clubs,  was 
born  at  Wynberg  in  1851.  He  is  the  eldest 
surviving  son  of  the  late  Dirk  Cloete,  J.P., 
of  Wynberg,  and  was  educated  at  the  Diocesan 
Coll.,  Rondebosch.  He  was  called  to  the 
Bar,  Inner  Temple,  in  1877  ;  Advocate  of  the 
Supreme  Court  in  1878,  and  joined  the  Trans- 
vaal Bar  in  1879.  He  served  as  Lieut,  and 
Adjt.  of  Vohmteers  and  was  present  at  various 
engagements  around  Pretoria  in  the  Transvaal 
War  of  1880-81.  After  the  Jameson  Raid  he 
succeeded  Sir  J.  de  Wet  in  May,  1896,  as 
British  Agent  in  the  Transvaal,  and  was  deco- 
rated with  the  C.M.G.  for  his  services.     In  Nov. 

1902,  he  was  returned  imopposed  as  Progressive 
member  for  Wynberg  in  the  Cape  Assembly, 
and  was  re-elected  in  Feb.  1904.  His  recreations 
are  cricket,  tennis,  rowing,  and  shooting.  He 
married,  in  1893,  the  eldest  dau.  of  the  late 
Rev.  Van  Warmelo. 

COCHRANE,  Cot,.  William  Francis  Dun- 


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DONALD,  C.B.  (1898),  Order  of  the  Medjidieh, 
3rd  Class,  of  the  Naval  and  Military  Club,  was 
born  in  Wiltshire,  Aug.  7,  1847.  He  is  son  of 
the  late  Col.  W.  M.  Cochrane,  and  grand- 
nephew  of  the  famous  Admiral  Cochrane,  10th 
Earl  of  Dundonald,  inventor  of  the  "  secret 
war  plan  "  declared  to  be  capable  of  destroying 
any  fleet  or  fortress  in  the  world. 

Col.  W.  F.  D.  Cochrane  was  educated  at 
Kensington  School  and  Sandhurst,  passing  in 
1866  into  the  Duke  of  Cornwall's  Light  Infan- 
try, of  the  1st  Batt.  of  which  he  was  adjutant 
for  many  years.  From  1879  to  1882  he  was 
A.A.G.  and  C.S.O.  of  the  Cape  Colonial  Forces, 
during  which  time  the  colony  was  engaged  in  a 
series  of  wars,  commencing  with  the  Morosi 
affair  and  ending  with  the  East  Griqualand, 
Tembuland,  and  Basuto  rebellions.  He  served 
through  the  Zulu  war  at  fii'st  as  Staff  Officer  to 
Col.  Durnford,  and  was  one  of  the  few  sur- 
vivors from  Isandhlwana.  He  then  obtained 
the  command  of  the  Natal  Native  Horse,  and 
was  present  at  Kambula,  Z'lobane  Mountain, 
and  Ulundi  (medals  for  Zulu,  Basuto,  and 
Transkei  wars),  his  services  being  brought  to 
the  notice  of  the  Colonial  and  Imperial  Govts. 
In  1882  he  received  a  brevet  majority,  and  took 
part  in  the  Egyptian  War  of  that  year.    (Medal.) 

From  1883  to  1887  he  filled  the  appointment 
of  D.A.A.G.,  China  and  the  Straits  Settlements  ; 
was  D.A.Q.M.G.,  Headquarters  Staff,  Ireland, 
in  1887-8;  and  from  1890  to  1892  he  acted  as 
Asst.  Mil.  Secy,  to  Sir  W.  Gordon  Cameron, 
K.C.B.,  then  commanding  in  S.A.,  which 
appointment  he  resigned  on  being  selected  to 
command  a  brigade  in  the  Egyptian  Army,  in 
which  he  served  from  1893  to  1898.  At  the 
time  of  the  Dongola  advance  he  was  in  com- 
mand of  the  Line  of  Communication  (Sudan 
Medal),  and  was  afterwards  appointed  first 
Governor  of  the  Nubia  Province.  From  1900  he 
was  C.S.O.  for  the  Belfast  Dist.  until  his  retire- 
ment from  the  Army  in  1903.  Col.  Cochrane 
married  in  1893,  Carola,  dau.  or  the  late  T.  H. 
Moller,  of  Hambi.irg. 

COLE,  Philip  Tennyson,  of  St.  Leonards, 
and  Addison  Studios,  Kensington,  and  the 
Royal  Colonial  Institute,  was  born  in  Harrington 
Square,  London,  on  May  30,  1862,  and  comes 
of  a  family  of  painters,  his  father,  grand- 
father, and  great-grand-uncles  having  all  been 
well  known  artists.  Mr.  Tennyson  Cole  was 
educated  at  Chiswick  Coll.,  Middlesex,  and 
applied  himself  early  to  the  study  of  art, 
-exhibiting   in   London   at   the   age  of  20.     He 


has  spent  some  years  in  Australia,  New  Zea- 
land, Tasmania,  and  S.A.,  i  painting  the 
portraits  of  Colonial  celebrities,  including 
Lord  Milner  and  the  late  Mr.  Cecil  Rhodes. 
In  1900  he  accompanied  Dr.  Carl  Peters 
on  his  second  expedition  up  the  Zambesi.  He 
was  married:  first,  in  Apr.  1884,  to  Miss 
Alice  Mary  Saintsbury,  who  died  in  Australia 
in  Apr.  1893;  and  second,  Apr.  18,  1894,  to  Miss 
Hetty  Binstead. 

COLENBRANDER,  Lieut.-Col.  Johan 
William,  C.B.,  of  Bulawayo,  and  of  the  Bula- 
wayo  and  Rand  Clubs,  is  of  Dutch  extraction  ; 
was  born  at  Pine  Town,  Natal,  on  Nov.  1, 
1858  ;  and  was  educated  at  New  Guelderland, 
Natal.  Col.  Colenbrander  has  for  many 
years  been  associated  with  Rhodesia.  Long 
before  the  country  came  under  the  aegis  of  the 
Chartered  Co.  he  hunted  and  traded  with  the 
natives,  gaining  a  knowledge  of  the  country 
and  its  chiefs,  which  stood  him  in  good  stead 
during  the  two  Matabele  wars.  He  served  in 
the  Zulu  War,  the  Matabele  War  of  1893,  com- 
manded a  corps  of  "  Friendlies  "  in  the  Mata- 
bele RebelUon  of  1896,  and  subsequently  played 
a  prominent  part  in  negotiating  peace  with  the 
Indunas  in  the  Matoppos.  In  the  S.A.  War 
1899-1902  he  raised  and  commanded  the  1st 
Regt.  of  Kitchener's  Fighting  Scouts  (1,200 
strong),  doing  excellent  work  throughout  in 
the  Northern  Transvaal  and  Cape  Colony. 

Col.  Colenbrander  has  been  twice  married, 
his  second  wife  (who  died  in  Apr.  1904)  having 
been  Yvonne  Winifred,  dau.  of  Capt.  Loftus 
Nunn,  late  of  H.M.  99th  Regt.,  and  sister-in- 
law  to  Capt.  Cassell,  Adjt.  of  the  Southern 
Rhodesia  Volunteers. 

COLLEY,  Capt.  Gerald  Henry  Pomeroy, 
3rd  Royal  Irish  Regt.,  of  Boksburg,  Transvaal, 
and  Mount  Temple,  Clontarf,  co.  Dublin,  wp^s 
born  at  Lucan,  Dublin,  and  educated  at  Hailey- 
bury.  He  was  successively  A.D.C.  to  Sir 
Henry  A.  Blake,  Governor  of  Jamaica  ;  A.D.C. 
and  Priv.  Secy,  to  Sir  Augustus  L.  Hemming, 
Governor  of  Jamaica  ;  and  Inspector  of  Jamaica 
Constabulary.  He  served  through  the  S.A. 
War  with  the  1st  M.I.  as  Special  Service  Officer 
(Queen's  and  King's  medals)  ;  was  later  ap- 
pointed Military  Magistrate  at  Boksburg,  under 
the  Military  Governor  of  Johannesburg,  and  is 
at  present  Asst.  R.M.  at  Boksburg. 

COLVILE,  Maj.-Gen.  Sir  Henry  Edward, 
K.C.M.G.,  C.B.,  of  Lightwater,  Bagshot ;   Lul- 


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iington,  Burton-on-Trent ;  Grangewood  House, 
Ashby-de-la-Zouch  ;  80,  South  Audley  Street,  W.; 
and  of  the  Guards',  Travellers',  Beefsteak, 
Automobile,  and  Aero  Clubs,  and  member  of 
the  Royal  Yacht  Squadron,  son  of  the  late  Col. 
Chas.  R.  Colvile,  J.P.,  D.L.,  and  M.P.  for  S. 
Derbyshire,  and  Katherine,  dau.  of  23rd 
Baroness  de  Clifford  and  Capt.  Jn.  Russell, 
R.N.,  was  born  at  Kirkley  Hall,  Hinckley, 
Leicestershire,  July  10,  1852.  He  was  educated 
at  Eton  and  privately  in  Switzerland  and 
France,  meanwhile  travelling  about  consider- 
ably with  his  father  on  yachting  cruises.  Sir 
Henry  entered  the  Grenadier  Guards  in  1870. 
In  1878  he  imdertoolc  a  journey  to  Morocco, 
explored  the  Riff  country,  and  was  the  first 
European  to  cross  from  Fez  to  Algeria,  his 
account  of  which,  "  A  Ride  in  Petticoats  and 
Slippers,"  was  published  in  1879.  In  1880  he 
was  appointed  A.D.C.  to  Gen.  the  Hon.  Sir 
Leicester  Smythe,  who  then  commanded  tlie 
British  forces  at  the  Cape.  He  resigned  this  on 
attaining  his  Captaincy,  and  shortly  after  took 
part  in  an  expedition  to  siu-vey  and  report  upon 
the  country  between  the  Dead  Sea  and  the  Gulf 
of  Akabah.  This  accomplished,  he  was  ap- 
pointed to  Sir  F.  Stevenson's  Intelligence 
Department  at  Cairo,  joined  the  Suakim  Ex- 
pedition in  1884,  and  was  present  at  El  Teb  and 
Tamai,  receiving  medal  and  clasp,  the  Khedival 
Star,  and  being  twice  mentioned  in  despatches. 
After  returning  to  England,  he  was  selected  for 
a  special  mission  to  siirvey  the  Ai'bain  Road 
and  report  on  the  possibiUty  of  the  Mahdi 
invading  Egypt  by  this  route.  Having  reported 
in  the  negative,  he  was  detailed  for  further 
important  work  in  the  Sudan  before  and  dui'ing 
Lord  Wolseley's  expedition,  meanwhile  being 
promoted  Lieut. -Col.  For  these  services  he 
was  mentioned  in  despatches  (clasp  and  C.B.). 
He  was  next  Chief  of  the  Intelligence  Depart- 
ment of  the  Frontier  Field  Force,  was  present 
at  the  action  at  Gennis  (despatches),  and  attained 
Colonel's  rank.  Sir  Henry  returned  home  in 
1866,  was  appointed  to  the  Intelligence  Depart- 
ment of  the  War  Office,  and  wrote  the  olficial 
history  of  the  Sudan  Campaign.  During  a  term 
of  sick  leave  he  made  the  tour  of  South  Africa 
accompanied  by  Lady  Colvile,  who  subse- 
quently published  her  book,  "  Round  the  Black 
Man's  Garden."  Sir  Henry  also  crossed  Mada- 
gascar from  Antananarivo  to  Majunga.  Early 
in  1893  he  went  to  India,  and  subsequently  as 
Intelligence  Officer  to  a  British  column  in 
Burmah.  Thence  he  was  placed  in  charge  at 
Uganda,  and  established  a  post  on  the  Albert 


Nyanza.  All  this  hard  work  caused  a  break- 
down in  Col.  Colvile's  health,  and  he  returned 
home,  was  decorated  with  the  K.C.M.G.,  Central 
African  medal,  and  the  Star  of  Zanzibar.  He 
resumed  regimental  duty,  and  in  1898  was 
gazetted  Maj.-Gen.  In  1899  he  was  appointed 
to  command  the  Infantry  Brigade  in  Gibraltar, 
thence  being  appointed  (March,  1900)  to  com- 
mand the  9th  Division  in  S.A.  (medal  a,nd 
5  clasps).  He  was  mentioned  in  despatches 
four  times  by  Lord  Methuen  and  twice  by  the 
C.I.C.  in  S.A.  for  services  at  Paardeberg 
and  Poplar  Grove,  but  it  is  regretted  that  his 
military  reputation  was  not  enhanced  by  the 
incidents  of  Sauna's  Post  and  Lindley.  He 
was  soon  reappointed  to  Gibraltar  by  Lord 
Lansdowne,  but  in  February,  1901,  was  recalled 
and  placed  on  retired  pay  by  Mr.  Brodrick. 

Sir  Henry  has  also  written  a  description  of 
liis  Arabah  exploration  entitled,  "  The  Accursed 
Land,"  "  The  History  of  the  Soudan  Cam- 
paign," "  The  Land  of  the  Nile  Springs," 
describing  his  Unyoro  Expedition,  "  The  Work 
of  the  Ninth  Division,"  and  occasional  contri- 
butions to  the  Press.  Sir  Henry  married  : 
first,  in  1878,  Alice  Rosa,  daughter  of  the  Hon. 
Robert  Daly,  who  died  in  1882;  and  second, 
in  1886,  Zelie  Isabelle,  daughter  of  M.  Pierre 
Richard  de  Preville,  of  Basses  Pyrenees,  France. 

COLVIN,  SiB  Auckland,  K.C.S.I.,  K.C.M.G., 
CLE.,  Grand  Cordon  of  the  Orders  of  Osma- 
nieh  and  Medjidieh ;  of  Earl  Soham  Lodge, 
Framlingham,  Suffolk,  and  of  the  Traveller's 
Club,  is  the  son  of  the  late  John  R.  Colvin, 
Indian  Civil  Service.  He  was  born  March  8, 
1838,  in  India,  and  was  educated  at  Eton,  and 
the  East  India  Coll.,  Haileybury,  and  entered 
the  Indian  Civil  Service  in  1858.  He  has  held 
with  success  a  munber  of  Govt,  secretaryships 
of  importance,  and  was  in  1880  appointed  a 
member  of  the  International  Commission  for 
Egyptian  Liquidation,  and  shortly  afterwards 
became  the  representative  of  England  under 
the  scheme  of  Anglo-French  control.  Din-ing 
the  Arab  insurrection  Sir  Auckland  was  Coun- 
cillor to  the  Khedive.  When  the  dual  control 
was  abolished  in  1883  he  became  Financial 
Adviser  to  the  Khedive  (1882-3),  but  shortly 
after  he  rettirned  to  India  as  Financial  Sec.  to 
the  Viceroy's  Govt.,  in  which  capacity  he 
introduced  an  Income-Tax  Bill  in  1885.  In 
1887  he  was  Lieut. -Gen.  of  the  North-West 
Provinces  of  India,  retaining  that  position  till 
1902.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  Bmrnah  Rail- 
ways,  of  the  Egyptian  Delta  Light  Railways, 


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Anglo-African  Who's  Who 


of  the  Oriental  Telephone  Co.,  of  the  Khedivial 
Steamship  Co.,  and  a  Director  of  the  British 
and  Chinese  Corporation.  He  married,  Aug.  4, 
1859.  Charlotte  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Lieut. -Gen. 
Herbert,  C.B. 

CONYBEARE,  Charles  Atjgusttts  Van- 
SITTART,  of  3,  Carlyle  Mansions,  Cheyne  Walk, 
S.W.,  and  the  National  Liberal  and  New  Re- 
form Clubs,  was  born  at  Kew,  June  1,  1853  ;  is 
the  eldest  son  of  John  Chas.  Conybeare,  by 
Katherine  Mary  Vansittart ;  was  educated  at 
Tonbridge  and  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  where 
he  took  a  Junior  Studentship  by  open  com- 
petition ;  Lothian  Prize  Essayist  1876 ;  pub- 
lished Text  Books  on  the  Married  Women's 
Property  Acts  and  the  Corrupt  Practices  at 
Elections  Act  ;  represented  Camborne  in  Parlia- 
ment 1885-95  ;  and  is  a  Director  of  the  Beka 
Junction  Railway,  Oceana  Development  Co., 
N.  Charterland  Exploration  Co.,  etc.  He 
married,  Oct.  15,  1896,  Florence  Annie, 
eldest  dau.  of  Gustavo  Strauss,  of  2,  Bolton 
Gardens,  W.  Kensington.  Mrs.  Conybeare 
takes  an  interest  in  matters  of  moment,  and 
publicly  opposed  the  Education  Act  introduced 
by  Mr.  Balfour's  Govt. 

COOPER,  Rev.  Alfred  Augustus,  MA.,  of 
Ibrahamieh,  Alexandria,  Egypt ;  was  born  in 
Aberdeenshire,  N.B.,  Oct.  1,  1866  ;  was  educated 
at  Aberdeen  Gram.  Sch.  ;  King's  Coll., 
Aberdeen,  and  New  Coll.,  Edin.,  graduating 
M.A.,  and  taking  1st  class  Honours  in  Classical 
Literature.  He  took  Holy  Orders  as  a  Minister 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Eng.  ;  spent 
three  and  a-half  years  in  Bengal,  and  is  now 
Agent-Gen.  of  the  B.  and  F.  Bible  Soc.  for 
Egypt  and  Sudan,  Syria  and  Palestine,  Cyprus, 
Aden,  Abyssinia,  and  E.  Africa.  He  is  author 
of  "  The  Story  of  the  Turkish  Version  "  (B.  &  F. 
B.  S.,  1901),  and  "God's  Forget-me-Not " 
(Elliot  Stock,  1900),  and  other  addresses  to 
boys  and  girls.  He  married,  Sept.  28,  1893, 
Florence,  dau.  of  the  late  John  Howden,  of 
Waterloo,  Liverpool. 

CORBET,  Eustace  Kynaston,  M.A.  ;  of 
Cairo,  and  the  New  University  Club  ;  youngest 
son  of  the  late  Rev.  Andrew  Corbett  ;  was 
bom  at  South  WiUingham  Rectory,  Line, 
June  22,  1854 ;  was  educated  at  Cheltenham 
Coll.  and  Balliol  Coll.,  Oxon.,  where  he  graduated 
M.A.  He  was  appointed  English  Secy,  to  the 
late  Khedive,  Tewfik  Pasha,  in  July,  1885 ; 
was  made  Judge  in  the  Native  Court  of  Appeal, 


Apr.  1891  ;  and  became  Procureur-Greneral  to 
Native  Courts  in  Nov.  1897.  He  wais  decorat-ed 
with  the  Orders  of  the  Os-manieh  (2nd,iCla3s) 
and  Medjidieh  (3rd  Class). 

CORNER,  Charles,  A.M.I.C.E.,  Assoc. 
Mem.  Am.  Soc.  C.E.,  and  Member  of  the  S.A. 
Association  for  th  e  Advancement  of  Science ; 
of  Agorica,  Paignton,  Devon  ;  of  Gwelo,  ;Rho- 
desia,  and  of  the  Sahsbury  Club,  Rhodesia,|is 
the  son  of  the  Headmaster  of  Wellington 
Academy,  now  West  Somerset  County  School. 
He  was  born  Nov.  1859,  at  Wellington,  Somerset, 
and  was  educated  at  Wellington  Academy. 
Mr.  Corner  was  Assis.  Engineer  to  the  Harris- 
burg  and  San  Antonio  Railway  Company 
(Southern  Pacific  System)  1881-2-3,  during 
construction  of  232  miles  of  railway  ;  Assis. 
Engineer  to  the  San  Antonio  and  Aransas  Pass 
Railway  of  Texas,  1884  ;  Engineer  in  charge  of 
Graduation,  Bridges  and  Buildings,  San  Antonio 
and  Aransas  Pass  Rly.,  1885-88  (687  miles  of 
rly. ) ;  Division  Engineer  in  charge  of  Location, 
French  Company  of  Venezuelan  Rly.,  Com- 
pagnie  de  Fires-Lille,  1889  (60  kilometres  of 
rly. ) :  Div.  Engineer  for  Sub-Contractors, 
Interoceanic  Rly.  of  Mexico,  1890  (20  kilometres 
of  rly. ) ;  Sub.  Div.  Engineer,  w  ith  Messrs. 
Reed  &  Campbell,  of  Lond.  and  Mexico, 
Mexican  Southern  Rly.  of  Mexico,  1890-91-92 
(23  kilometres  of  rly.);  Civil  Engineer  to  the 
Railroad  Commission  of  Texas,  1893-98,  in- 
specting, valuing  and  reporting  on  nearly  10,000 
miles  of  rly.,  and  from  1899  to  the  present 
time  he  has  been  District  Engineer  of  the 
Beira  and  Rhodesia  rlys.  under  Sir  C.  Metcalfe 
and  Sir  Douglas  Fox,  Engineer-in-Chief  and 
Consulting  Engineer  respectively.  He  married. 
Mar.  24,  1887,  Margaret  Muncey,  of  San 
Antonio,  Texas,  U.S.A. 

CORNISH,  Right  Rev.  Charles  Edward, 
Bishop  of  Grahamstown,  of  Bishopsbourne, 
Grahamstown,  C.C,  is  the  eldest  son  of  the 
Rev.  Charles  L.  Cornish,  formerly  Fel.  of 
Exeter  CoU.,  Oxon.  He  was  born  in  London, 
October  9,  1842,  and  was  educated  at  Upping- 
ham, and  Exeter  Coll.,  Oxon.  He  is  M.A.  and 
D.D.  of  Oxon,  and  M.A.  Univ.  of  the  Cape  of 
Good  Hope.  From  1882-9  he  was  Vicar  of 
St.  Mary's,  Redclif5e,  Bristol.  He  was  also 
Rural  Dean  of  Bristol  and  chaplain  to  the 
Bishop  of  Bristol,  and  still  remains  Hon.  Canon 
of  Bristol.  In  1899  he  left  England  for  the 
pm'pose  of  taking  up  the  appointment  of 
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CORSTORPHINE,  Dr.  George  Steuart, 
B.Sc.  (Edin.),  Ph.D.  (Munich),  M.A.  ad  eund. 
grad.  (Cape),  of  Johannesburg,  and  of  the  Rand 
and  AthenEBum  Clubs,  Johannesburg,  was  born 
at  Edinburgh,  Nov.  19,  1865  ;  is  the  eldest  son 
of  the  late;  John  Corstorphine  of  that  town, 
where  he  began  his  education.  He  is  an 
eminent  geologist  who  has  had  much  experience 
in  S.A.  in  the  service  of  the  Cape  Colonial 
Government. 

Dr.  Corstorphine  was  Asst.  in  the  Dept.  of 
Geology  and  Mineralogy  at  Edin.  Univ.  1892-4  ; 
Lectm-er  on  Geology  at  Heriot-Watt  Coll., 
Edin.,  1894  ;  was  appointed  first  professor  of 
Geology  and  Mineralogy  in  the  S.A.  Coll.  and 
Keeper  of  Minerals  in  the  S.A.  Museum,  Cape 
Town,  in  1895  ;  Geologist  to  the  Geological 
Commission,  Cape  Col.,  in  1896  ;  and  Director 
of  the  Geological  Survey,  Cape  Col.,  1901. 
From  1897  to  1902  he  was  Member  of  the  Coun- 
cil of  the  University  of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope, 
and  in  the  latter  year  he  was  appointed  Con- 
sulting Geologist  to  the  Consolidated  Goldfields 
of  S.A.,  Ltd. 

He  has  published  :  Reports  of  the  Geological 
Survey,  Cape  Colony,  1896-1901  ;  "  The  Massive 
Rocks  of  the  Southern  Portion  of  Arran,  Scot- 
land," in  Tchermak's  geol.  u.  min.  Mitt.,  1895  ; 
"  Note  on  the  Age  of  the  Central  South  African 
Coalfield,"  in  Trans.  S.A.  Geol.  Soc,  1903.  He 
married  Miss  Clara  Ursula  Hoffman,  July 
2,  1896. 

CORYNDON,  Robert  Thorne  ;  of  Kalomo, 
N.W.  Rhodesia ;  2,  London  Wall  Buildings, 
London,  E.C.,  and  of  the  Devonshire  (Lond.) 
and  Salisbury  and  Bulawayo  (Rhodesia)  Clubs  ; 
was  born  at  Queenstown,  Cape  Colony,  Apr.  2, 
1870,  and  was  educated  at  St.  Andrew's  Coll., 
Grahamstown,  C.C,  and  at  Cheltenham  Coll., 
Eng.  He  joined  the  B.B.P.  in  Nov.  1889,  and 
the  Mashonaland  Pioneer  Force  in  June,  1890, 
•serving  in  the  Matabele  War  of  1893  and  the 
Matabele  Rebellion  of  1896  (medal  and  clasp). 
Prior  to  this  date  Mr.  Coryndon  spent  some 
years  hvmting  big  game,  and  in  the  office  of 
the  Surveyor-Gen.  in  Salisbury,  Mashonaland. 
In  one  of  his  hunting  expeditions  he  shot  two 
specimens  of  the  almost  extinct  white  rhino- 
ceros. In  June,  1897,  he  took  charge  of  the 
B.S.A.  Co.'s  expedition  to  Lealui,  Barotseland, 
and  became  British  Resident  with  the  Barotse 
chief,  Lewanika.  He  was  appointed  Adminis- 
trator of  N.W.  Rhodesia  in  1900.     Unmarried. 

COSTER,  De.  Hermantjs  Jacob,  was  born 


in  Holland.  He  was  State  Atorney  of 
the  late  S.A.R.  and  ex-officio  J. P.  He  prose- 
cuted on  behalf  of  the  State  in  the  case 
of  the  Reformers.  There  were  originally  four 
indictments  against  the  whole  of  the  prisoners, 
but  negotiations  between  Dr.  Coster  and 
Advocate  Wessels  (the  latter  representing  the 
accused)  resulted  as  follows  :  That  the  leaders. 
Col.  Rhodes  and  Messrs.  L.  Phillips,  Hays 
Hammond,  and  Geo.  Farrar,  should  plead 
guilty  to  coimt  1  (conspiring  with  Dr.  Jameson 
to  make  a  hostile  invasion),  and  that  the  rank 
and  file  of  the  committee  should  plead  guilty 
to  counts  3  (distributing  arms,  guns,  erecting 
defences,  etc.)  and  4  (arrogating  the  functions 
of  Government  in  Johannesburg,  arming  their 
own  Police  Corps,  etc.)  ;  that  counts  2,  3  and  4 
should  be  withdra\vn  against  the  former  and 
counts  1  and  2  should  be  withdrawn  against  the 
latter.  Dr.  Coster  admitted  that  the  effect  of 
this  would  be  making  the  charge  against  the 
rank  and  file  purely  nominal,  while  in  the  case  of 
the  fom*  leaders  he  undertook  not  to  press  for 
exemplary  punishment.  Nevertheless,  at  the 
trial  Dr.  Coster,  in  a  violent  speech,  depicted 
in  the  blackest  terms  the  action  of  those  men, 
and  claimed  that  the  Court  should  apply  the 
Roman-Dutch  Law  in  preference  to  the  statutes 
of  the  S.A.R.,  and  demanded  the  severest 
penalty  that  could  be  imposed  under  that  law 
and  under  the  Thu'ty-three  Articles  and  the  Gold 
Law.  Dr.  Coster  resigned  the  State  Attorney- 
ship in  consequence  of  an  insulting  reference 
of  President  Kriiger's  to  his  cotintrymen. 

CO  WEN,  Charles,  is  the  only  surviving  son 
of  Joseph  Cowen,  of  Bryanstone  Street,  Port- 
man  Square,  London,  and  of  Catherine  Louisa, 
his  wife,  of  Merion  Square,  Dublin.  Mr.  Cowen 
has  been  identified  with  our  colonial  life  from 
1853,  when  he  arrived  in  S.A.  Having 
been,  from  a  very  early  date,  associated  with 
educational  organizations  in  England,  and  with 
the  Press,  he  soon  found  a  new  sphere  for  his 
energies  after  landing  at  Cape  Town,  where  he 
inaugurated,  with  others  classes,  conducted 
gratuitously  by  some  of  the  best  members  of 
the  community,  for  elementary  instruction,  as 
well  as  for  advanced  young  men,  in  modern 
languages,  the  classics,  literatui'e,  and  some  of 
the  arts.  He  also  occupied  himself  as  a  lecturer 
and  journalist,  and  in  1874  became  Secy,  of  the 
Port  Elizabeth  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Broken 
down  in  health,  about  the  end  of  1886  he  left 
for  the  newly  opened  goldfields,  paying  visits 
to  the  Free  State  Territories  and  other  parts. 


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An  old  M.M.  of  the  British  lodge,  co-founder 
of  and  P.M.  of  the  Joppa,  one  of  the  originators 
of  the  D.G.L.  of  S.A.,  and  a  member  of  its 
executive  until  1875,  Bro.  Cowen  was  influential 
in  obtaining  the  warrant  for  the  first  Brit.  L. 
vmder  the  Cons,  of  the  G.L.  of  England  for 
Johannesburg,  and  was  elected  its  first  W.M. 
When  Mr.  Rhodes,  having  passed  the  Glen 
Grey  Act,  decide  to  visit  the  Trans-Keian 
tribes,  to  explain  to  them  the  merits  and  re- 
quirements of  it,  Mr.  Cowen  met  him  at  Butter- 
worth,  as  the  "  Cape  Times "  representative, 
and  accompanied  him  on  the  tour,  and  then 
stayed  behind  to  watch  the  practical  working  of 
the  new  measmre.  In  1892  he  was  associated 
with  the  Editorship  of  the  "  Cape  Mercury  "  for 
a  while.  In  1898  he  went  to  the  East  ;  later 
settled  in  Rome,  and  came  back  to  England  at 
the  close  of  1902.  He  is  an  Hon.  Life  Member 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  at  Port  Elizabeth  ; 
Hon.  Member  of  the  S.A.  Press  Association 
and  of  the  Imperial  S.A.  Association  ;  F.S.A., 
and  M.R.C.I. 

He  is  the  author  of  "  The  Life  of  William 
Schroder,  Artist,"  "  The  Zingari  Series  of  Our 
Public  Men,"  "  The  Wynberg  Times'  "  new  series, 
"  Men  of  Mark,"  "  The  Law  in  relation  to  the 
Farmer,"  "  Johannesbtu-g  the  Golden,"  and 
has  also  published  Eleven  Years'  Annual  Re- 
views of  the  Trade  and  Commerce  of  S.A. 
(for  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  at  Port 
Elizabeth)  and  of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope.  He 
married  :  first,  the  eldest  dau.  of  Wm.  Painton, 
brewer,  of  Oxford ;  and  second,  a  sister  of  the 
Right  Rev.  Jn.  Rooney,  D.D.,  of  St.  Mary's, 
Cape  Town. 

CREWE,  Col.  Charles  Preston,  C.B.  (1900), 
J.P.  for  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  of  Cambridge, 
East  London,  and  of  the  Civil  Service  Club, 
Cape  Town  ;  is  the  son  of  Capt.  Frederick  Crewe, 
17th  Madras  Infantry,  and  is  descended  from 
the  Crewes  of  Crewe,  Cheshire,  of  which  family 
he  is  one  of  the  few  male  representatives  re- 
maining. He  was  born  in  London  on  Jan.  11, 
1855,  and  was  educated  privately.  Col.  Crewe 
has  had  a  varied  political  and  military  career. 
He  went  to  S.A.  in  March,  1878,  and  joined  the 
Cape  Mounted  Riflemen,  serving  with  this 
regiment  through  the  Kafir  War,  receiving  for 
his  services  medal  and  clasp,  1878-79.  He  again 
saw  service  in  the  Basuto  War  of  1880-81,  re- 
ceiving medal  and  clasp.  In  1881  he  retired 
from  the  C.M.R.,  and  connnenced  farming.  In 
1898  he  stood  for  Aliwal  North  for  the  House  of 
Assembly  and  was  only  defeated  by  two  votes. 


In  May  of  the  following  year  he  was  returned  to 
the  Legislative  Assembly  for  East  Griqualand, 
and  devoted  himself  to  the  reorganization  of  the 
Progressive  party.  At  the  general  election  in 
Feb.  1904  he  succeeded  in  ousting  Mr.  J.  W. 
Sauer  froin  the  representation  of  Aliwal  North, 
and  on  the  resignation  of  Sir  Gordon  Sprigg's 
Ministry  immediately  after  the  elections  he 
joined  Dr.  Jameson's  Cabinet  as  Colonial  Sec. 
On  war  breaking  out  in  S.A.  he  raised  the 
Border  Horse  Regt.  (Feb.  1900),  and  served  first 
as  Major  commanding  and  was  promoted  Lieut.- 
Col.  in  May  1900,  and  full  Col.  in  May  1901.  He 
for  many  months  commanded  a  mobile  column 
of  Colonial  troops  in  the  O.R.C.,  and  later  on 
took  command  of  the  Western  Div.  of  the  Cape 
Colony  from  Nov.  1901  to  the  end  of  the  war. 
He  retired  from  the  C.C.F.  Dec.  31,  1902.  For 
his  eminent  services  Col.  Crewe  was  mentioned 
in  despatches,  received  the  C.B.,  and  the  medal 
with  clasps  for  Wepener,  Transvaal  and  Cape 
Colony.  He  married  Helen  Orpen,  dau.  of  J.  M. 
Orpen,  late  Sm-veyor-Gen.  of  S.  Rhodesia,  on 
July  11,  1887. 

CRISP,  Venerable  Wm.,  B.D.,  was  ordained 
at  Bloemfontein  in  1872,  and  was  Canon  there 
from  1885  to  1901,  being  made  Archdeacon  in 
1887.  In  1901  he  became  Priest-in-charge  of 
Muizenberg,  a  fashionable  resort  near  Cape 
Town,  and  Diocesan  Sec.  at  Cape  Town. 
In  the  following  year  he  was  appointed  a  Canon 
of  St.  George's  Cathedral,  Cape  Town. 

CROMER,  Earl  of,  and  Viscount  Erring- 
ton,  G.C.B.,  G.C.M.G.,  K.C.S.I.,  CLE.,  1st  Class 
Medjidieh  ;  of  Cairo,  and  of  the  Turf,  Brooks', 
Travellers',  St.  James',  and  Marlborough  Clubs, 
is  son  of  the  late  Henry  Baring,  M.P.,  and 
Cecilia  Windham.  He  was  born  at  Cromer  Hall, 
Norfolk,  Feb.  26,  1841,  and  was  educated  at 
the  Hethel  Hall,  Norfolk,  The  Ordinance  Sch., 
Carshalton,  and  at  Woolwich,  and  is  Hon, 
D.C.L.  of  Oxford.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
joined  the  Royal  Artillery,  retiring  with  the  rank 
of  Major  in  1879  for  the  pvirpose  of  taking  up 
his  duties  as  one  of  the  Controllers-General  ap- 
pointed in  Egypt  in  1879  by  England  and  France, 
when  Ismail  had  been  deposed  by  the  Sultan, 
and  his  son  Tewfik  had  succeeded  on  the  Khedi- 
vial  throne.  Previously  Mr.  Evelyn  Baring,  as 
he  then  was,  had  acquired  much  useful  experience 
to  fit  him  for  his  responsible  post.  He  had  acted 
as  Private  Sec.  to  his  cousin.  Lord  North- 
brook,  when  that  nobleman  was  Governor 
General  of  India,   and  during  this  period  had 


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35 


obtained  a  close  insight  into  the  practical  art  of 
government.  Wlaile  he  held  a  commissionership 
of  the  Public  Debt  in  Egypt,  he  was  enabled  to 
greatly  extend  his  financial  knowledge.  The 
powers  held  by  Mr.  Baring  and  his  fellow  con- 
troller, M.  de  Blignieres,  were  very  considerable. 
They  were  adinitted  to  the  Ministerial  Council  ; 
they  had  the  right  to  advise  in  all  matters  of 
finance,  and  they  were  authorized  to  appoint 
Resident  Inspectors.  The  svtccess  of  his  work  of 
that  period  in  Egypt  was  borne  witness  to  by 
Lord  Granville  in  the  House  of  Lords  in  1881, 
when  he  stated  that  the  system  "  had  un- 
doubtedly worked  admirably  for  the  finances  and 
administration  of  Egypt."  Towards  the  end 
of  1880  Sir  John  Strachey's  resignation  left 
vacant  the  post  of  Finance  Minister  of  India. 
Mr.  Baring  received  the  appointment  under  the 
Marquis  of  Ripon,  who  was  then  Viceroy,  and 
during  his  tenure  of  office  framed  and  carried 
three  successful  budgets.  In  1883  he  was  made 
a  K.C.S.I.,  and  became  and  has  since  remained 
Consul-General  and  Minister  Plenipotentiary  in 
Egypt.  Sir  Evelyn  Baring  had  not  been  many 
years  in  Egypt  before  the  memorable  financial 
crisis  occurred.  It  had  been  evident  for  some 
time  that  tho  finances  of  the  country  must  be 
again  taken  in  hand  by  the  Powers.  There  was 
the  question  of  meeting  the  heavy  liability  of 
the  Alexandrian  Indemnity,  as  well  as  the  debts 
due  to  the  rebellion  and  to  the  war  in  the  Sudan. 
The  question  also  as  to  the  distribution  of  the 
Revenue  between  the  Government  and  the  Bond- 
holders had  assumed  an  acute  phase.  The  law 
of  Liquidation  under  which  the  Public  creditor 
"  starved  the  Government  "  could  not  be  altered 
without  the  consent  of  the  Great  Powers.  To 
raise  a  new  loan  required  the  consent  not  only 
of  the  great  Powers,  but  of  Turkey.  As  an 
initial  step  towards  procming  these  consents  the 
British  Government  appointed  a  Committee,  of 
which  Sir  Evelyn  Baring  was  one,  to  examine 
and  report.  A  Conference  was  held  in  London 
for  the  purpose  of  discussing  the  schemes  put 
forward  by  this  Committee,  but  the  Conference 
broke  up  without  coming  to  any  agreement. 
After  many  negotiations  an  arrangement  was 
come  to  whereby  a  loan  of  £9,000,000  sterling 
was  agreed  to  be  issued.  In  connexion  with  this 
transaction  Sir  Evelyn  rendered  one  of  the 
most  valuable  of  his  many  important  services 
to  the  prosperity  of  Egypt.  £8,000,000  of  this 
new  loan  was  apphed  to  the  Liquidation  of  the 
Indemnities  and  to  wiping  out  the  deficits  of  the 
three  previous  years.  The  remaining  £1,000,000 
was  the  smu  of  money  which  enabled  the  Consul- 


General  to  work  such  a  marvellous  change  in 
the  economic  condition  of  the  country.  It  was 
life  and  death  to  Egypt  to  put  the  great  Central 
Works  upon  which  the  irrigation  of  the  country 
depended  into  proper  order.  This  extra  million 
provided  the  necessary  capital  to  save  the  irriga- 
tion system  and  with  it  the  finances  of  Egypt.  No 
sooner  was  the  financial  position  of  the  country 
dealt  with  than  Sir  Evelyn  Baring  entered  into 
his  long  struggle  for  reforms  ;  how  he  has  suc- 
ceeded the  present  state  of  prosperity  of  the 
country  is  sufficient  proof.  In  1892  Sir  Evelyn 
Baring  was  raised  to  the  peerage  under  the  title 
of  Lord  Cromer,  and  in  the  same  year  occurred 
the  untimely  death  of  Tewfik  Pasha  and  the 
descent  of  the  Khediviate  to  his  son.  It  was 
not  long  before  Lord  Cromer's  struggles  again 
commenced.  In  Jan.  of  the  following  year 
Abbas  declared  war,  so  to  speak,  with  the  British 
Government.  A  sharp  but  short  struggle  ensued, 
but  it  was  followed  by  the  complete  victory  of 
the  Consul-General.  Before  tliis  was,  however, 
accomplished.  Lord  Cromer  had  to  invite  His 
Highness  to  look  from  a  window  of  the  Abdin 
Palace  on  a  British  regiment  parading  on  the 
square  without.  Unquestionably  it  was  by  the 
Consul-General's  firmness  at  this  critical  juncture 
that  British  prestige  and  power  were  not  seriously 
tlu'eatened.  But  the  truce  was  of  short  dura- 
tion, for  in  January  of  1894,  the  Khedive  com- 
plained publicly  and  pointed  out  to  the  Sirdar, 
General  Kitchener,  the  inilitary  inefficiency  of  tlio 
force  \inder  hLs  command.  The  British  Consul- 
General  waited  on  the  Khedive  and  there  de- 
manded that  he  should  issue  a  general  order 
expressing  his  approval  of  the  discipline  and 
efficiency  of  the  army,  and  his  satisfaction  with 
the  officers  whose  authority  he  had  so  deliberately 
attempted  to  overthrow.  He  was  also  required 
to  remove  Maher  Pasha  from  his  post  at  the 
War  Office.  These  demands  were  complied 
with  and  from  it  may  be  dated  a  cessation  of 
the  struggle  of  the  Khedive  to  emancipate  him- 
self from  British  control.  Lord  Cromer  received 
his  K.C.B.  in  1887,  his  G.C.M.G.  in  1888,  and 
was  raised  to  the  peerage  as  Baron  in  1892,  as 
Viscount  in  1898,  and  Earl  in  1901.  He  married  : 
first,  in  1876,  Ethel  Stanley,  daughter  of  Sir 
Roland  Stanley  Errington,  I3art.  (died  Oct.  16, 
1898);  and  second,  Lady  Catherine  Thjmne, 
sister  of  the  present  Marquess  of  Bath. 

CRONJE,  PiETER  Aknoldus,  ex-Commandant 
of  the  Potchefstroom  District,  Transvaal,  of 
Palmietfontein,  Schoon  Spruit,  Klerksdorp, 
Transvaal.      During  the  War  of  Independence  h  e 


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commanded  the  Boer  forces  at  Potchefstroom. 
At  that  time  he  ordered  the  summary  execution 
of  several  British  subjects  who  were  suspected 
on  wholly  insufficient  grounds  of  being  spies  ; 
he  caused  prisoners  of  war  to  work  in  the  trenches 
where  they  were  shot  by  their  own  comrades, 
and  refused  to  allow  women  in  delicate  health 
to  leave  the  fort  to  obtain  medical  aid  and  food. 
When  the  general  armistice  was  declared  he 
treacherously  withheld  the  news  from  the 
besieged  garrison,  until,  in  order  to  save  the 
lives  of  the  wounded  and  the  women  and  child- 
ren, they  were  compelled  to  surrender. 

Many  years  later  (Jan.  1S96)  Comdt.  Cronje 
was  in  command  of  the  commando  which  beat 
Dr.  Jameson's  forces  at  Vlakfontein,  and  received 
his  surrender  on  condition  of  sparing  the  lives 
of  the  entire  force.  This  condition  when  known 
to  Comdt.  Malan  caused  the  greatest  anta- 
gonism, and  Cronje  was  accused  of  neglect  of 
duty  for  accepting  such  a  condition.  Seeing  that 
Comdt.  Cronje  stoutly  maintained  against  all 
opposition  that  the  condition  should  be  loyally 
recognized,  it  was  probably  strong  Government 
pressure  which  induced  him  later  on  to  stretch 
the  terms,  explaining  that  the  promise  to  spare 
the  Uves  was  only  to  hold  good  until  the  prisoners 
were  handed  over  to  the  Comdt. -General. 
He  succeeded  Gen.  Joubert  as  Superintendent 
of  Natives,  and  was  given  a  seat  on  the  Execu- 
tive. Comdt.  Cronje  was  married,  and  no  less 
than  thirty-three  of  his  descendants  were  either 
killed  or  died  of  disease  in  the  field  or  concentra- 
tion camps  during  tha  last  S.A.  War.  Mrs. 
Cronje  herself  died  of  paralysis  at  the  age  of 
64  at  the  latter  end  of  1903. 

CRONWRIGHT-SCHREINER,  Mrs.  Olive, 
of  Hanover,  Cape  Colony,  is  the  dau.  of  a  German 
Missionary  of  the  L.M.S.,  and  has  WTitten  a 
number  of  interesting  stories  of  South  African 
life,  besides  frequently  using  her  pen  in  further- 
ance of  her  political  sympathies  which  are 
decidedly  pro-Boer.  She  married  in  1894,  Mr. 
S.  C.  CronwTight,  who  thereupon  adopted  the 
surname  of  Cronwright-Schreiner  (q.v.). 

CRONWRIGHT-SCHREINER,  Samuel  C, 
M.L.A.,  of  Hanover,  Cape  Colony,  is  son  of  the 
late  S.  C.  Cronwright,  who  for  many  years 
represented  Grahamstown  in  the  Cape  Legis- 
lature. Mr.  Cronwright-Schreiner  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Afrikander  Bond,  and  came  over  to 
England  during  the  late  S.A.  War  to  lec- 
ture and  represent  the  views  of  the  pro-Boers. 
His  tour  was  a  complete  failure,  however,  as  no 


British  audience  would  give  hinti  a  hearing.  In 
Dec.  1902  he  defeated  the  Progressive  candidate, 
Mr.  Macfarlane,  at  Colesberg,  and  at  the 
general  election  in  Feb.  1904  he  was  elected  for 
Beaufort  West. 

He  published  in  1895,  "  The  Political  Situa- 
tion," jointly  with  his  wife,  Olive  Schreiner 
(q.v.)  whose  surname  he  added  to  his  own  on  the 
occasion  of  his  marriage  in  1894. 

CROOKSHANK,  Dr.  Harry  Matjle,  Pasha, 
F.R.C.S.  (Edin.),  F.R.G.S.,  Grand  Cordon  of  the 
Order  of  the  Medjidieh,  Order  of  the  Osmanieh 
(2nd  class),  Knt.  of  Grace,  Order  of  St.  John  of 
Jerusalem  ;  of  Cairo  ;  of  the  Junior  Carlton 
(Lond. )  and  the  Turf  and  Khedivial  Sporting 
(Cairo)  Clubs,  was  born  in  Cuddalore,  India,  in 
1 849.  He  is  3rd  son  of  the  late  Capt.  C.  Crook- 
shank,  51st  Regt.,  and  grandson  of  Col.  A. 
Crookshank,  K.H.  33rd  Regt.  Dr.  Crook- 
shank  was  educated  at  Boulogne-s.-M.  and  at 
Cheltenham.  He  served  as  surgeon  to  the 
British  Red  Cross  Soc.  during  the  Franco-Ger- 
man (1870-71),  Turko-Servian  (1876),  Turko- 
Russian  (1877)  and  Sudan  (1885)  wars  ;  was 
Inspector-Gen.  of  Egyptian  Prisons  Administra- 
tion from  1883  to  1897  ;  British  Controller-Gen. 
of  the  Daira  Sanieh  Administration  from  1897  ; 
and  is  Director  of  the  Daira  Sanieh  Co.  and  of  the 
Standard  Life  Insurance  Co.  He  married,  in 
1891,  Emma  Walraven,  onlv  dau.  of  Major  S. 
Comfort,  of  New  York,  U.S.A. 

CROSBIE,  R.,  was  senior  member  of  the  Cape 
Legislative  Assembly  for  the  Pro\ance  of  Albany 
until  1903. 

CROSBIE,  W.,  M.L.A.,  represents  the  elec- 
toral division  of  Vryburg  in  the  Progressive 
interest  in  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly.  He 
was  returned  vmopposed  at  the  election  in  1904. 

CROSSE,  Rev.  A.  J.  W.,  formerly  vicar  of 
Rye,  Sussex,  was  given  the  living  of  St.  Cyprian's, 
Durban,  in  1902,  rendered  vacant  through  the 
resignation  of  Canon  Johnson. 

CUNNINGTON,  William  Alfred,  Ph.D. 
(Jena),  of  13,  The  Chase,  Clapham  Common, 
Surrey,  and  of  Christ's  Coll.,  Camb.,  was  born 
Aug.  31,  1877  ;  was  educated  at  Mill  Hill  Sch., 
the  Royal  Coll.  of  Science,  Lond.,  Jena,  and  Cam- 
bridge. He  was  appointed  Demonstrator  of 
Zoology  at  the  Royal  Coll.  of  Science.  Diiblin, 
in  1899;  took  his"^Ph.D.  degree  in  1902;  was 
Research  Student  at  Christ's  Coll.  Camb.,  1902, 


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and  left  in  charge  of  a  scientific  expedition  to 
Tanganyika  in  1904.     Unmarried. 

CURREY,  H.  L.,  M.L.A.  An  advocate  by 
profession,  he  was  retiorned  unopposed  to 
represent  George  (C.C.)  in  the  Legislative 
Assembly  in  the  Bond  interest  in  Nov.  1902,  and 
was  re-elected  at  the  general  election  in  Feb. 
1904. 

CURRIE,  James,  B.A.,  of  Khartoum,  and  of 
the  Turf  Club,  Cairo,  was  born  at  Edinburgh  in 
1868  ;  was  educated  at  Fettes  Coll.  Edin.,  and 
graduated  at  Lincoln  Coll.,  Oxon.  He  was 
appointed  Director  of  Education  under  the 
Sudan  Govt.,  and  Principal  of  the  Gordon  Coll., 
Khartoum,  in  1900.     Umnarried. 

DALGETY-CAMPBELL,  Daloety  Gordon, 
Hon.  Lieut.  N.S.W.  Forces,  of  the  Barberton 
Dist.  Club,  was  born  at  Sydney,  N.S.  Wales, 
Oct.  21,  1877.  He  comes  from  an  old  Argyll  and 
Aberdeenshire  family,  and  is  a  covisin  of  Lady 
Trafalgar,  who  married  the  eldest  son  of  the 
3rd  Earl  Nelson  in  1879.  He  is  also  cousin  of 
Col.  Dalgety  of  Wepener  fame.  Mr.  Dalgety- 
Campbell  was  educated  at  Oxley  Coll.  and 
Hawksbury  Agricultural  Col.,  N.S.  Wales,  and 
has  had  a  varied  career  in  Aiistralia,  China, 
Africa  and  other  parts  of  the  globe.  In  early 
life  he  was  for  a  short  period  in  the  Navy ;  he 
spent  a  short  time  with  an  exploring  party  in 
China,  later  on  he  was  bookkeeper  in  a  store  in 
Parkes,  N.S.W.,  and  eventually  went  into  the 
backblocks  of  Australia  as  a  schoolmaster.  A 
year  later  saw  him  as  one  of  the  best  kno-wn 
cross-country  and  steeplechase  riders  in  the 
colony,  at  which  he  earned  his  living  ;  he,  how- 
ever, abandoned  this  means  of  livelihood  and 
after  engaging  as  a  professional  cycle  rider, 
milkman,  drover,  fencer  and  miner  he  drifted 
into  jom-nalism.  He  was  for  some  time  editor 
of  the  Wyalong  "  Advocate,"  published  in  a 
small  township  in  N.S.  Wales.  When  the  Boer 
war  broke  out  he  went  to  Sydney,  joined  the 
N.S.  Wales  M.I.,  and  came  to  Africa  as  a  trooper. 
He  was  severely  wounded  at  Vet  River,  May  1, 
1900.  When  Pretoria  fell,  he  raced  with  Bennet 
Burleigh,  the  war  correspondent,  to  see  who 
would  be  first  man  to  enter  the  capital.  He 
reached  the  Artillery  Barracks  first,  took  pos- 
session, and  vvhen  some  hours  later  the  troops 
entered  IMr.  Campbell  handed  the  barracks  over 
to  Major  Marker,  D.S.O.,  of  the  Coldstream 
Guards,  A.D.C.  to  Lord  Ivitchener.  Among 
the  prisoners  in  the  barracks  at  the  time  were  the 


famous  Lt.  Mike  Du  Toit,  Major  Erasmus,  and 
Lt.  Cordua,  who  was  subsequently  executed  for 
being  impUcated  in  the  attempt  to  kidnap  Lord 
Roberts.  At  the  hour  of  Mr.  Campbell's  entry 
there  were  about  4,000  Boers  in  the  town,  guns, 
etc.  At  Diamond  Hill,  June  13,  he  was  again 
severely  woiuided  and  invahded  to  Australia, 
Six  months  later  he  was  again  in  S.A.,  in 
command  of  a  squadron  of  Mounted  Rifles,  re- 
taining the  command  until  peace  was  declared ; 
after  which  he  resigned  his  commission  and  was 
appointed  as  Special  Travelling  Correspondent 
to  the  "  Leader."  His  articles  ran  in  the 
"  Leader  "  for  weeks,  and  were  noted  for  their 
fine  descriptive  power.  Subsequently  Capt. 
Campbell  was  appointed  to  the  Central  Re- 
patriation Commission  sitting  in  Johannesburg ; 
he  resigned  this  position  and  took  over  the  editor- 
ship of  the  "  Gold  Fields  News,"  Barberton. 
From  here  he  went  to  England  on  journalistic 
work,  retxirned  to  the  Transvaal  and  is  now 
editing  the  "  Transvaal  Advertiser."  Mr. 
Campbell  has  come  prominently  before  Lord 
Milner  and  Sir  Arthur  Lawley. 

DALRYMPLE,  Capt.  Hon.  John  James,  J.P., 
of  the  Guards'  (London)  and  New  (Edin.)  Clubs, 
only  son  of  Viscount  Dalrymple,  and  grandson 
of  the  Earl  of  Stair,  was  born  in  London,  Feb.  1, 
1879.  He  was  educated  at  Harrow  and  Sand- 
hiu-st,  passing  into  the  Scots  Guards,  Feb.  1898  ; 
Lieut.,  Oct.  1899  ;  Capt.,  June  1903.  He 
served  in  S.A.  with  the  1st  Battn.  Scots  Guards 
from  Jan.  1900,  to  July  1902  (Queen's  medal,  5 
clasps  ;  King's  medal,  2  clasps).  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  King's  Bodyguard,  Scottish  Archers 
(1903),  and  J.  P.  for  Wigtonshire.  His  recrea- 
tions are  shooting  and  fishing. 

DAVEL,  F.  R.,  M.L.A.  A  member  of  the 
Afrikander  Bond,  sitting  in  the  Cape  Legislative 
Assembly  as  the  representative  of  Graaft'-Reinet. 

DAVEY,  Thomas  Garby,  F.G.S.,  M.I.M.M., 
M.A.I.M.E.,  was  born  in  Spain  ;  he  was  educated 
in  England  and  verj'  soon  turned  his  attention 
to  the  study  of  minuig,  following  up  liis  theo- 
retical knowledge  with  a  practical  experience 
commencing  in  the  silver  and  other  mines  of 
Spain  and  Australia.  In  the  United  States  he 
has  been  retained  to  report  upon  the  gold  and 
copper  of  Arizona  and  elsewhere,  and  has  lately 
been  appointed  Consulting  Engineer  to  the 
Northerii  Copper  (B.S.A.)  Co.,  Ltd.,  and  the 
Rhodesian  Copper  Co.,  Ltd.  In  addition  to  his 
professional  work  on  behalf  of  iiidividuals  he  has 


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found  leisure  at  different  times  to  act  as  lecturer 
on  mining  to  the  Technical  College  at  Sydney 
(N.S.W.)»  where  he  was  the  founder  and  a 
director  of  a  School  of  Mines,  and  in  1895  was 
appointed  Examiner  in  Metallurgy  of  the  various 
Schools  of  Mines  in  the  State  of  Victoria.  He 
acted  as  a  Shire  Councillor  for  the  Bright  district 
of  that  colony  for  seven  years,  during  which  time 
he  was  once  President  of  the  Council,  and  was 
Justice  of  the  Peace  from  1895  until  the  ter- 
mination of  his  residence  in  Victoria. 

DAVIDSON,  Walter  Edward,  M.L.C, 
C.M.G.,  Palmes  Academiques  (en  Or.)  ;  of  Pre- 
toria ;  of  62,  Brook  Street,  W.,  and  of  the  Sports 
dub,  was  born  at  Valetta,  Malta,  in  1859.  He 
was  educated  at  Christ's  Coll.,  Camb.  (Scholar), 
and  entered  the  Civil  Service  in  1880  ;  has  filled 
the  posts  of  Magistrate,  Judge  and  Commissioner, 
besides  which  he  has  been  Secy,  of  the  Ceylon 
Section  of  the  Colonial  and  Indian  Exhibition 
(1886)  ;  Mayor  of  Colombo,  Ceylon,  1896-97  ; 
representative  of  the  Govt,  of  Ceylon  at  the 
Exposition  Universelle,  Paris  (1900),  for  his 
services  in  connection  with  which  he  was  made 
Officer  d'Instruction  Publique  (France)  ;  and 
special  officer  to  deal  with  Waste  Lands,  Ceylon, 
1901.  He  has  also  written  two  books  on  the 
resources  of  Ceylon,  1886  and  1900.  He  was 
Colonial  Secy,  of  the  Transvaal  from  1902  to 
1903,  and  is  a  member  of  its  Legislative  and 
Executive  Councils.  Mr.  Davidson  was  married 
in  1882  ;  is  a  widower,  and  has  one  son  at  Balliol 
Coll.,  Oxon. 

DAVIES  W.  D.,  of  Johannesburg.  "Karri" 
Davies  (as  he  is  generally  called)  was  one  of  the 
two  Reform  prisoners  who,  when  the  question  of 
petitioning  for  soiTie  mitigation  of  their  sentences 
was  raised,  consistently  refused  to  sacrifice  their 
self  respect  by  making  such  a  supplication  to 
the  Govt,  which  had  treated  them  in  what  they 
deemed  to  be  a  dishonest  and  treacherous 
manner.  Those  only  who  can  comprehend  the 
terribly  insanitary  condition  of  a  Boer  gaol, 
where  blacks  and  whites  were  huddled  together 
as  ordinary  felons,  fed  on  the  worst  of  fare  and 
continually  subject  to  the  harsh  treatment  of 
the  gaolers,  can  appreciate  fully  such  a  sacrifice 
to  principle  when  a  word  would  have  effected  their 
release.      He  took  part  in  the  recent  S.A.  War. 

DAVIES,  William  Thomas  Frederick,  B.S., 
M.D.  (Lend.),  M.R.C.S.  (Eng.),  D.S.O.,  of 
Johannesbvira,  was  born  at  Swansea,  Aug.  13, 
1860.     He  is  son  of  Dr.  E.  Davies,  Medical  Officer 


of  Health,  Swansea,  and  grandson  of  P.  F. 
Bluett,  of  Holcombe  Court,  Holcombe  Regis  ; 
was  educated  privately  and  at  Guy's  Hospital. 
He  went  to  S.A.  to  practise  in  1889  ;  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Reform  Committee  in  1896,  for  which 
he  underwent  trial  and  imprisonment.  In  the 
late  S.A.  War  he  served  as  Surgeon-Major  in  the 
I.L.H.,  being  present  at  Elandslaagte  and  the 
siege  of  Ladysmith  ;  was  afterwards  in  medical 
charge  of  Col.  Mahon's  relief  column  to  Mafeking, 
and  was  invalided  home  in  Aug.,  1900. 

DAVIS,  Alexander,  of  73,  Brondesbury  Rd., 
London,  N.W.,  and  16,  Devonshire  Square,  E.C., 
was  born  in  London  ;  was  educated  privately 
and  studied  in  Germany.  He  has  spent  the  best 
part  of  his  life  in  S.A.,  in  commerce,  travel, 
prospecting  and  joiu-nalism.  He  was  one  of  the 
early  hands  at  the  Lydenburg  Goldfields,  settling 
afterwards  in  Swaziland  imder  King  Umbandine, 
trading  and  hunting  the  eastern  littoral.  After 
prospecting  in  Barberton  he  settled  on  the  Rand 
and  eventually  followed  the  stream  northwards 
to  Bulawayo,  where  he  was  in  laager  during  the 
siege  (1896).  There  he  established  the  "Bula- 
wayo Sketch,"  which  he  edited  and  illustrated, 
and  ran  it  for  some  years  until  he  thought  the 
time  was  ripe  for  Rhodesia  to  be  represented  by 
a  journal  in  London,  hence  the  weekly  "  Rho- 
desia," which,  however,  he  closed  down  in  1902, 
when  invited  to  assume  the  editor.ship  of  the 
"  African  Review."  Mr.  Davis  is  a  keen 
disciple  of  Cecil  Rhodes,  a  devotee  of  art,  an 
amateur  sculptor,  and  a  student  of  pliilosophy 
and  ethics.  He  is  the  author  of  "  The  Native 
Problem,"  "  Umbandine,  a  Romance  of  Swazi- 
land," and  a  contributor  of  articles  and  reviews 
to  current  literature.  He  married,  at  Durban, 
Arabelle,  dau.  of  the  late  Edwin  Selig,  of  Man- 
chester. 

DAWKINS,  Sir  Clinton  Edward,  K.C.B.,  1st 
class  Medjidieh,  of  38,  Queen  Anne's  Gate,  S.W., 
Polesden  Lacey,  Dorking,  and  of  the  Athenaeum, 
Brooks',  the  City,  and  Cosmopolitan  Clubs, 
is  the  son  of  Clinton  G.  C.  Dawkins,  of  the 
Foreign  Office.  He  was  born  1859,  in  London, 
and  was  educated  at  Cheltenham  Coll.,  and 
Balliol  Coll.,  Oxford,  where  he  graduated 
M.A.,  taking  honours  in  Moderations  and  Greats. 
Sir  Clinton  acted  as  Private  Secy,  to  Lord  Cross 
of  the  India  Office  in  1886,  and  Private  Sec.  to 
Mr.  Goschen,  when  Chancellor  of  the  Ex- 
chequer, in  1889.  He  was  a  representative  of 
the  Peruvian  Corporation  in  S.  America,  1891  ; 
was  Under-Secy.  for  Finance  in  Egypt,  1895,  and 


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39 


Financial  Member  of  the  Council  of  the  Gover- 
nor-General of  India,  1899.  He  became  a 
partner  in  Messrs.  J.  S.  Morgan  &  Co.  in  1900, 
and  was  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  War 
Office  Re-organization,  1901.  Lord  Milner's 
famous  "  England  in  Egypt  "  contains  an  appen- 
dix from  Sir  Clinton's  pen.  His  recreations  are 
fencing,  huntmg,  shooting,  etc.  He  married  in 
1888,  Louise  Johnston. 

DE  BEER,  M.  J.,  M.L.A.,  represents  Picquet- 
berg  in  the  Bond  interest  in  the  Cape  House  of 
Assembly.     He  was  elected  in  Feb.  1904. 

DE  KOCK,  J.  W.,  M.L.A.,  represents  Mafe- 
king  in  the  Progressive  interest  in  the  Cape 
Legislative  Assembly,  to  which  he  was  elected  in 
1904. 

DE  LA  REY,  Ex-Gen.  Jacobus  Hendrick, 
represented  the  Lichtenburg  Dist.  of  the  Trans- 
vaal in  the  First  Raad  for  three  years  and  was 
regarded  as  moderate  in  politics,  with  a  predi- 
lection for  progress.  He  served  right  through 
the  Boer  War,  and  if  not  the  most  brilliant,  from 
a  military  point  of  view,  of  the  Boer  generals,  he 
followed  close  on  the  reputation  of  Commandant 
Louis  Botha.  He  was  responsible  for  Lord 
Methuen's  unfortunate  defeat  at  Tweebosch 
early  in  INIarch,  1902 — practically  the  last  affair 
of  importance  in  the  S.A.  War,  and  took 
an  important  part  in  the  peace  negotiations,  and 
subsequent  efforts  to  alter  the  conditions  of  peace. 
His  wife  is  about  to  publish  a  book  entitled  "  My 
Rambles  and  Experiences  during  the  War." 
He  was  first  Pros,  of  the  Western  Transvaal 
Farmers'  Association,  the  policy  of  which  is  to 
co-operate  cordially  with  the  new  Govermnent. 

DE  MEIRELLES,  Viscount,  Francisco  de 
Menezes  Meibelles  Do  Canto  e  Castro, 
K.C.M.G.  (Nov.  9,  1902),  Knight  Commander  of 
the  Order  of  Om*  Lady  of  Conception,  of  Villa 
Vi90sa,  and  Officer  of  the  Order  of  Santiago  for 
Literary  and  Scientific  Merit  ;  of  Guinta  de  San 
Matheris,  Dafmido,  Portugal,  and  Potsdamer- 
strasse,  Berlin,  is  the  son  of  Senhor  Andre 
Meirelles  do  Tavora  do  Canto  e  Castro, 
Knight  Commander  of  the  Order  of  Christ,  and 
Dona  Anna  de  Menezes  de  Lemos  e  Carvalho. 
The  Meirelles  are  an  old  Portuguese  family  of 
Northern  Portugal,  a  branch  of  which  settled  at 
Terceira  (Azores)  in  the  fifteenth  century.  The 
male  members  have  the  hereditary  rank  of  Knight 
of  the  Royal  Household  (Fidalgo  Cavalleiro  da 
Caza   Real).     The   present   Viscount   was   born 


Nov.  21,  1850,  at  Angra  do  Heroismo,  Terceira 
Island,  Azores.  He  was  Director  of  the  Cvistoms, 
Mozambique,  1875-79,  idem  at  Goa  (Portuguese 
India),  1879-81  ;  Consul  and  afterwards  Consul- 
General  in  British  India,  1883-91,  and  Governor 
of  Manica  e  Sofala  (Mozambique),  1894-95,  1897 
and  1899-1901.  The  Viscount  de  Meirelles  is 
best  known  as  the  Portuguese  Governor,  who, 
at  Beira  (chief  town  of  the  Manica  and  Sofala 
Territories)  in  1900  welcomed  so  warmly  the 
Colonial  Troops  (Canadian  and  Australian  Con- 
tingents) which  landed  there  on  their  way  to 
Rhodesia.  He  was  one  of  the  first  among  his 
countrymen  to  perceive  that  the  future  relations 
of  Portugal  and  Great  Britain  largely  depended 
upon  the  way  the  British  troops  were  received 
at  that  delicate  juncture.  His  speeches  (especi- 
ally the  one  he  made  at  the  dinner  he  offered 
to  Gen.  Sir  Frederick  Carrington)  were  then 
much  commended  in  tlae  Portuguese  Press,  and 
also  in  the  English  papers  all  over  the  world, 
including  the  "Times."  Shortly  afterwards  the 
Lisbon  Govt,  did  not  approve  of  some  local 
measirre  promulgated  at  Beira  by  Governor 
Meirelles,  and  he  was  dismissed  in  May,  1901. 
In  the  Order  to  the  British  Army  issued  by  Lord 
Roberts  at  the  end  of  that  year  the  Portuguese 
Governor  was  referred  to  as  one  of  the  few 
foreigners  who  were  deserving  of  honourable 
mention  for  his  attitude  during  the  war.  Later 
on  (May,  1902)  Counsellor  Meirelles  was  created 
a  Portuguese  Viscount,  and  in  the  following  Nov., 
on  the  birthday  of  H.M.  King  Edward  VII,  he 
was  made  a  K.C.M.G.  At  present  he  is  an 
Attache  for  Commercial  Affairs  to  the  Portu- 
guese Legation  in  Berlin.  Viscount  Meirelles 
is  a  Counsellor  to  H.M.  tlie  King  of  Portugal. 
He  married,  April  9,  1875,  Dona  Maria-Carlota 
da  Costa  Freitas. 

DE  MOLEYNS,  Lieut.-Col.  Hon.  Frederick 
RossMORE  Wauchope  Evebleigh,D.S.O.  (1897), 
of  Salisbury,  Mashonaland,  was  born  Dec.  11, 
1861  ;  is  the  eldest  son  and  heir  of  the  4th  Lord 
Ventry.  He  was  educated  at  Harrow,  and 
entered  the  4th  Hussars  in  1883.  In  1889  he 
was  A.D.C.  to  Lord  Hopetoun,  when  he  was 
seconded  from  his  regt.  He  rejoined  in  1890, 
acting  as  Adjt.  from  1893  to  1896.  In  May  of 
that  year  he  obtained  leave  to  proceed  to  S.A., 
and  was  employed  on  Sir  Fred.  Carrington' s 
Staff,  serving  through  most  of  the  campaign  in 
Matabeleland,  and  afterwards  in  Mashonaland 
(mentioned  in  despatches,  and  D.S.O.),  where  he 
was  appointed  Commissioner  of  Police.  He 
retired  from  the  service  in  1901. 


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DEMPERS,  Hon.  H.  J.,  M.L.C.,  was  menaber 
of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for  the  pro- 
vince of  Caledon  until  the  general  election  of 
Feb.  1904,  when  he  was  returned  to  the  Legis- 
lative Council  as  representative  of  the  South- 
western Circle.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Bond. 

DENNY,  George  Alfred  ;  mem.  of  the 
Australian,  American  and  North  of  Eng.  In- 
stitutes of  Mining  Engineers ;  of  Yeoville, 
Johannesburg,  and  of  the  Rand  Club,  was  born 
at  Bathurst,  New  South  Wales,  Feb.  28,  1868. 
He  was  educated  at  various  institutions  in  New 
South  Wales,  and  attended  science  lectures  at 
Ballarat  Sch.  of  Mines.  He  acted  as  Asst.  En- 
gineer to  various  mining  cos.  in  Australia, 
1888-90  ;  was  Inspecting  Engineer  in  America 
and  Europe  for  London  groups,  1891-92  ;  was 
engaged  on  construction  work,  1892-95  ;  was 
Consulting  Engineer  to  the  Klerksdorp  Prop. 
Mines  from  1895  to  1897,  since  when  he  has 
acted  in  a  similar  capacity  to  the  General  Mining 
&  Finance  Corporation,  Ltd.  Mr.  Denny  is  the 
originator  of  new  metalliu-gical  processes  prin- 
cipally relating  to  the  continuous  and  automatic 
treatment  of  gold  ore  slimes  ;  is  the  author  of 
"  Klerksdorp  Goldfields,"  "  Diamond  Drilling," 
"  Deep  Level  Mines  of  the  Rand,"  and  frequently 
contributes  to  Scientific  Societies  on  technical 
subjects.  He  married.  Mar.  5,  1903,  Winifred, 
dau.  of  Fred.  Bennett,  J. P.,  of  Durban. 

DENTON,  Sib  George  Ch.ajrdin,  K.C.M.G., 
C.M.G.,  of  Government  House,  Gombia  ;  Hill- 
top, Oxford  ;  and  of  the  Naval  and  Military, 
Wyndham,  and  Grosvenor  Clubs,  is  the  only 
siu-viving  son  of  the  late  Rev.  Robert  A.  Denton, 
rector  of  Stower  Provost,  Dorset,  where  he  was 
born  on  Jvme  22,  1851.  He  was  educated  at 
Rugby,  and  by  private  tutors.  He  entered  the 
Army  (57th  Regt.)  18G9,  became  Lieut.  1871, 
Captain  in  1878,  and  retu'ed  in  1878.  Joining 
the  Civil  Service,  he  was  Chief  of  Police  at  St. 
Vincent  in  1880,  and  Col.  Secy,  at  Lagos,  1888. 
He  administered  the  Governments  of  St.  Vincent 
and  Lagos  on  various  occasions  for  long  periods 
between  1885  and  1900,  when  he  was  appointed 
Administrator  of  the  Gambia.  He  married,  in 
1879,  Jean  Margaret  Alan,  dau.  of  the  late  Alan 
Stevenson,  C.E.,  F.R.S. 

DE  SMIDT,  Hon.  A.  G.,  M.L.C.  is  a  member 
of  the  Cape  Legislative  Council  for  the  South- 
West  Circle,  and  was  last  re-elected  to  the  Upper 
House  in  Feb.  1904.  He  holds  his  seat  in  the 
Progressive  interest. 


DE  VILLIERS,  Johan  Zulch,  of  Standerton, 
Transvaal,  was  born  at  the  Paarl,  C.C,  July  12, 
1845,  and  is  of  Huguenot  descent.  He  was 
educated  at  the  Paarl  Gymnasium  and  privately 
by  Dr.  Rose  Innes  at  Cape  Town.  After 
leaving  school  he  was  appointed  Secy,  to  the 
Paarl  Wine  &  Brandy  Co.,  but  on  the  Basuto 
War  breaking  out  he  joined  the  Free  State  forces, 
and  after  fifteen  months'  fighting  settled  in  a 
mercantile  house  at  Fauresmith,  shortly  after- 
wards (May,  1868)  entering  the  Civil  Service  as 
Public  Prosecutor  at  Boshof,  O.F.S.  He  then 
became  private  secy,  to  the  late  President,  Sir 
John  Brand  ;  then  first  clerk  to  the  Govt.  Secy., 
and  successively  Secy,  to  the  Volksraad,  Regis- 
trar of  the  High  Coiirt,  Landdrost  of  Boshof 
(1871),  Landdrost  of  Harrismith  (1875),  which  he 
relinquished  (1881)  at  the  request  of  the  trium- 
virate composed  of  Kriiger,  Joubert  and  Pre- 
torius  to  become  Landdrost  of  Pretoria,  during 
which  time  he  also  acted  for  six  months  as 
Attorney-General.  From  July,  1890,  to  July, 
1895,  he  was  Govt.  Secy.,  Treasurer 
and  Landdrost  for  Swaziland  vmder  the  dual 
Govt.  He  was  later  appointed  Special  Land- 
drost of  the  Pilgrim's  Rest  Gold  Fields,  and 
Biu-gomaster  of  Johannesbm"g,  Oct.  1897,  which 
post  he  held  imitil  the  British  occupation. 

Mr.  de  Villiers  passed  under  the  old  law  of 
the  Free  State  as  an  Attorney,  which  gave  hiiTi 
the  right  to  practise  as  an  advocate  of  the  High 
Court.  He  is  a  Masonic  Knight  of  the  R.  Cross. 
He  married,  Nov.  1,  1870,  Susanna  Margaretha 
de  VilHers,  first  cousin  to  Sir  Henry  de 
Villiers,  Cliief  jListice  of  the  Cape  of  Good 
Hope. 

DE  VILLIERS,  Melius,  B.A.,  LL.B.,  of 
WjTiberg,  C.C,  is  the  son  of  the  late  C.  C.  de 
Villiers  of  Paarl,  C.C.  He  was  born  at  Paarl, 
Sept.  5,  1849,  and  educated  at  the  Paarl 
Gymnasium  and  the  S.A.  Coll.,  Cape  Town, 
gradviating  B.A.  and  LL.B.  at  the  Cape  Univ. 
He  was  appointed  Second  then  First  Puisne 
Judge  and  subsequently  Chief  Justice  of  the 
High  Court  of  the  O.F.S.  But  it  is  as  an 
Arbitrator  in  several  disputes  between  the 
British  and  Transvaal  Govts,  that  he  is  prin- 
cipally known.  In  1885  he  was  the  Arbitra- 
tor between  the  two  Governments  regarding  the 
Western  Boundary  of  the  Transvaal,  and  sub- 
sequently he  was  an  Arbitrator  between  the 
same  Govts,  as  to  a  question  arising  under  the 
London  Convention  with  regard  to  the  position 
of  H.B.M.  Indian  subjects  in  the  Transvaal. 
He  is  the  author  of  "  The  Roman  and  Roman- 


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41 


Dutch  Law  of  Injuries  "  (1899).  He  married 
Miss  A.  Holmes-Orr,  dau.  of  the  Rev.  W. 
Hohnes-Orr,  of  West  Lysford  Rectory,  Somer- 
set, England, 

DE  WAAL,  David  C,  M.L.A.,  of  Cape  Town, 
was  born  at  Modder,  Stellenbosch,  C.  C, 
and  comes  of  an  old  colonial  stock,  his  father 
and  grandfather  having  fought  against  the 
Britisli  at  Blaauwberg.  He  followed  first  the 
calling  of  farmer,  and  then  became  an  iron- 
monger and  merchant  at  Cape  Town,  which  he 
formerly  represented  on  the  Town  Council.  He 
was  Mayor  of  Cape  Town  in  1889-90,  when  he 
marked  his  year  of  office  by  planting  an  avenue 
of  trees  in  the  street  which  bears  his  name.  He 
has  for  a  long  time  represented  Picquetberg  in 
the  House  of  Assembly  ;  is  a  Protectionist ;  a 
member  of  the  Bond  ;  generally  accompanied 
Mr.  Rhodes  on  his  joiurneys  in  the  Cape,  and 
remained  his  faithful  cliampion  dm'ing  the 
troubles  following  on  the  Raid.  He  also  warmly 
supported  Lord  Milner  in  the  Hoiise,  energetic- 
ally protesting  against  the  eimiity  to  the  British 
being  encouraged  and  kept  alive  in  the  Cape 
Parliament  (Sept.  1902).  Mr.  de  Waal  has 
travelled  extensively  in  Europe  as  well  as  in 
S.A.  He  was  not  re-elected  at  the  general 
elections  in  1904. 

DE  WAAL,  Nicholas  Frederick,  M.L.A.,  is 
member  of  the  Cape  Legisative  Assembly  for 
the  province  of  Colesberg,  for  wliich  constituency 
he  was  last  elected  in  Feb.  1904.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Bond. 

DE  WET,  Christia>t  Rudolf,  of  the  O.R.C., 
farmer.  Ex-Gen.  De  Wet  fought  right 
through  the  S.A.  War,  1899-1902.  Al- 
though a  man  of  considerable  local  influence, 
he  entered  the  Heilbron  Commando  as  an 
ordinary  burgher,  but  was  elected  Vice-Comdt. 
on  the  day  the  ultimatum  expired.  The 
sliill  and  boldness  he  displayed  at  Nicholson's 
Nek  attracted  Pres.  Steyn's  attention,  and  at 
Magersfontein  he  found  himself  in  command 
of  the  O.F.S.  contingent  with  Gen.  Cronje, 
whose  second  in  command  he  was.  His 
capture  of  our  convoy  at  Waterval  and  his 
gallant  attempt  to  relieve  Cronje  at  Paarde- 
berg  were  the  prelude  to  his  appointment  as 
Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Free  State  forces. 
Meanwliile  the  British  successes  of  that  time 
so  demoralized  the  burghers  that  the  general 
had  to  allow  them  a  respite  from  military 
service.     However,    his    accidental    sucess    at 


Sauna's  Post,  and  his  capture  at  Reddersburg, 
gave  fresh  courage  and  brought  new  recruits  to 
his  side.  Many  vicissitudes  followed,  and  Gen. 
De  Wet  began  to  give  evidence  of  his  extra- 
ordinary resoiu'ces  in  evading  the  British  forces 
and  getting  out  of  tight  places.  At  the  same 
time  he  deputed  men  of  energy  to  rally  those 
burghers  who  had  already  surrendered  and  taken 
the  oath  of  neutrality,  with  great  results.  Once 
decided  that  the  condition  of  the  country  would 
not  permit  of  operations  on  a  large  scale,  he 
split  up  his  forces  into  small  commandos  and 
adopted  the  guerilla  style,  and  his  record  now 
was  mainly  liarassing  and  riuining  away,  but 
so  excellent  were  his  mobility,  field  intelligence 
and  dash  when  occasion  prompted,  that  he  still 
gave  the  greatest  trouble  and  every  now  and 
then  effected  a  coup,  such  as  the  capture  of 
Col.  Firman's  camp  at  Tweefontein,  soon  after 
which  the  proclamation  of  peace  reheved  us 
of  one  of  the  most  resourceful,  energetic 
and  capable  leaders  that  have  opposed  the 
British  arms  in  S.A.  In  the  wider  aspect  of 
strategy  his  judgment  was  somewhat 
lacking ;  his  scruples  were  not  always 
over  fine.  But  he  was  latterlj'^  playing  a 
losing  game,  in  a  huge  country,  with  no  com- 
munications and  ever  increasing  difficulties  in 
obtaining  stores,  munitions  and  horses,  upon 
which  his  very  existence  depended. 

He  has  written  a  book  called  "  Tliree  Years  of 
War  "  for  which  he  received  £10,000,  and  he  is 
said  to  be  contemplating  a  work  on  scouting, 
wliich  would  no  doubt  be  a  highly  useful  text- 
book for  the  British  Army. 

DE  WET,  Hon.  M.  J.,  M.C.L.,  is  member 
of  the  (!!ape  Legislative  Council  for  the  Eastern 
Province. 

DE  WITT-HAIVIER,  Verselewel,  ex-raember 
of  the  Second  Raad  for  Barberton  ;  took  part 
with  the  Boer  forces  in  the  late  S.A.  War,  was 
captured  at  Elandslaagte,  and  sent  to  St. 
Helena.  On  his  return  to  the  Transvaal,  he 
took  the  oath  in  the  Supreme  Court,  Pretoria,  as 
sworn  translator  in  several  languages. 

DICKSON,  George  Arthur  HAmLTON, 
A.R.I. B. A.,  of  Bertramstown,  Johannesburg, 
and  of  the  Rand,  Athentemn  (Johannesburg), 
and  Imperial  Service  Clubs,  was  born  in  London. 
He  is  son  of  the  late  Rev.  Geo.  Dickson,  M.A., 
Vicar  of  St.  James  the  Less,  Westminster,  and 
grandson  of  the  late  Sir  David  James  Hamilton 
Dickson,  R.N.,  and  of  Sir  Henry  Hunt,  C.B.,  of 


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H.M.  Office  of  Works.  He  was  educated  at 
Haileybury,  subsequently  becoming  a  pupil  of  the 
late  Geo.  Edmund  Street,  R.A.,  Architect  to 
the  new  Law  Coiu-ts,  Strand,  and  on  his  death 
he  transferred  his  articles  to  the  late  Sir  Arthur 
Blomfield,  A.R.A.  He  went  to  S.A.  a  few 
years  later,  and  has  since  practised  in  Johannes- 
burg and  Pretoria.  Mr.  Dickson  is  an  Associate 
of  the  Royal  Institute  of  British  Architects  ; 
Vice-Pres.  of  the  Transvaal  Association  of 
Architects  ;  member  of  the  S.A.  Association  of 
Engineers  ;  Diocesan  Surveyor  of  Pretoria,  and 
is  also  on  the  Committee  of  the  Rand  Club.  He 
was  at  one  time  in  the  1st  Derbyshire  Militia, 
but  resigned  his  commission  in  1890,  on  deciding 
to  settle  in  S.A.  On  the  outbreak  of  the  S.A. 
War  he  was  appointed  Capt.  in  Bethune's  M.I., 
and  commanded  "  C "  Squadron  in  the  field 
throughout  the  war,  with  the  exception  of  a 
short  period  from  Doc.  1900  to  May  1901, 
when  he  was  invalided  home.  For  some 
time  he  acted  as  second  in  command  of 
his  regiment  (Queen's  and  King's  medals  and 
eight  clasps). 

Mr.  Dickson  has  for  years  been  an  enthusias- 
tic polo  player.  He  popularized  the  game  in 
Pretoria,  and  was  for  soine  time  Capt.  of  the 
Rand  Polo  Club,  for  which  he  still  plays. 

DIETRICH,    Heinrich,     J.P.,    F.R.C.I.,    of 

Zeerust,  District  Marico,  Transvaal,  is  son  of  the 
late  eminent  surgeon,  Andreas  Friedrich  Die- 
trich, and  was  born  at  Altona,  Germany,  May 
18,  1860.  He  emigrated  to  S.A.  in  Oct. 
1883,  where  he  has  since  resided.  Although 
a  burgher  of  the  late  S.A.R.,  he  ren- 
dered excellent  services  to  the  British 
military  authorities  on  their  occupying  the 
town  of  Zeerust,  and  also  took  a  prominent  part 
in  the  defence  of  the  town,  he  having  been  placed 
in  command  of  the  Zeerust  Town  Guard  by  the 
British.  At  the  conclusion  the  war  in  1902,  he 
was  appointed  J.P.  and  a  member  of  the  Health 
board  for  the  town  of  Zeerust.  Recently  he  has 
been  entrusted  with  the  charge  of  the  Govt. 
Meteorological    Station  at    Zeerust.  In    1892 

he  married  the  \vidow  of  the  late  August  Griete, 
of  Matabeleland  fame,  and  after  her  death  he 
married  Anne,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Advocate 
Peter  Johannsen,  of  Altona,  Germany. 

DODD,  Thomas  R.,  was  arrested  early  in  1899 
for  having  organized  a  public  meeting  for  the 
purpose  of  presenting  a  petition  to  the  British 
Vice-Consul  on  the  subject  of  the  murder  of 
Edgar,  by  a  Boer  policeman. 


DOLLEY,  Hon.  John  Frederick,  M.L.C, 
was  born  at  Witney,  Oxon,  in  1852,  and  went 
with  his  parents  to  Uitenhage  six  years  later. 
He  was  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Uiten- 
hage Divisional  and  Town  Councils.  He  was 
elected  to  the  Cape  Legislative  Council  in  1891, 
as  member  for  the  S.E.  Province,  and  in  his 
first  season  carried  a  resolution  recommending 
the  imposition  of  a  royalty  on  diamonds.  He 
still  retains  his  seat  in  the  Council. 

DONALDSON,  Lieut.-Col.  James,  D.S.O.,of 
Johannesburg  and  Delagoa  Bay,  and  of  the 
Rand  and  New  Clubs  (Johan^  -  --.)^  jg  the  son 
of  a  London  Banker,  and  was  _  in  London, 

Feb.  28,  1863.  He  was  educated  at  Edinburgh, 
went  to  S.A.  when  quite  young,  and  was 
well-known  as  one  of  the  old  hands  at  Pilgrim's 
Rest  and  Lydenburg.  He  is  now  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Donaldson  &  Sivewright  of 
Delagoa  Bay  and  Johannesburg,  and  is  interested 
in  several  commercial  undertakings.  In  1896, 
he  was  tried  for  high  treason  against  the 
S.A.R.  as  one  of  the  Reform  Committee, 
and  was  mulcted  in  the  generally  imposed  fine 
of  £2,000.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Boer  War 
he  joined  the  1st  Regt.  of  I.L.H.  as 
Capt.  and  Qr.-Master,  and  it  was  largely 
owing  to  his  efforts  and  bvisiness  aptitude 
that  the  regiment  was  equipped  sufficiently 
quickly  to  enable  it  to  take  part  in  the  action 
of  Elandslaagte.  He  was  amongst  the  be- 
sieged in  Ladysmith,  and  took  part  in  the 
relief  of  Mafeking,  after  which  he  was  appointed 
to  the  command  of  "  A  "  Squadron  I.L.H.  He 
was  twice  mentioned  in  despatches,  and  his 
services  were  recognized  by  the  D.S.O.  He 
was  severely  wounded  near  Klerksdorp,  and 
declared  uniit  for  further  active  service.  He 
obtained  his  majority  just  before  the  disband- 
ment  of  the  corps  and  he  was  subsequently 
given  the  command  of  the  right  wing  of  the 
Volunteer  Regiment  of  the  I.L.H.  lately  formed 
in  Johannesbtu-g.  Col.  Donaldson  was  a 
member  of  the  Native  Labour  Commission  lately 
sitting  in  Johannesbiu-g.  He  is  a  keen  sports- 
man ;  has  imported  some  good  racing  stock,  and 
just  before  the  war  he  won  the  Johannesburg 
Handicap.  He  married,  Aug.  5,  1903,  Miss  N. 
Newton,  of  New  Zealand. 

DONALDSON,  Kenneth  Macleay,  of 
Johannesburg  (where  he  is  popularly  Itnown  as 
"Ken"),  was  born  in  London,  Aug.  27,  1864. 
He  is  the  younger  brother  of  Lieut.-Col.  James 
Donaldson,    D.S.O.     (q.v.),     and     saw     active 


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eervice  in  the  Sudan,  1884-5,  during  which 
time  he  acted  as  War  Correspondent  and  Artist 
for  the  late  "  Pictorial  World."  He  was  svibse- 
quently  decorated  with  the  Egyptian  medal, 
Suakin  clasp,  and  bronze  star.  He  went  to 
S.A.  in  1889,  and  was  well  loiown  in  Bar- 
berton  and  district  till  1893.  Early  in  1894 
he  arrived  in  Johannesburg  and  in  conjunction 
with  his  present  partner,  Mr.  S.  W.  R.  Hill, 
originated,  and  successfully  developed, 
Donaldson  &  Hill's  South  African  Directories. 
On  the  day  of  the  great  dynamite  explosion  in 
Johannesburg  (Feb.  19,  1896)  he  married  Miss 
Violet  Helen  Brereton,  a  grand-daughter  of  the 
late  Canon  Brereton,  of  Bedford,  England,  by 
whom  he  has  one  son. 

DOUGLASS,  Hon.  Arthur,  of  Heatherton 
Towers,  Grahamstown,  C.C.,  and  of  the 
Civil  Ser\'ice  (C.T.)  and  Rand  Clubs,  was  born 
at  Market  Harborough,  Leicestershire,  Jan., 
1843  ;  is  5th  son  of  L.  Douglass,  Solicitor, 
JIarket  Harborough  ;  was  educated  at  the  Leicep- 
ter  Collegiate  Sch.,  and  served  as  a  midshipman 
in  the  Royal  Na\'y.  He  went  to  the  Cape  as  a 
land  surveyor  in  1864,  and  started  farming  and 
the  domestication  of  ostriches.  He  was  Capt. 
of  the  "  Rovers  "  in  the  Kafir  war  of  1878,  when 
he  was  present  at  the  Peri  Bush  engagement ; 
in  the  Morosi  campaign  of  1879  was  Capt.  in  the 
1st  Cape  Yeomanry  Regt.,  and  served  in  the 
Boer  War  as  Major  and  O.C.  the  Albany 
Mounted  Troops.  He  entered  the  Cape  Asserablj'^ 
as  member  for  Grahamstown,  at  the  general 
election  in  1884,  and  represented  that  constitu- 
ency with  slight  intermission  from  that  time 
until,  in  Feb.  1904,  the  Progressives  rejected 
him  at  the  general  election.  Failing  there  he 
put  up  unsuccessfully  for  Woodstock.  He  went 
out  of  the  Govt,  with  Sir  Gordon  Sprigg's 
resignation  foUomng  the  result  of  the  elections. 
He  is  a  Moderate  in  politics  ;  was  associated  with 
the  Anti-Svispensionist  party  ;  and  joined  Sir 
Gordon  Sprigg's  Cabinet  as  Minister  for  Railways 
and  Commissioner  of  Public  Works.  During  Sii' 
Gordon's  absence  in  England,  in  the  summer  of 
1902,  he  acted  as  Premier  of  the  Colony,  and  later 
in  the  year  (Sept.)  made  a  violent  attack  upon 
the  High  Commissioner  for  making  unreasonable 
demands  upon  the  Govt,  railways. 

He  has  published  a  work  entitled  "  Ostrich 
Farming  in  South  Africa."  Mr.  Douglas 
married  in  1867,  Martha  Emily,  2nd  daughter  of 
Joseph   Perkins,   of     Laughton,   Leicestershne. 

DRAKE,   Francis  Martin,  of     Del  Norte, 


Hougton  Estate,  Johannesburg,  and  of  the 
Rand,  New  and  Athenaeum  Clubs,  Johannes- 
burg, was  born  at  Campo  Seco,  California,  Feb. 
4,  1858,  his  father  being  a  Calif ornian  mining 
man  whose  ancestors  migrated  from  Devonshire 
to  America  early  in  the  19th  century,  while  his 
mother  belonged  to  an  old  family  of  New 
Brunswick,  British  North  America.  Mr.  F.  W. 
Drake  was  educated  at  public  schools  at  San 
Francisco,  afterwards  studying  privately.  At 
the  age  of  17,  he  made  his  first  acquaintance  with 
mines  in  the  U.S.A.,  where  he  remained  until 
1883,  when  he  left  for  Australia.  In  that  year 
he  put  up  the  first  silver-lead  smelting  water- 
jacketed  furnace  in  AustraUa,  which  was  the 
pioneer  of  many  others.  Returning  to  S.A.,  he 
iDecame  in  1896  Consulting  Mining  Engineer  to 
the  Compagnie  Fran9aise  de  Mines  d'Or  et  de 
I'Afrique  du  Sud,  and  is  at  present  the  principal 
manager  of  that  Company's  affairs  in  S.A.  He 
is  also  a  Director  of  the  Rand  Mines,  Ltd.,  the 
East  Rand  Proprietary  Mines,  and  other  leading 
Witwatersrand  Cos.  He  is  also  on  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  of  the  Chamber  of  Mines 
(Johannesburg). 

He  married,  in  1888,  Miss  Agnes  Matilda 
Mackey,  of  Bendigo,  Victoria. 

DREW,  Rev.  Dewdney,  W.  First  became 
famous  in  Johannesburg  for  his  rabid  attacks 
on  Mr.  Kriiger's  regime.  Latterly  he  became  the 
champion  and  apologist  of  the  Cape  Colonial 
rebels.  In  1902  he  joined  the  staff  of  the  "  South 
African  News."     Ed.  "  Tlie  Friend,"  1904. 

DUGMORE,  G.  E.,  M.L.A.,  sits  in  the  Cape 
House  of  Assembly  in  the  Progressive  interest  as 
the  representative  of  the  electoral  division 
of  Wodehouse. 

DUNBAR,  Sir  Drtjmmond  Miles,  Bart,  of 
Johannesburg,  acted  for  four  years  as  Inspector  of 
]Mines'  Sanitation  under  the  Kriiger  regime, 
a  post  which  he  subsequently  resumed  (1902) 
under  the  British  administration.  He  married 
Maria  Louisa,  dau.  of  J.  H.  Smith,  of  Melville 
Park,  Lower  Albany,  S.A. 

DUNCAN,  Patrick,  of  Pretoria,  Transvaal, 
was  born  in  Banffshire,  Scotland,  and  was  edu- 
cated at  Edinbm-gh  University  and  BaHol  Coll., 
Oxon.  He  occupies  the  position  of  Colonial 
Treasurer  of  the  Transvaal,  and  for  the  time 
being  fills  the  post  of  Treasiu-er-Gen. 

DUNN,  Sir  William,  Bart.,  M.P.,  J.P.   for 


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the  Counties  of  Renfrew  and  Suffolk,  of  3, 
Phillimore  Gardens,  Kensington,  W.  ;  the  Re- 
treat, Lakenheath,  Suffolk  ;  and  of  the  Reform, 
City  and  City  Liberal  Clubs ;  is  the  son  of  John 
Dunn  and  Isabella  Chalmers,  was  born  at 
Paisley,  1833,  where  he  was  educated  at  a  private 
school.  Sir  William  is  a  senior  partner  in  the 
banking  and  mercantile  firms  of  William  Dunn 
&  Co.,  Broad  Street  Avenue,  E.C. ;  Mackie, 
Dunn  &  Co.,  Port  Elizabeth  ;  W.  Dunn  &  Co., 
Durban;  Dunn  &  Co.,  East  London,  and  was 
formerly  Consul  for  the  O.F.S.  He  is  a 
Director  of  the  Royal  Exchange  Assurance  and 
Union  Discount  Cos.  He  is  the  first  baronet, 
created  1895.  Sir  William  has  been  M.P.  for 
Paisley  since  1891,  and  is  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal 
Geographical  Society.  He  married  Sarah 
Elizabeth,  dau.  of  James  Howse,  Grahamstown, 
S.A. 

DUNNE,  Col.  Walter  Alphonsus,  C.B.,  of 
28,  Victoria  St.,  S.W.,  and  of  the  Junior  United 
Service  Club  ;  son  of  the  late  Jas.  Dunne  of 
Dublin,  was  born  Feb.  10,  1853  ;  was  educated 
at  Queen's  Univ.,  Ireland  ;  joined  the  Ai-my 
in  1873,  and  has  seen  active  service  in  the 
Kafu-  War  of  1877-8 ;  the  Zulu  War  (being 
present  at  Rorke's  Drift  and  Ulundi)  ;  the  Seku- 
kimi  Expedition  of  1880  (despatches),  the  Boer 
War  lsSO-1  (siege  of  Potchefstroom  ;  des- 
patches) ;  the  Egyptian  Campaign,  1882, 
(present  at  Tel-el-Kebir)  ;  and  the  Suakin  Ex- 
pedition, 1885.  Col.  Dunne  has  been  Asst. 
Q.M.G.  at  Army  Headquarters  since  Jan.  1900, 
and  represents  the  War  Office  on  the  Army 
Med.  Advisory  Board.  He  married,  Jvily  23, 
1885,  Winifred,  davi.  of  the  late  John  Bird, 
C.M.G.,  Treasurer  of  Natal. 

DUNTON,  Henry,  son  of  the  late  Rev.  C. 
Dunton,  of  Bedford,  England,  who  proceeded 
to  S.A.  when  quite  young,  is  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Dunton  Bros.,  wholesale  mer- 
chants, having  branches  in  many  parts  of  S.A. 
For  many  years,  until  the  beginning  of  the  late 
war,  was  the  managing  partner  in  Johannes- 
burg, where  there  was  a  large  wholesale  branch  of 
the  firm.  He  was  married  in  1901  to  a  daughter 
of  the  late  Capt.  Gayer,  R.N.  ;  for  the  last  few 
years  has  spent  his  time  between  S.A.  and 
England. 

DU  PLESSIS,  Andeus  Stephanus,  M.L.A., 
represents  the  constituency  of  Albert  in  the  Cape 
Legislative  Assembly  ;  is  a  good  speaker,  and 
takes  a  special  interest  in  coal.     He  was  last 


elected  in  Feb.   1904,    and  is   a  member  of  the 
S.A.  party. 

DU  PLESSIS,  Casper  Jan  Hendrik,  was 
born  at  Rustenburg  in  1845,  and  is  a  near 
relative  of  ex-Pres.  Kriiger.  He  was  said  to 
enjoy  a  native  war,  and  in  1891  was  prevailed 
upon  to  stand  for  his  native  to%vn  in  the  Second 
Volksraad.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Gerefor- 
meerde  Church. 

DU  PLESSIS,  David  Jacobus,  M.L.A.,  is 
member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for 
Middelburg,  for  which  division  he  was  last 
returned  unopposed  in  1904.  He  belongs  to 
the  S.A.  party. 

DU  PLESSIS,  Revd.  H.,  formerly  Mhiister 
of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  at  Lindley, 
O.R.C.,  was  always  opposed  to  the  war  which 
broke  out  in  1899.  He  became  chaplain  of  the 
Refugee  Camp  at  Kronstad,  and  earned  the 
gratitude  of  both  sides  by  his  impartial  care  of 
the  sick  and  wounded  at  Lindley.  His  strong 
British  sympathies  led  to  a  boycott  which  re- 
sulted in  his  resigning  his  ministry,  and  he  was 
then  appointed  Inspector  of  Schools  in  the 
Transvaal  under  the  British  Adminstratioa 
(1902-3). 

DU  PLESSIS,  Johannes  Petrtts,  J.P.,  was 
born  at  Gorstland  Kloof,  Cradock,  C.C., 
where  he  still  resides  and  farms.  He  served 
as  a  burgher  in  the  Kafir  War  of  1852  ;  served 
as  Capt.  of  the  Cradock  burghers  in  the  Kafu* 
War  of  1878,  and  in  the  Basuto  War  of  1880. 
He  has  acted  as  Asst. -Field-Cornet  since  1873, 
and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Cradock  Divi- 
sional Council  since  1876.  He  was  made  a  J.P. 
in  1885.  He  has  also  served  as  member  of  the 
School  Committee  at  Cradock  ;  Deacon  of  the 
D.R.  Chiu-ch,  of  which  he  is  now  an  Elder  ; 
member  of  the  Licensing  Court,  and  of  the 
Land  Commission.  He  was  elected  to  the 
Cape  House  of  Assembly  in  1887,  re-elected  for 
Cradock  at  the  head  of  the  poll  in  1888,  and 
again  in  1894. 

DU  PLESSIS,  Matthew  Jacobus,  M.L.A., 
is  member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for 
the  Province  of  Cradock,  and  was  last  re-elected 
in    1904.     He    belongs    to    the    S.A.  party. 

DU  TOIT,  Hon.  J.  F.,  M.L.C.,  is  member  of 
the  Cape  Legislative  Council  for  the  Midland 
Province. 


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45 


DU  TOIT,  P.  J.,  M.L.A.,  was  originally  a 
schoolmaster  ;  subsequently  a  storekeeper ; 
member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for 
Richmond,  and  Pres.  of  the  Afrikander  Bond. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Jameson  Raid  Com- 
mittee, but  no  longer  represents  Richmond  in 
the  House. 

DYER,  Bertram  L.,  was  born  May  20,  1S68, 
at  Dumbleton,  Gloucestershire.  He  is  son  of 
Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Dyer  ;  was  educated  at 
home  and  at  King's  Coll.,  London.  He 
entered  the  War  Office  as  clerk,  but  became 
assistant  librarian,  Toynbee  Hall  and  Kensing- 
ton, and  was  appointed  Librarian  of  Kimberley, 
1900.  He  was  founder  and  fhrst  editor  of  "  The 
Library  Assistant "  ;  has  read  papers  before 
the  Library  Association,  S.A.  Science 
Association,  etc.,  and  has  also  published  "  The 
Public  Library  Systems  of  Great  Britain,  Amer- 
ica and  South  Africa,"  etc.,  etc.  He  married 
Sept.  20,  1901,  Alice  Cornish  (du  Lally)  Wat- 
kins,  of  Kensington. 

ECKSTEIN,  Friedrich,  of  18,  Park  Lane, 
London,  W.,  and  of  1,  London  Wall  Buildings, 
E.C.,  was  born  in  Germany  in  1857,  and  was 
educated  at  Stiittgart.  He  is  brother  of  the 
late  Hermann  Eckstein,  founder  of  the  great 
Johannesburg  house  of  H.  Eckstein  &  Co., 
and  has  alwaj's  taken  a  leading  part  in  matters 
affecting  the  main  industry  of  the  Transvaal. 
Since  Mr.  Lionel  Phillips  came  to  England  to 
join  the  firm  of  Wernher,  Beit  &  Co.,  Mr.  F. 
Eckstein  was  the  virtual  head  of  the  Johannes- 
burg community.  In  1902,  however,  he  was 
himself  taken  into  partnership  with  that  firm. 
He  is  Johannesburg  Chairman  of  the  Rand 
Mines,  Ltd.,  a  Director  in  Johannesburg  of  the 
Village  M.R.  Co.,  and  on  the  London  Com- 
mittee of  the  South  Kjiights,  Ltd.  He  married, 
April  1890,  in  Johannesburg,  Miss  Catherine 
aiitchell. 

EDGAR,  Clifford  Blackburn,  J.  P.,  of 
Wedderlie,  Queen's  Road,  Richmond,  Surrey, 
and  of  the  Royal  Societies  and  Richmond  Clubs, 
is  the  elder  son  of  John  Edgar,  of  Richmond 
Hill ;  was  born  in  1857  and  was  educated  at  the 
Owens  Coll.,  in  Manchester,  and  has  taken  a 
Mus.  Bac.  (Lond.  Univ.)  and  B.Sc.  (Victoria 
Univ.,  Manchester),  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Standing  Committee  of  Convocation.  He  is  an 
original  and  still  an  active  Director  of  the  Niger 
Co.,  Ltd.,  and  a  Director  of  the  Anglo-African 
Bank.     In  1898-9  he  was  Mayor  of  Richmond, 


and  has  closely  identified  himself  with  Coimty 
and  Municipal  work,  among  his  public  positions 
being  that  of  Member  of  the  Surrey  Comity 
Council  and  the  Surrey  Education  Committee. 
He  is  Chairman  of  the  Richmond  Public  Library 
Committee,  Hon.  Treasurer  of  the  Musical 
Association,  Member  of  Council  of  the  Union  of 
Graduates  in  Music,  and  Pres.  of  the  Richmond 
Philharmonic  Soc.  His  recreations  are  miisic 
and  travel.     He  married,  in  1883.  MissFowden. 

EDGCUMBE,  Sir  Edward  Robert  Pearce, 
Knt.  Bachelor,  J. P.,  LL.D.,  Deputy- Lieut.  ;  of 
Sandye  Place,  Sandy,  Beds.,  and  of  the  Reform, 
Bedford  County  and  Eighty  Clubs,  was  born 
at  Fordington,  Dorset,  March  13,  1851,  and  is 
the  representative  of  the  Lamerton  branch  of 
the  Edgcumbes  of  Edgcumbe,  near  Tavistock, 
Devon,  of  whom  the  Earl  of  Mount  Edgcumbe's 
family  is  another  branch.  He  was  educated 
at  Cambridge  Univ.  K  Queen's  Prizeman, 
S.  Kensington,  1868)  ;  obtained  a  studentship 
at  the  Royal  Academy  in  1874,  and  was  called 
to  the  Bar  at  Lincoln's  Inn  in  1877.  Sir  Robert 
was  appointed  official  examiner  to  the  High 
Court  in  1883  ;  contested  S.  Dorset  in  1891  and 
1892,  and  was  again  a  parliamentary  candidate, 
this  time  for  Hereford  city,  in  1895.  He  became 
High  Sheriff  of  Cornwall  in  1898.  He  has 
travelled  considerably,  and  has  published 
"  ZephjTus,  a  Holiday  in  Brazil  and  the  River 
Plate"  (1887),  "  Bastiat's  Economic  Fallacies" 
(last  edition,  1888),  "  Popular  Fallacies  regard- 
ing Bimetallism"  (1896),  "Parentage  and 
Ivinsfolk  of  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds"  (1901),  and 
numerous  magazine  articles.  In  England  he 
was  the  pioneer  of  the  small  holdings  movement, 
creating  many  in  Dorsetshire  in  1888  (see  Rider 
Haggard's  "Rural  England").  Sir  Robert 
finds  time  to  attend  to  many  business  interests 
in  London,  being  a  director  of  the  N.W.  Uru- 
guay Railway,  the  Nyassa  Co.,  Balkis  Land 
Co.,  South  Rhodesia  Goldfields  and  the  Kanya 
Co.  His  recreations  are  boating,  cycUng  and 
travel.  He  married  :  first,  in  1884,  Clara  Jane 
Constance  Conybeare,  who  died  Sept.  22,  1888  ; 
and  second,  Aug.  6,  1891,  Frances,  dau.  of 
Adiniral  F.  A.  C.  Foley. 

EDWARDS,  E.  J.,  of  Johannesburg,  Trans- 
vaal, began  a  busy  life  of  journalism  and  news- 
paper control  on  the  staff  of  the  "  Birmingham 
Daily  Mail "  and  the  "  Daily  Times,"  pro- 
ceeding to  Cape  Town  in  1888  as  sub-editor 
of  the  "  Cape  Argus."  In  the  following  year 
the     Argus    Co.     acquired    the    Johannesburg 


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Anglo-African  Who's  Who 


"  Star,"  and  Mr.  Edwards  was  then  trans- 
ferred to  the  Golden  City  as  editor  pro  tern. 
of  that  important  paper.  In  1891  he  returned 
to  Cape  Town  to  join  the  staff  of  the  "  Cape 
Times,"  frequently  acting  as  editor-in-charge, 
and  eventually  becoming  managing  editor. 
During  his  association  with  that  jom'nal  he 
represented  it  as  special  correspondent  at  the 
conferences  between  the  Governors  of  the 
C.C.  and  the  Pres.  of  the  S.A.R.  and  O.F.S.  In 
1902  Mr.  Edwards  negotiated,  on  behalf  of  the 
proprietors  of  the  "  Cape  Times,"  the  purchase 
of  the  Johannesburg  "  Transvaal  Leader,"  of 
which  he  is  now  Managing  Director,  being  also 
Resident  Director  of  the  "  Cape  Times,  Ltd.," 
in  the  Transvaal  Colony. 

EDWARDS,  Fkedebick  Georges  Henry, 
M.D.,  F.R.C.I.,  of  Florida  Road,  Durban,  Natal, 
is  the  second  son  of  the  Hon.  W.  E.  A.  Edwards, 
M.D.,  C.M.G.,  Member  of  the  Executive  and 
Legislative  Councils  of  Blauritius,  and  grandson 
of  the  late  Hon.  A.  Edwards,  Mayor  of  Port 
Louis,  and  Member  of  the  Legislative  Council 
of  Mauritius,  and  great-grandson  of  Brig. -Gen. 
W.  T.  Edwards,  who  was  killed  in  1826,  at 
the  siege  of  Bhurtpore,  India,  He  was  born 
Nov.  14,  1871,  in  Mauritius,  and  was  educated 
at  the  Royal  Coll.,  Mauritius,  and  was  a  student 
at  the  Univ.  of  Paris,  and  at  the  Royal  Colls,  of 
Physicians  and  Svu-geons,  London,  graduating 
M.D.,  B.A.,  B.Sc.  (tJniv.  of  Paris),  M.R.C.S. 
Eng.,  L.R.C.P.  Lond.  He  is  the  author  of 
several  well  knowT.!  works  on  Sociology,  Philo- 
sophy and  Medicine  amongst  which  is  the  noted 
thesis  on  the  "  Acute  Paralysis  of  the  Spinal 
Cord  in  Adults,"  published  in  1898  by  G.  Carri 
and  C.  Maud,  edit.  Paris.  He  has  held  several 
appointments  as  House  Surgeon,  House  Physi- 
cian and  House  Accoucheur  in  Hospitals  in 
Paris.  He  has  studied  Bacteriology  at  the 
Pastern*  Institute  in  Paris,  and  at  King's  Coll., 
Lond.  At  present  he  is  a  general  practitioner 
in  Dm-ban,  Natal.  He  married,  Sept.  8,  1898, 
Marie  Vincente  Costar,  of  Paris. 

EGLINGTON,  William,  of  Gwanda,  Sidcup, 
Kent,  and  of  the  S.A.  (London)  and 
Colonial  Clubs,  is  the  son  of  Henry  Eglington, 
newspaper  proprietor.  Educated  privately,  he 
read  for  the  Bar,  but  subsequently  forsook  the 
law  for  journaUsm.  Was  editor-proprietor 
of  the  "  New  Age  "  and  other  well-knowaa  pub- 
lications ;  he  resuscitated  "  TheTatler"  in  1887, 
and  in  1892  founded  the  "British  and  South 
African  Export  Gazette,"  of  which  he  is  editor 


and  proprietor,  and  which  is  one  of  the  leading 
and  most  successful  commercial  journals  pub- 
lished. He  has  also  been  a  prolific  contributor 
to  the  magazines  and  daily  papers  on  S.A. 
affairs,  and  is  the  author  of  a  number  of 
books  which  have  been  widely  read.  These 
include  "  The  Sportsman  in  South  Africa."  H© 
has  travelled  widely  and  has  shot  practically 
everything  there  is  to  shoot  in  S.A.  His 
collection  of  trophies  is  most  complete,  and 
nimabers  outwards  of  fifty-two  varieties  of 
antelopes,  including  every  S.A  species. 
He  was  the  vice-chairman  of  the  Anglo-African 
Writer's  Club  m  1895  and  chairman  in  1896. 
His  recreations  are  shooting,  golf,  cycling, 
yachting.  He  married,  on  April  28,  1887,  Lile, 
only  daughter  of  Edward  Chambers  Connolly, 
of  Chfton. 

EIFFE,  Lieut.  Franz  Ferdinand,  9th 
Sharpshooters  (Landwehr),  Knt.  Commander 
of  the  Mecklenburg  Order  of  the  Falcon,  Turkish 
Order  of  the  Medjidie,  Red  Cross  Medal 
(Prussia),  Long  Service  Order  ;  of  Adolphstrasse 
45,  Hamburg  ;  of  the  Harmonie  Club,  Hamburg, 
and  the  German  Club,  Lourengo  Marques,  was 
born  in  Hamburg  Nov.  24,  1860,  He  is  son  of 
Senator  F.  F.  Eiffe,  of  that  city  by  his  wife 
Susan,  ne'e  Godeffroy,  of  London  ;  was  educated 
in  Hambm-g,  and  after  being  for  a  few  years  with 
a  banking  and  import  firm,  served  his  year  with 
the  14th  Battn.  at  Schwerin  (Mecklenburg) 
1882-3.  After  several  years  in  various  offices 
in  England  and  Germany  he  started  at  Ham- 
burg a  business  on  his  own  account  in  1887 ; 
opened  business  relations  with  S.A.  three  years 
later,  becoming  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Seemann 
&  Eiffe,  of  Hamburg  and  Delagoa  Bay,  to 
whch  latter  place  he  went  in  1895  and  bought 
the  so-called  Catembe  Concession  in  Delagoa 
Bay,  eventually  taking  over  the  whole  business 
himself,  and  continuing  it  from  1896  iinder  the 
name  of  F.  F.  Eiffe  &  Co.  He  is  on  the  Board 
of  the  Central  African  Lakes  Co.,  the  S.W. 
African  Schaferei  Gesellschaft,  the  Deutsches 
Schauspielhaus  Co.,  the  "  Hamburgher  Nach- 
richten "  Joiu-nal,  and  on  the  Committees  of 
the  German  Red  Cross  Society,  the  German 
Colonial  Society,  etc.  He  is  hon.  hfe  member 
of  the  Thames  Rowing  Club,  a  life  member  of 
the  S.  London  Harriers,  and  held  for  many  years 
the  German  running  records  for  several  distances, 
notably  the  mile.  His  recreations  now  are 
yachting,  riding  and  driving.  He  married. 
May  7,  1892,  Miss  Mariquita  Oetling,  of 
Hamburg. 


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EISSLER,  M.,  A.I.M.E.,  M.I.M.M.,  is  the 
author  of  many  standard  works  of  reference  on 
gold  and  its  metallurgy,  including  "  The  Cyanide 
Process  for  the  Extraction  of  Gold  and  its  Prac- 
tical Application  on  the  Witwatersrand  Gold- 
fields  and  elsewhere,"  and  "  The  Metallurgy  of 
Gold." 

ELIOT,  Sir  Charles  Norton  Edgcumbe, 
K.C.M.G.  (1900),  C.B.  (189S),  M.A.,  of  Govern- 
ment House,  Mombasa ;  the  British  Agencj'^, 
Zanzibar  ;  2,  Clarges  St.,  London,  and  of  the 
St.  James'  Club  ;  son  of  the  late  Rev.  Ed.  Eliot, 
formerly  Vicar  of  Norton  Bavant ;  was  born  in 
1864 ;  was  educated  at  Cheltenham  Coll., 
Scholar  of  Baliol  Coll.,  Oxon,  and  Fellow  of 
Trinity  Coll.,  Oxon.  He  entered  the  diplo- 
matic service  as  an  attache  in  Oct.,  1886.  He 
was  Third  Secy,  at  St.  Petersburg,  Second  Secy, 
at  Constantinople  and  Washington,  Charge 
d' Affaires  in  Morocco,  1892-3,  Bulgaria  in  1895, 
and  Servia  in  1897.  Sir  Charles  was  British 
High  Commissioner  in  Samoa  in  1899,  and 
received  his  present  appointment  as  H.M. 
Commissioner,  Commander-in-Chief  and  Consul- 
Gen,  for  the  British  East  African  Protectorate, 
and  H.M.  Agent  and  Consul-Gen.  at  Zanzibar, 
Oct.  27,  1900. 

ELTON,  Edmund  Hallam,  of  East  London, 
S.A.,  and  of  the  East  London  and  Panmure 
Clubs  (S.A.),  was  born  at  Stoke,  near  Wareham, 
Dorsetshire,  in  1860.  He  is  second  son  of  the 
Rev.  H.  G.  T.  Elton,  youngest  son  of  Sir  Chas. 
Elton,  Bart.,  of  Clevedon,  Somersetshire,  and 
was  educated  at  St.  Edward's  Sch.,  Oxford. 

He  sat  as  Town  Councillor,  East  London,  from 
1896  to  1899,  and  is  Chairman  of  the  Seamen's 
Institute  (E.  London),  a  branch  of  the  "  Mission 
to  Seamen  "  of  London.  He  married  Feb.  7, 
1887,  Ada  Constance,  dan.  of  J.  H.  Webb, 
J.P.,  late  of  the  Crown  Lands  Dept.,  Cape 
Town. 

ENGLISH,  Robert,  of  Scatwell,  Ross-shire, 
resided  for  many  years  at  Kimberley,  where  he 
was  prominently  connected  with  the  De  Beers 
Consohdated  Mines.  He  is  also  largely  inter- 
ested in  Transvaal  and  Rhodesian  gold-mining 
undertakings. 

EPLER,  Adolphe,  Knight  of  the  Imperial 
and  Royal  Austrian  Franz  Joseph's  Order,  of 
Johannesburg,  and  of  the  Rand  and  New  Clubs, 
is    the    son    of    a    well-known    Austrian  Govt. 


Official  who  at  one  time  was  Chief  Inspector  of 
the  Northern  Railway  System  of  Austria,  and 
an  Imperial  Austrian  Councillor.  Educated  in 
Vienna,  he  commenced  business  in  that  city  in 
1875,  and  remained  there  tmtil  1889,  when  he 
left  for  S.A.  and  proceeded  to  Johannes- 
bLU"g,  remaining  there  during  the  whole  time  of 
the  war.  In  conjunction  wath  A.  Brakhan 
and  E.  Boucher,  he  formed  the  Official  Police 
for  the  Protection  of  the  Mines,  holding  the 
rank  of  Capt.  In  May,  1901,  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  Lord  Milner  as  a  Town  Councillor  for 
Johannesburg,  he  having  the  unique  distinction 
of  being  at  the  time  the  only  non-British  subject 
on  the  Co\mcil.  As  a  representative  of  Austro- 
Himgarian  capital  he  is  a  director  of  several 
gold  mining  companies.  He  has  been  President 
of  the  Aastro-Hungarian  Benefit  and  Patriotic 
Society  in  Johannesburg  since  1891,  and  was 
decorated  by  the  Emperor  of  Aiistria  in  1900. 
Since  1897  he  has  acted  continuously  on  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  Transvaal  Chamber 
of  Mines. 

ERASMUS,  Commandant  ;  after  service  with 
the  Boers  in  the  late  S.A.  War  visited  Madagascar 
(1902)  and  Argentina,  with  a  \'iew  to  finding  a 
suitable  country  for  the  settlement  of  Boer 
irreconcilables. 

ESPEUT,  Claude  Vyvian  Armit,  F.R.C.I., 
Member  of  the  Society  of  Engineers ;  of  77, 
Sinclair  Road,  Kensington,  and  of  the  Colonial 
Club,  was  born  at  Spring  Garden,  Jamaica, 
Oct.  3,  1875,  his  father  having  been  the  late 
Hon.  Wm.  Bancroft  Espeut,  F.L.S.,  M.L.C.,  of 
Jamaica,  and  grandson  of  Peter  Alexander 
Espeut,  Custos  of  Kingston,  Jamaica.  Mr. 
Claude  Espeut  was  educated  at  St.  Paul's 
Sch.,  and  the  Crystal  Palace  Engineering  Sch., 
and  from  1894  to  1900  he  was  employed  on 
public  works  in  Jamaica.  In  1900-01  he  was 
engaged  in  railwaj''  construction  in  Lagos,  and 
from  1901  he  has  been  employed  as  distinct 
engineer  on  the  Gold  Coast  Govt.  Railway. 
His  recreations  are  cricket,  tennis,  golf  and 
cycling.     Umnarried. 

ESSELEN,  EwALD,  is  of  German  parentage, 
and  was  born  in  Cape  Colony.  He  was  educated 
in  Edinbm-gh.  At  the  time  of  the  War  of  Inde- 
pendence he  was  studying  medicine,  and  volun- 
teered for  medical  service,  subsequently  joining 
the  President's  staff.  On  completing  liis  legal 
education  he  was  appointed  Judge  of  the  High 
Court   of   the  Transvaal,   but  relinquishing  his 


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seat  on  the  Bench  after  some  years  of  honourable 
service  he  returned  to  the  Bar,  and  took  an 
active  part  in  politics.  He  withdrew  his  strong 
support  from  Mr.  Kriiger  and  became  the 
dominant  factor  in  the  opposition  under  the 
nominal  leadersliip  of  Gen.  Joubert.  At  the 
general  elections  of  1893  Mr.  Esselen  was 
elected  member  for  Potchefstroom,  but  the 
Kriigerite  polhng  officer  stayed  at  nothing  to 
obtain  a  reversal  of  the  election.  Dead  and 
absent  men  recorded  their  votes,  and  Mr.  Es- 
selen was  declared  to  have  lost  his  seat  by 
seven  votes.  Mr.  Esselen' s  defeat  was  the 
worst  blow  to  Gen.  Joubert' s  candidature  for 
the  Presidency.  Subsequently  Mr.  Esselen 
was  prevailed  vipon  to  accept  the  office  of  State 
Attorney,  he  stipulating  that  he  should  have  a 
free  hand  in  reorganizing  the  detective  and 
police  forces,  which  were  at  that  time  in  a  very 
depraved  condition.  The  many  reforms  which 
he  worked,  with  the  assistance  of  his  cliief  detec- 
tive, Mr.  Trimble,  especially  as  regards  the 
illicit  liquor  traffic,  raised  such  opposition  that 
Mr.  Esselen  at  length  resigned. 

He  was  admitted  to  practise  at  the  Bar  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  Transvaal  Colony,  Dec.  18, 
1902. 

ESSER,  J.,  ex-Judge  of  the  High  Court  of 
the  late  S.  A.  R.,  was  admitted  as  an  Advocate 
of  the  Supreme  Coiu-t  of  the  Transvaal  in  1902. 

EUAN-SMITH,  Col.  Sir  Charles  Bean, 
K.C.B.,  C.S.I.,  of  the  United  Service  Club,  is  a 
man  who  has  played  many  parts,  and  has  gained 
no  little  distinction.  He  began  his  military 
career  in  the  Indian  Army  in  1859,  and  served 
in  the  Abyssinian  War  of  1867-8  when  he  was 
present  at  the  capture  of  Magdala  (medal).  In 
1879-80  Sir  Charles  saw  fiu-ther  service  in  the 
Afghan  War,  taking  part  in  the  action  of  Ahmed 
Khel,  the  affair  at  Urzoo,  the  march  from  K^-bul 
to  Kandahar,  and  the  battle  of  Sept.  1.  He 
was  several  times  mentioned  in  despatches,  and 
received  the  brev.  of  Lieut-Col.,  the  medal  with 
two  clasps,  and  bronze  star.  Col.  Euan-Smith 
retired  from  the  Indian  Army  in  1889  ;  subse- 
quently joined  the  diplomatic  service,  and  was 
Minister-Resident  at  Bogota  in  1898-99.  In 
1890  he  was  created  a  Civil  K.C.B.,  and  was 
Consul-Gen.  at  Zanzibar,  and  Minister  at 
Tangier  1891-93.  Sir  Charles  Euan-Smith  is 
well  known  in  African  circles  in  the  City.  He  is 
Chairman  and  Director  of  several  South  and  West 
African  mining  companies,  in  which  capacities  liis 
abilities  and  experience  are  highly  appreciated 


by  his  colleagues.  Sir  Charles  is  Chairman  of  the 
Abosso  G.M.  Co.,  and  of  the  Taquah  and  Abosso 
G.M.  Co.  (1900),  and  a  Director  of  the  New 
African,  New  Egyptian,  Oceana  ConsoUdated, 
Rhodesia,  Ltd.,  and  the  Sudan  Development 
and  Exploration  Cos.  He  is  also  a  Trustee 
for  the  debenture  holders  of  the  French  Rand 
G.M.  Co.,  the  Vogelstruis  Consolidated  Deep, 
and  the  Wit  water  srand  Deep.  He  married,  in 
1877,  a  dau.  of  the  late  Gen.  Alexander,  R.A. 

EVANS, Sir  Francis  Henry, B.art.,K.C.M.G., 
M.P.,  of  40,  Grosvenor  Place,  S.W.,  of  Tubben- 
dens,  Orpington,  Kent,  and  of  the  Reform  Club  ; 
was  educated  at  Manchester  New  Coll.,  and  at 
Neuweid.  He  was  in  early  life  a  pupil  of  the 
eminent  engineer.  Sir  Jas.  Brunlees.  He  is  a 
partner  in  the  firaa  of  Donald  Currie  &  Co., 
and  Director  of  the  Union-Castle  Line,  Thames 
and  Mersey  Marine  Insurance  Co.,  and  the 
International  Sleeping  Car  Co.  His  parlia- 
mentary career  commenced  in  1888  when  he 
was  elected  for  Southampton,  which  constitu- 
ency he  retained  until  1895.  Defeated  at  the 
general  election,  he  regained  the  seat  in  a  bye- 
election  in  1896.  He  has  represented  Maidstone 
in  the  Liberal  interest  since  1901.  He  married, 
in  1872,  Marie,  dau.  of  the  late  Hon.  Samuel 
Stevens,  Attorney-Gen.   of  New  York. 

EVANS,  Samuel,  of  Rhos,  near  Rviabon,  and 
of  Johannesburg,  started  life  as  a  journalist ; 
went  to  Egypt  as  Sir  Edgar  Vincent's  private 
sec,  and  afterwards  entered  the  Khedivial 
service.  Later  on  he  went  to  Constantinople, 
where  he  became  Controller  of  the  Imperial 
Tobacco  Regie.  For  some  years  Mr.  Evans 
has  taken  an  active  interest  in  finance  in  Johan 
nesburg,  and  he  was  admitted  a  partner  in  the 
firm  of  H.  Eckstein  &  Co.,  in  the  autumn  of 
1902.  Incidentally  he  had  charge  of  the  recent 
libel  action  of  Messrs.  Wernher,  Beit  &  Co. 
against  Mr.  Markham,  M.P.  (q.v.).  He  married, 
Dec.  24,  1903,  Katherine,  elder  dau.  of  Richard 
Rous  Mabson,  editor  of   the  "  Statist." 

EVANS,  W.,  late  of  Singapore  ;  Protector  of 
Chinese  in  the  Straits  Settlement  Govt.,  was 
appointed  to  the  control  of  the  regulations  for 
the  importation  of  Chinese  labour  in  the  Trans- 
vaal in  the  latter  end  of  1903. 

EVERARD,  Thomas,  M.L.C,  J.P.,  of  Leeuw- 
poort,  Carolina,  Transvaal,  is  the  son  of  Thomas 
Everard,  of  New  Hall  Parks,  Thurlaston, 
Leicestershire,  where  he  was  born  in  1850.     He 


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was  educated  at  Leicester  and  went  to  S.A. 
in  1872,  and  settled  in  the  Lydenbnrg  dis- 
trict of  the  S.A.R.  in  the  following  year, 
where  he  traded  at  the  Macamae  Alluvial  Gold 
Fields  for  several  years.  In  187G  he  removed 
to  the  part  now  known  as  the  Carolina  district 
where  he  has  been  trading  and  farming  ever 
since.  He  has  bred  horses  for  the  last  twenty- 
six  years,  and  has  been  successful  in  breeding 
many  winners  on  the  turf,  both  locally  and  at 
the  principal  racing  centres  in  S.A.,  and 
also  numerous  prize  winners  at  the  large  Agri- 
cultural Shows.  During  the  first  Sekukuni  War 
he  assisted  his  Boer  neighbours  against  the 
marauding  Kafirs,  and  the  expedition  was  the 
first  one  to  successfully  drive  back  the  native 
cattle  looters  diu-ing  the  outbreak.  He  has 
gone  through  various  troublesome  times  under 
many  Govts.,  viz.  : — mider  President  Burgers,  Sir 
T.  Shopstone,  Sir  Owen  Lanyon,  and  President 
Kriiger.  During  the  late  war,  as  in  the  one  in 
1880,  Mr.  Everard  was  allowed  to  remain  on 
his  farm  without  taking  an  active  part  against 
liis  own  countr5rmen.  After  peace  he  was 
nominated  a  member  of  the  Ermelo-Carolina 
Repatriation  Commission.  He  was  appointed 
a  J.P.  for  the  district,  and  on  the  formation  of 
the  Legislative  Council  was  asked  by  the  High 
Commissioner,  Lord  Milner,  to  become  a  nomi- 
nee member  of  that  body.  He  married,  in  1893, 
Ella  Christie,  dau.  of  the  Rev.  John  Christie,  D.D., 
Professor  of  Chiu-ch  History,  Aberdeen  Univ. 

EYLES,  Frederick,  of  Bulawayo,  Rho- 
desia, and  of  the  Bulawayo  Club,  and  member 
of  the  Anthropological  Institute,  Folk  Lore 
Society,  S.  A.  Philosophical  Society,  and 
Rhodesia  Scientific  Association  (formerly  Hon. 
Sec),  was  born  at  Wick,  near  Bath,  May  10, 
1864  ;  is  the  author  of  a  work  on  Zulu  Grammar, 
"Zulu  Self-taught"  (Juta  &  Co.,  1900),  and  is 
the  editor  and  founder  of  the  "  Bulawayo  Ob- 
server."    Mr.  Eyles  was  married  May  17,  1893. 

FAIRBRIDGE,  William  Ernest,  J.P.,  of 
Salisbviry,  Mashonaland,  and  the  New  Club, 
London,  and  the  Salisbmry  and  Rand  Clubs,  son 
of  the  late  W.  A.  Fairbridge  of  Port  Elizabeth, 
and  grandson  of  Dr.  Jas.  Fairbridge,  of  CapeTown, 
was  born  at  Port  Elizabeth  in  1883,  and  was 
educated  at  Bedford,  Eng.  He  has  long  been 
cormected  with  joiirnalism.  On  the  occupation 
of  Rhodesia  he  represented  the  "  Johannesburg 
Star "  and  the  "  Cape  Argus,"  subsequently 
establishing  and  editing  the  "  Rhodesia  Herald." 
He  is  a  Director  of  the  Argus  Company,  con- 


trolling a  large  group  of  papers  in  S.A.  On  a 
municipality  being  formed  in  Salisbury  he  was 
twice  elected  Mayor  of  that  town,  and  he 
unsuccessfully  contested  a  seat  in  the  Rho- 
desian  Legislative  Council.  Mr.  Fairbridge,  is 
unmarried. 

FARRAR,  Major  Sir  George  Herbert, 
Knt.,  D.S.O.,  M.L.C,  of  Chicheley  Hall,  New- 
port Pagnell,  Bucks,  and  of  Wliite's  and  Boodle's 
Clubs,  was  born  June  17,  1859.  He  is  son  of 
the  late  Charles  Farrar,  M.D.,  of  Chatteris, 
Cambridgeshire.  Sir  George  began  his  business 
career  in  the  engineering  firm  of  his  uncle  at 
Bedford,  and  early  in  life  went  out  to  the  Cape 
Colony.  But  the  discoveries  on  the  Rand  soon 
attracted  him  thither.  Sir  George  took  full 
advantage  of  the  opportunities  that  offered, 
and  it  was  not  long  before  he  became  the  head 
of  one  of  the  principal  groups  of  mining  under- 
takings, among  which  are  the  East  Rand  Pro- 
prietary, the  Anglo-French  Exploration,  and 
other  important  Cos.  He  also  operates  largely 
on  joint  account  with  Wernher,  Beit  & 
Co.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  Johannesburg 
Boards  of  the  Agnes  Munro,  Angelo,  Anglo- 
French  Land,  Anglo-French  (Transvaal)  Navi- 
gation Coal  Estates,  Benoni  G.M.,  Boksburg 
G.M.,  Chimes  West,  Cinderella,  Driefontein, 
East  Rand  Proprietary,  G.F.  Co.,  H.F.  Co., 
Kleinfontein  Central,  New  Blue  Sky,  New 
Comet,  New  Kleinfontein,  and  Rand  KUp- 
fontein,  and  is  Cliairman  of  the  Penhalonga 
Proprietary  Mines,  besides  being  a  director 
of  several  other  mining  and  finance  Cos. 

Always  an  vmcompromising  opponent  of  the 
Boer  Government,  Sir  George  joined  the  leaders 
of  the  Reform  Party  a  few  weeks  after  the 
movement  started,  and  he  was  one  of  the  four 
who,  pleading  guilty  to  the  charge  of  high 
treason  against  the  late  S.A.R. ,  were  condemned 
to  death.  This  sentence  was  commuted,  and 
after  a  few  months  he  was  liberated  (1896)  on 
payment  of  a  fine  of  £25,000,  and  on  his  under- 
taking not  to  meddle  with  the  politics  of  the 
State  for  fifteen  years,  d 

It  is  not  generally  known  that  after  Dr. 
Jameson  has  crossed  the  Transvaal  border  and 
was  already  in  difficulties.  Sir  George  had  to 
be  almost  forcibly  restrained  from  going  out 
to  the  assistance  of  the  gallant  doctor. 

When  the  Boer  War  broke  out  in  1899  he  and 
his  brother,  Capt.  Percy  Farrar,  took  an  active 
part  in  raising  colonial  corps,  to  the  expense 
of  which  his  firm  contributed  very  large  amounts. 
Sir    George,   who   attained  the  rank  of  Maj.  on 


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the  Staff  of  the  Colonial  Division,  accompanied 
Gen.  Buller  as  guide  through  Natal,  and  saw 
a  great  deal  of  fighting.  He  was  afterwards  at 
the  siege  of  Wepener  ;  was  mentioned  in  des- 
patches, receiving  the  medal  with  three  clasps, 
the  D.S.O.  (1900),  and  afterwards  (in  1902) 
having  the  dignity  of  Knight  Bachelor  con- 
ferred upon  him  in  recognition  of  his  good 
services  to  his  country.  Sir  George  is  a  member 
of  the  Transvaal  Legislative  Council,  tlirough 
which,  in  Dec,  1903,  he  successfvilly 
piloted  a  resolution  in  favour  of  importing 
alien  coloiu-ed  labour  for  unskilled  work  in  the 
mines.  He  was  also  Pres.  of  the  Transvaal 
Chamber  of  Mines  for  1903.  Sir  George  Farrar 
is  perhaps  the  best  trusted  man  among  the 
British  community  in  S.A.,  with  a  really 
keen  insight  into  the  requirements  of  the  Trans- 
vaal, a  sound  all-round  record,  and  the  highest 
personal  reputation.  He  has  always  been  a 
keen  patron  of  sport,  both  in  S.A.  and  in 
England  ;  he  was  formerly  sprinting  champion 
of  S.A.,  and  even  now  is  a  fine  point-to- 
point  rider.  He  also  takes  a  considerable 
interest  in  horse-breeding  and  horse-racing 
by  way  of  pastimes.  He  married,  June  3, 
1892,  Ella  Mabel,  dau.  of  the  late  Dr. 
Charles  Waylen,   Ind.   Med.   Service. 

EARRAR,  Sidney  Howabd,  M.I.C.E.,  F.G.S. 
of  54,  Old  Broad  Street,  London,  E.C.,  and  of 
Johannesburg  (P.O.  Box  455),  is  son  of  the 
late  Dr.  Chas.  Farrar,  of  Chatteris,  Cambs., 
and  brother  of  Sir  Geo.  Farrar,  D.S.O.  (q.v.), 
with  whom  he  is  in  partnership  under  the  style 
of  Farrar  Bros.,  of  London  and  Johannesburg, 
the  firm  controlling  a  very  large  section  of 
the  East  Rand,  chiefly  in  the  Boksburg  Dis- 
trict. Mr.  Sidney  Farrar  himself  represents 
his  firm's  interests  on  the  London  Committees 
of  the  Anglo-French  (Transvaal)  Navigation 
Coal  Estates  (Chairman),  the  "  H.F."  Co. 
(Chairman),  the  Angelo,  Anglo-French  Land, 
Apex  Mines,  Benoni,  Cason,  Driefontein  Con- 
solidated, Eastern  Rand  Exploration,  East  Rand 
Proprietary  (European  Committee),  Kleinfontein 
Deep,  New  Comet,  New  Kleinfontein,  and  Rand 
Klipfontein  Cos.,  and  he  is  also  a  Director  of 
Kleinfontein  Estates  and  Township,  Ltd.,  and 
the  Witwatersrand  (Knights)  Co. 

FAURE,  Hon.  J.  A.,  was  formerly  senior 
member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Coimcil  for 
the  Western  Circle. 

FAURE,      Hon.      Sir      Pieteb     Hendrik, 


K.C.M.G.,  M.L.A.,  of  Cape  Town,  is  son  of 
Jacobus  Faure,  of  Eerste  River  fame,  and 
brother  of  John  A.  Faure,  the  famous  horse- 
breeder  of  that  place.  Piet  Faure  was  brought 
up  for  the  law,  but  joined  Mr.  A.  B.  de  Villiers 
in  the  fu'm  of  De  Villiers,  Faure  &  Co.,  auc- 
tioneers and  general  agents,  taking  a  special 
interest  in  agricultural  matters.  Entering  the 
Cape  Parliament,  he  became  Secy,  for  Native 
Affairs  on  the  formation  of  the  Rhodes  Ministry 
in  1890.  He  weathered  the  Ministerial  crisis 
in  1893,  and  joined  Mr.  Rhodes'  second  Cabinet 
as  Colonial  Secy.  In  Sir  G.  Sprigg's  third 
and  fourth  Ministries  he  resumed  the  offices 
of  Secy,  for  Agriculture  and  Colonial  Secy. 
Sir  Pieter  Faure  was  last  re-elected  for  the 
division  of  Namaqualand  in  1904,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Progressive  party.  He  married 
Miss  Johanna  Susanna  van  der  Byl. 

FAWCETT,  Mrs.  Millicent  Garrett,  Hon. 
LL.D.,  of  St.  Andrew's  Univ.,  was  born 
June  11,  1847.  She  paid  an  official  visit  to 
S.A.  in  connection  with  the  Concentration 
Camps,  and  afterwards  took  a  journey  through 
the  Cape,  delivering  on  behalf  of  the  Victoria 
League  during  the  trip  some  30  lectures  to 
Britons  and  Boers,  with  the  object  of  healing 
the  wounds  of  war  and  creating  harmony  with 
the  Mother-country.  Mrs.  Fawcett  has  written 
many  notable  books  and  essays.  She  married 
the  late  Rt.  Hon.  H.  Fawcett,  formerly  P.M.G. 

FEAR,  R.  G.  For  several  years  a  sub- 
editor of  the  "  Western  Daily  Mercury,"  joined 
the  staff  of  the  "  Midland  News,"  C.C.  in  1902. 

FELL,  Henry,  M.L.A.,  has  represented 
LTmgeni  in  the  Natal  Legislative  Assembly 
since  1883. 

FESTING.  Capt.  and  Brevet-Maj.  Arthur 
HosKYNS,  C.M.G.,  D.S.O.,  F.R.G.S.,  of  Bois 
Hall,  Addlestone,  Smrey,  and  of  the  Naval 
and  Military,  Royal  Societies,  Bath,  and  Im- 
perial Service  Clubs,  was  born  in  1870,  and 
educated  on  the  Continent,  and  came  to  Eng- 
land, 1896,  and  joined  Royal  Military  Coll., 
Sandhurst,  in  1897.  He  was  extra  regimentally 
employed  with  the  Royal  Niger  Co.,  Ltd., 
1895-98.  During  this  period  he  took  part  in 
the  operations  in  the  Niger,  1896-7  ;  he  was 
with  the  expeditions  to  the  Katshella  Town 
Stockade,  Egbom,  Bida  Illorin,  receiving  for 
his  services  medal  and  clasp  and  a  brevet 
majority.     Later  he  was  in  command  at  Ibonsa 


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and  Anam  ;  was  on  Col.  Pilcher's  Staff  at  Capai 
and  Argeyah  (despatches  and  D.S.O.).  He 
served  in  S.A.  1900-1  in  command  of  the  11th 
M.I.  and  on  Gen.  Carrington's  Staff.  From 
1901  to  1903  he  was  again  in  West  Africa  as 
Second  in  Command  of  the  W.A.  Frontier 
Force  (N.  Nigeria  Regt.),  his  service  including 
Aro  Field  Force,  1901-2  (despatches,  C.M.G.)  ; 
Kano  Expeditionary  Force,  1902-3  as  O.C. 
Lines  of  Commionication  (despatches). 

Capt.  Festing  holds  three  records  of  African 
big  game,  according  to  Rowland  Ward's 
measurements — notably  Kobus  Kob,  19  11-16  ins. 

FIDDES,  George  Vandelexjb,  C.B.  (1901), 
B.A.,  of  Pretoria,  was  educated  at  Dulwich 
Coll.,  and  was  subsequently  a  scholar  of 
Brasenose  Coll.  Oxon,  where  he  took  a  second- 
class  in  Classical  Moderations  in  1879.  He 
was  appointed  a  Clerk  in  the  Colonial  Office 
in  1881,  after  competitive  examination,  and 
has  since  served  as  Private  Secy,  to  Lord  Onslow 
(1887),  Baron  H.  de  Worms  (1882-92),  and  Sir 
Robert  Meade,  March,  1896.  In  that  year 
he  was  promoted  to  a  first-class  Clerkship  in 
the  Colonial  Office,  and  was  subsequently 
appointed  Secy,  to  the  High  Commissioner, 
Cape  Colony. 

FIENNES,  Hon.  Eustace,  Capt.  Oxford- 
shire Yeomanry,  of  8,  Cromwell  Place,  London, 
S.W.,  and  of  the  Orleans,  Cavalry,  Prince's  and 
S.  A.  Clubs,  is  the  second  son  of  the  14th 
Baron  Saye  and  Sele,  of  Broughton  Castle, 
Banbury.  He  was  educated  at  Malvern  Coll., 
and  has  had  a  distingmshed  military  career. 
In  addition  to  serving  with  distinction  in  the 
North- West  Rebellion,  Egypt  (medal  and  clasp, 
and  Khedive's  Star),  lae  served  in  the  Pioneer 
Expedition  to  Rhodesia  in  1890  in  the  B.S.A. 
Police,  and  also  during  the  recent  S.A.  War 
(medal  and  tlxree  clasps).  In  1900  he  con- 
tested North  Oxfordshire  in  the  Liberal  interest, 
and  was  defeated  by  733  votes.  He  intends 
standing  as  the  Liberal  candidate  at  the  next 
election.  He  married,  Nov.  6,  1894,  Florence 
Agnes,  widow  of  Arthur  Fletcher,  and  dau. 
of  John  Bathfelden,  Belleombre,  Constantia, 
Cape  Town. 

FINLAYSON,  Lieut. -Col.  Robert  Alex- 
ander, C.M.G.,  of  Kimberley  and  the  lOm- 
berley  Club,  was  born  Oct.  11,  1857,  at  Edin- 
burgh, where  he  received  his  education.  He 
went  to  S.A.  in  1875.  In  1882  he  was  in  the 
service   of   the  Railway  Dept.,  and  joined  the 


Hon.  J.  D.  Logan  in  bvisiness  in  1884,  remain- 
ing with  him  until  1892.  He  joined  the  Kim- 
berley Volunteers  as  a  Lieut,  in  1890,  and  received 
his  majority  in  1895.  He  commanded  the  in- 
fantry in  the  Bechuanaland  Rebellion  of  1896-7, 
and  became  Lieut. -Col.  in  '98.  In  the  late 
S.A.  War  he  conmaanded  the  Kimberley  cRegt. 
and  a  section  of  the  Defence  Force  during  the 
siege  of  Kimberley,  afterwards  being  second 
in  command  of  a  column  operating  in  the 
O.R.C.  and  the  Transvaal.  He  was  mentioned 
in  despatches  and  received  the  C.M.G.  (1901). 

Col.  Finlayson  identifies  himself  with  all 
forms  of  sport,  and  was  for  some  years  Pres. 
of  the  Diamond  Fields  Scottish  Association. 
His  chief  recreations  are  hunting  and  shooting. 

FINNEMORE,   Hon.    Robert   Isaac,    J.P., 

of  Elim  House,  Pietermaritz  St.,  Maritzburg, 
was  born  at  Addington  Park,  Surrey,  Oct.  29, 
1842.  He  is  eldest  son  of  the  late  Isaac  Powell 
Finnemore,  of  Ballyward,  co.  Wicklow,  and 
his  wife  Jane  (born  Clark).  His  paternal 
descent  is  traced  to  one  of  two  brothers  who 
went  to  Ireland  from  Devonshire  ^ith  Cromwell 
in  1649,  the  original  family  coming  from 
the  Oxfordshire  village  of  Finemere,  whence 
the  name  De  Finemere.  He  was  educated 
at  the  Church  of  England  Gram.  Sch.  and 
Bishopstown  Mission  Station,  where  he  was  a 
pupil  teacher,  and  entered  the  Natal  Civil 
Service  Aug.  4,  1858,  as  pupil- Asst.  to  the 
Svu-veyor-Gen.,  being  appointed  second  clerk 
in  March,  1895.  He  passed  the  exam,  in 
the  theory  and  practice  of  land  surveying 
in  1863  ;  was  Chief  Clerk,  Draughtsman,  and 
Examiner  of  surveyor's  work  in  1864 ;  was 
transferred  to  the  Law  Dept.  at  his  own  request 
in  1865,  and  was  called  to  the  Bar  in  1868  ; 
acted  as  Clerk  of  the  Peace  and  Magistrate 
at  Wrenen  and  Maritzburg,  and  was  Master 
and  Registrar  of  the  Supreme  Covirt  and 
Surveyor-Gen.  from  1870  to  1874.  He  was 
Postmaster-Gen.  1876-77  ;  Acting  Col.  Trea- 
surer in  1877  ;  Magistrate  at  Maritzburg  1877- 
78  ;  Master  and  Registrar  of  the  Supreme 
CoLirt  and  Registrar  of  the  Vice-Admiralty 
Court,  1878-81.  He  was  appointed  J.P.  for 
Natal  in  1881,  and  was  Magistrate  at  Durban 
from  that  year  until  1889  ;  was  acting  Puisne 
Judge  in  1883 ;  Marriage  Officer  at  Durban 
1887-89 ;  Collector  of  Customs,  Registrar  of 
Shipping,  Emigration  Officer  and  Harbour 
Commissioner,  1889  ;  has  served  on  numerous 
commissions  and  boards ;  was  Deputy  Chair- 
man of  the  Harbour  Board,  1881-89  ;  Chairman 


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of  the  Zulu  War  Relief  Fund  ;  Pres.  of  the 
Pietennaritzburg  Collegiate  Institution  ;  Cro'wn 
Solicitor  and  Parliamentary  Draughtsman, 
1894-96 ;  was  appointed  Puisne  Judge  Nov. 
1,  1896 ;  has  been  Senior  Puisne  Judge  from 
1902,  and  has  acted  as  Chief  Justice  of  Natal. 

He  edited  the  "Natal  Almanac  and  Register," 
1876-78 ;  published  a  "  Digest  of  Decisions 
of  the  Supreme  Court  "  for  1860-63  and  1866-67, 
and  is  author  of  "  Natal  Law  Reports  "  for  1872, 
1873,  1879,  1881,  etc. 

In  Freemasonry  he  is  Past  Dist.  Grand 
Master ;  Past  Dist.  Grand  Mark  Master  ;  Past 
Grand  Superintendent  Royal  Arch.  ;  Past 
Provincial  Prior  of  the  Temple  and  Malta  ; 
Sovereign  Grand  Inspector-General,  33°  ;  Intend- 
ant  General  Knight  of  Rome  and  Constantino, 
Knt.  of  the  Royal  Order  of  Scotland,  Knt. 
Commander  of  the  Temple,  etc.  He  has  worked 
in  the  temperance  cause  ;  is  Past  Grand  Vice- 
Templar  ;  hon.  member  of  Rechabites,  and 
Pres.  of  various  religious  and  temperance 
organizations.  For  the  public  libraries  and 
many  other  institutions  of  Maritzburg  and 
Durban  he  has  done  good  service  as  Pres.  and 
otherwise.  He  formerly  gave  lectures  on  the 
most  varied  topics  ;  was  Lay  Reader,  Church- 
warden, and  occasional  Preacher  (C.  of  E.). 
He  was  long  connected  with  the  Maritzburg 
Agricultural  Society,  and  was  constituted, 
honoris  causa,  a  life  member  of  the  Society  and 
of  its  managing  committee.  He  is  hfe  member  of 
the  St.  John  Ambulance  Assoc,  and  of  the  chief 
Masonic  institutions.  He  is  also  F.R.A.S.. 
F.R.G.S.,  F.Z.S.,  F.A.L,  F.R.Met.S.,  F.R.Hist.S.', 
F.S.S.,  M.S.A.,  F.R.C.I.,  F.LI.,  Hon.  Corr. 
Mem.  V.I.,  Mem.  Amer.  Acad.  Polit.  and 
Soc.  Sc,  Mem.  Astron.  S.  of  Pacific,  Mem.  of 
Brit.  Astron.  Assoc,  Mem.  Selden  Soc,  Mem. 
of  the  S.A.  Philosoph.  Soc,  and  of  numerous 
other  Societies.  He  married,  June  7,  1887, 
Catherine  Augusta,  dau.  of  John  Russom,  J. P., 
some  time  Mayor  of  Maritzburg,  and  has  issue 
two  sons  and  fovir  daughters. 

FINNIE,  John  Pulsfokd,  F.R.C.L,  of 
"  Bon- Accord,"  Gwelo,  Rhodesia,  and  the 
Gwelo  Club,  is  the  eldest  son  of  John  Finnie, 
a  Scotch  lawyer,  and  was  born  in  1860  at 
Aberdeen.  He  was  educated  at  Fortrose 
Acad,  and  King's  Coll.,  Aberdeen,  and 
went  to  S.A.  in  1885  ;  after  a  short  resi- 
dence in  Natal  and  the  Transvaal  he  became 
one  of  the  early  pioneers  of  Rhodesia.  In 
1890  he  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  Portuguese 
at  Beira,  at  the  time  that  Sir  John  Willoughby 


tried  to  force  the  East  Coast  Route  to  Salis- 
bury. From  1891  to  1893  he  was  shooting  big 
game  between  the  Pungwe  and  Zambesi  Rivers. 
In  1892  he  spent  some  little  time  with  Selous 
in  the  vicinity  of  Sacramento,  and  in  1893  was 
obliged  to  retm-n  to  Natal  owing  to  having 
been  severely  mauled  by  a  lion.  In  1894  he 
was  again  in  Matabeleland,  and  took  an  active 
part  m  the  RebelUon  of  '96.  In  '97  he  lec- 
tured throughout  the  North  of  Scotland  on 
Rhodesia  and  S.A;  generally. 

He  is  senior  partner  of  the  firm  of  Finnie 
&  Finnie,  Agents  and  Brokers  of  Gwelo,  and 
is  interested  in  many  mining  ventures. 

FITZ-PATRICK,  Sir  James  Percy,  Knight 
Bachelor,  M.L.C.,  of  Hohenheim,  Johannes- 
burg, and  of  Buckland  Downs,  Harrismith, 
O.R.C.,  was  born  at  King  William's  Town, 
July  24,  1862.  He  is  the  son  of  the  Hon. 
James  Coleman  Fitz-Patrick,  an  Irish  bar- 
rister, who  supported  the  political  fortunes  of 
Daniel  O'Connell  in  liis  declining  years,  as  well 
as  those  of  the  Liberator's  son,  John  O'Con- 
nell, and  who  afterwards  became  Judge  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  C.C.  Sir  Percy  was 
educated  at  St.  Gregory's  Coll.,  Downside, 
near  Bath,  and  went  to  the  Transvaal  in  1884, 
where  he  has  resided  practically  ever  since, 
either  on  the  alluvial  diggings,  or  trading, 
hunting,  or  prospecting.  In  1886  he  settled 
at  Barberton,  leaving  there  three  years  later 
for  the  Witwatersrand.  He  accompanied  the 
Randolph  Churchill  expedition  through 
Mashonaland  in  1891,  and  in  1892,  on  return- 
ing to  Johannesburg,  took  charge  of  the  Intel- 
ligence Department  of  the  firm  of  H.  Eckstein 
&  Co.,  of  which  he  became  a  partner  in  1898, 
representing  the  firm  on  the  boards  of  many 
of  the  premier  mining  Cos.  of  the  Rand. 
Few  men  are  more  conversant  with  all  the 
details  of  the  mining  industry,  or  with  the 
general  affairs  of  the  Transvaal  than  Sir  Percy, 
as  those  will  know  who  remember  his  evidence 
before  the  Industrial  Commission  in  1897,  and 
subsequently  before  the  Concessions  Com- 
mission. He  was  one  of  the  first  to  become 
associated  with  the  Reform  Committee  in 
1895,  to  which  he  acted  as  an  indefatigable 
Hon.  Secretary.  For  his  participation  in  that 
movement  he  was  arrested  in  January,  1896, 
and  with  other  ringleaders  was  refused  bail. 
He  was  put  on  trial  in  April  for  high  treason 
against  the  Govt,  of  the  S.A.R.,  and  was 
condemned  to  suffer  two  years'  imprison- 
ment, to  pay  a  fine  of  £2,000,  or  as  an  alterna- 


Anglo- African  Who's  Who 


53 


tive  another  year's  imprisonment,  and  there- 
after to  be  banished  from  the  State  for  a  period 
of  three  years.  This  sentence  was  reduced  to  one 
year's  imprisonment  in  the  following  May,  but 
he  was  released  during  the  same  month. 

In  1897,  when  everybody  thought  (and 
rightly)  that  the  Industrial  Commission  was 
intended  merely  as  a  farce.  Sir  Percy  never- 
theless pressed  hard  for  the  Uitlanders  to  take 
it  seriously,  if  only  for  the  purpose  of  once 
more  putting  their  case  on  record.  In  Feb., 
1899,  although  this  fact  is  not  generally  known, 
it  was  he  who  suggested  to  the  Transvaal 
Govt,  a  conference  between  Mr.  Kriiger 
and  Lord  Milner,  and  another  between  the 
Govt,  and  the  people  of  Johannesburg. 
Tliis  was  a  most  earnest  and  sincere  effort  to 
avert  war,  as  Sir  Percy  plainly  stated,  and  his 
suggestions  resulted  in  the  "  Bloemfontein 
Conference "  and  the  "  Capitalist  Negotia- 
tions." However,  these  meetings  were  turned 
by  the  Boer  Govt,  to  purposes  other  than 
peace.  As  evidence  of  his  party's  sincerity, 
he  proposed,  in  order  to  remove  causes  of  con- 
stant friction,  that  the  mining  people  should 
forego  their  Bewaarplaatsen  Rights,  and  buy 
them  at  a  valuation  instead  of  going  to  law 
and  to  the  Rand  for  restitution  in  toto,  and 
should  also  acquiesce  in  the  Dynamite  Monopoly, 
"  provided  the  profits,  as  originally  intended, 
should  go  to  the  Govt."  ;  in  fact,  that  the 
terms  of  the  original  concession  should  be 
enforced,  if  the  Govt,  would  introduce  the 
reforms  in  administration  of  the  Liquor  and 
other  laws,  as  recommended  by  the  Indus- 
trial Commission,  and  make  some  equitable 
concession  of  political  rights  to  the  Uitlanders. 
When  the  Capitalist  Negotiations  came  about 
the  Govt.,  at  first  through  Mr.  Lippert, 
and  afterwards  through  Dr.  Leyds  and  Mr. 
Reitz,  refused  to  allow  Sir  Percy  (although 
a  partner  in  the  leading  house  of  Eckstein) 
to  take  part.  He  was  the  one  barred.  As 
soon,  however,  as  the  Government  tried  to 
introduce  the  Franchise  question,  the  other 
representatives  of  the  Capitalists  refused  to 
take  part  until  Sir  Percy  Fitz-Patrick  and 
some  other  representatives  of  the  Uitlanders 
were  admitted.  After  some  delay  the  Govt. 
gave  way,  but  Sir  Percy  would  not  par- 
ticipate in  the  negotiations  without  a  A\Titten 
invitation  wliich  would  release  him  from  the 
condition  of  three  years'  silence  which  had 
been  imposed  on  him  in  connection  with  the 
Reformers'  sentences.  This  was  given,  and  Sir 
Percy,    having   been   authorized   by  the   repre- 


sentatives of  all  classes  to  voice  their  case, 
went  into  the  matter  heart  and  sovil,  incidentally 
proving  step  by  step  how  the  Govt,  had 
authorized  the  negotiations,  and  showing  the 
devices  by  which  they  had  sought  to  inveigle 
the  negotiators  into  a  false  move.  Sir  Percy 
drew  up  the  five  years'  Franchise  memorandum 
which  was  embodied  in  the  Capitalist  Nego- 
tiators' documents  (published  in  March  or 
April,  1899),  and  which  afterwards  served  as 
the  basis  of  Lord  Milner' s  Bloemfontein  pro- 
posals. Before  sending  this  memo,  in,  he 
showed  it  to  the  State  Secy,  and  State 
Attorney  in  Pretoria,  who  both  said  that  it 
was  absolutely  just,  but  that  Mr.  Kriiger 
would  never  be  induced  to  agree  to  it.  Sir 
Percy's  answer  to  this  was,  "  Well,  let  us  try. 
Let  it  be  a  basis  for  discussion,  to  bring  us 
together,  and  avert  trouble." 

Sir  Percy,  as  spokesman  for  the  guarantors 
of  the  War  Loan  and  representative  of  the 
public  committee,  took  a  principal  part  in 
the  War  Debt  negotiations  with  Mr.  Chamber- 
lain. He  is  one  of  the  non-official  members 
of  the  first  Transvaal  Legislative  Council,  and 
was  elected  by  that  body  as  one  of  the  two 
Transvaal  Representatives  on  the  Inter- 
Colonial  Coimcil  of  the  Transvaal  and  O.R.C., 
from  which  he  resigned  in  1904.  He  was 
Pres.  of  the  Witwatersrand  Chamber  of  IMines 
in  1902. 

Sir  Percy  has  a  facile  pen.  He  was  years 
ago  editor  of  the  "  Barberton  Herald,"  and 
besides  many  able  contributions  to  the  Press 
on  questions  of  the  moment,  he  has  published 
an  account  of  his  Mashonaland  trip,  "  Through 
Mashonaland  with  Pick  and  Pen,"  and  a  charm- 
ing volume  of  short  stories  under  the  name  of 
"  The  Outspan."  But  in  England  he  will  be 
more  generally  kno\vn  as  the  author  of  "  The 
Transvaal  from  Within  "—a  work  which  is 
everywhere  regarded  as  the  text-book  upon 
the  events  which  led  up  to  the  inception  of 
the  Reform  movement,  and  eventually  cul- 
minated in  raid  and  war.  Sir  Percy  was  made 
a  Knight  Bachelor  in  1902  m  recognition  of 
his  great  ser\dces  in  connection  with  S.A. 
He  married,  February  16,  1889,  EHzabeth 
Lillian,   dau.    of  John  "Cubitt,  of  Pretoria. 

FLEMING,  Dr.  Andrew  Milrog,  C.M.G. 
(1898),  of  Salisbury,  Rhodesia,  and  of  the  Bad- 
minton Club,  was  born  at  Edinbi.u-gh,  Jan.  28, 
1871.  He  is  son  of  Rev.  John  Fleming,  of 
Edinburgh ;  was  edvicated  at  Durham  Sch. 
and     Edinburgh    Univ.,    and    holds    the    de- 


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grees  M.B.,C.M.,  F.R.C.S.E.,and  D.P.H.Camb. 
He  has  been  for  many  years  in  S.A.  ;  served  in 
the  Mashonaland  RebeUion  in  1896-97  ;  is 
Medical  Director  and  Inspector  of  Hospitals  for 
Rhodesia,  and  P.M.O.  of  the  B.S.A.  PoUce.  He 
married,  in  1896,  Philadelphia  Alice,  dau.  of  the 
late  Wm.  Fisher,  of  British  Columbia. 

FLEMING,  Charles  David,  J.P.,  of  Gwelo, 
Rhodesia,  is  son  of  Rev.  John  Fleming,  of  Edin- 
burgh, where  he  was  born  Sept.  15,  1869  ;  was 
educated  at  the  Edinburgh  Acad,  and 
Univ.,  and  joined  the  B.S.A.  Co.'s  service,  Oct. 
28,  1895.  He  served  through  the  Matabele  Re- 
beUion in  1 896  (medal ),  and  was  appointed  Mining 
Commissioner  at  Gwelo  April  1,  1899.  He 
married,  June  3,  1903,  Lily,  youngest  dau.  of 
the  late  Donald  Mackenzie,  J. P.,  of  Gaisloch, 
Rosshire. 

FLINT,  Rev.  William,  D.D.,  of  Wahnunster 
Park,  Rosebank,  C.C.,  was  born  at  Stand- 
bridge,  Bedford,  and  educated  at  Leighton 
Buzzard  and  Headingley  Coll.  ;  entered  the 
ministry  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church  in 
1879  ;  was  ordained  at  Hull  in  1882,  and  re- 
ceived appointments  at  Torquay,  Williton, 
Weston-super-Mare  and  Bournemouth.  His 
heath  failing,  he  visited  S.A.  in  1889,  where 
he  travelled  for  two  years,  and  in  1892 
joined  the  Conference  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist 
Church  of  S.A.,  and  was  appointed  succes- 
sively to  Maritzburg  and  Cape  Town.  He 
founded  and  was  the  first  editor  of  "  The  Metho- 
dist Chiu"chman,"  and  later  became  a  minister 
without  pastoral  charge.  In  1899  he  was 
elected  second  Pres.  of  the  Cape  Peninsula 
Church  Council.  In  1901  he  was  appointed 
Librarian  of  the  Cape  Parliament.  He  is  a 
Doctor  of  Divinity  of  the  Wesleyan  Theological 
Coll.  of  the  McGill  Univ.,  Montreal,  a  Mem- 
ber of  the  Council  of  the  University  of  the 
Cape  of  Good  Hope,  of  the  S.A.  Philosophi- 
cal Society,  and  also  of  the  S.A.  Asso- 
ciation for  the  Advancement  of  Science, 
being  appointed  editor  of  the  first  volxmie  of  the 
proceedings  of  the  latter  association.  Has  con- 
tributed extensively  to  reviews,  magazines  and 
journals.  He  married,  in  1892,  Margaret,  dau. 
of  Alexander  IMcGregor  of  Rondebosch,  for- 
merly Mayor  of  Kimberley. 

FLOYER,  Ernest  Ayscoghe,  of  Slddbrook, 
near  Louth,  Lines.,  and  of  the  Oriental  Club,  was 
born  in  Lincolnshire  July  4,  1852  ;  was  educated 
at  Charterhouse;    joined  the  Bengal  Civil  Ser- 


vice (uncovenanted)  in  1869 ;  was  called  to 
Egypt  to  assist  in  reforms  in  connection  with  the 
Railways  and  Telegraphs  in  1878,  and  has  re- 
mained there  ever  since,  taking  part  in  the  cam- 
paign of  1882  (Egyptian  medal  and  clasp,  bronze 
star).  He  is  the  author  of  "  Unexplored  Balu- 
chistan," "  Etude  sur  le  Nord  Etbai,"  and  cer- 
tain scientific  papers  in  Arabic.  He  married, 
Sept.  1,  1887,  Miss  Mary  Louisa  Watson. 

FORESTIER-WALKER,  Major  G.  J.,  R.A. 
(local  Lieut. -Col.),  entered  the  Royal  Artillery 
as  Lieut,  in  1894  ;  obtained  his  Captaincy  in 
1895,  and  became  Major  in  1900.  In  the  late 
Anglo-Boer  War  he  served  on  Lord  Methuen's 
Staff  in  the  advance  on  Kimberley,  and  was  sub- 
sequently with  Lord  Roberts'  Army  up  to  the 
capture  of  Pretoria  and  the  operations  to  the  east 
of  that  place. 

With  the  local  rank  of  Lieut. -Col.  he  took  part 
in  the  operations  against  the  Mullah  in  Somali- 
land  in  1903-04,  and  was  slightly  wounded  at 
Jidballi. 

FORRESTER,  Thomas  Paul  Wallace,  of 
48,  Kensington  Mansions,  London,  was  born  at 
Gravesend,  England,  in  1853  ;  is  the  eldest  son 
of  William  Alexander  Forrester,  of  Juniper 
Green,  Edinburgh,  and  was  educated  at  the 
Albion  House  Acad.,  Woolwich.  He  has 
been  connected  with  the  S.A.  trade  nearly 
all  his  life  with  the  great  ship  owners  and 
shipping  house  of  Houlder  Brothers  &  Co. ,  Ltd. , 
of  which  he  is  now  Managing  Director,  and  he 
is  also  a  Director  of  the  Houlder  Line,  Ltd. 
During  this  time  he  has  made  many  visits 
to  S.A.  He  has  had  nearly  23  years'  ser- 
vice as  an  officer  in  the  Essex  Vohmteer  Ar- 
tillery, joining  as  Second- Lieut,  and  retiring  in 
1899  with  the  rank  of  Lieut.-Col.  and  the  Volun- 
teer Decoration  (1898),  since  when  he  has  con- 
tinued to  render  service  on  the  Council  of  the 
National  Artillery  Association.  His  principal 
recreations  are  boating  and  walking.  Mr. 
Forrester  was  married  in  1880  to  Mary,  dau. 
of  Henry  Mills,  of  London. 

FORT,  George  Seymour,  of  2,  Little  Stan- 
hope Street,  Mayfair,  and  of  the  Bath  Club,  is 
the  son  of  the  Rev.  B.  Fort,  Rector  of  Cooper- 
sale,  Essex,  and  was  educated  at  Uppingham 
and  Oxford  where  he  graduated  B.A.  He  was 
Private  Secy,  to  Maj.-Gen.  Sir  Peter  Scratchley, 
High  Commissioner  of  New  Guinea  and  the 
Western  Pacific,  1885-86;  Private  Secy,  to  the 
Right   Hon.    Lord   Loch,   Melbourne,   Victoria, 


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1886-89.  In  the  latter  year  he  proceeded  to 
Cape  Town,  where  he  remained  until  1891.  He 
was  appointed  magistrate  in  Umtali,  Manicaland, 
in  1893.  Mr.  Fort  was  well  knowTi  in  the  row- 
ing world,  having  taken  part  in  the  Oxford  and 
Cambridge  races  in  1893-94.  He  is  the  author 
of  various  articles  on  Australia  and  S.A.,  which 
at  the  time  of  publication  excited  great  interest. 

FOSTER,  Edw.4lRD  William  Perceval, 
C.M.G.,  Second  Class  Order  of  the  Osmania, 
Second  Class  Order  of  the  Medjidieh,  of  7,  Rue 
des  Ptolemees,  Alexandria,  Egypt,  was  born  in 
Mauritius  Dec.  26,  1850.  He  is  son  of  the  late 
Major-Gen.  E.  H.  H.  Foster  of  the  12th  Regt. 
and  the  18th  Regimental  District,  his  mother 
being  youngest  davi.  of  Capt.  G.  Fairbairn  Dick, 
late  Colonial  Secy.,  Mauritius.  He  was  educated 
privately  and  at  the  Thomason  Engineering 
Coll.,  Roorkee,  India.  He  joined  the  Irrigation 
Branch  of  the  Indian  Pubhc  Works  Dept.  in 
1871,  and  was  selected  for  employment  in  the 
Irrigation  Service  of  Egypt  in  1884-.  He  re- 
signed his  office  under  Govt,  ten  years 
later  to  take  up  the  managing  direction  of  the 
Bahera  Company,  which  is  largely  interested  in 
land  reclamation.  He  married,  Feb.  24,  1875, 
Annie,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  Christopher 
Strachan,  of  Inverness. 

FOSTER,  J.,M.L.A.,is  a  member  of  the  S.A. 
party,  and  was  elected  to  represent  the  division 
of  Oudtshoorn  at  the  general  election  in  Feb., 
1904. 

FOX,  Sib  Douglas,  Knt.,  of  12,  Queen's 
Gate  Gardens,  S.W.,  and  the  St.  Stephen's  and 
National  Clubs,  was  born  at  Smethwick,  May  14, 
1840  ;  is  the  eldest  surviving  son  of  the  late  Sir 
Charles  Fox ;  was  educated  at  Cholmondeley 
Sch.,  Highgate,  and  King's  Coll.,  London,  of 
which  he  is  a  Fellow.  He  is  a  civil,  mechanical 
and  electrical  engineer,  and  senior  partner  of  the 
firm  of  Sir  Douglas  Fox  and  Partners  ;  Past  Pros, 
of  the  Institute  of  Civil  Engineers,  Member  of 
the  Institutes  of  Mechanical  and  Electrical  En- 
gineers, and  Hon.  Member  of  the  American 
Institutes  of  Civil  and  Mechanical  Engineers. 
Sir  Douglas  has  been  prominently  identified 
with  railway  enterprise  in  S.A.  He  is 
joint  engineer  with  Sir  Charles  Metcalfe  to  the 
Rhodesian  and  Mashonaland  Railways,  Joint 
Consulting  Engineer  to  the  Cape  Govt.  Railways, 
and  Joint  Consulting  Engineer  to  the  African 
Concessions  Co.,  which  holds  the  concession  for 
the  use  of  the  water  power  of  the  Victoria  Falls. 


He  was  knighted  in  1886  in  connection  with  his 
work  as  engineer  of  the  Mersey  Railway  tunnel. 
He  married.  May  26,  1863,  Mary,  dau.  of  the  late 
Francis  Wright,  of  Osmaston  Manor,  Derby. 

FOX,  Henry  Wilson,  B.A.,  of  4,  Halkin 
Street,  London,  S.W.,  and  of  the  Junior  Carlton, 
Wellington,  and  Prince's  Clubs,  was  born  at 
Cavendish  Square,  London,  Aug.  18,  1863.  He 
is  the  son  of  Wilson  Fox,  M.D.,  Physician  in 
Ordinary  to  her  late  Majesty  Queen  Victoria  ; 
was  educated  at  Charterhouse,  Marlborough 
Coll.,  Univ.  Coll.,  Lend.,  and  Trinity  Coll., 
Camb.,  of  which  he  was  Exhibitioner  and 
Scholar ;  B.A.,  Natural  Science  Tripos.  He 
was  called  to  the  Bar,  Nov.  29,  1888,  and  was 
Equity  Scholar  of  Lincoln's  Inn  (1888).  He  was 
admitted  Advocate  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
Colony  of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  and  Advocate 
of  the  High  Com-t  of  Southern  Rhodesia  in  1894. 

Mr.  Wilson  Fox  went  to  Johannesbin*g  at  the 
beginning  of  1889,  and  in  1892  became  editor  of 
the  "  S.A.  Mining  Journal,"  in  which  capacity 
he  assisted  Mr.  John  Hays  Hammond  in  drafting 
the  Rhodesian  Mining  Laws,  which  first  brought 
him  into  touch  with  Mr.  Rhodes,  and  led  to  his 
being  appointed  Public  Prosecutor  of  Rhodesia 
in  the  same  year.  He  served  through  the  rising 
in  Matabeleland  with  the  Salisbury-Gwelo 
Relief  Column  in  1896,  and  in  the  following  year 
he  went  through  the  Mashonaland  campaign  as 
Director  of  Transport  and  Commissariat,  with 
quite  exceptional  success  under  quite  exceptional 
difficiilties  (despatches,  medal,  with  clasp).  He 
returned  to  England  for  a  hohday  in  May,  1897, 
and  was  vmexpectedly  offered  the  appointment, 
in  June,  1898,  of  Manager  of  the  B.S.A.  Co. 
— a  responsible  and  arduous  position  wliich 
he  still  fills  (now  jointly  with  Mr.  J.  F.  Jones, 
q.v.),  also  representing  the  Chartered  Co.  on 
the  boards  of  many  of  the  principal  Rhodesian 
Cos.  He  took  a  large  share  in  the  extraordinarily 
successful  flotation  of  the  Charter  Trust  and 
Agency,  of  which  he  is  also  a  Director.  His  duties 
mainly  lie  in  connection  with  the  commercial 
aspect  of  the  Chartered  Co.,  for  which  his  all- 
round  knowledge  of  mining,  finance  and  law 
gives  him  exceptional  authority.  Mr.  Fox  is  one 
of  the  most  popular  men  in  S.A.  circles  ;  is  a  fine 
speaker,  and  a  fervad  supporter  of  the  imperial- 
istic ideals  of  the  late  Cecil  Rhodes.  He  repre- 
sented Cambridge  University  at  lawn  tennis  in 
1885-6,  and  has  made  that  game  and  golf  his 
principal  recreations  since.  He  married,  July 
19,  1898,  the  Hon.  Eleanor  Sclater-Boothe,  a 
sister  of  the  present  Lord  Basing. 


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FRASER,  WrLUAM  Pebcy,  of  Johannesburg, 
and  of  the  Pretoria  and  Rand  Chibs,  was  born  at 
Ipswich,  Oct.  26,  1849.  He  is  son  of  Wm. 
Fraser,  of  j  Grimdisbvirgh  Hall,  near  Woodbridge, 
Suffolk ;  was  educated  at  the  Gram.  Sch., 
Ipswich,  and  went  to  S.A.  in  1879,  serving  as  a 
Volunteer  during  the  siege  of  Pretoria,  1880-1. 
In  conjunction  with  the  late  Advocate,  H.  W.  A. 
Cooper,  of  Pretoria,  he  formulated  the  Gold 
Law  No.  1  of  1883  ;  was  a  member  of  the  first 
Diggers'  Committee  of  the  Witwatersrand 
throughout  its  existence  ;  was  a  member  of  the 
National  Union  at  Johannesbiu'g  prior  to  the 
S.A.  War  of  1899,  and  was  afterwards  a  member 
of  the  Uitlander  Committee  at  Dm-ban.  Mr. 
Fraser  has  been  on  the  Witwatersrand  Council 
of  Education  since  its  inception,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  governing  body  of  the  Technical  Institute 
for  the  Transvaal.  He  mai-ried  Miss  Ellen  Maud 
Cook,  of  Estcourt,  Natal. 

FREMANTLE,  Professor  Henry  Eabdly 
Stephen,  M.A.,  F.S.S.,  of  Bedwell  Cottage, 
Rosebank,  C.C.  ;  Swanbourne,  Muizenburg, 
C.C,  and  the  Civil  Service  Club,  Cape 
Town,  was  born  at  Bedwell  Park,  Hatfield, 
Herts,  Aug.  6,  1874  ;  is  the  son  of  the  Hon.  and 
Very  Rev.  W.  H.  Fremantle,  Dean  of  Ripon, 
who  was  son  of  the  first  Lord  Cottesloe  and  the 
Hon.  Mrs.  W.  H.  Fremantle.  He  was  educated 
at  Eton  and  Oriel  Coll.,  Oxon..  ;  First  Class 
Classics,  Oxon,  1895-7  ;  Lecturer  in  Greek  at 
University  Coll.,  Aberystwyth,  1897-8 ;  Lec- 
turer, Worcester  Coll.,  Oxon.,  1898-9  ;  Professor 
of  English  and  Philosophy  at  the  S.A.  Coll., 
Cape  Town,  1899  ;  Member  of  the  LTniversity 
Council,  1899  ;  Professor  of  Philosophy  alone 
at  the  S.  African  Coll.,  1903.  In  1903 
he  was  Secy,  of  Section  "  D "  of  the  South 
African  Assn.  for  the  advancement  of  Science, 
and  Mem.  of  the  Council  of  the  Assn.,  and  pro- 
ceeded to  England  in  that  year  to  collect  funds 
in  aid  of  the  Prince  of  Wales'  Professorship  of 
History  at  the  S.A.  Coll.  Prof.  Fremantle 
published  in  1899  "  Oxford,  A  Retrospect 
from  South  Africa "  ;  he  edited  the  "  South 
African  Educator  "  in  1902,  and  in  1903  he  re- 
signed his  professorship  at  the  S.A.  Coll.  to  be- 
come joint-ed.  of  the  Bond  paper,  the  "  South 
African  News,"  and  Director  of  the  S.A. 
Newspaper  Co.  In  politics,  he  was  a  Progressive 
until  the  split  in  that  party  on  the  question  of 
Suspension,  when  he  went  over  to  the  new  S.A. 
party.  In  view  ■  of  the  changes  in  parties 
which  have  recently  taken  place  in  S.A.  he  is 
careful  to  define  himself  further  as  not  of  the  Old 


S.A.  party,  or  of  the  New  Progressive  party. 
He  was  unsuccessful  Bond  candidate  at  the 
general  election  in  C.C.  in  1904.  He  mar- 
ried, Apr.  20,  1899,  Margaret  EHzabeth, 
youngest  dau.  of  Alexander  MacDonald, 
Keeper  of  the  University  Galleries,  Oxon. 

FROST,  Hon.  John,  M.L.A.,  C.M.G.,  of 
Thibet  Park,  Queenstown,  C.C,  is  a  progres- 
sive farmer  in  that  division.  He  served  as 
Conunandant  of  Volunteers  in  the  frontier  wars 
of  1877-78,  receiving  the  thanks  of  Parliament 
and  the  C.M.G.  for  his  services.  He  entered 
the  Cape  Parliament  as  member  ^or  Queenstown 
as  far  back  as  1874,  and  has  represented  that 
division  ever  since,  being  last  re-elected  in  1904. 
He  took  office  in  the  second  Rhodes  Ministry  in 
1893,  first  as  Secy,  for  Native  Affairs  and 
then  as  Secy,  for  Agriculture,  going  out  in  the 
great  Rhodes  smash  in  1896.  In  1900,  however, 
he  entered  Sir  G.  Sprigg's  Cabinet  as  Minister 
without  portfolio,  but  in  June,  1902,  he  became 
Secy,  for  Agricultiu-e.  He  was  not  included  in 
Dr.  Jameson's  Cabinet  in  1904,  although  he  is  a 
supporter  of  his  party. 

FULLER,  Hon.  Arthur  John,  M.L.A.,  a 
merchant  and  farmer  of  the  Eastern  Province 
of  the  Cape  Colony.  He  is  a  strong  supporter 
of  the  Progressive  cause  in  the  Colony  ;  was 
re-elected  member  of  the  Legislative  Assembly 
for  Tembuland  at  the  general  election  in  Feb. 
1904,  and  joined  Dr.  Jameson's  first  Ministry  as 
Secy,  for  Agriculture  in  the  same  month. 

FULLER,  Thomas  Ekins,  Agent-Gen.  for 
Cape  of  Good  Hope,  of  100,  Victoria  Street,  S.W., 
39,  Hyde  Park  Gate,  S.W.,  and  of  St.  Stephen's 
Club,  Westminster,  was  born  at  West  Drayton, 
Middlesex,  in  August,  1831,  is  the  son  of  the  Rev. 
Andrew  Gunton  Fuller,  and  was  educated  at 
Bristol  Coll.  He  became  Baptist  Minister  at 
Melksham  (Wilts),  Lewes  and  Luton  in  the  early 
part  of  his  career,  and  contributed  to  the  London 
Press  until  Aug.,  1864,  when  he  proceeded  to 
Cape  Town,  there  to  become  Ed.  of  the  "  Cape 
Argus."  He  was  Cape  Govt.  Emigration  Agent 
in  London  from  1873  to  1875,  when  he  resigned 
that  office  to  accept  the  general  managership  of 
the  Union  Steamship  Co.'s  Agency  in  the  Cape 
Colony.  This  latter  office  he  held  until  Dec. 
1898,  when  he  resigned  it  and  became  a  Director 
of  De  Beer's  Consolidated  Mines,  Ltd.,  in  the 
Colony.  He  was  elected  a  Member  of  the  House 
of  Assembly  for  Cape  Town  in  1878, 1884  and  1888,' 
and  resigned  his  seat  therein  on  being  offered  the 


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office  of  Agent-Gen.  for  the  Cape  of  Good 
Hope  in  London,  the  duties  of  which  he 
assumed  on  Jan.  1,  1902.  He  married:  first,  in 
1855,  Mary  Playne,  dau.  of  Isaac  Hillier,  of 
Nailsworth,  Glos. ;  and  second,  in  1875,  Eliza- 
beth Fuller,  dau.  of  the  Rev.  Thos.  Mann,  of 
Cowes,   I.W. 

FULTjER,  William  Henby,  of  East  London, 
S.A.,  and  of  the  East  London  and  King  Wil- 
liam's Town  Clubs,  is  the  son  of  T.  E.  Fuller, 
C.M.G.  (q.v.),  Agent-Gen.  for  the  Colony  of 
the  Cape  of  Good  Hope.  He  was  born  July  6, 
1858,  at  Melksham,  Wiltshire,  and  was  educated 
at  the  S.A.  Coll.,  Cape  Town,  and  the 
London  Univ.  Sch.  He  has  the  medal  for 
the  Kafir  War  1877,  and  during  tlie  Boer 
War,  1899-1902,  he  commanded  as  Lieut. -Col. 
the  East  London  Town  Guard.  At  the  present 
he  is  Director  of  Dyer  &  Dyer,  Ltd.,  Chairman 
of  the  East  London  Harbour  Board  and  Con- 
sular-Agent for  the  U.S.A.  He  takes  a  great 
interest  in  athletic  sports,  and  is  Pres.  of  the 
EajSt  London  Rowing  Association. 

GARDINER,  Edward  Bennett,  of  4, 
Bichenhali  Mansions,  Portman  Square,  London  ; 
Carse  Grange,  Errol,  Perthshire,  Scotland ;  and 
of  the  City  (Cape  Town),  Rand,  Gresham,  and 
S.A.  Clubs  ;  is  the  eldest  son  of  the  late  George 
Gardiner,  of  Dublin,  and  is  descended  from  an 
old  Perthshire  family,  the  late  George  Gar- 
diner ha.ving  been  one  of  the  first  managers  of 
the  National  Bank  of  Ireland.  Mr.  E.  B. 
Gardiner  resided  for  five  years  in  Bohemia, 
Austria  (at  the  «  utset  of  his  career),  where  he 
represented  the  London  Board  of  Directors  of  a 
large  colliery  Co.  carrying  on  business  in  Bo- 
hemia ;  he  then  entered  the  service  of  the 
Standard  Bank  of  S.A.,  Ltd.,  where  he  remained 
for  over  thirty  years,  retiring  therefrom  in  Jan., 
1902.  During  Mr.  Gardiner's  period  of  service 
in  the  Standard  Bank  he  held  for  a  considerable 
time  the  post  of  Manager  at  the  Johannesburg 
Branch,  and  from  this  position  he  was  promoted 
to  the  office  of  Assist.  Gen.  IManager  of  the  Bank 
in  S.A.,  which  office  he  held  on  his  retirement. 
Mr.  Gardiner  is  well  known  throughout  S.A. , 
and  is  now  resident  in  London  and  holds  seats 
on  the  Boards  of  the  follo%ving  Cos.  :  the  Johan- 
nesburg Consolidated  Investment  Co.,  Ltd.;  the 
Carlton  Hotels  (S.A.),  Ltd.  (Chairman);  the 
Kitson  Incandescent  Lighting  Co.  of  S.A.,  Ltd. ; 
the  British  Engineers'  Alliance,  Ltd.,  and  is  on 
the  London  Committee  of  South  Knights,  Ltd., 
and  the  Hercules  Deeps,  Ltd.     He  married,  in 


1868,  Sidonia,  dau.  of  the  late  Capt.  F.  Von 
Docringk,  of  the  Austrian  Army,  and  has  issue 
one  son,  Frederick  Maurice  Gardiner,  and  two 
daughters,  Madeline  Louisa  Sidonia  (married  to 
E.  M.  Clarke),  and  Ester  Annabel. 

GARDINER,  Frederick  George,  B.A.,  of 
Hillside,  Bower  Road,  Wynbiu-g,  Cape  Town,  and 
of  the  Civil  Service  Club  (C.T.),  was  born  in 
London  Apr.  19,  1874.  He  is  only  son  of  E.  B. 
Gardiner  (q.v.)  ;  was  educated  at  the  Diocesan 
Coll.,  Rondebosch,  and  at  Keble  Coll.,  Oxon, 
and  graduated  B.A.  at  the  Cape  Univ.  and 
at  Oxford.  He  was  called  to  the  Bar  of  the 
Middle  Temple  about  the  year  1895,  and  prac- 
tises at  the  Cape  Bar.  He  has  already  been 
senior  counsel  in  several  important  cases,  and 
amongst  other  causes  celebres  he  conducted  the 
defences  of  Gen.  Ivritzinger  and  Judge  Koch, 
both  of  whom  were  acquitted.  He  was  also 
engaged  in  the  famous  Princess  Radziwill  case 
and  in  the  Cape  "  ragging  "  case,  Stamford  v. 
certain  officers.  Mr.  Gardiner  is  a  member  of 
the  Council  of  the  Diocesan  Coll.,  Rondebosch, 
and  married,  Jan.  6,  1901,  Stella  Clare  Brailey, 
dau.  of  an  English  bank  manager. 

GARDNER,    Lieut. -Col.    Alan,  J.P.,  D.L., 

of  Clearwell  Castle,  Glos.  ;  5,  Grosvenor  Crescent, 
Belgrave  Square  ;  and  of  the  Turf,  Wliite's,  and 
St.  James'  Clubs,  was  born  Nov.  19,  1846  ;  is 
son  of  the  late  Alan  Legge,  Lord  Gardner,  and 
passed  Staff  Coll.  (1872).  He  served  in  the  Zulu 
Campaign  in  1879,  being  present  at  the  battles 
of  Isandhlwana,  Zlobane  I\Iountain  (horse  killed), 
and  Kambula,  where  he  was  severely  wounded. 
He  was  twice  mentioned  in  despatches  and  re- 
ceived the  medal  with  clasp  and  promotion  to 
a  brevet  majority.  In  1880  he  was  A.D.C.  to 
the  Viceroy  of  Ireland.  He  served  in  the  Boer 
War  of  1881,  and  contested  E.  Marylebone  as 
Liberal  candidate  in  1895.  Col.  Gardner  has 
shot  big  game  in  nearly  every  quarter,  accom- 
panied by  Mrs.  Gardner  (q.v.).  He  married, 
in  1885,  Nora  Beatrice,  eldest  dau.  of  Sir  James 
Blyth,  Bart.,  of  Blythswood,  Stansted,  and  33, 
Portland  Place,  W. 

GARDNER,  Mrs.  Nora  Beatrice,  of  Clear- 
weU  Castle,  Gloucestershire,  and  Newton  Hall, 
Dumnoro,  Essex,  in  which  comity  she  \\'as  born, 
is  the  eldest  dau.  of  Sir  James  Blyth,  Bart.,  and 
is  a  famous  sportswoman,  having  shot  bears, 
lions,  tigers  and  all  kinds  of  big  and  small  game 
in  Northern  India,  Assam,  Nepaul,  N.  America, 
Australia,  Abyssinia  and  Somaliland.     She  also 


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hunts,  fishes,  sketches,  is  an  excellent  horse- 
woman, and  is  fond  of  photography  and  needle- 
work. In  the  course  of  her  travels  she  has  ex- 
plored many  comparatively  unknown  countries. 
Mrs.  Gardner  is  absolutely  fearless  and  appa- 
rently quite  indifferent  to  the  extremes  of  heat 
and  cold  which  she  has  had  to  endure. 

Mrs.  Gardner  also  iinds  time  to  interest  her- 
self in  many  public  capacities,  being  Pres.  of  the 
Marylebone  Women's  Liberal  Association,  Pres. 
of  the  Clearwell  Reading  Rooms,  Vice-Pres.  of 
the  Liberal  Federation  of  Eng.,  Vice-Pres.  of  the 
Children's  Happy  Hom-s  Association,  Vice-Pres. 
of  the  Essex  Needlevt'ork  Guild,  and  vice-Pres. 
of  the  Social  League.  She  was  married,  in  1885, 
to  Col.  Alan  Gardner  (q.v.). 

GARLICK,  George,  M.L.A.,  represents  Cape 
Town  in  the  Progressive  interest  in  the  Cape 
Parliament,  to  which  he  was  returned  in  Feb., 
1904. 

GARRETT,  F.  Edmund.  While  editor  of 
the  "Cape  Times"  in  I89G,  he  rendered  much 
assistance  to  Sir  James  (then  Mr.)  Rose-Innes 
in  promoting  the  monster  petitions  throughout 
S.A.  which  were  a  considerable  factor  in 
hastening  the  release  of  the  Reform  prisoners. 
Of  sound  views,  political  stabiHty  and  indepen- 
dence of  thought,  he  rendered  great  services  to 
the  Progressive  party,  and  represented  Victoria 
East  in  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly.  He 
retm-ned  to  England  Sept.,  1902. 

GARSTIN,  Sir  William  Edmund,  K.C.M.G., 
Grand  Cordon  of  the  Osmanieh,  and  Grand 
Cordon  of  the  Medjidieh,  of  Cairo,  Egypt,  and  of 
Brooks'  and  the  St.  James'  Clubs,  is  the  son  of 
the  late  Charles  Garstin,  of  the  Bengal  Civil 
Service.  He  was  born  in  India  Jan.  29,  1849, 
and  educated  at  Cheltenham  Coll.  He  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  Indian  Public  Works  Dept. 
in  Oct.,  1872,  and  is  one  of  the  many  Indian 
public  servants  whose  services  were  lent  to 
Egypt  and  who  have  done  so  much  in  the  civil 
administration  of  that  country.  He  left  India  for 
Egypt  in  1885,  and  was  appointed  Inspector- 
Gen,  of  Irrigation  in  May,  1892,  and  Under- 
Secy.  of  State  for  Public  Works  in  Nov.,  1893.  It 
was  for  services  in  connection  with  the  Assouan 
Dam  that  he  gained  his  K.C.M.G.  In  1899  he  made 
trips  down  the  White  and  Blue  Niles,  his  joiir- 
neys  ending  respectively  200  and  700  miles  south 
of  Khartoum.  Recently  he  has  retiuried  to 
Cairo  after  a  journey  of  7,000  miles  for  the  pm*- 
pose   of  investigating  the  sources  of  the  Nile. 


Sir  William  Garstin  has  rendered  many  eminent 
services  to  Egypt. 

GAUGHREN,  Right  Rev.  Matthew,  Bishop 
of  Tentyra,  Vicar  Apostolic  of  Kimberley,  and 
Administrator  Apostolic  of  the  Transvaal  ;  of 
Bishop's  House,  80,  Dutoitspan  Road,  Kimber- 
ley, and  of  32,  Gold  St.  (Box  32),  Johannesburg, 
was  born  in  Dublin,  Apr.  7,  1843  ;  commenced 
his  education  at  a  couple  of  Dublin  schools,  and 
received  his  theological  training  chiefly  in 
France.  He  received  orders  to  a  Deaconship 
from  the  Bishop  of  Autun  ;  was  ordained  priest 
by  the  late  Cardinal  CuUen  on  Apr.  29,  1867, 
and  was  employed  thereafter  for  many  years 
in  parochial  work  in  Liverpool  and  in  the  East 
End  of  London.  He  spent  a  few  years  in  mis- 
sionary work  in  S.  America,  and  afterwards  in 
Australia.  For  six  years  he  was  stationed  in 
Leith,  Scotland,  where,  on  Mch.  16,  1902,  he 
was  consecrated  Bishop  to  succeed  his  brother, 
who  died  during  the  late  S.A.  War,  as  Vicar- 
Apostolic  of  Kimberley,  with  spiritual  charge 
of  the  O.R.C.  To  that  was  added  the  eccle- 
siastical  admimstration   of   the  Transvaal. 

GAUNT,  Commander,  R.N.,  C.M.G.,  of  H.M.S. 
Mohawk,  was  born  in  Australia,  and  is  a 
brother  of  Capt.  Guy  Gaunt  who  received  a 
sword  of  honour  from  the  King  of  Samoa  for 
gallantry  some  years  ago.  He  received  the 
C.M.G.  for  services  rendered  in  the  Far  East, 
and  the  Italian  silver  medal  for  gallantry  in 
action  was  bestowed  upon  him  in  recognition  of 
his  generous  initiative  and  gallant  conduct  in 
rescuing  an  Italian  comrade  during  the  operations 
in  Somaliland  in  1903. 

GAUSSEN,  Alfred,  of  3,  Walpole  St.,  Chel- 
sea ;  of  Southwold,  Suffolk,  and  of  the  Union 
Club,  London  ;  was  born  in  1855  ;  is  son  of 
Frederick  Gaussen,  Barrister-at-law  ;  was  edu- 
cated at  Eton  and  Christchvirch,  Oxon.  Mr. 
Gaussen  was  formerly  Lieut,  in  the  25th  Regt. 
(King's  Own  Borderers),  and  is  now  a  Director 
of  Henderson's  Transvaal  Estates  and  Hender- 
son's Consolidated  Corporation.  He  married 
Lady  Kathleen  Bernard,  youngest  dau.  of 
James,  Earl  of   Bandon. 

GELL,  Philip  Lyttelton,  J. P.,  M.A.,  of 
Hopton  Hall,  Derbyshire  ;  of  Langley  Lodge, 
nr.  Oxford;  and  of  Brooks',  Athenasimi, 
and  the  City  of  London  Clubs,  was  born  in  Lower 
Seymour  Street,  London,  W.,  Apr.  29,  1852. 
He   is   the   elder  surviving  son  of     Rev.   John 


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Philip  Gell,  Rector  of  Buxted,  of  Kirk  Langley, 
Derby,  and  of  Eleanor  Isabella  Franklin,  sole 
issue  of  Admiral  Sir  Jolm  Franklin,  K.C.H., 
the  Arctic  navigator.  Mr.  P.  Lyttelton  Gell 
was  educated  privately,  and  at  Balliol  Coll., 
Oxon,  where  he  graduated  M.A.  He  is  a 
Director  of  the  British  S.A.  Co.,  the  Foreign 
and  Colonial  Investment  Trust  Co.,  and  the 
Westminster  and  General  Life  Assurance 
Association.  He  married,  in  1889,  Hon.  Edith 
Brodrick,  dau.  of  Viscount  Midleton,  Lord- 
Lieut,  of  Stu*rey,  and  sister  of  the  Right  Hon. 
St.  John  Brodrick,  M.P. 

GIBBONS,  Major  Alfred  St.  Hill,  was  born 
Nov.  9,  1858.  He  was  educated  privately  and 
at  Christ's  Coll.,  Camb.,  and  took  a  coiximission 
as  Lieut,  in  the  3rd  East  Kent  Regt.  in  1882. 
He  served  in  the  B.B.P.  from  1890  to"l893,  being 
present  at  Rhodes'  Drift  at  the  time  of  the 
threatened  Boer  trek  into  Mashonaland.  In 
1894  he  originated  a  movement  in  favovu"  of  the 
preservation  of  big  game,  which  has  since  had 
far-reaching  effects  in  the  desired  direction.  He 
explored  a  large  district  in  the  Upper  Zambesi 
basin  in  1895-96,  and  from  1898  to  1900  led  an 
important  expedition  into  the  interior  of  Africa 
in  the  interests  of  Imperial  advancement  and 
geography.  He  compiled  a  map  of  Barotseland 
a3  far  as  tlie  Congo-Zambesi  watershed  in  the 
north  and  the  Kwito  River  in  the  west.  He 
was  the  first  to  navigate  the  Middle  Zambesi 
from  the  Kebrabasa  Rapids  to  the  Gwaai  con- 
fluence in  the  pioneer  steamer  Constance. 
He  discovered  the  source  of  the  Zambesi  in  1899 
and  has  followed  the  whole  course  of  that  river. 
The  combined  routes  of  this  great  expedition 
represented  a  mileage  of  upwards  of  20,000 
miles  beyond  the  reach  of  railways,  and  included 
the  journey  from  Cape  Town  to  Cairo,  and  from 
the  mouth  of  the  Zambesi  to  Benguella. 

Major  Gibbons  commanded  a  squadron  of 
Younghusband's  Horse  during  the  late  S.A.  War. 
He  is  the  author  of  ''  Exploration  and  Hunting 
in  Central  Africa,"  and  has  since  completed 
"  Africa  from  South  to  North  through  Marotse- 
land"  (1904). 

GIBSEN,  Harry,  J.P.  for  Cape  Town,  of 
Manis  Avenue,  Kenilworth,  near  C.T.,  and 
of  the  City  and  Civil  Service  Clubs,  C.T., 
is  the  son  of  Henry  Thomas  Gibsen,  who  was 
the  son  of  the  Rev.  John  Gibsen,  Vicar  of  Shef- 
field, and  of  the  dau.  of  John  Drewitt,  of 
Houghton,  Svissex.  He  was  born  April  27,  1863, 
at    Haslemere,    Surrey,    and    was    educated    at 


Reigate  Gram.  Sch.  and  Dulwich  Coll. 
He  is  Hon.  Corresponding  Secy,  of  the  Royal 
Colonial  Institute,  Fellow  and  Hon.  Member  of 
Society  of  Accountants  and  Auditors,  and  Hon. 
Secy.,  of  the  S.As  Committee  since  its  for- 
mation in  1893.  For  five  years — from  Jan., 
1879 — he  served  with  the  late  Charles  Freer, 
Public  AccoLintant ;  then  from  1884^89  Chief 
Accountant  to  S.A.  Loan  Mortgage  Mercantile 
Agency,  Ltd.,  of  Cape  Town  (for  some  time 
acting  as  Gen.  Manager)  ;  1889-1903  Gen. 
Manager  and  Secy,  of  the  S.A.  Association 
for  the  Administration  and  Settlement  of  Es- 
tates, which  he  resigned  June  30,  1903,  to  join 
the  firm  now  practising  as  Gibsen,  Close  &  Co., 
at  133,  Longmarket  Street,  Cape  Town.  Mr. 
Gibsen  takes  considerable  interest  in  technical 
education  and  philanthropic  work.  He  had  a 
large  share  in  organizing  and  re-building  both 
the  All  Saints'  House  for  Orphans  and  the  School 
of  Industry,  Cape  Town.  He  married,  Oct.  3, 
1899,  Henrietta  Louisa,  eldest  dau.  of  James 
Hewlett  Collard,  J.P.  of  Sea  Point,  near  Cape 
Town. 

GIFFORD,  Major,  Lord,  V.C,  of  Old  Park, 
Chichester,  Hants,  and  of  Salisbury  House,  Lon- 
don Wall,  E.C.,  was  born  July  5,  1849.  Edric 
Frederick  Gifford  is  son  of  the  2nd  Baron  Gif- 
ford,  whom  he  succeeded  in  the  title  in  1872. 
Three  years  previously  he  had  entered  the  Army, 
and  in  1873-4  Lieut.  Gifford  saw  his  first  active 
service  in  the  Ashanti  War,  taking  part  in  the 
repulse  of  the  Ashantees  at  Abrakampa,  Amoa- 
ful,  and  Beequah  (where  he  was  wounded).  He 
was  with  the  advance  guard  before  the  Prah, 
and  after  crossing  it,  commanded  the  scouting 
party  up  to  Coomassie,  and  was  present  at  the 
capture  of  that  town.  As  a  result  of  this  cam- 
paign he  was  mentioned  in  despatches,  received 
the  V.C,  medal  and  clasp,  and  was  promoted 
Capt.  In  the  Zulu  War  Lord  Gifford  joined  in 
the  pursuit  of  Cetywayo,  and  at  the  end  of  the 
operations  carried  home  the  despatches  (men- 
tioned in  despatch.  Queen's  medal  and  clasp, 
and  brevet  of  Major).  He  retired  from  the  ser- 
vice in  July,  1880,  and  from  that  year  until  1883 
acted  as  Colonial  Secy,  for  West  Australia,  and 
sat  in  the  Legislative  Council.  From  1883  to 
1888  he  was  Colonial  Secy,  of  Gibraltar.  He 
has  been  a  Director  of  the  B.S.A.  Co.  since  its 
inception,  and  is  Chairman  of  the  Bechuana- 
land  Exploration  Co.,  Charterland  Goldfields, 
Northern  Copper  (B.S.A.)  Co.,  Rhodesia 
Copper  Co.,  and  is  a  director  of  some  other 
S.A.  Cos. 


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GILL,  Sib  David,  K.C.B.  (1900),  Order  of  the 
Medjidieh  (1875)  ;  of  the  Royal  Observatory, 
Cape  of  Good  Hope,  and  the  Athenagum,  Cale- 
donian, and  Civil  Service  (C.T.)  Clubs; 
was  born  at  Aberdeen,  Scotland,  June  12,  1843. 
He  is  the  eldest  son  of  David  Gill,  of  Blairythan, 
Aberdeenshire ;  was  educated  at  Marischall 
Coll.  and  Univ.,  Aberdeen,  graduating  LL.D. , 
and  soon  applied  himself  to  ^the  study  of 
astronomy,  and  its  allied  sciences.  He  under- 
took the  direction  of  Lord  Lindsay's  private 
observatory  at  Dunecht,  near  Aberdeen  (1872- 
76)  ;  organized  Lord  Lindsay's  Transit  of 
Venus  Expedition  to  Mauritius  ;  made  a  series 
of  heliometer  observations  there  of  the  opposi- 
tion of  the  minor  planet  Jvmo  (a  new  and  original 
method  of  determining  the  Solar  Parallax),  con- 
nected the  longitudes  of  Berlin,  Malta,  Alex- 
andria, Suez,  Aden,  Seychelles,  Mauritius  and 
Rodriguez,  and  measured  a  base-line  for  the 
Geodetic  Survey  of  Egypt.  In  1877  he  organized 
an  expedition  to  Ascension  for  determining  the 
Solar  Parallax  by  heliometer  observations  of  the 
planet  Mars.  In  1879  he  was  appointed  H.M. 
Astronomer  at  the  Cape,  and  was  identified  with 
completing  the  records  of  his  office  and  the 
more  accurate  Geodetic  Survey  of  Natal  and 
C.C,  the  latter  work  alone,  begun  in  1883, 
taking  eleven  years  to  accomplish.  Thus  all  the 
accurately  determined  longitudes  on  the  East 
and  West  Coasts  of  Africa,  as  well  as  the  longi- 
tudes of  Mauritius,  Reunion  and  Seychelles,  were 
established  on  the  initiative  and  authority  of 
Sir  David  Gill.  In  1885  he  commenced  the  work 
of  photographing  all  the  stars  to  the  10th 
magnitude  from  18°  S.  to  the  S.  Pole,  assisted 
by  Prof.  J.  G.  Kapteyn  of  Groningen,  and  as  a 
result  three  large  volumes  of  Annals  of  the 
Cape  Observatory  were  published  showing  the 
places  and  magnitudes  of  454,875  stars.  In 
1886,  in  conjunction  with  Admiral  Mouchez,  he 
carried  through  an  international  scheme  for 
photographing  the  whole  sky  and  cataloguing 
all  stars  to  the  11th  order  of  magnitude,  and 
Sir  David  became  senior  member  of  the  per- 
manent committee,  whose  reuxiions  he  attended 
at  Paris  in  1887,  1891,  1896  and  1900.  In 
1881-83  he  conducted  a  series  of  determinations 
of  Stellar  Parallax,  and  in  1888-90  observations 
on  a  larger  scale  were  carried  out  at  Cape  Town, 
all  the  principal  observatories  of  the  world  co- 
operating, and  the  conclusions  as  derived  by  Sir 
David  in  his  final  discussion  of  the  whole  seiies 
were  adopted  for  use  in  the  nautical  almanacs 
and  astronomical  ephemerides  of  all  nations  at 
the  Paris  International  Congress  in   1896.     In 


that  year  Sir  David  Gill  was  entrusted  by  the 
British  and  German  Govts,  to  determine 
the  boundary  between  British  Bechuanaland 
and  German  S.W.  Africa,  and  the  necessary  sur- 
vey operations  have  been  in  progress  since  1897. 
He  took  the  initiative  in  interesting  Earl  Grey 
and  Mr.  Rhodes  in  a  Geodetic  Siu-vey  of  Rhodesia, 
and  the  project  of  carrying  the  work  along  the 
30th  meridian  from  the  South  to  the  Mediter- 
ranean is  already  being  extended  towards 
Tanganyika  under  his  direction.  The  execution 
of  the  Great  African  Are  of  Meridian  is  perhaps 
the  pet  scheme  of  Sir  David's  life.  Meanwhile, 
owing  to  the  munificence  of  Mr.  Frank  McClean, 
the  Cape  Observatory  has  been  fitted  with  a 
complete  equipment  for  astrophysical  research, 
and  Sir  David  has  been  able  to  greatly  extend 
the  scope  of  his  operations  and  the  volume  of  his 
work,  and  under  his  direction  the  observatory 
has  become  by  far  the  most  important  one  in 
the  Southern  Hemisphere. 

Sir  David  Gill  is  a  F.R.S. — one  of  the  twenty 
Hon.  F.R.S.  Edin.  ;  correspondent  of  the  Inst, 
of  France  (Acad,  des  Sciences)  ;  corresponding 
mem.  of  the  Academies  of  Science  of  Berlin,  St. 
Petersburg,  of  the  Spectroscopic  Soc.  of  Rome, 
and  mem.  of  the  Academies  of  Science  of  Amster- 
dam, Washington,  New  York,  as  also  of  many 
other  scientific  bodies.  He  is  a  gold  medallist 
of  the  Royal  Astronomical  Soc,  London 
(1882),  Valse  Medallist  of  the  Inst,  of  France 
(1882),  and  in  1900  received  the  Watson  Gold 
Medal  of  the  Nat.  Acad,  of  Sciences,  Washington, 
and  the  Bruce  Gold  Medal  of  the  Astronomical 
Soc.  of  the  Pacific  for  distinguished  services  to 
astronomy.  He  is  Pres.  of  the  S.A.  Philosophical 
Soc.  and  of  the  S.A.  Assoc,  for  the  Advancement 
of  Science,  and  he  originated  the  invitation 
extended  to  the  British  Assoc,  to  visit  S.A.  in 
1905.  He  is  one  of  the  three  trustees  of  the  S.A. 
Museum,  a  member  of  the  Cape  Geological  Com- 
mission, and  J.  P.  for  the  county  of  Aberdeen, 
Scotland,  and  for  the  Cape  Division. 

He  has  published  :  "A  Determination  of  the 
Solar  Parallax  from  Observations  of  Mars  at  the 
Island  of  Ascension,"  "  Heliometer  Determina- 
tions of  Stellar  Parallax  in  the  Southern  Hemi- 
sphere "  ;  Catalogues  of  Stars  for  the  Equinoxes, 
1850,  1860,  1865,  1885,  1890  and  1900  (in  the 
press),  from  observations  made  at  the  Royal 
Observatory,  Cape  Town  ;  "  The  Cape  Photo- 
graphic Din-chmusterung  "  (m  conjiinction  with 
Prof.  J.  C.  Kapteyn)  ;  "  Determination  of  the 
Solar  Parallax  and  Mass  of  the  Moon  from 
Heliometer  Observations  of  Victoria  and 
Sapho ;  "     "  The     Geodetic    Survey    of    South 


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Africa,"  vols.    1  and  2  ;  and  many  other  papers 
and  memoirs. 

Sir  David  is  fond  of  shooting,  especially 
spring  buck,  and  when  opportimity  occurs  of 
deer-stalking.  He  also  takes  up  golf  moderately. 
He  married,  July  7,  1870,  Isobel,  dau.  of  John 
Black,  of  Linhead,  Aberdeeenshire. 

GIROUARD,  Lieut. -Col.  Sir  Edwaud  Percy 
Cranwill,  K.C.M.G.,  D.S.O.,  R.E.,  is  the  son 
of  a  French  Canadian,  who  was  Judge  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  Province  of  Montreal. 
He  was  born  in  1 868,  and  educated  at  the  Kings- 
ton Military  Coll.,  from  which  he  graduated, 
proceeding  at  once  to  an  appointment  on  the 
engineering  staff  of  the  Canadian  Pacific  Rail- 
way. Here  he  had  that  splendid  training  which 
fitted  the  young  student  for  the  great  work 
which  he  was  destined  to  do  in  the  service  of 
his  country.  He  entered  the  Royal  Engineers 
in  1888  and  proceeded  to  Woolwich,  where  his 
great  knowledge  of  practical  railway  work  led 
to  rapid  promotion.  At  the  age  of  23  he  was 
appointed  Traffic  Manager  of  the  Royal  Arsenal 
Railways,  and  it  was  here  that  the  keen  eyes 
of  Lord  Kitchener  discerned  in  young  Girouard 
the  very  man  to  undertake  the  construction 
of  the  railway  across  the  Soudan,  which  was 
to  enable  Lord  Kitchener  to  push  forward  his 
advance  from  Dongola  to  Khartoum.  Col. 
Girouard  carried  out  this  work  as  Director  of 
Sudan  Railways,  and  afterwards  was  appointed 
Pres.  of  the  Egyptian  Railway  Board.  In  1889 
he  accompanied  Lord  Kitchener  to  the  Cape 
as  Director  of  Military  Railways.  He  married, 
Sept.  10,  1903,  Mav  Gwendolen,  only  child  of 
the  Hon.  Sir  Richard  Solomon,  K.C.M.G.,  C.B., 
K.C.,  Attorney-Gen.  of  the  Transvaal,  and  Lady 
Solomon. 

GLEICHEN,  Lieut. -Col.  Count  Albert 
Edward  Wilfred,  C.V.O.,  C.M.G.,  D.S.O.,  of 
St.  James'  Palace,  London,  S.W.,  and  of  the 
Marlborough,  Guards,  Turf  and  Beefsteak  Clubs, 
is  the  son  of  the  late  Admiral  Prince  Victor  of 
Hohenlohe  (died  1891),  and  of  Laura,  dau.  of  the 
late  Admiral  of  the  Fleet,  Sir  George  Seymour. 
He  was  born  in  London  Jan.  15,  1863,  and  was 
educated  at  Cheam,  Charterhouse  and  Sand- 
hurst. Count  Gleichen  joined  the  Grenadier 
Guards  Oct.  1,  1883,  and  served  with  the  Guards' 
Camel  Regt.  in  the  Nile  Expedition  of  '84 
and  '85.  He  was  present  at  the  actions  of  Abu 
Klea,  Abu  Kru,  etc.,  etc.  During  1886-88  he 
was  attached  to  the  Intelhgence  Department  of 
the  War  Office,   and  the  Staff  College  '90-91. 


He  was  appointed  on  Sir  W.  Ridgway's  Staff  in 
Morocco  in  1893,  and  served  with  the  Intelhgence 
Division  '95-99  as  Staff  Capt.  and  D.A.A.G. 
He  served  with  the  Dongola  Expedition  in  1896, 
and  was  Intelhgence  Officer  to  Rennel  Rodd's 
mission  to  Abyssinia  in  1897.  On  war  break- 
ing out  in  S.A.  he  proceeded  with  the  3rd 
Battn.  Grenadier  Guards  to  the  front.  He  was 
through  the  actions  of  Belmont,  Graspan  and 
Modder  River  (where  he  was  wounded).  H© 
served  first  on  the  Staff  and  then  as  D.A.A.G. 
Transport  and  as  Commandant  at  Enslin  ;  then 
as  D.A.A.G.  for  Intelhgence  for  Ninth  Divn. 
under  Lieut. -Gen.  Sir  H.  Colville.  He  was  pre- 
sent at  Paardeburg,  Driefontein,  Bloemfontein, 
Sauna's  Post,  Winberg,  Blaauwberg,  Lindley 
and  Heilbron  :  then  as  Provost-Marshal  at  Pre- 
toria, and  as  D.A.A.G.  Intell.  Eastern  Lines  of 
Communication.  At  the  end  of  1900  he  was  re- 
called to  Egypt  and  appointed  Director  of  Intell. 
and  Sudan  Agent  in  Cairo,  which  he  retained 
until  late  in  1903,  when  he  left  Egypt  to  take 
up  his  present  position  as  Military  Attache  at 
Berlin.  It  will  thus  be  seen  that  Count  Gleichen 
has  had  a  wide  and  varied  military  experience. 
He  is  also  Equerry  (extra)  to  the  King.  He  lias 
also  distinguished  himself  as  a  writer,  his  pub 
lications  including  "  With  the  Camel  Corps  up 
the  Nile"  (1888),  "Armies  of  Eiu-ope  "  (trans- 
lation, 1890),  and  "  With  the  Mission  to  Menehk  " 
(1898).  He  has  contributed  many  mag.  articles, 
and  has  besides  written  a  mmiber  of  official 
handbooks  and  works  on  the  Sudan.  He  is  the 
Editor  of  "  The  Anglo-Egyptian  Sudan,  1904," 
which  is  now  in  the  press.  His  recreations  are 
travel,  shooting,  yachting,  and  sea-fishing. 
Count  Gleichen  is  not  married. 

GLYNN,  Henry  Thomas,  J.P.,  F.R.C.  Inst., 
of  Sabie,  District  of  Lydenbm-g,  Transvaal,  was 
born  at  Cape  Town,  Nov.  30,  1857.  He  is  son 
of  the  late  Henry  Glynn,  a  well  known  S.A. 
hunter,  traveller  and  rifle  shot,  who  won 
the  first  gold  medal  shot  for  in  S.A.,  and  who  wa^s 
one  of  the  first  few  to  start  the  Cape  To\\ti  Roj^al 
Volunteer  Rifles,  and  finally  died  in  1894  of 
fever  while  on  a  himting  expedition.  Sir.  H.  T. 
Glynn  was  educated  at  the  S.A.  Coll.  ; 
spent  his  early  days  on  the  River  Diggings  ;  then 
after  some  success  on  the  Kimberley  fields, 
settled  down  in  the  Cape  for  two  years.  In  1875 
he  went  north  and  stayed  in  the  Transvaal  up 
to  a  j'ear  before  the  great  Boer  War,  with  the 
exception  of  occasional  himting  trips  througli 
the  low-lying  coimtry  extending  up  to  the 
Zambesi.     He  returned  to  Lydenburg  in  Aug. 


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1902,  and  is  a  Director  of  Glynn's  Lydenburg, 
Ltd.  Mr.  Glynn  married,  in  Oct.,  1896,  Miss 
G.  G.  Wales. 

GOLDIE,  Right  Hon.  Sir  George  Dash- 
wood  Taubman,  K.C.M.G.,  P.C.  {See  Taubman- 
Goldie,  Right  Hon.  Sir  George  Dash  wood.) 

GOLDMANN,  Charles  Sydney,  of  34,  Queen 
Anne's  Gate,  Westminster,  S.W.,  of  Salisbury 
House,  London,  E.G.,  and  of  White's  and 
Pratt's  Clubs,  was  born  at  Burghersdorp,  C.C. 
For  many  years  Mr.  C.  S.  Goldmann  has  been 
identified  with  the  firm  of  S.  Neumann  &  Co.,  one 
of  the  most  powerful  of  the  S.A.  mining  and 
financial  groups,  and  in  1895  he  was  admitted 
to  partnership  in  the  firm.  Mr.  Goldmann  is  a 
man  of  enormous  energy  and  concentration  ;  he 
has  an  almost  encyclopaedic  knowledge  of  the 
requirements  of  the  Rand  industry,  and  devotes 
himself  entirely  to  the  gold  mining  branch  of  his 
firm's  business.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  Lang- 
laagte  Block  "  B  "  Deep,  the  Alexandra  Estate 
&  G.M.  Co.,  the  Gold  Patents  (Transvaal)  Co., 
the  Knight  Central,  the  Marievale  Nigel,  and 
the  Riekml  Cos.,  besides  being  on  the  Johan- 
nesburg Boards  of  the  Angelo,  Bonanza,  Cason 
Cinderella,  Consolidated  Main  Reef,  Crown  Reef, 
Driefontein  Consolidated,  East  Rand  Prop., 
Ferreira,  Glen  Deep,  "  H.F."  Co.,  Hem'y  Nourse, 
Langlaagte  Deep,  Main  Reef  Deep,  Main  Reef 
East,  New  Blue  Sky,  New  Comet,  New  Mod- 
derfontein,  Potchefstroom  Exploration,  Premier 
(Transvaal)  Diamond,  Rand  Klipfontein,  Trea- 
sury, Vogelstruis  Consolidated  Deep,  Wit- 
watersrand  Deep,  and  Wolhuter  Cos.  He  is 
also  on  the  London  directorate  of  the  Mining 
and  Financial  Trust  Syndicate,  and  on  the 
London  Committee  of  a  few  other  Cos. 

Mr.  Goldmann  is  the  author  of  "  The  Wit- 
watersrand  Goldfields,"  "  Goldmann's  South 
African  Mining  and  Finance,"  and  "  Goldmann's 
Map  of  the  Witwatersrand " — all  invaluable 
works  for  those  who  aspire  to  complete  know- 
ledge of  the  Transvaal  Fields.  In  the  late 
S.A.  War  he  acted  as  war  correspondent  of 
the  "  Argus  "  and  "  Standard,"  and  at  its  close 
he  brought  out  a  book  on  the  cavalry  operations 
entitled  "  With  General  French  in  South  Africa." 
He  is  Pres.  of  the  S.A.  Football  Assoc,  and 
has  a  cultivated  artistic  taste.  He  married, 
Feb.  11,  1899,  Hon.  Agnes  Mary,  younger  dau. 
of  the  Right  Hon.  Viscount  Peel,  of  the  Lodge, 
Sandy,  Beds.,  late  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Com- 
mons, and  grand-dau.  of  Sir  Robert  Peel,  the 
great  Prime  Minister. 


GOOLD- ADAMS,  Major  Sir  Hamilton  John, 
K.C.M.G.,  C.B.  (Civil),  of  Bloemfontein,  O.R.C., 
and  the  Army  and  Navy  Club,  was  born  in  co. 
Cork,  Ireland,  on  June  27,  1858.  He  is  son  of 
Richard  Wallis  Goold-Adams,  of  Jamesbrook, 
CO.  Cork,  and  was  educated  privately  and  on  the 
training  ship  Conway.  He  joined  the  Army 
in  Jan.,  1878,  receiving  his  Captaincy  seven  years 
later,  and  his  Majority  in  1895.  In  Sir  Charles 
Warren's  Bechuanaland  Expedition  in  1884-5  he 
served  under  that  officer  ;  he  commanded  the 
B.B.P.  in  the  Matabele  War  of  1893,  and  in 
the  S.A.  War  he  served  dviring  1899  and 
1900,  first  as  Resident  Commissioner  in  Bechu- 
analand, afterwards  having  command  of  the 
Kimberley  Town  Guard  during  the  latter  half  of 
the  siege  (twice  mentioned  in  despatches). 
Major  Goold-Adams  retired  from  his  regt.,  the 
Royal  Scots,  in  March,  1901,  when  he  was  ap- 
pointed Lieut. -Governor  of  the  O.R.C.,  which 
important  position  he  still  occupies.  He  is  not 
married. 

I  GORDON,  Webster  B.,  A.M.I.C.E.,  formerly 
Superintending  Engineer  in  the  Public  Works 
Dept.  of  India,  was  appointed  late  in  1903  expert 
adviser  to  the  High  Commissioner  for  S.A. 
on  matters  of  irrigation,  to  which  subject  he  had 
devoted  much  attention  during  his  service  in 
India. 

GORST,  Sir  Eldon,  K.C.B.,  Grand  Cordon  of 
the  Orders  of  the  Medjidieh  and  Osmanieh,  of 
Cairo,  and  the  Turf,  Carlton  and  St.  James' 
Clubs,  is  the  son  of  the  Right  Hon.  Sir  John 
Gorst,  M.P.,  and  Mary,  dau.  of  the  Rev.  Lorenzo 
Moore.  He  was  born  in  New  Zealand,  Jim.e  25, 
1861,  and  was  educated  at  Eton  and  Trinity  Coll., 
Camb.,  where  he  graduated  M.  A.  (20th  Wrangler). 
He  entered  the  Diplomatic  Service  in  1885,  be- 
coming Attache  ;  in  1887  he  was  Third  Secy.  ;  in 
1892  Second  Secy.  ;  and  in  1900  Secy,  of  Lega- 
tion. In  that  year  he  was  appointed  Controller 
of  Direct  Taxes  to  the  Egyptian  Govt,  .and  in 
1892  Under-Secy.  of  State  for  Finance  ;  in  1894 
he  was  appointed  adviser  to  the  Ministry  of  tho 
Interior  ;  and  in  1898  Financial  Adviser  to  the 
Egyptian  Govt.  Sir  Eldon  Gorst  has  rendered 
eminent  services  to  the  cause  of  reform  in  Egypt. 
He  married,  June  25,  1903,  Evelyn,  dau.  of  C.  D. 
Rudd  (q.v.),  of  Ardnamurchan,  N.B. 

GOULD,  Edward  Blencowe,  I.S.O.,  of 
H.B.M.  Consulate,  Alexandria,  and  of  tho  Con- 
servative Club,  Lond.,  was  born  Aug.  9,  1847  ;  is 
the  eldest  surviving  son  of  Rev.  J.  M.  Gould, 


Anglo-African  Who's  Who 


6^. 


whose  wife  was  a  dau.  of  Gen.  J.  P.  Grant,  C.B.  ; 
was  educated  at  Uffctilme,  Devon  ;  entered  the 
consular  service  as  Student  Interpreter  in  Siam 
in  1868  ;  was  Vice-Consul  in  the  Siamese  Shan 
States  in  1883  ;  Consul  in  Sianri  in  1885  ;  Acting 
Charge  d' Affaires  in  Siam  in  1886,  and  again  from 
1887  to  1889  ;  became  H.B.M.  Consul  at  Port 
Said  in  1891,  and  has  been  Consul  with  personal 
rank  of  Consul-Gen.  at  Alexandria  since  1897. 
He  married,  in  1895,  Alice  Ehzabeth,  dau.  of  Geo. 
Gordon,  of  Melbourne. 

GOWER-POOLE,  Percy,  F.R.G.S.,  M.I.M.E., 
M.F.I.M.E.,  F.R.C.I.,  of  Klerksdorp,  Transvaal, 
was  born  at  Gravesend,  Kent ;  is  son  of  the  late 
Rev.  Samuel  Gower-Poole,  Chaplain  to  Hon. 
Trinity  House,  London  ;  was  educated  privately, 
and  was  a  cadet  on  H.M.S.  Worcester.  He 
spent  some  years  in  Canada  in  the  Engineer's 
Dept.  of  the  G.W.R  ;  served  in  the  Cana- 
dian Militia ;  afterwards  studied  in  Venice, 
and  went  to  S.A.  in  '73  ;  took  part  in  the  Zulu 
War  as  Lieut.,  being  present  at  the  taking  of 
Morosi's  Movintain,  Nov.  19,  1879  (medal  and 
clasp).  In  the  late  Boer  War  he  served  with 
Rimmington's  Guides  and  Scouts  for  27  months, 
and  with  the  16th  Brigade  as  Transport  Officer 
for  three  months  (medal  and  clasps).  He  has 
had  experience  of  the  Gold  and  Diamond  Fields 
in  Kimberley,  De  Kaap,  Klerksdorp,  Swaziland, 
Orangia,  and  the  Rand  ;  and  practises  now  as 
Civil  and  Mining  Engineer  at  Klerksdorp.  He 
married.  May  5,  1887,  Fanny  Biu-nett,  eldest  dau. 
of  J.  F.  Wood,  of  Stonehare,  Scotland. 

GRAAF,  Johannes  Jacobus  Aknoldtts, 
M.L.A.,  is  member  of  the  Cape  Legislative 
Assembly  for  the  Province  of  Worcester,  having 
been  last  re-elected  in  Feb.,  1904.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Bond  Party. 

GRAHAM,  Frederick,  C.B.  (1899),  of  Kin- 
cairney,  Weybridge,  and  of  the  St.  Stephen's 
Club,  was  born  in  1848  at  Cherry  Bank,  New- 
haven,  N.B.  He  is  the  son  of  Frederick  Graham, 
of  East  Ferry  Cottage,  Dimkeld,  N.B.,  and 
Marjorie,  dau.  of  the  Rev.  Alex.  Niven,  D.D.,  of 
Dunkeld.  He  was  educated  at  Edinburgh,  and 
entered  the  Colonial  Office  in  1870  ;  became  prin- 
cipal clerk  in  1896,  and  subsequently  Asst. 
Under-Secy.  of  State,  Colonial  Office. 

GRAHAM,  Hon.  T.  L.,  M.L.C,  K.C,  Attor- 
ney-Gen. in  Sir  Gordon  Sprigg's  Ministry  ; 
has  had  a  varied  experience  of  political  parties, 
having  started  iinder  the  Bond.     At  the  com- 


mencement of  the  Boer  War  (1899)  he  was  a 
bitter  and  uncompromising  opponent  of  that 
organization  ;  but  as  Attorney-Gen.  he  caused 
great  consternation  by  refusing  to  place  papers 
relating  to  alleged  treasonable  practices  by  Dr. 
Te  Water  before  the  House,  while  admitting 
the  existence  of  such  documents  being  in  pos- 
session of  the  Govt,  and  the  military  authorities. 
Finally,  on  the  approach  of  the  elections  for  the 
Legislative  Council,  he  offered  hunself  as  a 
Progressive  candidate  for  the  Western  Circle 
of  the  C.C,  and  was  elected,  Nov.,  1903, 
second  on  the  poll,  by  12,530  votes.  He  for- 
merly sat  as  the  representative  of  the  same 
constituency  in  the  Council. 

GRAYDON,  Newenham  Arthur  Eustace, 
was  born  at  Dundalk  in  1863  ;  is  the  eldest 
son  of  the  late  Arthur  P.  Graydon  of  Dublin, 
and  great-grandson  of  the  late  Right.  Hon.  Sir 
Edward  Newenham,  M.P.  for  Dublin  County. 
He  was  educated  at  the  Dmidalk  Inst,  and 
the  Univ.  of  Oxford ;  was  formerly  a  Lieut, 
in  the  3rd  Batt.  the  Queen's  (Royal  West 
Surrey)  Regt.,  and  for  several  years  in  the  Civil 
Service,  which  he  entered  by  open  competitive 
examination,  passing  first  of  150  candidates  for 
eight  places.  In  1885  he  became  Ed.  of  the 
"  Civil  Service  Gazette,"  and  was  officially  con- 
nected with  the  first  and  famous  Conference  of 
Colonial  Premiers  in  1887.  After  spending 
some  years  as  Asst. -Ed.  and  Acting-Ed.  of  the 
journal  "  South  Africa,"  he  became  Ed.  of  the 
"  African  Review."  In  1896  he  was  appomted 
Ed. -in-Chief  of  the  "  Johannesbiu-g  Times " 
and  "  The  Tunes  of  Africa,"  of  which  latter  he 
subsequently  beccame  proprietor.  He  is  now 
leader  writer  on  the  "  Financial  News,"  and  is 
also  a  contributor  of  special  mining  and  financial 
articles  to  the  "  Economist "  and  other  leading 
journals.  His  "  Limited  Liabihty  Laws  of  the 
South  African  Republic  "  ran  into  a  third  edition, 
and  among  other  works  from  his  pen  are  "  In 
Saintly  Stamboul  "  and  a  volume  of  Slolicre's 
and  Racine's  comedies  translated  and  adapted 
from  the  French.  He  has  written  a  good  deal 
on"travel"  subjects  in  "Blackwood's Magazine" 
etc.,  being  also  joint  author  with  Mr.  Joseph 
Kitchen  of  a  Map  of  the  Witwatersrand  Gold- 
fields  which  achieved  a  considerable  popularity. 
He  is  F.R.G.S.,  M.R.A.S.,  possesses  the  Free- 
dom of  the  City  of  London,  is  a  Liveryman  of 
the  Fruiterers'  Company,  and  a  Freemason. 
He  married  Mary,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Thomas 
Southwell,  of  Bridgnorth,  a  kinswoman  of 
Viscount  Southwell. 


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GREEN,  JOHX  Dampier,  F.R.G.S.,  M.Inst. 
C.E.,  of  Johannesbvirg,  is  a  descendant  of 
William  Dampier,  one  of  the  earliest  circvim- 
navigators  of  the  world,  and  was  born  in  London 
March  23,  1850.  He  was  educated  at  Chester 
Coll.,  of  which  he  is  an  old  King's  Scholar. 
He  commenced  his  engineering  career  on  the 
Dee  (Chester)  Reclamation  Works  on  the  Dee 
Estates,  of  which  he  was  a  part  owner  ;  was 
owner  of  copper  lead  and  coal  mines  and  lime 
smelting  works  in  North  Wales,  and  left  England 
in  1886  to  assist  in  the  construction  of  the  Cape 
Central  Railways.  On  completion  thereof  he 
fitted  out  an  expedition  to  Malmani  Goldfields. 
While  there,  in  conjunction  with  others,  he 
organized  an  expedition  for  the  taking  of 
Matabeleland.  Some  nmnbers  of  O.F.  State 
and  Transvaal  Boers  expressed  a  desire 
to  join  the  enterprise,  but  the  Home  Govt,  sent 
word  that  "  Her  Majesty  would  look  with  grave 
displeasvire  upon  any  armed  force  leaving  Bech- 
uanaland  to  molest  the  natives,"  and  in  deference 
thereto  the  undertaldng  was  abandoned.  Mr. 
Dampier  Green  is  Hon.  Curator  of  the 
Mineralogical  and  Geological  Dept.  of  the 
Transvaal  Chamber  of  Mines,  and  Hon. 
Treas.  and  Secy,  of  the  Geological  Society 
of  S.A.,  Johannesburg. 

GREENE,  Sir  William  Conyngham,  C.B. 
(1897),  K.C.B.  (1900),  of  the  British  Legation, 
Berne  ;  Glencarrig,  Glenealy,  co.  Wicklow,  and 
of  the  Travellers',  St.  James',  and  Royal  St. 
George  Yacht  Clubs,  is  the  son  of  Richard  J. 
Greene,  Barrister-at-Law,  and  the  Hon.  Louisa 
Plunket,  fourth  dau.  of  the  third  Baron  Plunket. 
He  was  born  Oct.  29,  1854,  in  Ireland,  and  edu- 
cated at  Harrow  and  Oxford  where  he  graduated 
M.A.  (1880).  He  entered  the  Foreign  Office 
in  1877,  and  the  Diplomatic  Service  in  1887  ; 
served  as  Secy,  to  H.M.  Legations  at  Athens, 
Stuttgart,  Darmstad,  The  Hague,  and  Brussels  ; 
as  Secy,  of  Legation  and  Charge  d' Affaires  at 
Teheran  1893-1896,  but  it  was  when  he  was 
appointed  Agent  at  Pretoria  in  Aug.  1896,  with 
the  rank  of  Charge  d' Affaires  in  H.M.  Diplomatic 
Service  that  he  first  came  prominently  before 
public  attention.  It  will  be  remembered  that 
Mr.  Steyn  roundly  accused  him  of  "  decoying  " 
the  Transvaal  Govt,  into  making  a  conditional 
offer  of  the  five  years'  franchise.  It  was  Sir 
Conyngham  who  told  Mr.  Kriiger  that, 
whether  he  said  "  suzerainty "  or  not,  suzer- 
ainty there  would  have  to  be  ;  but  that  "  if 
the  present  were  a  bona-fide  endeavour  to  settle 
the    political    rights    of    our    people    for    good 


and  all,  we  should  neither  wish,  nor  have 
cause,  for  interference  with  the  internal 
affairs  of  the  Transvaal."  At  5  p.m.  on 
Oct.  11,  1899,  Sir  W.  C.  Greene's  official  duties 
at  Pretoria  came  to  and  end.  [He  received  the 
ultimatum  of  the  Transvaal  Govt.,  and  having 
asked  for  and  received  his  passports  left 
Pretoria  on  Oct.  12  for  England.  For  his 
services  he  was  made  K.C.B.,  May  24,  1900, 
and  promoted  to  be  an  Envoy  Extraordinary 
and  Minister  Plenipotentiary  in  H.M.  Dip- 
lomatic service  in  1901.  He  married,  in  1884, 
Lady  Lily  Stopford,  fifth  dau.  of  the  Earl  of 
Cotu-town. 

GREENLEES,  James  Neilson,  late  Capt. 
S.A.M.I.F.,  of  Johannesbm-g,  and  the  Rand, 
New  (Johannesburg),  and  Durban  Clubs,  was 
born  at  Glasgow,  June  22,  1852.  He  is  son  of 
Matthew  Greenlees,  of  Campbeltown,  N.B.,  by 
Elizabeth  Jack  of  Paisley,  N.B.,  and  was 
educated  at  Blair  Lodge  Sch.  and  Edinburgh 
Univ.  Arriving  in  S.A.  in  1871,  he  worked 
on  the  Diamond  Fields  for  over  a  year  without 
success.  For  the  next  eight  years  he  was  farming 
and  storekeeping  in  the  Free  State,  making 
two  hunting  trips  into  what  was  then  considered 
the  far  interior  north  of  Bechuanaland.  In  1881 
he  had  a  wholesale  mercantile  business  in  New- 
castle, Natal,  where  he  was  head  of  the  Munici- 
pality in  1883.  He  was  in  business  at  Wakker- 
stroom,  Transvaal,  from  1884  to  1889,  when  he 
went  to  Johannesbin-g  and  started  stock- 
broking.  At  the  beginning  of  the  late  war 
Mr.  Greenlees  was  appointed  War  Corres- 
pondent to  "  The  Times,"  and  was  with  Gen. 
French  in  the  Colesberg  District.  He  joined 
the  Colonial  Division  under  Gen.  Brabant  in 
Dec.  1899,  and  was  through  all  the  Division's 
fighting,  including  the  siege  of  Wepener,  up  till 
Aug.  1900,  when  he  was  with  Gen.  Clements 
from  Senekal  to  Bethlehem.  In  Aug.  Capt. 
Greenlees  was  appointed  A.D.C.  to  Gen. 
Brabant  and  remained  with  him  until  Jan., 
1902,  when,  on  the  reorganization  of  the  C.D.F., 
he  retired  and  returned  to  Johannesburg.  His 
services  were  brought  to  the  notice  of  the  C.I.C. 
by  Sir  E.  Y.  Brabant,  but  as  these  were  deemed 
to  have  been  rendered  to  the  Cape  Colonial 
Govt,  no  notice  was  taken  of  the  recommenda- 
tion by  Lord  Kitchener.  In  Johannesbmrg 
he  is  a  Director  of  several  Cos.  ;  he  was  for 
years  on  the  Committee  of  the  Stock  Exchange, 
and  has  taken  an  interest  in  local  politics.  He 
married,  in  1893,  Miss  Ethel  Maud  Gittings, 
of  Birmingham. 


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GREENLEES,  Thomas  Ditncan,  M.D., 
(Edin.),  F.R.S.E.,  J.P.,  of  the  Residency, 
Grahamstown,  and  the  Albany  Club,  Grahams- 
town,  was  born  at  Kilmarnock,  Scotland,  Sept. 
29,  1858,  and  belongs  to  a  Campbeltown  (Argyll- 
shire) family.  He  was  educated  at  Glasgow 
and  Edinbiu"gh  Univ.  Dr.  Greenlees  was 
Asst.  Med.  Officer  at  Carlisle  Asylum  from 
1884  to  1887,  and  held  a  similar  appoint- 
ment at  the  City  of  London  Asylum  from  1887 
to  1890.  He  is  now  Medical  Supt.  of 
the  Grahamstown  Asylum,  the  Chronic  Sick 
Hospital,  Grahamstown,  and  of  the  Institute  for 
Imbeciles,  Grahamstown.  He  is  the  author  of 
many  papers  on  medical  and  psychological 
subjects,  and  was  lately  Surg.-Capt.  in 
the  1st  City  Volunteers.  He  married,  Oct. 
17,  1894,  Edith,  dau.  of  the  late  R.  White  of 
Norwich. 

GREGOROWSKI,  Judge  ;  formerly  a  Judge 
of  the  O.F.S.,  he  was  in  1896  State  Attor- 
ney to  that  Republic  when  invited  to  pre- 
side over  the  trial  of  the  Reform  prisoners  at 
Pretoria,  although  having  no  status  in  the  Trans- 
vaal. He  was  accordingly  provisionally  ap- 
pointed to  a  seat  on  the  Transvaal  Bench. 
He  was  noted  for  the  peculiar  severity  of  his 
sentences  on  all  except  Boers,  and  it  is  asserted 
that  he  came  to  the  trial  of  the  Reformers  with 
the  full  intent  of  stretching  the  law  to  its  utmost 
against  the  prisoners.  In  summing  up  he  stated 
that  he  held  the  signatories  of  the  letter  of  invita- 
tion to  Dr.  Jameson  to  be  directly  responsible 
for  the  shedding  of  the  burghers'  blood  at 
Doornkop.  Notwithstanding  that  the  Com- 
mittee had  offered  to  guarantee  with  their  persons 
that  if  the  Govt,  would  allow  Dr.  Jameson 
to  come  into  Johannesburg  unmolested,  he  would 
leave  again  peacefully  as  soon  as  possible,  and 
setting  aside  the  special  statutes  of  the  State, 
he  passed  the  death  sentence  upon  them  under 
Roman-Dutch  law.  The  Judge  then  passed 
sentence  on  the  other  prisoners,  the  rank  and 
file  of  the  Reform  Committee,  condemning  them 
to  two  years'  imprisonment,  to  pay  fines  of 
£2,000  each,  or  as  an  alternative  to  suffer  an- 
other's year's  imprisonment,  and  thereafter  to 
be  banished  from  the  State  for  a  period  of  three 
years.  Mr.  Gregorowski  resigned  his  judge- 
ship to  fin  the  post  of  State  Attorney  vacated 
by  Dr.  Coster.  When  a  law  was  passed  (No.  1 
of  1897)  empowering  the  Govt,  to  exact  assur- 
ances from  the  judges  that  they  would  respect 
all  resolutions  of  the  Volksraad  as  having  the 
force  of  law  and  declare  themselves  not  entitled 


to  test  the  validity  of  a  law  by  its  agreement 
or  conflict  with  the  Constitution,  and  empowering 
the  President  to  summarily  dismiss  the  judges, 
Mr.  Gregorowski  emphatically  stated  that  no 
honourable  man  coiild  possibly  sit  upon  th© 
Transvaal  Bench  so  long  as  that  law  remained 
upon  the  Statute  Book.  Nevertheless  on  having 
to  decide  the  question  of  costs  which  was  referred 
to  him  in  the  case  of  Brown  v.  the  State,  he  gave 
a  judgment  which  practically  brought  the  case 
under  the  operation  of  the  obnoxious  law. 
Furthermore,  when  Chief  Justice  Kotze  was 
dismissed  by  the  President  under  the  summary 
powers  of  Law  1  of  1897,  Mr.  Gregorowski  did 
not  find  it  inconsistent  to  accept  the  office  of 
Chief  Justice. 

GREY,  Eael,  LL.M.,  J.P.,  of  22,  South  St., 
Park  Lane,  W.,  of  Howick  House,  Lesbury, 
Northinnberland,  and  of  Brooks'  Club,  is  the 
only  surviving  son  of  Gen.  the  Hon.  Chas. 
Grey,  and  nephew  of  the  3rd  Earl  Grey, 
K.G.,  P.C,  who  was  the  eldest  son  of  the 
youngest  of  the  accusers  who  impeached  Warren 
Hastings  at  the  Bar  of  the  House  of  Lords  in. 
1788  and  the  six  following  years.  Albert 
Henry  George  Grey,  who  is  now  the  4th  Earl, 
was  born  Nov.  28,  1851.  and  was  educated  at 
Harrow  and  at  Cambridge,  where  he  greatly 
distinguished  himself.  He  began  his  political 
career  under  curious  circumstances.  It  was 
in  1878  that  at  a  by-election  in  South  Northiim- 
berland  the  Liberal  party  selected  Mr.  Albert 
Grey  (as  he  then  was)  to  contest  what  was 
generally  regarded  as  a  safe  Conservative  seat. 
However  Mr.  Grey's  popularity  won  him  a 
majority  of  two  at  the  poll  over  his  rival,  Mr.  E. 
Ridley,  Q.C.,  but  as  the  extra  couple  of  voting 
papers  were  found  to  be  irregular,  the  High 
Sheriff  decided  to  reject  them,  and  made  a 
double  return,  each  opponent  being  returned 
to  the  House  of  Commons  without  having  the 
right  to  speak  or  vote.  As  the  ParUament  was 
nearly  at  an  end,  the  Liberals  resolved  not  to 
incur  the  expense  of  a  scrutiny,  and  the  Conserv- 
ative member  was  allowed  to  keep  the  seat 
until  the  dissolution  in  1880,  when  the  present 
Peer  was  elected  by  a  large  majority.  In  18S5-6 
he  represented  the  Tyneside  Division  of  his  native 
county  as  a  Liberal-Unionist,  but  in  the  latter 
year  he  was  defeated  by  a  Gladstonian  candidate, 
and  did  not  subsequently  seek  parUamentary 
honours. 

Earl  Grey  succeeded  to  the  title  in  1894. 
He  was  one  of  the  original  directors  of  the  B.S.A  . 
Co.,  and  in    1896  he  went  to  RhodsBia  as  Ad- 


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ministrator,  filling  this  high  office  with  consider- 
able  success   during   a  troublous  period  which 
saw,  amongst  other  things,  the  settlement  of  the 
peace   terms   with   the   Matabele    chiefs,  which 
put  an  end  to  the  rebellion  of  1896.      Lord  Grey 
for  a  time  took  an  active  part  in  the  field  against 
the  Matabele,  and  it  is  not  generally  known  that 
he  was  very  nearly  cut  oS  by  the  rebels  at  the 
battle  of  Sepula's  Kraal  in  the  Matoppos.     He 
returned  to  England  in   1897,   and  soon  after 
became  Vice-Pres.  of  the  Chartered  Co.,  a  post 
which  he  has  filled  ever  since.     He  is  also  one  of 
the  Trustees  for  the  Debenture  Holders  of  the 
B.S.A.    Co.,   and   is   Chairman   of   the   Charter 
Trust  and  Agency,  Ltd.     He  not  only  devotes 
himself  to   the  more  important   affairs   of  the 
Chartered     Co.,     but     takes     also       a      very 
genuine    interest    in    the    personal    interests    of 
Rhodesians.     Among  other  popular  movements 
he  is  interesting  himself  in  having  the  remains 
of  four  prominent  Rhodesians  who  were  killed 
in  the  late  S.A.  War,  viz..  Jack  Spreckley,  Fred 
Crewe,    Claude    Grenfell,    and    C.    J.    Knapp, 
removed      to      Charterland      for     re-interment 
hard  by  the  tomb  of  Cecil  Rhodes  in   the   Ma- 
toppos.    But  the  great  philanthropic  movement 
with    which    Lord    Grey    has     been    identified 
from  the  commencement  is  the    formation   and 
organization  at  home  and  abroad  of  the  Central 
Public  House  Trust  Association,  the  chief  ainas 
of  which  are  to  promote  the  higher  temperance 
by   the   conversion,   wherever   possible,   of   the 
public  house  from  a  drinking  bar  into  a  house 
of    refreshment    for    the    supply    of    wholesome 
food  and  non-alcoholic  liquors  as  well  as  of  beer 
and  spirits,  and  to  provide  such  an  organization 
as  will  enable  the  licensing  authorities  to  secure 
that  all  new  Ucenses,  with  their  high  monopoly 
values,  shall  be  administered  as  a  trust  in  the 
interests    of    the    public,    and    not    by    private 
individuals  for  their  personal    gain.      In   1877 
he    married    Alice,    youngest   daughter   of   the 
late      R.       S.      Holford,      of      Weston      Brit, 
Gloucestershire. 

GRIFFIN,  TowNSHEND,  of  29,  Queen  Anne's 
Gate,  London,  S.W.,  was  formerly  a  Govt, 
official  in  Kimberley,  and  subsequently  Chief 
Commissioner  of  Mines  in  Rhodesia  where  he 
resided  for  some  years.  He  has  now  relinquished 
that  appointment,  and  is  a  trustee  for  the 
Debentm-e-holders  of  the  Rhodesia  Railways, 
a  director  of  the  Eurafrican  Co.  and  some  other 
undertakings. 

GRIFFITH,    HoKACE    Major    Bbandfobd, 


C.M.G.  (1902),  J.P.  of  Bathurst,  Gambia, 
W.  Africa,  and  of  the  Constitutional  and 
Grosvenor  Clubs,  is  the  youngest  son  of  the  late 
Sir  W.  Brandford  Griffith,  K.C.M.G.,  of  Windsor, 
Barbados,  W.  Indies.  He  was  born  in  1863; 
was  educated  at  Harrison's  CoU.,  Barbados, 
and  now  occupies  the  position  of  senior  member 
of  the  Executive  and  Legislative  Councils  of 
the  Gambia,  for  which  Colony  is  he  also  J.P. 
He  married,  in  1897,  Margaret  Elizabeth,  dau. 
of  the  late  S.  A.  Sewell  of  Eahng. 

GRIFFITH,  Sib  William  Brandfoed, 
Knight  Bachelor,  B.A.,  of  Accra,  Gold  Coast, 
and  Constitutional  Club,  was  born  at  Stone 
Court,  Stone,  Glos.,  Feb.  9,  1858.  He  is  son  of 
Sir  W.  Blandford  Griffith  by  his  wife  Mary 
Eliza,  dau.  of  George  Thornton  Metcalfe,  of 
Antigua,  and  previously  of  Kirkby  Lonsdale, 
Westmoreland.  He  was  educated  in  Jersey, 
at  Harrison  Coll.,  Barbados,  at  Univ.  Coll., 
London,  and  was  called  to  the  Bar  of  the  Middle 
Temple  in  1881.  In  1885  he  was  appointed 
District  Commissioner  of  the  Gold  Coast  Colony, 
and  acted  as  Qvieen's  Advocate  and  Puisne 
Judge  of  the  Gold  Coast  frequently  between 
1884  and  1888.  He  was  R.M.  at  Jamaica  from 
1889  to  1895 ;  Actg.  Attomey-Gen.,  Jamaica, 
1892 ;  and  received  his  present  appointment 
as  Chief  Justice  of  the  Gold  Coast  in  1895. 
He  administered  the  Govt,  of  Lagos  in  1896  ; 
and  was  Deputy  for  the  Governor  of  the  Gold 
Coast  in  1897.  Sir  Wilham  revised  the  Ordin- 
ances of  the  Gold  Coast  in  1887,  in  1897,  and 
again  in  1903,  and  he  now  holds  a  dormant 
commission  to  administer  the  Govt,  of  the  Gold 
Coast  in  the  absence  of  the  Governor  and  the 
Colonial  Secy.  He  married,  Feb.  7,  1884, 
Eveline  Florence  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Penrose 
Nevins,  of  Settle,  Yorks. 

GRIFFITHS,  Harry  Denis,  of  Johannesburg 
(P.O.  Box  2146),  and  of  the  Blenheim  (Lend.) 
and  Rand  (Johannesburg)  Clubs,  was  born  at 
Manchester  in  1866.  He  is  second  son  of  John 
Griffiths,  at  one  time  champion  of  the  Nemesis 
Rowing  Club.  He  was  educated  at  Dieppe  Coll. 
and  at  the  Royal  Sch.  of  Mines,  Lend. ;  graduated 
B.Sc.  ;  was  Bronze,  Silver,  and  Gold  Medallist 
of  Cardiff  Technical  Schools,  and  secured  the 
Ware  and  Cardiff  Scholarships.  He  is  also 
Associate  of  the  Royal  Sch.  of  Mines,  1st  Class 
in  Mining,  a  Whitworth  Scholar  and  Medallist, 
and  member  of  various  technical  and  scientific 
societies.  He  has  occupied  the  following 
positions :  Mine     manager,      Kimberley     D.M. 


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Co.,  1890  ;  chief  engineer  Kimberley  Exhibition, 
1892 ;  consulting  engineer  to  the  Geldenhuis 
Est.,  Simmer  and  Jack,  and  East  Rand  Prop. 
Cos.,  and  is  now  consulting  engineer  to  several 
important  Cos.  on  the  East  R.and,  Coronation 
and  Heidelberg  sections.  In  1897  Mr.  Griffiths 
went  to  New  Zealand,  spending  two  years  con- 
verting dry  crushing  to  wet  crushing  plants. 
He  was  also  chief  engineer  to  the  Auckland 
Exhibition.  During  the  S.A.  War  he  went  to 
Rhodesia,  resmuing  his  practice  in  Johannesburg 
on  the  declaration  of  peace.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Patents  Committee  of  the  Witwatersrand 
Chamber  of  Mines  ;  has  served  on  the  Auckland 
(N.Z.)  and  Rhodesian  Chambers  of  Mines ; 
has  written  many  scientific  papers,  and  has 
issued  a  map  of  the  Coronation  line  of  reef. 
Mr.  Griffiths  formerly  played  for  the  London 
Welsh  F.C.  ;  was  vice-capt.  of  the  Sch.  of 
Mines  Rowing  Club,  and  captained  the  winning 
pair  and  fours  in  1889.  He  married,  in 
1895,  Florence  Maud,  second  dau.  of  the  late 
E.  Clements,  C.E.,  R.N. 

GROGAN,  Capt.  Ewabt  Scott,  4th  Royal 
Munster  Fusiliers,  of  Good  Hope  Farm,  Middel- 
burg,  Transvaal,  and  the  Savage,  Alpine,  New 
Oxford  and  Camb.  and  Rand  Clubs,  is  the  son 
of  the  late  William  Grogan,  of  97,  Queen's 
Gate,  South  Kensington.  He  was  born  Dec. 
12,  1874,  at  Eton  Square,  London,  and  was 
educated  at  Winchester  and  Jesus  CoU., 
Camb.  Capt.  Grogan  fought  as  Gvmner  in 
the  second  Matabele  War  and  made  the  first 
joiirney  from  the  Cape  to  Cairo.  During  tliis 
journey  he  discovered  new  species  of  antelope 
Eind  elephant,  and  shot  33  elephants  and  13 
lions.  He  was  appointed  on  the  Johannesbm-g 
Town  Council  by  Lord  Milner  in  1903.  He 
has'taken  a  leading  part  in  the  fight  for  the  intro- 
duction of  Chinese  labourers  to  work  the  Trans- 
vaal Mines.  He  is  now  experunenting  in  agri- 
culture in  S.A.,  and  is  a  Director  of  the  African 
Farms  Co.,  Ltd.  Capt.  Grogan  has  travelled 
much  and  studied  economics  of  Australasia, 
the  South  Seas,  and  N.  and  S.  America.  Be- 
sides being  an  explorer  and  hunter,  he  is  a  writer 
of  some  note,  and  has  written  a  stirring  account 
of  his  journey  through  Africa,  entitled  "  From 
the  Cape  to  Cairo,"  in  collaboration  with 
Arthur  H.  Sharp  (Hurst  &  Blackett). 
He  married,  Oct.  11,  1900,  Miss  G.  Watt,  of 
Napier,  New  Zealand. 

GROVE,  Daniel,  was  born  in  Australia. 
While    travelling    in    E.   Africa    he    intimated 


to  the  Governor  of  Mozambique  that  he  had 
annexed  a  portion  of  the  Province  of  Mozam- 
bique which  he  desired  should  be  recognized 
as  an  independent  State  under  the  suzerainty 
of  Great  Britain. 

GROVE,  Col.  Edwaed  Aickin,  C.B.,  of 
Belgrave  Mansions,  S.W.,  and  of  White's  and 
the  Wellington  Clubs,  was  born  at  Dolguog, 
Machynlleth.  He  was  educated  at  Bedford 
Sch.,  and  joined  the  2nd  Royal  Cheshire  Militia 
in  1873,  transferring  to  the  97th  Regt.  in  the 
same  year.  He  passed  Staff  Coll.  in  1883 ; 
was  D.A.A.G.  and  Q.M.G.  Canada  from  1885  to 
'87  ;  D.A.A.G.  Eastern  Dist.  1881-88  ;  com- 
manded the  2nd  Batt.  of  the  Queen's  Own 
(Royal  West  Kent)  Regt.  1896-1901,  receiving 
the  brevet  rank  of  Col.  in  1900,  and  was 
A.A.G.  and  C.S.O.  Scotland  in  1902. 

Col.  Grove  has  seen  much  active  service, 
commencing  with  the  Transvaal  War  in  1881. 
He  was  all  through  the  Egyptian  Expedition  of 
1882,  being  present  at  Kassassin  and  Tel-el- 
Kebir,  and  acting  as  Asst.  Provost-Marshal  to 
the  2nd  Division  (medal  with  clasp,  Khedive's 
star,  and  brevet  majority).  He  served  in  the 
Sudan  Expedition  of  1884-85  as  D.A.A.G. 
and  Q.M.G.  (clasp),  and  in  the  S.A.  War  com- 
manded his  regt.  from  1899  to  1901,  and  after- 
wards commanded  the  sub-district  of  Krugers- 
dorp  (mentioned  in  despatches,  C.B.,  and  medal 
with  4  clasps).  He  married,  in  1887,  Georgina, 
dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  George  Atldnson,  of 
Kettlethorpe,  Lines. 

GUNN,  H.  Hamilton,  of  Kimberley,  grad- 
uated at  the  Royal  Sch.  of  Mines,  passing  out 
in  1876.  Since  then  he  has  been  associated 
with  phosphate  of  lime  and  manganese  deposits 
in  Germany,  iron  ore  in  Belgiiun,  lead  and  quick- 
silver in  Austria,  tin  in  Cornwall,  copper  in 
L-eland  and  Arizona,  sulphur  and  borax  in 
Ireland,  silver,  lead,  and  gold  in  the  States, 
and  gold  and  tin  in  Borneo,  the 
Malay  Peninsula  and  Siam.  He  has  spent 
some  time  in  special  chemical  research  with  Dr. 
Squire,  and  has  acted  as  b"+--'"'--  "  mining 
at  the  Edinbm-gh  Coll.  of  Science  and  Tech- 
nology. In  1903  he  was  appointed  Professor 
at  the  Kimberley  Sch.  of  Mines.  Mr.  Gunn 
is  a  Knight  of  the  Order  of  the  Crown  of 
Italy. 

GUNZBURG,  Robert,  of  5,  Dowgate  Hill, 
London,  E.C.,  went  out  to  S.A.  in  1893, 
and  was  instriunental  in  forming  the  S.A.  Con- 


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tracting  Assn.,  Ltd. ,  the  Technical  and  Commercial 
Corpn.,  Ltd.,  the  Siemens,  Ltd.,  and  the  Arthur 
Koppel,  Ltd.  He  returned  to  Europe  in  1901, 
and  later  on  resigned  the  directorships  in  these 
Cos.  He  is  now  associated  with  the 
Eastern  Gold  Farms  Synd.,  Ltd.,  the  Bethel 
Synd.,   Ltd.,  and  several  other  Companies. 

GUPPY,  Robert,  of  3,  St.  George's  Mansions, 
Besborough  Gardens,  S.W.,  and  of  the  Cocoa 
Tree  Club  ;  was  born  Nov.  17,  1872,  at 
Melbury,  near  Dorchester.  He  was  educated 
at  Sherborne  and  appointed  to  the  Imperial 
Post  Office  in  March,  1890.  and  to  the  Colonial 
Civil  Service  Aug.  24,  1900.  He  is  now 
Accoimtant  of  the  Post  and  Telegraph  Dept. 
Gold  Coast  Colony. 

HAARHOFF,  Daniel  Johannes,  M.L.A.,  of 
Klimberley,  was  bom  at  Graaff-Reinet  in  1846, 
and  was  educated  at  the  public  sch.  in  that  town. 
He  served  his  articles  with  D.  J.  van  Ryneveld, 
attorney,  in  1863  ;  was  admitted  in  1868,  and 
practised  at  Graaff-Reinet  until  1877,  when  he 
left  for  the  Diamond  Fields.  He  was  engaged 
for  some  tune  in  the  Kimberley  and  De  Beers 
mines,  and  then  joined  Mr.  J.  J.  Michau  in  an 
attorney's  business  in  Kimberley.  He  was 
elected  Mayor  of  Kimberley  in  1884,  and  was 
returned  to  the  Cape  House  of  Assembly  as 
Progressive  member  for  Kimberley  in  1894, 
and  again  in  Feb.,  1904.  He  is  Grand  Master 
of  Central  S.A.  Freemasons. 

HACKER,  Rev.  William  John,  of  Maritz- 
burg,  was  born  at  Keinton  Mandeville,  Somer- 
setshire, Apr.  16,  1853.  He  was  educated  at 
Yeovil  and  Sherborne  Schs.  and  received  his 
training  for  the  Church  at  Richmond  CoU. 
He  acted  as  Naval  Chaplain  at  Simonstown 
from  1876  to  1883,  when  he  went  to  Butter- 
worth,  where  he  established  upwards  of  fifty 
schools  and  chiirches,  in  addition  to  assisting 
in  the  foundation  of  the  Lamplough  Training 
Institution  and  the  Aylif?  Memorial  Church. 
From  Butterw'  "*''  he  went  to  East  London 
(C.C.)  '  -  ^^i/o  3  Pietermaritzburg  in  1901. 

He  has  been  Superintendent  of  the  Maritzbm-g 
Circuit  from  that  time,  and  Chairman  of  the 
Natal  District  Synod  from  1903.  He  married, 
July  28,  1881,  Grace,  dau.  of  Thos.  H.  Lawton, 
of  Cape  Town. 

HADDON-SMITH,  Geobge  Basil,  C.M.G., 
of  the  Secretariat,  Sierra  Leone,  and  of  the 
Junior    Athenaeum    Club,    was   born   Nov.   25, 


1861.  He  is  son  of  the  late  H.  B.  Haddon- 
Smith,  C.E.,  his  grandfather  having  been  a 
Major  in  the  73rd  Regt.  Mr.  George  Haddon- 
Smith  was  educated  at  Victoria  Coll.,  Jersey. 
He  served  with  the  Houssa  Force  ;  took  part  in 
the  expedition  against  the  Jebus  (W.  Africa) 
in  1892  (despatches,  medal,  and  clasp)  ;  was 
Political  Officer  on  Sir  Gilbert  Carter's  mission 
to  Jorubaland  in  1893.  for  which  service  he 
received  the  thanks  of  the  Secy,  of  State. 
He  was  subsequently  Asst.  Colonial  Secy,  at 
Lagos  ;  Priv.  Secy,  to  Sir  Francis  Scott  in  the 
Ashanti  Expedition  in  1895-6  (despatches  and 
Star)  ;  Chief  Asst.  Col.  Secy,  at  the  Gold  Coast, 
1896,  and  Political  Officer  on  Sir  James 
Willcock's  staff  diu-ing  the  Ashanti  Expedition 
in  1900,  for  which  service  he  was  mentioned 
in  despatches,  received  the  medal  and  clasp 
and  also  the  C.M.G.  He  was  Acting  Gov. 
of  the  Gambia  in  1901,  and  received  his  present 
appointment  as  Colonial  Secy,  of  Sierra  Leone 
1901.  He  married  Ivy  Constance,  dau.  of  the 
late  Col.  B.  Hodson. 

HAGGARD,  Henry  Rider,  J. P.,  of  Ditch- 
ingham.  House,  Norfolk,  and  of  the  Athenfeum, 
Savile,  Authors',  and  Sports  Clubs,  was  born  at 
Bradenliam,  Norfolk,  June  22,  1856  ;  is  the  sixth 
son  of  Wm.  M.  Rider  Haggard  of  Bradenham 
Hill,  and  was  educated  privately.  He  resided 
for  a  considerable  time  in  Natal  on  a  farm  which 
is  well  known  as  the  supposed  home  of  "  Jess." 
He  was  Secy,  to  Sir  Hy.  Bulwer,  Governor  of 
Natal,  in  1875,  and  in  1877  he  joined  the  stafT 
of  Sir  T.  Shepstone,  and  was  one  of  the  "  handful 
of  individuals  "  concerned  in  the  annexation  of 
the  Transvaal  in  that  year.  In  1878  he  was 
appointed  Master  of  the  High  Com-t  of  the 
Transvaal,  and  the  following  year  was  given  a 
Lieut. 's  commission  in  the  Pretoria  Horse, 
with  which  corps  he  was  besieged  in  Pretoria 
during  the  Boer  War  of  Independence  (1880-1). 
He  was  called  to  the  Bar  of  Lincoln's  Inn  in 
1884,  but  never  practised.  He  imsuccessfully 
contested  the  Eastern  Division  of  Norfolk  in  the 
Conservative  interest  in  1895. 

Mr.  Haggard  is  famous  as  the  author  of  a 
number  of  charming  romances,  besides  which 
he  has  published  a  couple  of  books  on  rural  life 
known  as  "  A  Farmer's  Year "  and  "  Rural 
England"  (2  vols.),  in  cormection  with  which 
latter  he  made  a  prolonged  tour  of  the  country 
to  acquire  at  first  hand  such  data  as  was  neces- 
sary to  make  his  work  a  valuable  text  book.  In 
addition  to  this  he  constantly  finds  occasion 
to  inform  the  public  in  the  Press  on  questions 


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connected  with  Africa  and  the  country  life, 
on  which  subjects  his  large  and  varied  Icnowledge 
always  procures  him  a  ready  hearing.  For 
many  years  he  has  been  one  of  the  proprietors 
of  the  "  African  Review,"  and  for  some  httle 
time  he  was  a  familiar  figure  in  the  city,  but  his 
preference  for  writing  and  a  country  life  soon 
withdrew  him  to  Ditchingham.  He  takes  a 
considerable  interest  in  Egyptology,  but  his 
main  hobby  (though  he  takes  it  quite  seriously) 
is  farming,  and  he  is  particularly  fond  of  shoot- 
ing and  cycling.  He  married,  in  1880,  Mariana 
Louisa,  dau.  of  the  late  Maj.  Margiston  of 
Ditchingham. 

HALL,  Rev.  Alfred,  F.R.C.I.,  of  Baydon- 
field,  Rosebery  Avenue,  Fort  Elizabeth,  was 
born  at  Newbury,  Berks,  in  1860  ;  was  educated 
at  St.  Bartholonaew's  Gram.  Sch.,  Newbury, 
and  at  the  MetropoUtan  Baptist  Coll.,  London, 
and  exercised  his  hoixie  ministry  at  Ashley, 
Lymington ;  Hampton  Court ;  St.  Leonards- 
on-Sea ;  and  Merthyr  Tydvil,  S.  Wales.  He 
was  formerly  a  member  of  the  Hastings  School 
Board,  and  was  appointed  Minister  of  Queen 
Street  Baptist  Church,  Port  EHzabeth,  in  1898, 
and  has  founded  in  that  town  and  at  Mossel 
Bay  Missions  to  Dutch-speaking  coloured 
persons.  He  is  editor  of  the  "  S.A.  Baptist," 
the  official  organ  of  the  Baptist  Union  for  the 
S.A.  Colonies.  He  is  also  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee for  erecting  a  tower  and  peal  of  bells 
as  a  memorial  to  the  British  settlers  of  1820 
who  landed  in  Algoa  Bay,  of  which  Lord  Milner, 
Sir  Walter  Hely-Hutchinson,  Sir  Gordon 
Sprigg  and  Sir  Henry  de  Villiers  are  Patrons. 

HALL,  John,  Jtjnk.,  of  3,  Brick  Court, 
Temple,  E.C.,  and  the  Constitutional  Club, 
was  born  in  London  Sept.  28, 1872  ;  is  the  second 
son  of  John  Hall  of  1,  Fleet  St.,  E.C. ;  was  edu- 
cated at  St.  Paul's  Sch.  and  privately  in 
Germany  and  France  ;  was  Pi'ivate  Secy,  to 
the  Governor  of  the  Gold  Coast  Colony,  1894-5, 
in  which  capacity  he  visited  Ashanti  before  the 
outbreak  of  the  Ashanti  War.  He  was  called 
to  the  Bar  in  1899,  and  collaborated  with  W.  H. 
Wills  in  the  editing  of  "  Bulawayo  Up-to- 
Date,  a  Handbook  to  Rhodesia."  He  is  asso- 
ciated with  J.  A.  Edison's  inventions  in  ore 
crushing  macliinery.  His  chief  recreations  are 
golf,  shooting  and  motoring. 

HALL,  R.  N.,  of  Bulawayo  ;  has  had  a  con- 
siderable share  of  the  work  of  bringing  S.A. 
before  the  public  by  means  of  exhibitions.     In 


1898  he  was  Secy,  of  the  Grahamstown  Exhibi- 
tion, and  was  in  '99  in  charge  of  the  Rhodesian 
section  of  the  Greater  Britain  Exhibition  in 
London.  In  1902  he  proceeded  to  inspect  the 
Zimbabye  Ruins  with  a  view  to  their  preservation. 

HALLIWELL,  E.  A.,  of  the  Wanderers' 
Club,  Johannesburg,  is  perhaps  the  best 
known  S.A.  cricketer.  He  is  a  good  bat, 
and  is  said  to  be  the  best  wicket-keeper  of  the 
day.  He  accompanied  the  S.A.  teams  to 
England  in  1894,  1901  and  1904,  fully  sustaining 
liis  reputation  in  the  latter  tour.  He  is  also 
the  official  starter  for  the  Turf  Club  and 
the  Pony  and  Galloway  Club  of  Johannes- 
burg. 

HAMILTON,  Frederic  Howard,  of  10  and 
11,  Austin  Friars,  E.C,  and  of  the  Rand, 
Devonshire,  City  University,  and  Eighty  Clubs, 
was  born  in  London  in  1865  ;  was  educated  at 
Mill  Hill  Sch.  and  Caius  Colh,  Camb.,  graduat- 
ing B.A.,  LL.B.  After  reading  for  the  Bar 
at  the  Inner  Temple,  he  went  to  S.A.  in  1889, 
where  his  scholarly  attainments  and  grasp  of 
affairs  inclined  him  to  journalism.  He  owned 
and  edited  the  "  Zoutpansberg  Review,"  and  was 
Editor  of  the  Johannesbm-g  "  Star  "  from  1894 
until  1896,  when  on  account  of  his  active  par- 
ticipation in  the  Reform  movement  as  member 
of  the  Committee  the  paper  was  suppressed, 
and  he  himself  was  put  on  his  trial  for  high 
treason,  ultimately  getting  off  with  a  fine  of 
£2,000.  On  returning  to  England  he  became 
Editor  of  the  "  African  Review,"  an  appoint- 
ment which  he  rehnquished  in  1899  to  join  the 
firm  of  L.  Ehrhch  &  Co.  He  is  a  director  of 
several  S.A.  Cos. 

HAMILTON,  Robert  William,  of  Zanzibar, 
was  educated  at  St.  Paul's  Sch.  and  Trinity 
Hall,  Camb.  ;  Classical  Scholar,  B.A.,  1899 
(honours),  M.A.,  1892.  He  was  Secy,  of  the 
Commission  of  Inquiry  in  Dominica  1893-4  ; 
was  a  student  at  the  Inner  Temple  in  1893,  and 
was  called  to  the  Bar  in  1895.  From  1895  to  1897 
he  was  District  Commissioner  at  Lagos ;  was 
Registrar,  East  Africa  Protectorate,  1887  ; 
Acting  Judicial  Officer  Apr.  to  Nov.  1898 ; 
Town  Magistrate  1899  ;  Asst.- Judge  and  Ad- 
ministrator-Gen., 1900;  Acting  Judge  from 
June  1901  to  March  1902,  and  Acting  Asst.- 
Judge  at  Zanzibar,  July  1902. 

HANAU,  Carl,  of  Victoria  West,  C.C, 
Johannesburg,    Berlin,    and     London,    is    son 


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of  T.  Hanau  of  the  firm  of  Hanau  &  Hoffe. 
He  was  born  at  Freiberg,  Germany,  on  July 
3,  1855,  and  was  educated  at  Frankfort  o/M. 
Iklr.  Hanau  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  the 
Rand,  and  very  early  in  its  history  began 
to  take  a  leading  part  in  the  building  up  of  its 
(and  incidentally  his  own)  fortim.e6.  He  was 
formerly  a  partner  of  S.  Neumann  &  Co., 
and  a  Director  of  the  Rand  Mines,  Ferreira, 
Crown  Reef,  Wolhuter,  Consohdated  Main  Reef 
and  Modderfontein  Cos.,  but  he  now  repre- 
sents the  firm  of  Barnato  Bros,  in  S.A.  ; 
is  Chairman  of  the  Coronation  Synd.  (which 
he  founded),  Barnato  Consolidated  Mines 
(Acting),  Johannesburg  Consohdated  Invest- 
ment (local),  and  Randfontein  Deep,  and  is 
also  on  the  Boards  of  the  African  Farms,  Ltd., 
Ginsberg,  Glencairn,  Kleinfontein  Deep,  Lang- 
laagte  Royal,  New  Primrose,  New  Rietfontein, 
New  Spes  IBona,  New  Unified,  Rietfontein 
"  B "  Roodepoort,  South  Cinderella  Deep, 
Van  Ryn,  Western  Rand  Synd.,  and  the  Wit- 
watersrand  (Knights)  G.M.  Cos.  Mr.  Hanau 
acted  as  Pres.  of  the  Chamber  of  Mines  in 
Johannesbin-g  during  the  absence  of  Mr. 
Lionel  Phillips,  and  was  for  many  years  a 
Steward  of  the  Johannesburg  Turf  Club,  and  a 
member  of  the  Committee  of  the  Wanderers' 
Club  of  Johannesburg.  He  married,  Jan.  19, 
1886,  Miss  Sopliie  Baumann. 

H ANBURY- WILLIAMS,  Lieut. -Col.  John, 
C.M.G.,  of  79,  Ecclestone  Square,  S.W.,  and  of 
the  Army  and  Navy  Club  ;  son  of  the  late  Fer- 
dinand Hanbury- Williams,  of  Coldbrook  Park, 
Mon.  ;  was  educated  at  Wellington  Coll.  and 
passed  into  the  43rd  L.I.  in  1878.  He  acted  as 
A.D.C.  to  Sir  E.  Hamley  in  the  Egjrptian  Cam- 
paign of  1882,  when  he  was  present  at  Tel-el- 
Kebir,  where  his  horse  was  shot  under  him, 
being  mentioned  in  despatches,  medal,  clasp, 
star,  and  5th  class  Medjidieh  ;  he  was  extra 
A.D.C.  to  Sir  M.  Grant  Duff  during  his  Governor- 
ahip  of  Madras,  1884-5  ;  was  extra  A.D.C.  to 
Sir  H.  Macpherson  in  Burmah  in  1886,  and 
was  in  1892  appointed  Adjt.  of  the  3rd  (Militia) 
Batt.  of  the  Oxfordshire  L.I.,  attending  the 
German  Army  manoeuvres  in  1894.  He 
relinquished  this  appointment  in  1897  to  join 
Lord  Milner  in  S-A.  as  his  Military  Secy.  ;  he 
received  the  C.M.G.  in  1899,  and  was  appointed 
Secy,  to  the  Secy,  of  State  for  War  in  1900. 
He  married,  in  1888,  Anne  Emily,  dau.  of 
Emil  Reiss. 

HARDING,     Col.     Colin,     C.M.G. ,     Com- 


mandant of  Barotse  Native  Police,  of  White's, 
Sports,  and  Bulawayo  Clubs  ;  is  the  son  of  the 
late  Charles  Harding,  of  Montacute  Abbey, 
Somerset,  where  he  was  born  Aug.  15,  1863. 
He  was  educated  privately,  and  went  to  S.A. 
where  he  served  in  Mashonaland  during  the 
rebellion.  For  some  time  he  was  galloper 
to  Col.  Alderson.  He  received  his  commission 
in  the  B.S.A.  Pohce  in  the  same  year,  and  raised 
and  commanded  the  Mashonaland  Native 
Police.  He  was  mentioned  three  times  in 
despatches,  and  received  his  C.M.G.  for 
services  during  the  Mashona  Rebellion.  He 
proceeded  to  British  Central  Africa  in  1898 
and  raised  the  Native  Pohce  Force  for  North- 
Eastern  Rhodesia.  In  1899  he  went  to  North- 
western Rhodesia  as  Acting  Administrator, 
and  later  raised  a  force  of  Native  Police  for  North 
Western  Rhodesia.  Col.  Harding  was  sent  on 
special  service  to  explore  the  boundaries  of 
Lewanika's  kingdom,  and  dxu-ing  his  expedition 
went  to  the  source  of  the  Zambesi  River.  In 
1902  he  escorted  Lewanika  to  England  for  the 
Coronation,  returning  in  Aug.  of  the  same 
year  to  act  as  Administrator  of  Barotseland 
dm-ing  the  absence  of  Mr.  R.  T.  Coryndon. 
He  married,  June  28,  1899,  Margaret,  youngest 
dau.  of  Robert  Porter,  of  Lyncombe,  i5ath. 

HARDWICKE,  Edwakd  AjaTHUB,  L.R.C.P., 
(Edin.),  L.S.A.  (Lon.  1873),  and  L.S.A.  Lon. 
(Triple  Diploma  1889),  of  Havermere,  Howick 
Falls,  Natal  ;  of  Burcote  Vale,  Bulwer,  Natal, 
and  of  the  Royal  Colonial  Institute,  is  the  eldest 
son  of  Junius  Hardwicke,  M.D.,  F.R.C.S. 
Eng.  (claiming  descent  from  St.  Joscelyn 
Havermere  'de  Hardwicke,  temp.  Edward 
Confessor),  and  Ellen  Jane  his  first  wife,  second 
dau.  of  Thos.  Wright,  J.P.,  of  Mespil  House, 
CO.  Dublin.  He  was  born  1847  at  Rotherham, 
Yorks.,  and  was  educated  at  the  Royal  High 
Sch.,  Edin.,  King's  Coll.,  Lend.,  and  Charing 
Cross  Hospital,  London.  Dr.  Hardwicke  was 
appointed  in  1877  a  Surgeon  Superintendent 
in  the  Govt.  Emigration  Service  of  the 
Emigration  Commissioners,  and  subsequently 
transferred  to  the  Department  of  the  Crown 
Agents  for  the  Colonies  in  1897  as  a  branch  of 
the  Colonial  Office  regime.  He  retained  this 
position  untU  1897,  when  the  gloomy  outlook  of 
the  service,  dependent  as  it  was  upon  the 
prosperity  of  the  sugar  industry  in  the  West 
Indies,  decided  him  to  resign  and  seek  more 
definitely  settled  employment  in  one  of 
the  newer  Colonies.  Natal  was  selected, 
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and  armed  with  credentials  from  the  Brit- 
ish Colonial  Office,  and  letters  of  introduction 
to  some  of  the  most  influential  citizens  of  the 
Colony,  including  the  late  Premier,  Sir  Henry 
Escombe,  he  was  selected  by  the  last  named 
gentleman  for  the  post  of  District  Surgeon 
to  the  Division  of  Polela,  at  the  extreme  S.E. 
comer  of  the  Colony.  Here  he  remained  until 
Jan.  1902,  when  he  was  offered  and  accepted 
a  similar  appointment  in  Lion's  River,  the  Dis- 
trict Health  Officership  being  conferred  upon  him 
at  the  same  time.  An  ardent  antiquarian  and 
archaeologist  Dr.  Hardwicke  has  devoted  much 
of  his  spare  time  to  the  study  of  genealogy  and 
kindred  pursuits,  for  which  his  grandfather, 
William  Hardwicke,  of  Bridgnorth,  Shropshire, 
was  celebrated  ;  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Har- 
leian  and  Yorkshire  Parish  Register  Societies. 
He  is  the  possessor  of  what  is  probably  the 
largest  collection  of  Midland  Cotmties  Genea- 
logies in  S.A.  In  1888  he  was  elected  a 
Resident  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Colonial  Institute, 
becoming  a  non-resident  Fellow  on  his  departure 
for  Natal  in  1897.  He  has  also  been  a 
FeUow  of  the  Imperial  Institute  from  its  opening. 
He  is  the  author  of  the  following  pamphlets  and 
books,  "  The  Religion  of  Agnostic  Philosophy," 
1892  ;  "  Epidemic  Cerebro-Spinal  Fever,"  1891  ; 
"  The  Decalogue  as  a  Code  of  Morality,"  1890  ; 
"  Annals  of  the  Perton  Family,"  1896 ; 
"  Bulwer  and  Consumptives,"  1900,  and  also 
of  numerous  contributions  to  magazines  and 
newspapers  in  England  and  the  Colonies.  Dr. 
Hardwicke  has  been  twice  married  :  first,  to 
Margaret,  third  dau.  of  WilUam  Calvert,  of 
Braddup  House,  in  Craven,  Yorkshire,  who  was 
mother  of  his  one  son  and  five  daus.,  and  who 
died  in  1889 ;  and  secondly  to  Louisa  Annie,  3rd 
dau.  of  Benjamin  Charles  Branch,  of  Warwick 
Road,  Kensington,  formerly  Asst.  Librarian  at 
the  British  Museum,  by  whom  he  has  no  issue. 

HARE,  Capt.  Robert  William,  D.S.O., 
Norfolk  Regt.,  served  with  the  Rhodesian 
Protectorate  Reg.,  and  on  the  Staff  as  D.A.A.C 
in  the  S.A.  War;  was  appointed  (1902)  A.D.C. 
to  the  Lieut-Governor  of  the  O.R.C. 

HARMAN,  Frederick  Edwin,  of  54,  West 
Cromwell  Road,  Kensington,  S.W.,  and  of 
the  Whitehall  Club,  is  the  son  of  Edward 
Harman  and  his  wife  Caroline.  He  was  bom 
at  the  Manor  House,  Maiden,  Surrey,  Jan.  3, 
1899,  and  educated  at  the  Brighton  Coll., 
the  Royal  Agricultural  Coll.,  Cirencester, 
and    at    the    Royal    Sch.    of   Mines,    London. 


From  1875-80  he  managed  the  Govt.  Ex- 
perimental Farm,  Bangalore,  and  acted  as 
Professor  of  Natural  Science  at  the  Sch.  of 
Engineering  and  Natural  Science.  From 
1880-83  he  managed  coffee,  tea,  and  cinchona 
and  gold  estates  in  the  Wynaad,  and  acted  as 
Hon.  Magistrate  for  the  Govt,  of  Madras. 
In  1884-5  he  reported  on  the  estate  of  the 
Santa  Fe  Land  Co.,  Argentine  Republic,  for 
colonization  purposes.  From  that  time  to  the 
present  he  has  been  engaged  in  reporting  on 
mining  properties  in  various  parts  of  the  world, 
and  acting  as  advisory  director  for  sundry 
mining  cos.  He  married,  in  1880,  Miss  Hicks, 
sister  of  H.  G.  Hicks  of  Oudshoorn. 

HARRIS,  4th  Bajbon,  George  Robert 
Canning,  G.C.S.I,  G.C.I.E.,  of  Belmont, 
Faversham  ;  6,  Oxford  Square,  London,  and  of 
the  Carlton  and  Cavalry  Clubs,  is  the  son  of  the 
third  holder  of  the  title,  who  was  Governor  of 
Trinidad  and  Madras,  and  played  an  important 
part  in  the  Indian  Mutiny.  He  was  born  at  St. 
Ann's,  Trinidad,  March  2,  1851.  He  was 
educated  at  Eton  and  Oxford,  where  he  gradu- 
ated B.A.  Lord  Harris  after  filling  several 
important  Ministerial  positions,  including 
Under  Secy,  of  the  India  Office,  1885-86,  and 
Under  Secy,  at  the  War  Office,  1886-90,  received 
the  appointment  of  Governor  of  Bombay  in 
1890,  which  office  he  retained  until  1895. 
From  that  year  he  was  Lord-in-Waitmg  to  Queen 
Victoria  until  1900.  In  the  City  Lord  Harris 
has  made  a  name  for  himself  in  connection 
with  the  important  mining  corporations  over 
which  he  presides,  and  he  is  rightly  regarded 
as  an  authority  on  the  various  questions  which 
perplex  the  majority  of  those  interested  in  the 
industry  of  the  Transvaal.  Lord  Harris  is 
Chairman  of  the  ConsoUdated  Gold  Fields  of 
S.A.,  Chairman  of  the  S.A.  Gold  Trust, 
Chairman  of  the  Gold  Coast  Agency,  and  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  the  National  Telephone 
Co.  He  is  a  cricketer  of  renown,  and  an  all- 
round  sportsman,  having  won  the  walking  race, 
swimming,  foils,  and  singlesticks  at  Eton, 
and  was  Capt.  of  the  Kent  Cricket  Eleven,  1876- 
85,  and  Captain  of  the  England  Eleven  v. 
AustraUa  1878-80-84.  Lord  Harris  com- 
mands the  Royal  East  Kent  Yeomanry,  and 
was  Acting  Adjt.  -  Gen.  for  the  Imperial 
Yeomanry  in  England,  1900,  and  in  S.A. 
1901.  He  is  also  Chairman  of  the  East 
Kent  Quarter  Sessions.  He  married,  July  8, 
1874,  the  Hon.  Lucy  Ada  Jervis,  dau.  of  the 
3rd  Viscount  St.  Vincent. 


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HARRIS,  Chables  Alexander,  B.A., 
CM.G.,  of  The  Homestead,  Cuddington,  Surrey, 
was  born  at  Wrexham,  N.  Wales,  June  28, 
1855  ;  is  son  of  Rev.  Geo.  Poulett  Harris,  Vicar 
of  Hawes,  Yorks.,  and  grandson  of  Capt.  Poulett 
Harris,  one  of  the  greatest  known  linguists,  and 
is  a  descendant,  on  the  maternal  side,  of  Van 
Stout,  the  last  man  to  leave  New  York  in  the 
War  of  Independence,  and  who  was  afterwards 
Chief  Magistrate  of  Nova  Scotia.  Mr.  C.  A. 
Harris  received  his  education  at  Richmond  Sch., 
Yorks.  ;  Christ's  Coll.,  Camb.  (1874-8),  and  at 
Lincoln's  Inn.  At  college  he  was  specially 
noticed  for  the  Bell  University  Scholarship,  and 
took  a  first  class  in  the  Classical  Tripos,  while  at 
his  Inn  he  took  the  Tancred  Studentship.  He 
entered  the  Colonial  Office  by  open  competition 
in  1879  ;  was  Secy,  to  the  West  India  Royal 
Commission  of  1 882-3,  and  was  in  the  W.  Indies 
from  Dec.  1882  to  May  1883,  visiting  nearly 
every  island  ;  was  Secy,  to  the  Sugar  Bounties' 
Conference  in  1887-8  ;  attached  to  the  Attorney- 
Gen.'s  staff  in  the  Venezuela  Boundary  Arbi- 
tration in  Paris  in  1899,  and  has  been  on  Service 
Missions  to  Madrid  (1897  and  1902),  Lisbon 
{1902),  and  elsewhere. 

After  many  years'  service  in  the  West  India 
Dept.  of  the  Col.  Office,  he  was  transferred  to 
the  North  American  and  Australasian  Depts.  ; 
became  head  of  the  W.  Africa  Dept.  in  1 898,  and 
after  a  period  of  special  work  on  the  Brazilian 
Boundary  Arbitration,  was  appointed  head  of 
the  dept.  which  deals  with  the  British  Central 
Africa  Protectorate,  the  B.S.A.  Company's 
territories,  etc.  He  has  written  a  good  deal  on 
economics,  and  represents  the  Colonial  Office 
on  the  Advisory  Committee  of  the  Board  of 
Trade  (Commercial  Intelligence). 

At  Cambridge  Mr.  Harris  was  Capt.  of  his 
college  boat,  and  Pres.  of  the  Athletic  Club. 
He  is  still  a  good  all-round  athlete,  runner, 
swimmer  and  cricketer,  and  is  the  father  of  the 
football  international,  S.  S.  Harris.  He  married, 
in  1879,  Constance  Maria,  dau.  of  John  Shute, 
of  Glenavon  House,  Clifton,  Glos. 

HARRIS,   Col.    David,   M.L.A.,   C.M.G.,   of 

Kimberley,  and  of  the  Kiraberley  and  Civil 
Service  (C.T.)  Clubs,  was  born  in  London  July  12, 
1852.  He  is  son  of  Woolf  and  Phoebe  Harris, 
and  was  educated  at  Coxford's  Coll.,  London. 
He  arrived  in  the  C.C.  in  1871,  served 
in  the  Diamond  Fields  Horse  through  the  Gaika- 
Galecka  War,  1877-8  (mentioned  in  despatches, 
medal  and  clasp)  ;  took  part  in  the  Griqua  War 
of    1878;    commanded  the  Field    Force  in  the 


Bechuanaland  Rebellion  in  |1896,  receiving  the 
thanks  of  Govt.,  and  the  Colonial  General  Service 
medal  and  clasp.  During  the  siege  of  Kimberley 
he  commanded  the  Town  Guard,  1899  (men- 
tioned in  despatches,  medal  and  clasp,  and 
C.M.G.).  Col.  Harris  has  also  received  the 
Volunteer  Decoration,  and  has  won  several 
medals,  cups  and  team  trophies  for  rifle  shoot- 
ing. He  entered  the  Cape  Parliament  as  a 
Progressive  in  1897  as  member  for  Kimberley  ; 
was  last  re-elected  for  Barkly  West  in  Feb. 
1904 ;  is  a  Director  of  De  Beers  Diamond 
Mines,  and  of  several  other  mining  cos.  His 
recreations  are  hunting  and  shooting.  He  married, 
Nov.  12,  1873,  Miss  Rosa  Gabriel,  of  Pomerania, 
Prussia. 

HARRISON,  C.  W.  Francis,  of  Natal, 
youngest  son  of  David  Harrison,  of  Nottingham, 
was  born  Dec.  7,  1874,  at  Grantham,  Lines., 
and  educated  in  that  town.  After  serving 
in  the  G.N.R.  Co.'s  office  he  joined  the  Natal 
Railway  service  (Dec.  1898),  becoming  personal 
assist,  to  Sir  David  Hunter,  and  later,  Acting 
Chief  Clerk  to  the  Gen.  Manager.  He  was 
appointed  Secy,  to  the  Special  Commission 
on  Railways,  1902.  Mr.  Harrison  directed 
the  preparation  of  the  art  albums  and  souvenirs 
presented  to  the  Royal  visitors  to  Natal,  1901-2; 
was  compiler  of  the  "New  Official  Railway 
Guide  and  General  Handbook  to  Natal"  (1903), 
and  Joint  Compiler  of  the  latest  Bird's  Eye 
Map  of  the  War  District  in  Natal. 

HART,  Edward  Aubrey,  of  Spencer  House, 
Surbiton,  and  of  the  Constitutional  Club,  is 
the  son  of  Thomas  Gray  Hart,  artist ;  was 
born  March  12,  1842,  at  Southampton,  and 
was  educated  at  the  Rev.  Eldred  Woodland's 
Sch.  at  Southampton.  He  joined  the  Union 
Steamship  Co.,  Ltd.,  in  Sept.,  1857,  when  the 
first  mail  steamer  sailed  for  Cape  Town,  and 
was  appointed  Secy,  of  the  Co.  on  January 
1,  1870,  and  Manager  and  Secy,  in  1893. 
This  position  he  retained  until  the  amalgama- 
tion of  the  Union  with  the  Castle  S.S.  Co.,  in 
1900  ;  and  he  retired  from  the  Co.  in  1903. 
During  these  thirty  years  he  was  frequently 
consulted  by  the  various  Govt.  Depts.,  especially 
by  the  Transport  Dept.  of  the  Admiralty,  for 
whom  he  arranged  the  conveyance  of  many 
thousands  of  troops  in  the  late  S.A.  War.  In 
1884  he  was  instrumental  in  providing  Her 
Majesty's  Govt,  with  two  of  the  then 
fastest  steamers,  the  Moor  and  Mexican,  as 
armed    cruisers.     The    former    was    the    only 


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merchant  ship  at  that  time  which  flew  the  pen- 
nant ;  she  was  commanded  by  Royal  Naval 
officers ;  carried  a  naval  crew,  and  was  armed 
with  heavy  guns..  It  was  likewise  his  good 
fortune  to  be  called  upon  to  make  all  arrange- 
ments for  the  journey  to  Africa  of  the  ill-fated 
Prince  Imperial,  at  the  time  of  the  Zulu  War, 
and  when  the  body  of  the  dead  Prince  was 
interred  at  Chiselhurst,  Mr.  Hart  was  one  of 
the  very  few  Englishmen,  outside  the  Royal 
family,  who  were  invited  into  the  Chapel. 
Subsequently  JNIr.  Hart  was  requested  to  carry 
through  all  the  arrangements  for  the  journey 
out  and  home  to  Natal  of  the  Empress  Eugenie, 
and  on  her  return  to  England  he  was  specially 
introduced  to  and  thanked  by  Her  Majesty. 
Mr.  Hart  married,  Oct.  1868,  Harriette  Steele, 
dau.  of  John  Dotterill,  of  Gosport. 

HARTLEY,  Col.  Edmund  Babon,  V.C, 
C.M.G.,  Hon.  Assoc.  Order  of  St.  John  of  Jeru- 
salem, M.R.C.S.  Eng.,  L.R.C.P.  Edin.,  of 
Rondebosch,  C.T,  and  of  the  Civil  Service 
Club,  C.T.,  was  bom  May  6,  1847  ;  is 
son  of  the  late  Dr.  Edmund  Hartley,  of  S. 
Devon,  and  was  educated  privately  at  Ply- 
mouth. He  joined  the  C.M.R.  Nov.  4,  1877  ; 
served  through  the  Galeka,  Gaika  and  Marotsi ; 
rebellions,  1877-8-9  (medal) ;  Basuto  and  Tem- 
buland,  1880-1  ;  Langberg,  1897  (medal  and 
three  clasps)  ;  and  the  S.A.  War  (Queen's  medal, 
three  clasps,  and  King's  medal,  two  clasps).  Col. 
Hartley  commands  the  Cape  Med.  Corps, 
and  is  P.M.O.  of  the  C.C.  Forces.  He  married 
Ellen,  2nd  dau.  of  J.  Rose-Innes,  C.M.G.,  late 
Under-Secy.  for  Native  Affairs. 

HEANY,  Maurice,  of  Bulawayo,  Rhodesia, 
was  born  in  America,  and  has  been  pioneering 
in  Africa  for  a  number  of  years.  He  took  part 
in  the  Mashonaland  Pioneer  Expedition,  and 
in  the  expedition  for  the  occupation  of  Matabele- 
land.  He  is  associated  as  managing  director 
with  a  number  of  mining  cos. — those  composing 
the  Matabele  Gold  Reefs  Group. 

HEATH,  James,  M.P.,  of  Ashorne  Hill, 
Leamington ;  54,  Cadogan  Square,  London ; 
and  of  the  Carlton,  Junior  Carlton,  Cavalry, 
St.  Stephen's,  and  Atlantic  Clubs,  was  born  at 
Kidsgrove,  Staffs.,  Jan.  1852.  He  is  third  son 
of  Robert  Heath,  of  Biddulph  Grange,  Congle- 
ton ;  and  was  educated  at  Clifton  Coll.  He 
has  sat  in  the  House  of  Commons  for  N.W. 
Staffordshire  since  1892  ;  was  Col.  of  the 
Staffordshire   Yeomanry    from    1897    to    1902; 


and  is  a  director  of  Robert  Heath  &  Sons, 
the  Birchenwood  ColUery  Co.,  and  the  South 
Rand  Exploration  Co.  He  married  Euphemia 
C^lena,  dau.  of  P.  G.  van  der  Byl,  of  Cape  Town, 
in  1881. 

HELLIER,  J.,  M.L.A.,  sits  as  Member  for 
East  London  in  the  Cape  Parliament,  having 
been  elected  in  the  Progressive  interest  in  Feb. 
1904. 

HELY-HUTCHINSON,  Hon.  Sir  Waltee 
Francis,  G.C.M.G.   (See  "Addenda"). 

HENNIKER-MAJOR,  Col.  Hon.  Arthur 
Henry,  C.B.,  of  13,  Stratford  Place,  W.,  and  the 
Guards',  Travellers',  Carlton  and  Turf  Clubs, 
was  born  in  London,  Apr.  3,  1855  ;  is  the  third 
son  of  the  4th  Lord  Henniker  ;  was  educated 
at  Eton  and  Camb.  (B.A.)  ;  entered  the  Cold- 
stream Guards  in  1875,  the  2nd  Batt.  of  which 
he  has  commanded  since  Nov.  29,  1902.  He 
served  in  Egypt  in  1882  (medal  and  bronze 
star),  and  in  the  S.A.  War  1899-1902,  with 
brevet  rank  of  Col.  (Queen's  medal  and  six  clasps, 
and  King's  medal  and  two  clasps).  He  married 
the  second  dau.  of  Lord  Houghton. 

HENSHALL,  Thomas,  of  Port  Elizabeth, 
and  the  St.  George's  Club  (P.E.),  was  bom  at 
Adswood,  Cheshire,  Mch.  28,  1867  ;  was  edu- 
cated at  the  National  School,  Stockport,  Ches- 
hire, and  entered  the  British  and  Irish  Magnetic 
Telegraph  Co.'s  service  in  1868.  He  trans- 
ferred to  the  Imperial  Post  Office  two  years 
later,  and  was  for  two  or  three  years  an  instruc- 
tor in  telegraphy,  opening  up  offices  in  Cheshire, 
Derbyshire  and  Staffordshire.  After  serving 
in  several  important  centres,  he  was  transferred 
to  the  Cape  Telegraphs  in  1881.  He  has  since 
held  appointments  in  Famresmith,  Queens- 
town,  Kokstad,  Grahamstown,  and  Port  Eliza- 
beth, to  which  he  was  appointed  Postmaster 
in  July,  1898. 

HERHOLDT,  Hon.  Albertus  Johannes, 
M.L.C.,  J.P.  ;  was  born  in  the  Murraysburg 
Dist.,  C.C,  in  1846  ;  was  educated  at  Murraysburg, 
where  he  was  for  many  years  a  member  of  the 
Divisional  and  Municipal  Councils  and  a  member 
of  the  Licensing  Court.  He  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Cape  Legislative  Council  for  the  Midland 
Province  since  1889,  and  sits  as  an  independent 
member. 

HESS,    Henry,     of     Tugvor     House,     Kew 


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Gardens,  Stirrey,  and  Beach  Haven,  St.  Mar- 
garet's Bay,  Dover,  Kent,  was  bom  July  19, 
1864,  at  Homburg  ;  is  the  youngest  son  of  the 
late  Joseph  Chas.  Hess  and  Lina  Hess  {nie 
Schottenfels) ;  was  educated  at  Frankfort  o/M. 
He  was  admitted  solicitor  and  Notary  Public 
of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  1885.  He  is  ed.  of 
the  "  Critic "  (London,  Johannesburg  and 
Pretoria),  and  of  the  "  Critic  Black  Book,"  and 
has  pubHshed  songs  and  dance  music.  He 
married,  Nov.  6,  1895,  Miss  Maude  Marion 
Lyons. 

HEWAT,  Dr.  John,  M.L.A.,  represents 
Woodstock  in  the  Cape  House  of  Assembly. 
He  is  a  Progressive,  and  was  returned  to  the 
House  in  Feb.   1904. 

HIGGS,  Henry,  LL.B.,  of  H.M.  Treasury, 
London,  and  the  Savile  Club,  was  born  in  1864. 
He  was  appointed  Special  Commissioner  to 
Natal  1902-3,  to  report  upon  the  pay,  organi- 
zation and  working  of  the  Natal  Civil  Service. 
His  report  strongly  condemned  nearly  every 
section  of  the  administration. 

HILDYARD,  Major-Gen.  Sir  Henry  John 
Thoroton,  K.C.B.  (1900),  Order  of  the  Osman- 
ieh,  of  the  United  Service  Club,  was  bom  July 
5,  1846.  He  was  educated  at  the  Royal  Naval 
Acad.,  Gosport,  and  served  in  the  Navy  for 
five  years  before  entering  the  Army  in  1867. 
He  was  Brig.-Maj.  at  Cyprus,  Aug.-Nov.  1878  ; 
Brig.-Maj.  at  Gibraltar  from  that  date  till  Aug. 
1882  ;  and  served  in  the  Egyptian  Expeditionary 
Force  in  1882  as  D.A.A.  and  Q.M.G.  of  the  1st 
Division,  being  present  in  the  engagements  at 
El  Magfar  and  Tel-el-Mahuta,  at  the  action  at 
Kassassin,  and  at  the  battle  of  Tel-el-Kebir 
(mentioned  in  despatches,  brevet  of  Lieut.- 
Col.,  medal  with  clasp,  4th  Class  of  the 
Osmanieh,  and  Khedive's  star).  After  again 
occupying  his  Staff  appointment  at  Gibraltar, 
Sir  Henry  became  D.A.A.G.  on  the  H.-Q.  Staff, 
Dec.  1883  to  Mch.  1889;  A.A.G.,  Aldershot, 
Oct.  1889  to  Mch.  1891  ;  A.A.G.  at  Army 
Headquarters,  Apr.  1891  to  Aug.  1893  ;  Comdt. 
Staff  Coll.  till  Feb.  1898  ;  Maj.-Gen.  Command- 
ing Infantry  Brig.,  Aldershot,  until  Oct.  8, 
1899,  when  he  took  command  in  S.A.  first  of  an 
Infantry  Brigade,  afterwards  commanding  an 
Infantry  Div.  with  local  rank  of  Lieut. -Gen., 
and  from  Oct.  19,  1900,  to  Oct.  24,  1901,  he  had 
the  command  of  the  Natal  district.  Gen.  Hildyard 
took  part  in  the  relief  of  Ladysmith,  including 
the    action    at    Colenso ;  the  operations  of  Jan. 


17  to  24,  1900,  and  the  action  at  Spion  Kop  ;  of 
Feb.  5  to  7,  1900,  and  the  action  at  Vaal  Kranz  ; 
on  Tugela  Heights,  Feb.  14  to  27,  and  the  action 
at  Pieters  Hill;  and  in  Natal,  March  to  Jxme, 
1900,  and  the  action  at  Laing's  Nek  (four  times 
mentioned  in  despatches,  K.C.B. ,  medal  with  five 
clasps).  On  Oct.  25,  1901,  Sir  Henry  Hildyard 
was  appointed  temporarily  to  the  command  of  the 
First  Army  Corps  ;  Director  of  Military  Education 
and  Training  at  Army  Headquarters,  Jan.  15, 
1903  ;  and  in  Feb.  1904,  he  was  appointed  to  the 
command  of  the  forces  in  S.A.  in  succession  to 
Sir  Neville  Lyttelton.  Ho  married,  in  1871, 
Annette,  dau.  of  the  late  Admiral  J.  C.  Prevosfc. 

HILL,  Clem,  of  Johannesburg,  was  bom  in 
AustraUa,  where  he  was  an  engineer  on  the 
South  Australian  Railways.  He  was  the  cham- 
pion left-handed  bat  of  AustraUa,  and  visited 
England  with  the  Australian  cricket  team  in 
1902,  with  the  reputation  of  being  the  best  bat 
in  the  eleven.  He  went  to  S.A.  with  the 
Australian  team  later  in  1902,  scoring  76  and 
142  against  All  South  Africa  at  Johannesburg. 
Mr.  Hill  remained  in  that  town  as  a  stockbroker. 

HILL,  William  Henry,  B.A.,  of  Cairo,  and 
the  Turf  Club,  Cairo  ;  was  born  at  Swindon, 
Wilts,  where  his  father,  Henry  Hill,  resided  j 
and  was  educated  at  King's  Sch.,  Worcester, 
and  Lincoln  Coll.,  Oxon.  (Exhibitioner).  For- 
merly an  Asst.  Master  in  the  Khedivial  Sch., 
Cairo,  under  the  Ministry  of  Public  Instruction  3 
he  is  now  Law  Lecturer  at  the  Khedivial  Sch. 
of  Law,  Cairo.  Mr.  Hill  is  Licencie  en  Droit, 
Paris.  He  married,  in  1902,  Mary  Agnes,  only 
dau.  of  Rev.  F.  W.  Quilter,  D.D. 

HILLIER,  Dr.  Alfred  Peter,  of  30,  Wim- 
pole  Street,  London,  W.,  and  of  the  Arts  Club 
and  Royal  Institution  of  Great  Britain,  also 
Member  of  the  Covmcil  of  the  Royal  Colonial 
Institute,  is  the  son  of  the  late  P.  Playne  Hillier 
of  Shortwood,  Glos.,  where  he  was  born  in  1858. 
He  was  educated  at  King  William's  Coll.,  Isl© 
of  Man,  and  Edinburgh  Univ.  Dr.|  Hillier 
first  went  to  S.A.  as  a  boy,  Tand  was  ostrich 
farming  in  1875.  He  took  his  B.A.  degree 
at  the  Cape  Univ.  in  1878,  and  served^_^in  that 
year  in  the  Gaika-Galeka  War  (medal  and  clasp). 
After  the  war  he  went  to  Edinburgh  Univ.,  taking 
his  M.B.  and  CM.  in  1882  and  his  M.D.  in  1884. 
After  practising  for|a  couple  of  years  in  East 
London,  C.C.,  he  proceeded  to  Kimberley  as 
Resident  Surgeon^' to 'the  hospital  there,  and 
afterwards  entered  into'medical  partnership  with 


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Dr.  L.  S.  Jameson.  He  was  Pres.  of  the  S.A. 
Medical  Congress  in  1892.  In  1893  Dr.  Hillier 
went  up  to  Johannesburg,  and  found  time  to 
take  an  active  part  in  the  politics  of  the  Trana- 
raal,  being  a  prominent  member  of  the  Reform 
CJonimittee,  for  which  he  was  lodged  in  Pretoria 
gaol,  until  in  May,  1896,  he  was  liberated  on 
payment  of  the  £2,000  fine.  In  1897  he  returned 
to  England.  Dr.  HiUier  is  Secy,  to  the  National 
Association  (of  Great  Britain)  for  the  Preven- 
tion of  Consumption,  and  Consulting  Physician 
to  the  London  Open  Air  Sanatorirun,  and  was 
nominated  by  H.R.H.  the  Prince  of  Wales  in 
1899  as  one  of  its  representatives  at  the  Tuber- 
culosis Congress  in  Berlin.  He  was  successful 
in  inducing  the  National  Conference  of  British 
Friendly  Societies  to  send  an  important  deputa- 
tion (which  he  himself  accompanied)  to  Ger- 
many to  inspect  sanatoria  and  other  institu- 
tions established  and  controlled  by  the  German 
State  Workmen's  Insurance  Dept.,  and  was 
received  by  the  Empress  of  Germany  as  an 
EngUsh  delegate  to  the  International  Tubercu- 
losis Conference.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Council  of  the  International  Bureau  for  the 
Prevention  of  Tuberculosis,  which  has  its  head- 
quarters at  Berlin,  and  Vice-Cliairman  of  the 
Allied  Colonial  Universities  Conference  (1903). 

Dr.  Hillier  is  the  author  of  "  South  African 
Studies,"  and  of  the  historical  articles  on  South 
Africa,  Transvaal,  Orange  River  Colony,  Cape 
Colony,  and  others  in  the  "  Encyclopaedia  Bri- 
tannica  "  (new  volumes,  recently  published  by 
"  The  Times"),  and  has  contributed  largely  to 
our  knowledge  of  S.A.  by  lectures  and  articles 
in  newspapers  and  reviews.  At  the  General 
Election  in  1900  he  unsuccessfully  stood  as 
Unionist  candidate  for  Stockport,  but  in 
Mch.  1904,  he  was  adopted  as  Unionist  candi- 
date for  South  Beds.  He  is  on  the  London 
Committees  of  the  Robinson,  Crown  Reef,  and 
several  other  well-known  Rand  Cos.  When  in 
Johannesbiu-g  he  was  a  frequent  player  in  the 
Rand  Polo  Club  team,  of  which  he  was  Vice- 
Capt.  His  recreations  are  now  shooting  and 
golf.  Dr.  Hillier  was  married  in  1885  to  Ethel, 
dau.  of  F.  B.  Brown,  of  Queenstown,  C.C. 

HINDE,  Sidney  Langfoed,  was  educated 
in  France,  Germany,  at  Clare  Coll.  Camb.,  and 
at  St.  Bartholomew's  Hospital,  London.  He 
was  Resident  Medical  Officer  at  the  North 
Stafford  Hospital  and  the  Temperance  Hospital, 
London,  1889-90 ;  entered  the  Congo  Free 
State  service,  taking  part  in  the  Arab  campaign, 
1892-4   (medal   and   star)  ;  he  explored  Upper 


Maluga,  Lukviga,  etc.,  in  1894.  He  was  ap- 
pointed Med.  Officer,  East  Africa  Protecto- 
rate in  Sept.  1895  ;  took  part  in  the  Mabanik 
Rebellion  (medal)  ;  and  was  appointed  H.M. 
Sub-Commissioner,  Kenya  Province,  Apr.  1, 
1902. 

HINDLIP,  Baron,  Charles  Alsopp,  of 
HindHp  Hall,  Worcester ;  of  Alsop-le-Dale, 
Derbyshire ;  and  of  the  Turf  and  Bachelors' 
Clubs,  is  the  son  of  the  2nd  Baron  Hindlip. 
He  was  born  Sept.  22,  1877  ;  was  educated  at 
Eton  and  Trinitv  Coll.,  Cambridge,  and  obtained 
his  B.A.  in  1898.  Baron  Hindlip  was  A.D.C. 
to  the  late  Governor  of  Victoria,  Baron  Brassey, 
K.C.B.  He  was  Capt.  in  the  5th  Worcester 
Regt.,  and  served  in  the  8th  Hussars  in 
S.A.  1900-1.  He  has  travelled  extensively, 
principally  in  Abyssinia,  in  1902,  and  British 
East  Africa  in  1903,  his  expeditions  being 
mainly  for  the  pin-pose  of  sport.  He  married, 
Apr.  19,  1904,  Agatha  Lilian,  second  dau.  of  Mr 
and  Mrs.  John  Thynne. 

HIRSCHLER,  Isidore  Henry,  of  Bula- 
wayo,  Rhodesia,  and  of  the  Badminton  Club, 
was  born  at  Vienna  Nov.  15,  1855,  and  was 
educated  in  that  city.  He  went  to  S.A.  in 
the  eighties  for  the  purpose  of  representing 
English  and  French  capital  invested  in  the 
Rand.  In  1893  he  went  to  Rhodesia,  and  was 
elected  the  first  Mayor  of  Bulawayo  in  1897. 
He  is  Managing  Director  of  Rhodesia  Limited, 
and  other  Rhodesian  companies.  He  went 
through  the  Matabele  RebelHon  in  1896,  and 
held  the  rank  of  Capt.  in  the  Rhodesian 
Horse.  He  married.  May  8,  1900,  Miss  Jeanne 
Goldstuecker,  of  Frankfort  o  /M. 

HOFFMAN,  Ds.  Jonas  Matthias,  M.L.A., 
of  C.C,  is  Member  for  the  Paarl,  and  one  of 
the  leaders  of  the  Bond.  He  was  with  the  Boer 
forces  in  the  S.A.  War  (1899-1902),  and  he  openly 
referred  to  the  British  forces  in  the  Capo  House 
of  Assembly  as  the  enemy.  He  was  last  returned 
to  the  House  in  Feb.  1904. 

HOFMEYR,  Jan  Hendrik.  of  Welgemeend 
Estate,  9,  Camp  Street,  Cape  Town,  and  of  the 
City  Club,  Cape  Town,  was  born  in  the  capital 
of  the  Colony,  July  4,  1845,  his  father,  Jan 
Hendrik  Hofmeyr,  of  Cape  Town,  ha\'ing  been 
the  descendant  of  an  ancestor  of  exactly  the 
same  name,  who  loft  Eppenburen  to  settle 
in  the  C.C.  in  the  eighteenth  century.  The 
subject    of   our   sketch    was    educated    at    the 


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S.A.  Coll.,  and  began  his  caxeer  as  a  journalist 
on  the  staif  of  the  "  Volksvriend,"  of  which  he 
afterwards  became  proprietor.  In  1871  he 
purchased  the  "  Zuid  Afrikaan,"  amalgamated 
the  two  papers,  and  thus  became  the  con- 
troller of  a  very  powerful  press  organ.  Seven 
years  later  he  founded  the  Boer  en  Vereeniging 
Farmers'  Association,  starting  with  purely 
local  aims,  mainly  to  combat  the  Excise,  but 
eventually,  in  1883,  after  many  years  of  rivalry, 
this  association  joined  forces  with  the  Afri- 
kander Bond,  which  at  first  had  been  hostile  to 
British  rule.  But  Mr.  Hofmeyr  rapidly  became 
the  virtual  controller  of  the  Bond,  and  from 
that  time  it  was  not  at  any  rate  officially  dis- 
loyal, though  he  has  been  suspected  of  a 
desire  to  constitute  S.A.  an  independent 
Republic.  Mr.  Hofmeyr  entered  the  Cape 
Legislative  Assembly  as  member  for  SteUen- 
bosch  in  1879.  He  was  for  a  short  time  a 
member  of  Sir  Thomas  Scanlen's  Ministry  with- 
out portfoho.  He  was  offered  the  premiership 
in  1884,  but  declined.  In  1 887  he  was  one  of  the 
Cape  delegates  to  the  first  Colonial  Conference  in 
London,  and  again  at  Ottawa  in  1894.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Customs  Union  Conferences 
at  Cape  Town  in  1888,  and  at  Bloemfontein  in 
the  following  year.  In  1890  he  acted  as  H.M. 
Special  Agent  to  Pretoria,  to  induce  the  Trans- 
vaal Govt,  to  sign  the  Swaziland  Convention, 
his  success  in  the  matter  at  the  time  having 
been  thought  to  have  averted  war.  Though 
he  had  retired  from  active  poUtical  life  in  1894, 
he,  at  the  time  of  the  Raid,  exercised  consider- 
able influence  over  Lord  Rosmead,  at  that 
time  High  Commissioner.  He  also  endeavoxired 
to  act  as  arbiter  during  the  crisis  preceding  the 
late  war,  and  while  retaining  the  nominal 
leadership  of  the  Dutch  Afrikander  party,  who 
are  devoted  to  him  and  believe  and  trust  him 
implicitly,  he  was  at  one  time  the  hope  of  the 
Moderates  and  persona  grata  with  the  Colonial 
Office.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  Afrikander 
Bond  Committee  on  Elections.  Mr.  Hofmeyr 
married,  Sept.  1,  1900,  Johanna  Hendriksz, 
of  Somerset  West. 

HOLLAND,  Frederick  Catesby,  of  Palace 
Chambers,  Westminster  ;  Watchers,  Hasle- 
mere ;  and  of  the  St.  Stephen's  and  South 
African  Clubs ;  is  third  soia  of  Rev.  C.  Holland, 
Prebendary  of  Chichester,  and  for  35  years 
Rector  of  Petworth.  He  was  educated  at 
Haileybury  ;  has  travelled  in  S.A.,  and  on 
one  occasion  in  Rhodesia  shot  a  wounded 
lion  which  had  already  charged  and  linocked 


over  Cecil  Bisset.  He  was  a  Director  of  the 
St.  Helen's  Development  Synd.,  Ltd.,  and  is 
now  associated  with  a  few  Transvaal  Cos. 
He  married,  in  1881,  Frances,  dau.  of  Ed. 
Livesey,  M.D. 

HOLLIS,  Alfred  Claud,  F.R.C.I.,  of  Mom- 
basa, E.  Africa,  was  educated  at  Highgate,  St. 
Leonards,  Switzerland,  and  Germany.  He 
was  appointed  Asst.  Collector,  East  African, 
Protectorate,  in  March,  1897  ;  became  Col- 
lector in  June,  1900 ;  Acting  British  Vice- 
Consul  for  German  East  Africa  from  Apr.  1900, 
to  Feb.  1901  ;  and  Secy,  to  the  Administration, 
East  African  Protectorate,  in  Apr.  1902. 

HOPCRAFT,  J.  D.,  spent  five  months  in  the 
Civil  Supply  Office  at  Kimberley,  whence  he 
was  transferred  to  Johannesburg.  In  1902  he 
was  appointed  Chief  Director  of  Supplies  for 
the  O.R.C. 

HOSKEN,  William,  M.L.C,  of  "  Entabene," 
Berea,  Johannesburg,  and  of  the  National 
Liberal  and  Rand  Clubs,  was  born  at  Hayle, 
Cornwall,  July  6,  1851,  and  is  the  son  of  Richard 
and  Caroline  Hosken.  He  was  educated  at 
Hayle,  and  had  his  commercial  training  with 
Wm.  Hosken  &  Son,  a  well  known  firm  in 
Cornwall,  now  merged  in  Hosken,  Trevi- 
thick  &  Polkinghorn,  Ltd.  He  went  to 
S.A.  early  in  1874. ;  became  a  digger  at 
Pilgrim's  Rest ;  subsequently  went  to  Natal, 
and  was  engaged  in  merchant  business  there 
until  1889 ;  then  went  to  Johannesbm-g  as 
Managing  Director  of  the  City  and  Suburban, 
Heriot,  Nigel,  and  other  Natal-directed  mines  ; 
became  Foundation  Executive  Committee 
Member  of  the  Chamber  of  Mines  ;  established 
the  merchant  business  of  Wm.  Hosken  &  Co., 
and  joined  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  having 
been  six  times  elected  Pres.  of  that  Chamber  ; 
is  Lloyds'  Agent  for  Johannesburg  and  Chair- 
man of  the  Committee  of  Management  of  the 
British  S.A.  Explosives  Co.,  Ltd.  He  has  for 
years  taken  a  large  interest  in  politics.  He 
assisted  in  establishing  the  National  Union  in 
1892,  and  was  elected  to  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee ;  was  Member  of  the  Reform  Com- 
mittee in  1896,  and  sentenced  to  two  years' 
imprisonment  and  fined  as  in  the  case  of  the 
other  prisoners.  He  was  Chairman  of  the 
mass  meetings  and  political  demonstrations  in 
1899,  and  was  vmanimously  elected  Pres.  of 
the  Uitlander  Coimcil  formed  that  year.  He 
was  also  Chairman  of  Committee  which  in  1899 


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raised  Thorneycroft's  and  Bethune's  Mounted 
Infantry,  and  subsequently  raised  the  Imperial 
Light  Infantry.  All  these  corps  were  raised 
without  expense  to  the  Govt.  He  has  served 
on  various  Govt.  Commissions  during  and 
since  the  war  ;  was  a  non-official  delegate 
at  the  Bloemfontein  Customs  Union  Conference 
in  March,  1903,  and  became  a  Member  of  the 
Legislative  Council  which  commenced  its  sit- 
tings at  Pretoria  in  May,  1903.  Mr.  Hosken 
had  the  locally  luienviable  distinction  of  being 
the  only  non-official  member  of  the  Council  in 
favour  of  granting  the  municipal  franchise  to 
coloured  persons.  He  married,  Oct.  16,  1877, 
Miss  Clara  James,  of  Maritzburg. 

HOWARD,  John  William,  F.R.C.I.,  of 
Bulawayo,  and  of  the  Bulawayo  Club,  was 
bom  at  Eaton  Socon  in  1867,  and  educated 
privately  and  at  the  Royal  Univ.,  Ireland. 
He  went  to  S.A.  for  the  Argus  Co.  in  1889, 
as  editor  of  the  weekly  edition  of  the  "  Cape 
Argus."  Early  in  1893  he  travelled  to  Fort 
Salisbury,  Mashonaland,  and  took  the  first 
printing  plant  into  Rhodesia.  In  1894  he 
went  to  Bulawayo,  and  founded  the  "  Bula- 
wayo Chronicle,"  and  has  since  resided  at  Bula- 
wa5-o.  During  the  Matabele  rising  (1896)  he 
acted  as  Correspondent  for  Renter's  Agencj, 
"  Pall  Mall  Gazette,"  and  Dalziel's  Agency. 
At  the  present  time  he  represents  Renter's  at 
Bulawayo.  He  holds  the  medal  as  war  corre- 
spondent for  the  Matabele  War  (1896).  At- 
tached to  the  Bulawayo  Field  Force  he  did  good 
service  carrying  despatches.  He  is  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  first  Masonic  lodges  in  Mashona- 
land and  in  Matabeleland.  He  has  been 
married  twice  :  first,  in  1895,  to  Evelyn  Lydia, 
only  dau.  of  the  late  Mr.  Glendinnen,  of  Staf- 
ford, England  ;  and  second,  to  Agnes,  eldest 
dau.  of  the  late  Geo.  Pike  Hannaford,  of 
Newton  Abbot,  Devon. 

HULETT,  Hon.  Sir  James  Leigh,  Knt., 
M.L.A.,  of  Pietermaritzburg,  Natal,  is  head  of 
the  firm  of  J.  L.  Hulett,  Ltd.,  tea  planters  and 
owners  of  the  Kearsney  estate.  He  was  elected 
in  1883  as  Member  of  the  Natal  Executive 
Council ;  has  acted  as  R.M.  and  Administrator 
of  Native  Law  on  several  occasions  ;  is  senior 
Member  for  Victoria  Countj'  in  the  Natal  Legis- 
lative Assembly,  of  which  he  was  Speaker  until 
in  Nov.  1902,  he  resigned  in  order  to  take  up 
the  leadership  of  the  opposition  in  the  place  of 
Mr.  J.  G.  Mayden.  He  was  knighted  on  the 
occasion  of  the  King's  Coronation. 


HULL,  Henry  Charles,  M.L.C,  was  born 
at  Caledon,  C.  C,  on  Nov.  21,  I860.  He 
went  to  Kimberley  in  1879  ;  was  in  the 
Civil  Service  for  a  short  period,  and  then  be- 
came admitted  and  practised  there  as  a  solicitor, 
until  1889,  when  he  removed  to  Johannesburg. 
He  was  one  of  the  members  of  the  Reform  Com- 
mittee, and  with  his  comrades  was  sentenced 
to  two  years'  imprisonment,  to  pay  a  fine  of 
£2,000,  and  in  default  of  payment  to  a  further 
year's  imprisonment,  and  to  banishment  for 
three  years.  After  undergoing  imprisonment 
for  a  short  period,  the  sentence  was  commuted 
to  the  payment  of  the  fine.  He  assisted  Lord 
Milner  at  the  Bloemfontein  Conference,  and 
shortly  before  the  war  took  a  prominent  part 
in  the  Franchise  agitation  in  Johannesbiu-g. 
During  the  war  he  assisted  in  recruiting  the 
S.A.  Light  Horse,  Marshall's  Horse,  and 
the  Eastern  Province  Horse,  and  took  part 
in  the  column  which  under  Gen.  Brabant  re- 
lieved Wepener.  He  was  appointed  one  of  the 
unofficial  members  of  the  Legislative  Council 
of  the  Transvaal  in  May,  1903,  and  was  one  of 
the  small  minority  of  four  who  opposed  Sir  Geo. 
Farrar  (q.v.)  in  his  motion  in  the  Council  to 
import  Chinese  or  other  alien  labour. 

HULLEY,  Thomas  Benjamin,  J.P.,  of 
Umtali,  Rhodesia,  and  of  the  Umtali  and  Salis- 
bury Sporting  Clubs,  is  the  son  of  Edward  and 
Mary  Hulley,  and  grandson  of  Richard  HuUey, 
one  of  the  British  settlers  of  1820.  He  was 
born  May  15,  1860,  at  Somerset  East,  C.C., 
and  was  educated  at  Grey  Coll.,  Bloem- 
fontein, holding  the  Free  State  Bursary  for  two 
years.  In  1881  he  served  wath  the  Cradock 
Volunteer  Rifles,  and  during  this  period  he  saw 
active  service  in  Basutoland,  receiving  medal 
and  clasp.  Diu'ing  a  portion  of  this  time 
he  was  ostrich  farming  in  C.C.  In  1883  he 
commenced  trading  in  East  Griqualand,  and 
continued  until  1886,  when  he  left  for  the 
Barberton  Gold  Fields,  and  he  remained  with 
the  Sheba  Gold  Mining  Co.  till  1895.  In  April 
of  that  year  he  joined  the  B.S.A.  Co.  as  Native 
Commissioner,  and  has  held  this  office  at  Mazoe, 
Lomogonde,  Melsetter,  again  at  Umtali, 
Inyanga,  and  once  more  at  Umtali.  From 
Nov.  1902  to  Fob.  1903  he  acted  as  Chief  Native 
Commissioner  for  Mashonaland,  and  has  on 
several  occasions  acted  as  Magistrate  for  the 
Umtali  District.  He  was  appointed  Asst. 
Magistrate  for  Umtali  and  J.P.  for  Southern 
Rhodesia  in  1900.  Mr.  Hulley  saw  active 
service  again  as  Capt,  of    the    Umtali    Volun- 


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teers  in  the  Mashonaland  Rebellion  in  1896. 
He  represented  the  district  of  Umtali  at  the 
funeral  of  the  late  Hon.  Cecil  Rhodes  in  the 
Matoppos.  He  was  detailed  for  duty  with 
the  Anglo -Portuguese  Boundary  C!ommission  in 
1896,  and  on  war  breaking  out  in  the  Transvaal 
be  volunteered  for  service.  He  married,  Oct. 
13,  1897,  Georgina,  third  dau.  of  Edward 
Coleman. 

HUNTER,  Chables  Hastings,  I.S.O.,  of 
Hoknhurst,  Reigate,  Surrey,  and  of  the  Sports 
and  Imperial  Colonies  Clubs,  is  the  son  of  Col. 
Charles  Hunter,  Royal  (Bengal)  Artillery.  He 
was  born  at  Allahabad,  India,  Sept.  7,  1864, 
and  joined  the  Colonial  Civil  Service  in  Nov. 
1883  ;  served  in  variovis  capacities  in  St.  Lucia 
and  Grenada,  West  Indies,  from  that  time  until 
Oct.  1891  ;  in  that  year  he  was  transferred  to 
the  Gold  Coast  Service.  In  Nov.  1896  he  was 
appointed  Asst. -Colonial  Secy,  of  Sierra  Leone 
and  a  J.P.  for  that  Colony.  In  1897  he  was 
re-transferred  on  promotion  in  a  similar  capa- 
city to  the  Gold  Coast,  where  he  held  numeroxis 
appointments,  including  those  of  Colonial  Secy. 
and  Deputy-Governor,  and  member  of  the 
Executive  and  Legislative  Councils  of  the 
Colony.  For  his  services  in  connection  with 
the  Ashanti  Expedition  of  1900  he  was  men- 
tioned in  despatches,  and  appointed  a  Com- 
panion of  the  I.S.O.  (May,  1903).  He  was 
appointed  Chief  Asst.  Colonial  Secy,  for  the 
Gold  Coast  Colony,  Oct.   1901. 

HUNTER,  Sir  David,  K.C.M.G.  (1901), 
C.M.G.  (1898),  of  Cohnton,  Durban,  Natal, 
and  of  the  Dm*ban  Club,  is  the  son  of  David 
Hunter,  of  Bronburn,  Linhthgowshire,  Scot- 
land. He  was  born  Jan.  24,  1841,  at  Bronbiu-n, 
and  was  educated  at  the  Parish  and  Free  Church 
Schs.,  Kirkliston,  Linlithgowshire.  He  entered 
the  service  of  North  British  Railway  Co., 
Edinburgh,  as  an  apprentice  in  the  Accountants' 
Dept.,  1853,  and  served  successively  in 
the  Stores,  General  Superintendent's,  and  Gene- 
ral Manager's  Depts.  till  1879,  when  he 
was  appointed  by  the  Secy,  of  State  for  the 
Colonies  to  the  office  of  General  Manager  of 
Natal  Govt.  Railways  at  their  inception. 
In  1881  and  1882  his  services  to  the  military 
authorities  during  the  Boer  War  were  noticed 
in  despatches  by  Gen.  Sir  Evelyn  Wood,  and 
he  received  the  thanks  of  the  Secy,  of  State. 
In  the  same  year  he  was  appointed  by  the 
Governor  a  Commissioner  of  the  Natal  Harbour 
Board.     In  1883  he  was  elected  first  President  of 


the  Natal  Caledonian  Society.  In  1890  he  was 
created  a  Member  of  the  Executive  Council  of 
the  Colony  under  Royal  Sign-Manual,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  Harrismith  Railway  Con- 
ference. In  1892-3-4  he  was  a  Delegate 
of  the  Natal  Govt,  to  the  Govt,  of  the 
(late)  S.A.R.  on  Railway  Extension  to 
Johannesburg,  which  ultimately  was  ar- 
ranged under  agreement,  the  construction  of 
the  line  being  carried  out  by  Natal  in  1894—5, 
he  representing  the  Govt,  as  contractor.  He 
represented  Natal  in  various  conferences  on 
Railway  and  Harbour  questions  at  Cape  Town, 
Pretoria,  East  London,  Joharuiesburg,  and 
Bloemfontein.  He  originated,  and  was  the 
first  Chairman  of  the  S.  A.  Railway 
Officers'  Conference,  Pietermaritzburg,  1897. 
Elected  Chairman  of  Port  Advisory  Board, 
1898,  and  was  a  Member  of  Coal  Industry  Com- 
mission, appointed  by  Govt,  in  same  year.  He 
was  first  Pres.  of  Durban  Church  Council,  1899  ; 
was  elected  Chairman  of  Colonial  Reception 
Committee  in  connection  with  Royal  Visit  to 
Natal,  1901.  Sir  David's  services  during  the 
Boer  War  were  mentioned  in  the  despatches 
by  Genls,  Sir  George  White,  Sir  Red- 
vers  Buller,  Field  -  Marshal  Lord  Roberts, 
and  Lord  Kitchener.  He  was  Chairman 
of  the  S.  A.  Congregational  Union  in  1903. 
He  married,  Oct.  5,  1865,  Margaret  Gordon 
Laing,  second  dau.  of  Robert  Laing,  of  Mossy 
Mill,  Colington,  near  Edinbiu-gh. 

HUTCHINSON,  Capt.  Elliot  St.  Maurice, 
M.L.C.,  of  Biilawayo  ;  the  Redwoods,  Johan- 
nesbm-g  (P.O.  Box,  6434)  ;  and  the  Bulawayo, 
Rhodesia,  and  Junior  Constitutional  Clubs; 
son  of  Bury  Victor  Hutchinson,  Solicitor  ; 
was  born  in  England  ;  educated  at  King's  Coll. 
Sch.,  London,  and  spent  the  early  part  of  his 
life  in  the  redwoods  of  California  and  on  the 
plains  as  a  cowboy.  Returning  to  England 
he  became  a  solicitor  and  member  of  the  firm 
of  Hutchinson  &  Sons,  Lincoln's  Inn  Fields. 
He  went  to  S.A.  in  1896  during  the  Mata- 
bele  rebellion,  and  was  admitted  as  a  sohcitor 
in  Rhodesia,  where  he  practised  vmtil  the  war, 
when  he  joined  the  Rhodesian  Frontier  Force, 
serving  as  Lieut,  in  the  Rhodesian  Volunteers. 
He  was  severely  wounded  at  the  commence- 
ment at  TuU  ;  was  sent  home  as  one  of  the 
delegates  to  interview  Mr.  Chamberlain,  on 
behalf  of  the  S.A.  Vigilance  Assoc,  in  connection 
with  the  peace  terms.  On  retviring  to  S.A. 
he  took  commmand  of  "  G "  sqviad  of  2nd 
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fighting  with  Col.  Wilson's  column  in  the 
N.  Transvaal  and  O.R.C.,  being  mentioned  in 
despatches  by  Lord  Kitchener  for  conspicuous 
gallantry  at  Blauwkrantz,  O.R.C.  He  was  on 
the  StaS  and  Special  IntelUgence  at  Pretoria 
at  the  close  of  the  war,  when  he  resumed  his 
practice  as  a  solicitor  in  the  firm  of  Hutchinson, 
Sons  &  Russell,  of  Johannesburg  and  London. 
Capt.  Hutchinson  is  the  author  of  "  Two  Years 
a  Cowboy,"  which  is  an  account  of  his  early  life. 
He  is  unmarried. 

INGRAM,  Albert  Wells,  of  Amberley, 
Reigate,  Surrey,  was  educated  at  Uppingham 
School  and  abroad.  Amongst  S.A.  agri- 
culturists and  merchants  Mr.  Ingram  is  well 
known,  and  to  the  Cape  alone  his  firm,  the 
Surrey  Seed  Co.,  of  which  he  is  Managing 
Director,  has  shipped  enormous  amounts  of 
seed  of  all  descriptions.  He  has  made  a  close 
study  of  agriculture  in  various  countries, 
inquiring  into  the  different  local  methods  of 
cultivation  and  as  to  the  laws  and  regulations 
in  force  with  regard  to  land  cultivation.  In 
1889  he  visited  Russia  to  inquire  into  the 
failure  of  the  crops.  He  was  for  some  years  a 
member  of  the  Council  of  the  now  defunct 
British  Frioit  Growers'  Association,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  newly  formed  Agricultural 
Organization  Society  and  of  other  societies 
formed  for  the  advancement  of  agriculture. 
He  is  devoted  to  shooting  and  all  sorts  of  sport, 
and  in  1898  embarked  on  a  sporting  expedition 
through  Finland  and  Lapland.  He  speaks 
German  and  Scandinavian  fluently. 

INNES,  Sir  James  Rose,  K.C.M.G.,  B.A., 
LL.B.,  of  Park  Street,  Pretoria;  and  of  the 
Reform  (London),  Civil  Service  and  City  (C.T.), 
the  Pretoria  and  Athenseum  (Johannesburg) 
Clubs,  was  born  in  Grahamstown,  Jan.  8,  1855. 
He  is  son  of  James  Rose  Innes,  C.M.G.,  late 
Under  Secy,  for  Native  Affairs  for  the  C.C, 
and  a  nephew  by  marriage  of  Sir  Gordon 
Sprigg.  He  was  educated  at  Bedford  and  at 
the  Gill  Coll.,  Somerset  East,  and  graduated 
B.A.  and  LL.B.  at  the  Cape  University.  Sir 
James  was  admitted  an  advocate  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  Cape  Town, in  1878.  He  satin  the  Cape 
House  of  Assembly  from  1884  as  member  for 
Victoria  East,  and  at  the  General  Election  in 
1888  was  elected  for  the  Cape  Di\dsion,  being 
re-elected  in  1894,  and  retaining  his  seat  until 
1902.  He  was  made  Q.C.  in  1889 ;  was  At- 
torney-Gen. in  the  first  Rhodes  Ministry, 
which  he  resigned  in   1893.     He  was  retained 


by  the  Imperial  Govt,  on  behalf  of  the  British, 
American  and  Belgian  Reform  prisoners,  tried 
for  high  treason  against  the  S.A.R.,  but  owing 
to  a  slight  technical  objection,  he  was  not  per- 
mitted to  address  the  Coxu"t.  He  was  allowed, 
however,  to  sit  at  counsels'  table  and  to  advise 
the  barristers  defending  the  prisoners.  After 
the  latter  were  imprisoned  Mr.  Innes  (as  he 
then  was)  remained  in  Pretoria  with  Mr.  (now 
Sir  Richard)  Solomon,  endeavouring  to  obtain 
some  amelioration  of  their  conditions  and 
mitigation  of  their  sentences.  He  was  Attorney- 
Gen,  in  the  Sprigg  Ministry,  June  1900,  re- 
signing Feb.  1902,  and  in  the  following  month 
he  was  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  the  Trans- 
vaal Colony  imder  the  British  Administration, 
winning  the  confidence  of  British  and  Afri- 
kander alike.  He  married,  Oct.  18,  1881, 
Jessie,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  William  Dods 
Pringle,  of  Lynedoch,  Glen  Lynden,  Bedford 
District,  C.C. 

INNES,  Robert  Thobburn  Ayton,  of  the 
Observatory,  Johannesburg,  was  born  in  Edin- 
burgh Nov.  10,  1861.  He  was  formerly  Secy, 
of  the  Royal  Observatory  of  the  Cape  of  Good 
Hope,  and  is  now  Director  of  the  Transvaal 
Meteorological  Dept.  He  is  the  author  of 
"  Southern  Double  Stars  "  and  other  scientific 
papers. 

INSKIPP,  Frank  W.,  of  Rhodesia,  was 
selected  at  the  latter  end  of  1903  for  the  office 
of  Secy,  to  the  Dept.  of  Lands  for  S.  Rhodesia. 

IRVINE,  James,  of  Devonshire  Road, 
Claughton,  Birkenhead,  and  of  the  Reform 
Club  (Liverpool),  National  Liberal  Club  (Lon- 
don), and  City  Liberal  Club  (London),  is  the 
son  of  Simon  Irvine  and  Christina  Common, 
late  of  Jedburgh,  Roxburghshire.  He  was 
born  Feb.  16,  1835,  at  Langholm,  Dumfries- 
shire. He  was  educated  at  the  Nest  Acad., 
Jedburgh,  and  received  his  business  education 
in  Glasgow.  Early  in  1858  he  went  to  the 
West  Coast  of  Africa  as  a  merchant.  After 
residing  there  until  Dec.  1862,  he  returned  to 
Liverpool  from  which  city  he  has  conducted 
business  with  West  Africa  until  the  present 
time.  On  his  varioiLS  visits  to  the  Gold  Coast 
he  was  struck  with  the  prospects  of  gold  mining, 
and  early  in  1878  he  began  the  first  systematic 
development  of  that  industry,  which  resulted 
in  the  formation  of  the  Effuenta  and  of  the 
Abbontiakoon  Gold  Mining  Cos.  These  enter- 
prises  were   not   then   successful   owing   to   in- 


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herent  difficulties,  but  Mr.  Irvine  never  lost 
faith  in  the  conviction  that  West  Africa  would 
repay  all  outlay  honestly  and  judiciously  made. 
He  is  at  the  present  time  interested  in  many  of 
the  successful  cos.,  and  is  chairman  of  four.  In 
1882  he  was  instriimental  in  bringing  about  the 
first  systematic  survey  of  the  railway  from  the 
coast  to  the  Tarkwa  mines.  He  has  contri- 
buted several  papers  on  W.  African  subjects 
to  the  ciurent  literature  of  the  day,  which  have 
been  read  with  considerable  interest.  He  is 
a  F.R.G.S.,  Vice-Chairman  of  the  Liverpool 
Geographical  Society,  MedalUst  of  the  Society 
of  Arts,  and  Knight  Commander  of  the  Order 
of  African  Redemption,  Liberia.  He  married  : 
first,  Elizabeth,  second  dau.  of  the  late  John 
Hickson,  of  Liverpool,  on  June  14,  1864,  who 
died  April  5,  1880,  leaving  three  sons  and  two 
daughters.  He  subsequently  married,  on  Oct. 
14,  1884,  Catherine  Emma  Strong,  youngest 
dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  Leonard  Strong,  of  Tor- 
quay, and  grand-dau.  of  the  late  Sir  Robert 
Dundas,  Bart.,  of  Beechwood,  Edin.,  and  of 
Dunira,  Perthshire,  by  whom  he  has  two  sons. 

JACKSON,  LiEUT.-CoL.  H.  M.,  R.E., 
M.L.C.,  of  Pretoria,  has  been,  since  March  1903, 
Surveyor-Gen.  of  the  Transvaal,  a  branch  of 
the  Lands  Dept.  established  in  1902,  which  is  at 
at  present  mainly  engaged  in  carrying  out 
cadastral  surveys. 

JACKSON,  Frederick  John,  C.M.G.  (1902), 
C.B.  (1899),  was  educated  at  Shrewsbiu'y  Sch. 
and  Jesus  Coll.,  Camb.  He  was  1st  Class  Asst., 
Uganda  Protectorate,  July  1894  ;  Vice-Consul, 
Uganda  Protectorate,  May  1895  ;  Depxity  Com- 
missioner, Uganda,  Apr.  1901  ;  and  was  ap- 
pointed Deputy  Commissioner  for  the  East 
Africa  Protectorate  in  April  1902.  Mr.  Jack- 
son is  the  possessor  of  the  East  and  Central 
African  medal,  with  clasps  for  Lumbwa  and 
Nandi,  1897-8. 

JAGGER,  John  William,  M.L.A.,  of  Wyn- 
berg.  Cape  Town,  and  of  the  City  Club,  Cape 
Town,  is  the  son  of  the  late  William  Jagger,  of 
Only  House,  Northowram.  He  was  born  Sept. 
20,  1859,  at  Northowram,  Yorks.,  and  was 
educated  at  Burnsall  Gram.  Sch.  He  went 
to  S.A.  in  1880.  He  is  President  of  the 
Association  of  the  Chambers  of  Commerce 
of  S.A.  ;  member  of  the  Table  Bay  Harbour 
Board,  and  was  elected  to  represent  Cape  Town 
in  the  Progressive  interest  in  the  Legislative 
Assembly   in  Nov.    1902,   being   last  re-elected 


in  Feb.  1904.  Mr.  Jagger  is  head  of  the  firm 
of  J.  W.  Jagger  &  Co.,  S.A.  merchants.  He 
is  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Statistical  Society,  and 
a  Fellow  of  the  Society  of  Arts.  He  married, 
in  1885,  Mary,  only  dau.  of  the  late  William 
Hall,  of  Cape  Town. 

JAMESON,  Adam,  of  Pretoria ;  is  Commis- 
sioner of  Lands  for  the  Transvaal,  and  has 
also  under  his  control  the  Depts.  of  Agricul- 
ture, Irrigation  and  Water  Supplies,  and  Sur- 
veys, the  Irrigation  Dept.  being  at  present  in 
process  of  formation. 

JAMESON,  Dr.  The  Hon.  Leander  Starr, 
M.L.A.,  C.B.  (1894),  of  2,  Down  St.,  Piccadilly, 
W.,  and  of  the  Beefsteak  Club,  was  born  in 
Edinbiu-gh  Feb.  9,  1853,  and  is  one  of  many 
children  of  the  late  R.  W.  Jameson,  W.S.  He 
was  educated  at  Godolphin  Sch. ,  Hammersmith, 
and  studied  medicine  at  London  Univ., 
graduating  M.B.  and  B.S.  1875,  M.R.C.S.  Eng. 
1875,  and  M.D.  1877.  He  then  went  to  America, 
and  on  his  return  to  England  was  offered  the 
post  of  Consulting  Physician  to  the  Kimberley 
Hospital,  and  a  partnership  in  the  practice  of 
Dr.  Prince  of  that  town.  Proceeding  there 
he  was  soon  recognized  as  one  of  the  leading 
members  of  his  profession,  with  what  was 
probably  the  best  practice  in  S.A.  From 
this  period  dates  his  friendship  with  the  late 
Cecil  Rhodes.  In  1881  Dr.  Jameson  came  to 
Europe  on  a  holiday,  and  from  the  time  of  his 
return  to  S.A.  began  his  interest  in  the  historic 
movement  known  as  the  Northern  Expansion. 
He  accompanied  Dr.  F.  Rutherfoord  Harris  and 
Rochfort  Maguire,  MP.,  on  a  special  mission 
to  Lobengula  (whom  he  treated  for  gout)  ;  and 
it  was  perhaps  owing  to  this  fact  that  the  mis- 
sion was  successful  in  accomplishing  its  objects. 
On  his  return  to  Kimberley  Dr.  Jameson  again 
resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession  until 
Sept.  1889,  when  with  Major  Maxwell,  Major 
Frank  Johnson,  and  Mr.  Denis  Doyle  he  un- 
officially accompanied  another  mission  to 
Lobengula.  On  the  occupation  of  Mashona- 
land,  Mr.  Colquhoun  was  administrator  of 
that  territory,  but  Dr.  Jameson  held  Mr.  Rhodes* 
power  of  attorney.  During  these  early  days 
he  had  to  endure  a  course  of  self-denial  so  severe 
that  nothing  but  the  most  single-minded  devo- 
tion to  his  self-imposed  duties  could  have 
carried  him  through.  Long  wanderings  through 
the  "  fly-belt  "  with  Major  Johnson  in  search 
of  the  East  Coast  route,  endless  troubles  with 
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(sometimes  realized)  of  conflicts  with  Boer 
trekkers,  Matabele  and  Portuguese — these  were 
some  of  the  propositions  which  required  his 
infinite  patience,  tact,  courage  and  hard  work 
to  combat. 

Eventually  reaching  Kimberley  again,  Nov. 
15,  1890,  he  left  once  more  for  Mashonaland 
on  Dec.  2  with  some  ofificials  of  the  Chartered 
Co.  At  Rhodes'  Drift  ho  met  the  Boer  expedi- 
tion organised  by  Gen.  Joubert  to  set  up  a  new 
republic  of  Banjai  in  Chartered  territory,  and 
with  great  tact  and  firmness  prevented  the 
Boers  from  crossing  the  Crocodile  River. 

On  Sept.  18,  1891,  Dr.  Jameson  succeeded 
Mr.  Colquhoun  as  Chief  Magistrate  and  Ad- 
ministrator of  Mashonaland  ;  he  took  over  also 
the  administration  of  Matabeleland  from  Sept. 
1894,  and  in  Oct.  following  was  appointed 
Resident  Commissioner  of  the  territories  along 
the  western  border  of  the  S.A.R.,  north  of 
Bechuanaland.  These  posts  he  relinquished 
in  1895  in  consequence  of  his  complicity  in  the 
Raid. 

It  is  difficult  to  say  when  Dr.  Jameson's  con- 
nection with  the  Transvaal  Reform  movement 
first  originated.  He  possibly  for  years  had  in 
view  the  part  which  he  was  to  play.  However 
that  may  be,  arrangements  were  made  between 
the  Reform  leaders  and  Dr.  Jameson  as  early  as 
Sept.  1895,  that  he  would  maintain  a  force  of 
some  1,500  mounted  men  with  Maxims  and 
field  artillery  on  the  western  border  of  the 
Transvaal  (ostensibly  in  case  of  difficulties  with 
the  Bechuanaland  natives),  and  the  seizure  of 
the  Pretoria  fort  and  the  railway  was  plaimed 
in  conjunction  with  local  levies.  That  was  the 
original  idea,  but  the  arrangements  were  modi- 
fied. The  Johannesburg  leaders  appear  to 
have  somewhat  regretted  that  they  had  invited 
outside  aid,  and  it  was  agreed  with  Mr.  Rhodes 
in  Nov.  1895  that  the  B.B.P.  and  other  troops 
should  be  kept  across  the  border  only  as  moral 
support  or  for  assistance  in  case  the  Uitlanders- 
found  themselves  in  "  a  tight  place,"  for  which 
eventuality  an  undated  letter,  signed  by  the 
leaders,  was  handed  to  Dr.  Jameson  towards 
the  end  of  Nov.,  setting  forth  the  condition  of 
affairs  and  inviting  him  to  come  to  their  assist- 
ance. This  letter  was  mainly  to  justify  the 
doctor  before  the  British  Govt,  and  the  Directors 
of  the  Chartered  Co.  Dates  for  the  invasion 
were  tentatively  fixed,  but  the  Secy,  of  the 
Reform  Committee  has  recorded  that  the  pri- 
mary condition  of  these  arrangements  was 
that  under  no  circumstances  should  Dr.  Jame- 
son move  without  receiving  the  word  from  the 


Johannesburg  party.  Doubts  were  then  enter- 
tained as  to  whether  there  was  not  some  imder- 
lying  intention  on  the  part  of  Mr.  Cecil  Rhodes 
and  the  doctor  to  come  in  under  the  British 
flag,  and  so  strong  did  these  suspicions  become, 
that  emissaries  were  sent  to  Mr.  Rhodes  (Dec. 
25)  to  get  his  clear  pronouncement  that  they 
were  co-operating  for  a  reformed  and  repre- 
sentative republic  only,  and  the  next  day 
officers  were  despatched  to  Dr.  Jameson  to 
emphatically  prohibit  any  movement  on  his 
part,  and  explaining  the  flag  difficulty  and  the 
unpreparedness  of  the  Uitlanders.  But  the 
doctor  began  to  reveal  an  impatience  which  no 
protest  either  from  the  Committee,  from  Mr. 
Rhodes,  or  from  individuals  at  Johannesburg 
could  restrain.  On  Dec.  28,  1895,  he  ^\ired 
"  I  shall  start  without  fail  to-morrow  night,"  and 
he  left  accordingly  with  8  Maxims,  two  seven- 
pounders,  one  twelve-pounder,  and  about  480 
well  mounted  men.  Such  was  the  consterna- 
tion produced  by  this  act  that  the  first  impulse 
was  to  repudiate  the  doctor's  interference. 
But  that  was  of  course  impossible.  Maxinis 
had  already  been  placed  in  position  round 
Johannesburg,  and  some  2,000  rifles  distributed 
and  now  earth-works  were  thrown  up  and 
defensive  measures  hastily  taken.  The  force 
left  Pitsani  at  about  5  p.m.  on  Sunday,  and  in 
spite  of  messages  received  from  the  High  Com- 
missioner, the  British  Agent,  and  the  Reform 
leaders,  warning  Dr.  Jameson  to  withdraw  his 
troops,  he  continued  to  Krugersdorp  (150 
miles),  which  he  reached  at  3  p.m.  on  Wednes- 
day. Near  here,  at  the  Queen's  mine,  the 
invaders  suffered  a  small  reverse,  and  with- 
drew, the  firing  being  carried  on  until  11  p.m. 
During  the  night  the  Boers  were  reinforced 
with  guns,  Maxims,  and  men,  bringing  up  their 
numbers  to  1,200  or  1,500  men.  Dr.  Jameson 
seemed  quite  unacqiiainted  with  the  locality, 
and  relied  on  the  guidance  of  a  local  man,  who 
led  him  into  the  strong  position  held  by  the  Boers 
at  Doornkop,  Vlakfontein.  He  made  a  despe- 
rate attempt  to  break  through,  his  men  behav- 
ing with  great  gallantry.  But  the  position  was 
vmassailable,  and  the  force  surrendered  as  9.15 
on  Thursday  morning,  conditionally  on  the 
lives  of  all  his  force  being  spared.  The  casual- 
ties were  18  killed  and  about  40  wounded,  while 
the  Boers  owned  to  4  killed  and  5  wounded. 

Dr.  Jameson  was  handed  over  by  Mr.  Kriiger's 
Govt,  to  the  British  Govt,  for  trial  in  London. 
Following  on  the  police-court  proceedings,  he 
was  tried  at  Bar  on  the  charge  of  having  con- 
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by  organizing  and  heading  a  hostile  expedition 
from  Pitsani-Pitlogo  against  a  friendly  power. 
The  trial  commenced  on  Jvme  20,  1896,  at  the 
High  Court  of  Judicature,  and  lasted  seven 
days.  He  was  found  guilty  and  sentenced  to 
imprisonment  as  a  first-class  misdemeanant  for 
fifteen  months.  He  was,  however,  released 
from  Holloway  in  the  following  Dec.  on  account 
of  illness. 

After   a   partial    retirement    for   some    years, 
Dr.  Jameson  returned    to    S.A.,  serving  in  the 
war    (1899-1900),    during    which    time    he    was 
besieged  in  Ladysmith,  doing  useful  work  until 
he  was  himself  laid  up  with  enteric.       In  1900 
he    was   elected    a   member    of   the    Legislative 
Assembly  for  Kimberley,  and  made  his  maiden 
speech  in  the  House  on  Aug.  28,  1902,  in  which 
he  hoped  that  the  Raid  might  now  be  forgotten. 
Seceding  from   the  Sprigg  party,   he  identified 
himself    with    the    Suspension    movement,    and 
was  eventually  (June  8,    1903),    elected    leader 
of    the    new    Progressive    party    which,    after 
a  long  and  difficult  struggle,  entailing  consider- 
able  organizing     powers,     tact,     control,     and 
restraint,    he    led   to    victory    at    the    general 
election    in  Feb.    1904,  himself  being  retm-ned 
as    member    for    Grahamstown.     The    Progres- 
sives  being  in  a  majority   of  five   in   the  new 
assembly,   and  of  one  in  the  Council,  and  Sir 
Gordon   Sprigg  having  been    defeated    at    the 
poll,   the   resignation   of   the  Ministry   followed 
as  a  matter  of  coiu-se,  and  a  new  Cabinet  was 
immediately  formed  by  Dr.  Jameson,    consist- 
ing of  himself  as  Premier  with  charge  of  Native 
Affairs,   Col.    Crewe   as   Colonial   Secy.,    E.     H. 
Walton    as    Treasurer,     Dr.     Smart    as    Com- 
missioner of  Crown  Lands   and    Public    Works, 
Victor     Sampson     as     Attorney-Gen.,     Arthur 
Fuller   as   Secy,    for  Agriculture,  and  Sir  Lewis 
Michell    as    Minister    without    portfolio,    all    of 
whom    are    referred    to    more     particularly    in 
other  pages.     The  Premier  will  have  to  exercise 
all   his    qualities   of   leadership    to    achieve    the 
objects  of  his  party,  the  immediate  task  being 
the  passing  of  an  equitable  redistribution  bill, 
and  the  ultimate  aim   the  Imperial  federation 
of   British   S.  Africa.       But  in  spite    of  certain 
limitations,  he  possesses  that  knowledge  of  men 
and  affairs,  patience,   sobriety  of  thought  and 
action,    imagination,    capacity    for    hard    work, 
and    that    necessary    amount    of    daring  which 
make  for  success.     If  he  has  not   the   magnetic 
power  of  a  commanding  personaHty,  he  certainly 
does  not  fail  in  inspiring  friendship   and  zeal, 
courage  and  persistence.     He  is  accessible  and 
suave,  well  able  to  bear  extremes  of  fortune. 


and  has  never  yet  forgiven  his  one  great  failure. 
To  the  department  over  which  Dr.  Jameson  now 
presides  he  brings  a  close  knowledge  of  native 
character  and  a  keen  appreciation  of  the  neces- 
sity of  raising  the  status  and  usefulness  of  the 
native. 

Dr.  Jameson  is  a  Director  of  the  British 
S.A.  Co.,  and  of  the  De  Beers  Consoli- 
dated Mines,  and  by  the  last  codicil  of  Mr. 
Cecil  Rhodes'  will,  he  was  appointed  a  co- 
executor  and  trustee  thereof.  He  is  not 
married. 

JARVIS,  Lieut. -Col.  Alexander  Weston, 
C.M.G.  (Apr.  1901),  M.V.O.  (1901),  of  66,  Park 
Street,  Grosvenor  Square,  and  of  the  Carlton, 
Marlborovigh  and  Bachelors'  Clubs,  is  the  eldest 
son  of  Sir  Lewis  Jarvis,  of  Middleton  Towers, 
King's  Lynn,  where  he  was  born,  Dec.  26, 
185.5.  He  was  educated  at  Harrow,  and  repre- 
sented King's  Lynn  as  Conservative  M.P.  from 
1886  to  1892. 

As  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Partridge  &  Jarvis, 
he  was  actively  interested  in  the  formation  and 
control  of  a  large  number  of  Rhodesian  under- 
takings. He  was  in  Rhodesia  when  the  Mata- 
bele  Rebellion  of  1896  broke  out.  He  then 
accompanied  the  Volunteer  forces  in  an  vm- 
attached  capacity,  but  took  command  of  a 
squadron  on  its  leader  being  mortally  wounded 
(medal).  He  was  again  in  Rhodesia  when 
the  S.A.  War  opened  in  1899,  and  joined  the 
Rhodesian  contingent  under  Col.  Plumer, 
taking  part  in  the  relief  of  Mafeking.  On 
leaving  Plumer's  force  at  the  end  of  1900,  Col. 
Jarvis  came  to  England,  but  returned  three 
months  later  in  command  of  the  21st  Battn.  of 
I.Y.  serving  with  Col.  Rimington's  and  Sir 
Henry  Rawlinson's  cohunns,  during  which  time 
he  took  part  in  the  successful  drives  luider  Gen. 
Bruce  Hamilton,  from  the  beginning  of  Nov. 
1901  to  the  end  of  Jan.  1902.  towards  the  end 
of  the  war  Col.  Jarvis  was  employed  in  putting 
up  the  Block-house  lines  from  Ermelo  to 
Carolina  in  the  North,  and  from  Ermelo  to  the 
Swaziland  Border  on  the  East  (S.A.  medal 
and  four  cla,sps,  and  King's  medal  and  two 
clasps).  At  the  conclusion  of  hostilities  his 
battn.  was  disbanded,  but  Col.  Jarvis  was 
given  the  hon.  rank  of  Lieut. -Col.  in  the  Army, 
together  with  the  dignity  of  C.M.G.  On  return- 
ing to  England  he  exchanged  from  the  Derby- 
shire Yeomanry  Cavalry  to  take  command 
under  Lord  Dunraven  of  the  3rd  County  of 
London  I.Y. — a  regiment  which  was  formed 
out    of   the    old    18th,    21st,    and    23rd    Batts. 


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of    I.Y.    which  had    served  with  Col.  Jarvis  in 

S.A. 

In  Nov.  1902  Col.  Jarvis  proceeded  to  the 
Delhi  Durbar  on  the  Staff  of  H.R.H.  the  Duke 
of  Connaught.  Meanwhile  the  partnership  of 
Partridge  &  Jarvis  having  terminated  by  the 
effluxion  of  time,  Col.  Jarvis  returned  to  the  City 
to  supervise  his  business.  Amongst  other  Com- 
panies he  is  a  Director  of  the  India  Rubber, 
Gutta  Percha  &  Telegraph  Works,  and  many 
Rhodesian  Cos. 

At  one  time  an  ardent  steeplechaser  and 
cricketer,  he  now  limits  his  recreations  mainly 
to  hunting  and  shooting.  Col.  Jarvis  is  un- 
married. 

JENKIN,  Thomas  Nicol,  of  Tolgus,  Red- 
ruth, Cornwall,  and  124,  Palace  Chambers, 
Westminster,  was  born  Mar.  6,  1865.  He  is 
proprietor  of  the  "  Cornubian "  newspaper. 
Secy,  of  the  National  Industrial  Assoc,  and 
Secy,  of  the  S.A.  Trade  Committee,  by  whom  he 
was  sent  out  as  Special  Commissioner  to  report 
upon  the  general  trade  of  S.A.  (exclu- 
ding engineering  and  textiles).  The  results  of 
his  investigations  were  published  in  1902  by 
P.  S.  King  &  Sons  under  the  title  of  "  South 
African  General  Trades."  He  married,  in 
1887,  Jessica  Frances  Lemon,  dau.  of  Jolm 
Tregenza. 

JENNINGS,  Hennen,  C.  E.,  of  Mortimer 
House,  Egerton  Gardens,  London,  S.W.,  of 
1,  London  Wall  Buildings,  E.C.,  and  of  the 
Union  Club,  San  Francisco,  and  the  Rand  Club, 
Johannesburg,  was  born  in  Hawesville,  Ken- 
tucky, U.S.A.,  May  6,  1854,  and  is  son  of  Jas. 
R.  Jennings,  of  Norfolk,  Virginia,  an  owner  of 
coal  mines  in  Kentucky,  by  his  wife  Katherine 
Sharpe  Hennen,  of  New  Orleans.  Mr.  Hennen 
Jennings  was  educated  at  Lawrence  Scientific 
Sch.,  Harvard  Univ.,  where  he  graduated 
C.E.  inl877.  Since  then  he  has  been  identified 
with  many  mining  undertakings,  notably  with 
the  North  Bloomfield  Gold  Gravel  Mining  Co. 
in  California,  in  1877  and  1880  ;  the  New  Almaden 
Quicksilver  Mines  in  Cahfornia,  1877  to  1880, 
and  1883  to  1887  ;  the  Ruby  Gold  Gravel 
Mining  Company  in  California,  from  1881  to 
1883;  and  the  El  Callao  Mine,  Venezuela, 
from  1887  to  1889.  From  December  1889  to 
June  1898  he  was  Consulting  Engineer  to  H. 
Eckstein  &  Co.,  Johannesburg,  and  has  been 
Consulting  Engineer  for  varioxis  periods  to  the 
following  Transvaal  Gold  Mining  Companies  : — 
Rand  Mines,  Robinson,  Crown  Reef,  New  Heriot, 


City  &  Suburban,  Henry  Nourse,  Nigel,  New 
Modderfontein,  and  others.  From  July  1898 
to  the  present  time  he  has  acted  as  Consulting 
Engineer  in  London  to  Messrs.  Wernlier,  Beit  & 
Co. ;  in  addition  to  which  he  is  Director  of  the 
El  Oro  Mining  &  Rly.  Co.  of  Mexico,  and  Presi- 
dent (1903  and  1904)  of  the  Institution  of  Mining 
and  Metallurgy. 

Mr.  Jennings  is  greatly  interested  in  educa- 
tional matters  ;  was  a  member  of  Transvaal 
School  Board  in  1897  and  1898  ;  Member  of  two 
Technical  Education  Commissions  in  Transvaal. 
1902,  1903  and  1904  ;  Member  of  the  London 
Advisory  Committee  of  the  Transvaal  Technical 
Institute,  and  Member  of  the  Departmental 
Committee  of  the  Royal  College  of  Science,  etc., 
etc.  Besides  which  he  is  a  Member  of  the 
Institute  of  Civil  Engineers  ;  American  Institute 
of  Mining  Engineers  ;  South  African  Association 
of  Engineers ;  Chemical,  Metallurgical  and 
Mining  Society  of  South  Africa;  Mechanical 
Engineers'  Association  of  the  Witwatersrand  ; 
Geological  Society  of  South  Africa  ;  South 
African  Association  for  Advancement  of  Science, 
and  the  Society  of  Arts. 

He  is  a  keen  golf  player,  and  a  member  of 
the  West  Herts  and  Cinque  Ports  Golf  Clubs. 
He  married,  October  7,  1886,  Mary  L., 
daughter  of  John  C.  Coleman,  of  San  Francisco, 
California. 

JENNINGS,  Sidney  Johnston,  A.I.M.E., 
M.I.M.  and  M.,  S.A.A.E.,  of  Corona  House, 
Mayfair,  Johannesburg,  and  of  the  Rand  and 
Athenaeum  Clubs,  Johannesburg,  is  the  son  of 
James  R.  Jennings,  his  mother  being  a  dau.  of 
Alfred  Hennen,  a  lawyer  of  New  Orleans.  He 
was  born  Aug.  13,  1863,  in  Hancock  County, 
Kentucky,  U.S.A.,  and  was  educated  at  Tours, 
France,  Hanover,  Germany,  and  Lawrence 
Scientific  Sch.,  Harvard  Univ.  Mr.  Jennings 
acquired  a  practical  knowledge  of  mining  in  the 
quicksilver  mines  of  New  Almaden  and  the 
Copper  Mines  of  the  Anaconda  Co.  He 
went  to  S.A.  as  Manager  of  the  Willows 
Copper  (Argentiferous)  Synd.,Ltd.,  in  1890,  and 
was  appointed  Assis.  General  Manager  of  De 
Beers  Consolidated  Mines.,  Ltd.  Mr.  Jennings 
went  to  the  Rand  in  1893  as  Manager  of  the 
Crown  Deep,  Ltd.,  and  was  appointed  Gen. 
Manager  of  the  Crown  Reef  G.  M.  Co.  in  1896  ; 
he  joined  H.  Eckstein  &  Co.'s  Mining  Dept. 
in  1899,  and  was  appointed  Consulting 
Engineer  to  that  firm  in  1900,  and  is  also  Consult- 
ing Engineer  to  the  Robinson  G.  M.  Co.,  the 
Crown  Reef,  Bonanza,  Robinson,  Central  Deep, 


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Ferreira,  City  and  Suburban,  Village  Deep,  New 
Modderfontein,  Henry  Nourse,  Turf  Mines,  Ltd., 
etc.  Mr.  Jennings  was  member  of  the  Johannes- 
burg Town  Council  from  Dec.  1901  to  April 
1903,  when  he  did  very  good  service  as  Chairman 
of  the  Works  Committee.  He  has  also  taken  a 
great  interest  in  education  ;  is  a  member  of  the 
governing  body  of  the  Transvaal  Technical 
Institute,  and  is  also  a  member  of  many  scientific 
societies.  He  married,  Aug.  18,  1903,  Amy 
Florence  Valby,  dau.  of  Col.  Philip  Dassie 
Home,  R.H.A. 

JEPPE,  Carl,  of  the  Rand  Club,  was  born  at 
Rostock,  Mecklenburg,  Germany,  in  1858,  and 
was  educated  in  Germany  and  Pretoria.  He 
went  to  the  Transvaal  in  1870,  entering  the 
Govt,  service  as  Public  Prosecutor  for  the  Water- 
burg  in  1877.  He  was  admitted  to  practise  as 
advocate  at  the  Transvaal  bar  in  1884,  and  in  the 
early  days  of  the  Rand  he  became  joint-owner 
of  the  Johannesburg  Suburbs — Jeppestown  and 
Fordsburg.  He  was  member  of  the  Diggers' 
Committee  in  1877  ;  Chairman  of  the  Chamber 
of  Mines  in  1888,  and  Member  of  the  Johannes- 
biirg  Chamber  of  Mines  in  the  following  year. 
Mr.  Jeppe  was  elected  Member  of  the  Second 
Raad  for  the  Rand  Gold  Fields  in  1891,  but  was 
unseated  on  the  ground  of  informality  and 
declined  to  stand  again.  He  was,  however, 
returned  as  Member  for  Johannesburg  to  the 
First  Raad  in  1893.  He  was  strongly  in  favour 
of  extending  the  franchise  to  the  new-comers 
under  certain  conditions ;  advocated  a  spirited 
railway  policy  and  the  remodelling  of  the  finan- 
cial system  of  the  State.  During  the  1894 
session  he  was  the  mainstay  of  the  Progressives 
in  the  Raad,  and  fought  valiantly  in  the  interests 
of  the  Uitlanders.  His  plea  for  the  alien  during 
the  Franchise  debate  was  said  by  the  "  Argus 
Annual  "  to  have  been  recognized  as  the  finest 
piece  of  oratory  ever  heard  in  the  Raadzaal,  and 
his  speech  won  over  several  members  of  his 
side  who  were  previously  undecided.  At  the 
conclusion  of  the  session  he  was  publicly 
thanked  for  his  efforts  in  the  cause  of  his  con- 
stitutents. 

JEPPE,  Julius,  Knight  of  the  Danish  Order 
of  Danebrog,  and  Knight  of  the  Grecian  Royal 
Order  of  the  Saviour,  of  32,  Shortmarket  Street, 
Cape  Town,  of  "  Vredenburg,"  Rosebank,  C.T., 
and  of  the  City  Club,  C.T.,  is  son  of  the  late  Dr. 
Jeppe  of  Rostock.  He  was  born  September  22, 
1855,  at  Swellendam,  C.C,  and  was  educated 
at  the   S.A.    Coll.      He   has   had   a   long   com- 


mercial career  liaving  been  connected  with 
shipping,  produce,  and  manufacturing  interests 
in  S.A.  since  1880— for  fourteen  years  in  the 
Transvaal,  and  now  in  Cape  Town.  His  official 
positions  are  Consul  for  Denmark  and  Consul  for 
Greece.  Recreations  :  shooting  and  riding.  He 
married,  Sept.  24,  1884,  Julia,  eldest  dau. 
of  the  late  Capt.  Richard  Ellis,  shipowner,  of 
London. 

JOEL,  J.  B.,  of  34,  Grosvenor  Square,  London, 
and  of  Northaw  House,  Potter's  Bar,  is  son  of  the 
late  Joel  Joel,  and  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Barnato  Bros.,  whom  he  represents  in  Johannes- 
b\irg  as  a  Permanent  Director  of  the  Barnato 
Consolidated  Mines.  He  is  also  on  the  Board  of 
the  Johannesburg  ConsoUdated  Investment 
Co.  Mr.  "  Jack "  Joel  is  a  faii'ly  successful 
owner  of  racehorses,  and  is  an  accomplished 
driver  foiu'-in-hand.  He  married,  in  1904,  Olive 
Coulson,  dau.  of  the  late  Thos.  Sop  with,  of  83, 
Cadogan  Gardens,  London. 

JOEL,  Solomon  Baenato,  of  Johannesburg, 
and  of  10  and  11,  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.C., 
is  son  of  the  late  Joel  Joel,  and  a  nephew  of  the 
late  B.  I.  Barnato,  and  younger  brother  of  Woolf 
Joel,  who  was  foully  murdered  in  Johannesburg 
some  years  ago.  He  is  now  one  of  the  chief 
members  of  the  firm  of  Barnato  Bros.,  and  as 
such  largely  assists  in  the  control  of  enormous 
interests  in  mining  and  industrial  companies  in 
S.A.  He  is  a  Director  of  De  Beers  Con- 
solidated Mines,  and  is  on  the  Johannesburg 
Board  of  the  New  Jagersfontein  Mining  Co.  He 
is  Chairman  of  the  Johannesburg  Board  of  th© 
Ginsberg,  Glencairn,  Johannesburg  Consolidated 
Investment  Co.,  Johannesburg  Waterworks, 
New  Croesus,  New  Primrose,  New  Spes  Bona 
and  Pleiades  Companies  ;  is  Permanent  Director 
of  the  Barnato  Consolidated  Mines,  and  is  also  a 
Director  in  Johannesburg  of  the  Balmoral, 
Buffelsdoorn  "  A,"  Buffelsdoorn  Estate,  Chimes, 
Ferreira  Deep,  Johannesburg  Estate,  Langlaagte 
Royal,Lydenburg  Gold  Farms,  May  Consolidated, 
New  Heidelburg-Roodepoort,  New  Rietfontein, 
New  Unified  Main  Reef,  Nigel  Deep,  Rietfontein 
"  A,"  Roodepoort,  Transvaal  Consolidated  Coal 
Mines,  and  the  Witwatersrand  G.  M.  Co.  Mr. 
"  Solly  "  Joel  is  the  owner  of  the  Maiden  Erlegh 
estate ;  he  races  considerably  in  Johannesbm-g 
and  in  England,  and  is  particularly  partial  to  the 
drama. 

JOHNSON,  El-Lewa  Edward  Armstrong, 
Pasha,  2nd  Class  Medjidieh  ;  of  Cairo  ;  of  Lilly 


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35 


Hall,  Ledbury,  Herefordshire,  and  of  the  Jvinior 
United  Service  and  Turf  (Cairo)  Clubs,  was  born 
in  Dublin,  Aug.  15,  1846.  He  is  son  of  the 
Ven.  Evans  Johnson,  Archdeacon  of  Ferns,  and 
Mary,  dau.  of  William  Henry  Heaton  Armstrong, 
of  Mount  Heaton,  and  of  Farney  Castle,  Ireland. 
He  was  educated  at  Cheltenham  Coll.,  where 
he  was  in  the  Cricket  XI.  in  1864^5.  He  passed 
for  Woolwich  in  June  of  that  year,  and  joined 
the  R.A.  in  January,  1868  ;  went  to  India  with 
the  9th  Brigade  in  1869,  and  held  charge  of  the 
Quetta  Arsenal  dviring  the  second  Afghan  Cam- 
paign and  seige  of  Kandahar.  He  was  several 
times  thanked  for  services  by  resolutions  of  the 
Bombay  Govt.  ;  was  mentioned  in  de- 
spatches, and  his  services  were  a  second  time 
brought  to  the  notice  of  the  Govt,  of  India  by 
the  Bombay  Govt.  He  had  charge  of  the 
Grand  Arsenal,  Bombay,  from  the  close  of  the 
war,  till  invaUded  in  1882  (Afghan  medal 
1879-82).  He  acted  temporarily  as  R.M.  in 
Ireland,  but  resigned  that  appointment  to  join 
the  Staff  of  Gen.  Val.  Baker  in  Egypt  in  1883. 
He  served  as  Deputy  Inspector-Gen.  of 
Gendarmerie  and  Police  for  several  years  there  ; 
was  made  Lewa  (Maj.-Gen.)  by  Khedivial 
decree  in  June,  1885.  On  the  reorganisation  of 
the  Ministry  of  the  Interior  he  joined  the  Ministry 
of  Justice  as  Chief  Inspector  of  Native  Tribunals, 
but  gave  up  that  position  in  1902  to  undertake 
the  establishment  of  model  workshops,  which 
were  intended  to  serve  as  Technical  Schools  for 
Egyptian  artisans  on  a  system  suggested  by 
him. 

About  the  year  1895,  Johnson  Pasha  com- 
menced to  devote  a  portion  of  his  spare  time  to 
the  revival  of  the  ancient  ceramic  industries  of 
Egypt,  which  had  been  almost  abandoned,  with 
such  success  that  several  potteries  are  now 
doing  a  fairly  profitable  trade  in  glazed  pottery, 
and  the  industry  shows  promise  of  extensive 
development.  The  development  of  the  mining 
industry  which  has  recently  taken  place  in 
Egj'pt  is  also  largely  due  to  Johnson  Pasha's 
initiative.  Between  1889-95  he  spent  most  of 
his  holidays  in  visiting  the  ancient  mining 
centres  in  the  Eastern  Desert,  wloich  he  found 
to  be  much  more  numerous  than  had  been 
supposed. 

As  Capt.  Johnson,  he  was  secy,  of  the 
Mhow  Tent  Club  from  1873-76,  and  won  the 
sportsman's  contest  at  the  Mhow  Rifle  Meeting 
in  1875.  He  published  (1887)  a  translation  of 
the  Gulshan-i-Raz  in  blanli  verse  with  some  of 
the  Rubaiyat  of  Omar  Khayyam.  A  second 
publication  (1893)  contains  the  Gulshan-i-Raz, 


the  introduction  to  the  Diwan  of  Be-Dil,  and  a 
considerable  number  of  the  Rubiayat  not 
previously  translated.  Johnson  Pasha  married, 
Feb.  25,  1871,  Mary  Hokoyd,  dau.  of  the 
late  Maj.  J.  E.  Eaiox-Grogan,  formerly  of  the 
68th  Regt. 

JOHNSON,  Major  Frank,  of  Finsbury  Pave- 
ment House,  London,  E.G.,  and  Erin  House, 
Clapham  Park,  S.W.,  was  born  in  Norfolk  in 
1866  ;  was  educated  at  King's  Lynn  Gram. 
Sch.  ;  went  out  to  S.A.  in  1882,  and  for 
two  years  was  a  member  of  the  Cape  Civil 
Service.  In  1884  he  joined  the  2nd  Mounted 
Rifles  vmder  Colonel  (now  Gen.)  Sir  Frederick 
Carrington,  and  took  part  m  the  Warren  Ex- 
pedition to  Bechuanaland,  at  the  close  of  which 
he  joined  the  Bechuanaland  Border  Police,  in 
which  corps  he  met  his  future  partners,  Maurice 
Heany  and  H.  J.  Borrow.  Drawn  north  by  the 
reports  of  wealth  in  the  interior,  he  left  the 
B.B.P.  early  in  1886,  and  at  Cape  Town  formed 
a  small  syndicate  to  obtain  concessions  in  the 
Protectorate  of  Lobengula's  country.  He  was 
successful  in  getting  a  big  concession  in  Khama's 
territory,  which  led  to  the  foundation  of  the 
Bechuanaland  Exploration  Company.  He  then 
went  to  Lobengula's  kraal,  where  he  was  one  of 
the  first  white  men  who  dared  to  ask  the  sable 
chief  for  a  mineral  concession.  In  1889  Mr. 
Rhodes  obtained  his  charter,  and  in  the  follow- 
ing year  set  about  the  effective  occupation  of 
Mashonaland,  making,  on  somewhat  original 
lines,  a  contract  with  Frank  Johnson  to  carry 
out  the  occupation,  in  which  the  latter  was 
assisted  by  two  troops  of  B.S.A.  Police,  F.  C. 
Selous  acting  as  Intelligence  Officer,  and  Frank 
Johnson  getting  the  Colonial  rank  of  Major — 
in  other  words  he  was  practically,  and  came  to 
be  known  as,  the  "  Contractor  "  for  Mashona- 
land. The  chief  commander  of  the  whole  ex- 
pedition was  Col.  Pennef either.  After  the  occu- 
pation of  Mashonaland  he  settled  dowm  in  part- 
nership with  Heany  and  Borrow,  and  acquired 
a  number  of  mining  and  landed  interests,  which 
ultimately  were  merged  into  the  United  Rho- 
desia, Ltd.  Capt.  Borrow  was  killed  at 
Shangani  in  the  first  Matabele  War,  and  IMajor 
Heany  afterwards  associated  himself  with  the 
Partridge  &  Jarvis  group.  From  1890  Maj. 
Johnson  made  his  headquarters  at  Cape  Towtq, 
where  he  held  a  commission  and  tooli  an  active 
interest  in  the  Cape  Volunteer  Forces. 

In  1896  he  was  one  of  the  two  Colonial  officers 
chosen  by  the  Cape  Govt,  as  members  of 
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inquire  into  the  defences  and  forces  of  Cape 
Colony,  the  other  members  being  Imperial  offi- 
cers. The  scheme  of  defence  finally  recom- 
mended by  the  Commission  was  chiefly  based  on 
that  of  Canada.  At  the  end  of  1896,  at  the  out- 
break of  native  troubles  in  Bechuanaland,  Maj. 
Johnson  was  appointed  Staff  Officer  of  the 
Colonial  Forces  at  the  headquarters  in  Cape 
Town,  and  when  an  expedition  was  finally  de- 
spatched to  the  Langeberg  early  in  the  ensuing 
year,  imder  Col.  Dalgetty,  of  the  Cape  Mounted 
Rifles,  Maj.  Johnson  was  appointed  Chief  Staff 
Officer.  At  the  close  of  the  expedition  he  was 
specially  thanked  by  the  Cape  Govt,  for 
his  services.  For  the  next  three  years  he  re- 
sided with  his  family  in  Salisbiu'y,  Rhodesia,  as 
Managing  Director  of  the  Mashonaland  Consoli- 
dated, Limited.  In  1900  he  returned  to  Eng- 
land, and  settled  down  in  London  as  a  Rhodesian 
financier  and  company  director.  He  is  now 
Chairman  of  the  Rhodesia  Consolidated  and  the 
Scottish  African  Trust,  and  is  on  the  Boards  of 
the  French  South  African  Development  Co., 
Golden  Valley  (Mashonaland)  Mines,  Mashona- 
land Consolidated,  and  the  Rhodesia  Cold 
Storage  Co.  He  also  took  a  leading  part  in  the 
formation  of  the  Rhodesian  LandoMTiers'  Asso- 
ciation. He  is  a  good  game  shot,  an  habitual 
motorist,  and  is  married. 

JOHNSTON,  George  Lawson,  of  15,  Mans- 
field Street,  London,  W.,  and  of  the  Devonshire, 
Bath,  Royal  Temple  Yacht,  and  Union  des 
Yacht  Frangais  Clubs  ;  is  the  son  of  the  late 
John  Lawson  Johnston,  of  Kingswood,  Syden- 
ham Hill  ;  was  born  at  Edinburgh  in  1873,  and 
was  educated  in  Canada  and  at  Dulwich  College, 
England.  He  has  travelled  extensively  in 
Europe,  North  and  South  America  and  North 
and  Sovith  Africa.  Commercially  his  career 
has  been  most  successful,  amongst  the  great 
enterprises  with  which  he  is  connected  being 
Bovril,  Ltd.  He  is  now  the  Vice-Chairman  of  this 
well-known  Co.  ;  he  is  also  a  Director  of  the 
"  Daily  Express  "  newspaper  ;  and  a  Director 
of  Henderson's  Transvaal  Estates.  Ltd.  He  is 
identified  with  many  philanthropic  works,  and 
is  on  the  Executive  Committees  of  King  Edward's 
Hospital  Fund  and  the  Pvoyal  Normal  College 
for  the  Blind.  Having  seen  so  much  of  the 
British  Empire  in  different  parts  of  the  world, 
it  is  not  surprising  to  find  that  he  is  an  active 
member  of  the  Council  of  the  British  Empire 
League,  with  the  objects  and  usefulness  of  whose 
work  he  is  profoundly  impressed.  An  enthu- 
siastic yachtsman,  he  is  also  fond  of  shooting  and 


riding,  and  is  a  supporter  of  all  forms  of  healthy 
sport.  He  married,  Dec.  4,  1902,  Laura,  fifth 
dau.  of  the  16th  Lord  St.  John. 

JOHNSTON,  Sir  Henry  Hamilton,  G.C.M.G. 
(1901),  K.C.B.  (1896),  of  27,  Chester  Terrace, 
Regent's  Park,  and  of  the  Travellers'  Club, 
is  the  son  of  John  Brooks  Johnston  and  Esther 
Letitia  Hamilton,  and  was  born  in  London 
June  12,  1858.  He  was  educated  at  King's 
Coll.,  London,  and  studied  at  the  Royal  Academy 
of  Arts,  Burlington  House.  He  graduated 
D.Sc.  Camb.  ;  is  a  Gold  Medallist  of  the  Royal 
Scottish  Geographical  Soc,  Gold  Medallist  of  the 
Zoological  Soc,  and  Medallist  of  the  S.  Ken- 
sington Sell,  of  Art. 

A  man  of  infinite  variety,  of  high  mental 
attainments,  an  fartist,  naturaUst,  musician, 
student  of  human  natvire,  and  an  Administrator, 
Sir  Henry  has  had  a  career  of  great  distinction, 
and  may  fairly  be  numbered  amongst  the  band 
of  empire  builders  who  have  done  so  niuch  to 
make  the  present  age  illustrious.  In  1880  and 
the  two  following  years  he  explored  Tunis,  West 
Africa,  and  East  Africa  adding  very  considerably 
to  our  store  of  knowledge  of  these  countries.  He 
was  in  command  of  a  scientific  expedition  sent 
out  by  the  Royal  Society  to  Moiuit  Kilimanjaro 
in  1884.  In  1885  he  entered  H.M.  Consular 
service  as  Vice-Consul  for  the  Oil  Rivers  and  the 
Cameroons ;  Acting-Consul  for  the  High  Coast 
Protectorate,  1887;  and  in  1889  was  appointed 
Consul  for  Portuguese  East  Africa.  Later  in 
that  year  (1889)  he  led  an  expedition  to  Lakes 
Nyassa  and  Tanganyika.  In  1891  he  was  trans- 
ferred as  H.M.  Commissioner  "and  Consul-Gen. 
for  British  Central  Africa,  and  received  general 
recognition  for  the  energy,  tact,  and  skill  with 
which  he  carried  out  the  delicate  and  difficult 
mission  with  which  he  was  entrusted.  At  the 
same  time  he  was  appointed  Imperial  Commis- 
sioner for  Nyassaland  and  Administrator  of 
the  British  S.A.  Co.'s  territory  north  of  the 
Zambesi.  Under  his  able  administration  great 
progress  was  made,  raising  Indian  police,  con- 
structing roads,  establishing  postal  services,  in- 
augvu-ating  schemes  for  the  development  of 
the  resources  of  the  country,  and  incidentally 
checking  the  slave  trade  which  at  that  time  was 
still  engaged  in  about  Lake  Nyassa.  In  1 897  he 
took  up  the  appointment  of  Consul-Gen.  for 
Tunis,  where  he  remained  until  1899,  in  which 
year  he  received  the  appointment  of  Special 
Commissioner,  Consul-Gen.,  and  Commander- 
in-Chief  for  the  Uganda  Protectorate,  where  he 
served   with   distinction   until    1902.     He   is   a 


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Director  of  the  British  C.A.  Co.  and  was  Pres. 
for  1903  of  the  African  Society.  He  con- 
tested the  constituency  of  Rochester  at  a  by- 
election  in  Sept.  1903  in  the  Liberal  interest,  and 
was  defeated  by  Mr.  Charles  Tuff  by  521  votes. 
This  choice  of  party  by  one  whose  record  has 
been  so  far  removed  from  Little  Englandism 
was  received  with  keen  disappointment  by  the 
majority  of  his  Iinperialist  friends,  but  Sir  Harry 
justified  his  action  on  the  grounds  of  the  necessity 
for  Free  Trade  and  the  callousness  of  the  Con- 
servative Govt,  in  foreign  affairs,  and  more 
especially  in  what  he  describes  as  the  physical 
well-being  and  education  of  Englishmen. 

Sir  Harry  is  a  fellow  of  many  learned  Socie- 
ties. He  has  exhibited  pictures  at  the  Royal 
Academy  and  other  galleries,  whilst  his  sketclies 
have  given  an  additional  value  to  many  of  his 
books.  He  has  written  Essays  on  the  Tmiisian 
Question  (1880-1);  on  the  Congo  River,  1884; 
on  Kilimanjaro,  1885  ;  History  of  a  Slave,  1889  ; 
Life  of  Livingstone,  1891  ;  British  Central  Africa, 
1897  ;  A  History  of  the  Colonisation  of  Africa 
by  Ahen  Races,  1899  ;  The  Uganda  Protectorate, 
1902  ;  and  also  a  number  of  Blue-books  and 
Reports  on  Central  Africa,  which  may  be  said  to 
have  introduced  a  style  of  writing  up  to  his  time 
quite  foreign  to  the  prosaic  writings  of  his  prede- 
cessors. 

He  married,  Oct.  15,  1896,  the  Hon.  Winifred 
Ii'by,  dau.  of  the  5th  Lord  Boston,  and  step-dau. 
of  Sir  Percy  Anderson,  K.C.B.,  late  Assist. 
Under-Secy.'  for  Foreign  Affairs. 

JONES,  Sir  Alfred  Lewis,  K.C.M.G.,  J.P., 
of  Oaklands  Aigburth,  Liverpool ;  of  Pendy- 
ffryn,  Llanddulas,  Abergele,  North  Wales  ;  and 
of  the  Constitutional  (London),  Palatine  (Liver- 
pool) and  the  Liverpool  Clubs,  was  born  at  Car- 
marthen in  1845.  He  came  to  Liverpool  when 
very  young,  and  received  a  sound  commercial 
education  at  the  Liverpool  Coll.  Young 
men  entering  on  a  business  career  in  those 
days  had  to  begin  at  an  early  age,  and  Alfred 
Lewis  Jones  started  at  the  bottom  rung  of  the 
ladder  in  a  shipowning  and  ship-broking  firm  in 
the  great  city  on  the  Mersey,  and  slowly  but 
surely  mounted  up  to  the  top  of  his  profession. 
Comparatively  early,  however,  in  his  mercantile 
career  he  joined  the  famous  farin  of  Elder  Demp- 
ster &  Co.,  a  shipowning  concern  engaged  in 
the  trade  between  Liverpool  and  West  Africa, 
and  the  intimate  gre^sp  he  possessed  of  every 
branch  of  the  shipping  business  made  him  so 
invaluable  that  he  soon  became  part  of  the  firm. 
From  that  moment  his  life  has  been  one  long 


series  of  trading  trixmiphs,  and  when  the  magni- 
tude and  variety  of  operations  in  which  he  has 
been  engaged  are  taken  into  account,  there  is 
scarcely  reason  for  wonder  that  Sir  Alfred  is 
looked  upon  as  perhaps  the  most  successful 
living  shipowner  in  the  world.  When  he  joined 
the  Elder  Dempster  firin,  the  West  African  trade 
was  exceedingly  small,  and  he  very  soon  per- 
ceived that  one  of  the  chief  reasons  for  this  was 
the  neglect  by  the  Home  Govt,  of  om*  pos- 
sessions in  this  part  of  the  world.  Whilst  pash- 
ing  and  developing  his  own  business  with  the 
greatest  pluck  by  building  more  modern  steamers 
of  larger  cargo-carrying  capacity  and  with  vastly 
better  passenger  accommodation,  he  also  set 
himself  the  task  of  sedulously  organizing  the 
traders,  and  at  the  same  time  cultivating  friendly 
relations  with  the  Colonial  authorities,  both  at 
Whitehall  and  in  our  dependencies.  The  result 
of  this  is  seen  in  the  achnittedly  enormoiis  izn- 
provement  which  has  taken  place  in  recent  years 
in  every  detail  of  the  administration  of  the  West 
African  Colonies,  perhaps  the  greatest  of  these 
changes,  and  indeed  one  which  has  given  rise  to 
all  the  rest  being  the  selection  of  the  Governors 
from  an  altogether  more  siiitable  class  of  ofhcials, 
gentlemen  who  are  at  once  practical,  energetic 
and  firm,  and  who  fully  recognize  the  impor- 
tance of  removing  all  needless  obstructions  to 
the  carrying  on  of  trading  operations.  To 
enumerate  all  the  reforms  which  Sir  Alfred  Jones 
has  almost  personally  been  instrumental  in 
bringing  about  in  our  West  African  possessions, 
would  be  to  merely  write  a  history  of  the  modern 
progress  of  that  part  of  the  Empire.  The  word 
"  personally  "  is  used  here  advisedly,  for  though 
he  is  always  ably  assisted  by  the  Liverpool 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  of  which  he  has  been  for 
some  years  the  esteemed  President,  yet  the 
infinite  tact  he  has  displayed  in  entertaining  the 
various  officials  when  they  paid  visits  to  this 
country,  and  in  approaching  from  the  social  side 
all  who  had  the  power  of  helping  West  Afi'ica, 
is  undoubtedly  the  chief  reason  for  the  adoption 
of  almost  every  one  of  the  suggestions  put  for- 
ward by  traders.  It  is  indeed  to  Sir  Alfred 
Jones  that  the  great  Colony  of  Nigeria  owes  its 
formation,  for  it  is  mainly  his  agitation  which 
rang  the  death  knell  of  the  Royal  Niger  Co. 
as  an  administrative  corporation  ;  it  is  cer- 
tainly a  fact  that  there  would  not  have  been 
a  single  mile  of  railway,  either  at  Lagos,  Sierra 
Leone,  or  the  Gold  Coast,  but  for  his  advocacy 
and  diplomatic  skill,  and  it  is  an  undoubted 
verity  that  every  nook  and  corner  m  British 
West  Africa  bears   testimony  in  some  form  or 


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other  to  the  luitiring  energy  and  indomitable 
resolution  of  the  man  Avho  has  been  rather  aptly 
styled  "  the  Napoleon  of  West  Africa,"  The 
wonderful  success  of  the  mosqviito  theory  in  the 
fight  against  the  curse  of  West  Africa,  malaria, 
is  mainly  due  to  Sir  Alfred's  generous  and  deter- 
mined espousal  of  the  cause,  even  from  the  time 
when,  as  is  the  case  with  nearly  all  great  dis- 
coveries, it  is  laughed  at,  and  whether  in  lavishly 
helping  forward  this  magnificent  discovery  by 
forming  and  endowing  the  Liverpool  School  of 
Tropical  Medicine,  in  estabUshing  educational 
institutes  where  young  West  Africans  could 
come  over  and  finish  their  education  in  this 
country,in  providing  free  passages  on  his  steamers 
to  all  and  sundry  who  either  wished  to  go  out  to 
the  colonies  or  to  come  from  thence  to  England, 
for  the  promotion  of  any  scheme  likely  to  for- 
ward the  interests  of  our  possessions  or  its  inhabi- 
tants, or  in  arranging  conferences  between 
British  traders  and  the  various  Governors,  so 
that  the  administration  of  the  country  should 
be  conducted  with  the  least  possible  friction,  it 
may  be  literally  asserted  that  Sir  Alfred  Jones 
has  never  rested  in  his  efforts  to  make  West 
Africa  the  huge  success  it  now  is,  both  com- 
mercially and  politically. 

On  the  way  to  West  Africa  lie  the  Canary 
Islands,  and  Sir  Alfred  soon  saw  the  possibilities 
of  the  development  of  Las  Palmas  as  a  coaling 
station,  as  well  as  a  valuable  depot  for  collecting 
bananas  from  the  various  islands,  and  filling  up 
his  vessels  with  the  fruit  which  has  now  become 
so  popular  in  this  country.  As  a  coaling  station 
Las  Palmas  is  an  unqualified  success  financially 
and  in  every  other  way,  and  so  great  is  the  de- 
mand for  bananas  now  in  England,  that  the 
Canaries  cannot  produce  nearly  enough  to  meet 
our  needs.  Just  as  in  West  Africa,  everywhere 
one  goes  in  the  Canary  Islands  bears  evidence  of 
the  push  and  energy  of  the  subject  of  the  present 
sketch,  for  he  has  made  the  place  a  mere  winter 
annexe  of  this  country  by  building  hotels,  grant- 
ing special  cheap  fares  for  tourists,  and  in  every 
way  promoting  the  interests  of  the  islands. 

Some  years  ago  an  opportunity  occurred  for 
Sir  Alfred  to  acquire  the  business  of  the  well- 
known  Beaver  Line,  a  passenger  and  cargo  steam- 
ship service,  running  between  Liverpool  and 
Canada,  and  into  the  conduct  of  this  ventiu-e  he 
threw  the  same  energy  and  skill  that  had  stood 
him  in  so  much  stead  in  the  West  African  trade.  | 
The  possibilities  of  the  Dominion  in  the  way  of  I 
providing  food  for  the  Mother-country  were  at 
once  perceived,  and  he  is  the  first  of  our  ship- 
owners to  fully  grasp  the  tremendous  economies 


in  working  which  must  result  in  such  a  trade  by 
the  use  of  the  modern  mammoth  sized  vessels, 
which  carry  about  five  or  six  times  as  much  as 
did  the  cargo  boats  of  only  a  decade  ago.  It 
is  only  the  other  day  that  this  business,  then 
in  the  high  tide  of  its  prosperity,  was  sold 
to  the  Canadian  Pacific  Railway  Co.  by  Sir 
Alfred  for  a  sum  which  has  been  several  times 
publicly  stated  at  one  and  a  half  millions  sterhng. 
The  impetus  which  is  given  to  the  trade  of  the 
Dominion  and  to  the  shipping  business  in  general 
by  the  establishment  of  this  line  cannot  be  over- 
estimated, for  it  is  shown  that  with  moderate 
freights  and  a  good  service,  the  possibilities  of 
the  expansion  of  commerce  between  Canada  and 
Great  Britain  were  far  in  excess  of  all  previous 
estimates. 

During  the  Boer  War  these  gigantic  vessels 
proved  of  the  greatest  service  to  the  State 
in  conveying  troops,  horses  and  mules  to 
S.A.  ports  from  all  parts  of  the  world,  and 
the  fact  that  his  own  services  were  thereby 
largely  disorganized  in  no  way  stood  in  the  way 
of  the  head  of  the  Elder  Dempster  Line  patrioti- 
cally rendering  all  possible  assistance  to  the 
British  Govt. 

It  is  natural  that  to  such  a  man  Mr.  Cham- 
berlain would  turn  in  invoking  the  aid  of  an 
enterprising  shipowner  (of  whom  he  is  a  strong 
personal  friend)  to  help  the  West  Indies  out  of 
the  dire  stress  into  which  it  had  been  thrown  by 
sugar  bounties  and  the  neglect  of  the  develop- 
ment of  its  splendid  resotirces,  and  though  Sir 
Alfred   has   always   protested   that   he   got   the 
worst  of  the  bargain  with  the  Colonial  Secretary, 
the  result  of  the  establishment  of  the  direct  West 
India    mail    service,  with    its    magnificent    fast 
passenger  steamers  and  its  obligation  to  bring 
home    from    Jamaica    enormous    quantities    of 
bananas  weekly,  has  been  an  unqualified  good 
for  the  Island  and  has  given  a  filHp  to  the  trade 
and  commerce  of  the  place   which,  but  for  the 
recent  unfortunate  cyclone,  would  undoubtedly 
have  soon  made  of  it  one  of  the  most  prosperous 
of  our  colonies.     The  disaster  of  a  short  time 
ago  must  have  hit  Sir  Alfred  very  hard,  for  with 
his  usual  enterprise  he  had  opened  up  hotels  and 
promoted   all   sorts   of   businesses   likely   to   be 
helpful  to  the  place,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that 
tlie  Government  in  coming  to  the  assistance  of 
the  Colony  will  take  into  account  the  material 
service  rendered  to  Jamaica  by  the  great  Liver- 
pool    shipowner.     The     development     of     the 
banana  trade  since  the  line  was  established  has 
been  prodigious,  and  the  fact  that  he  is  chiefly 
responsible  for   the  initiation  and   the  present 


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position  of  this  traffic, which  has  made  the  banana 
the  food  and  fruit  of  the  pauper  as  well  as  of  the 
peer  of  this  country,  is  one  of  the  achievements 
on  which  Sir  Alfred  may  be  most  sincerely 
congratulated. 

As  a  public  man  Sir  Alfred  Jones  has  over 
and  over  again  been  asked  to  stand  for  Parha- 
ment,  but  he  knows  full  well  that  he  can  be  of 
greater  assistance  to  the  Commonwealth  out- 
side St.  Stephen's  and  has  wisely  refused  many 
of  the  safest  seats,  but  as  President  of  the  Liver- 
pool Chamber  of  Commerce  he  has  infinite  oppor- 
tunities for  serving  his  country,  and  no  appeal 
to  his  purse  or  his  time  in  this  direction  is  ever 
met  with  a  refusal.  Besides  this  he  is  Chairman 
of  the  Liverpool  Steam  Shipowners'  Association, 
is  Consul  in  Liverpool  for  the  Congo  Free  State, 
and  is  Pres.  of  the  Liverpool  School  for  the  Study 
of  Tropical  Diseases.  To  find  time  for  all  the 
pubhc  work  involved  in  these  by  no  means 
"  sinecurial  "  positions,  and  to  be  Chairman  of 
the  Elder  Dempster  Shipping  Co.,  Ltd.,  the 
British  &  African  Steam  Navigation  Co.,  Ltd., 
the  Imperial  Direct  West  India  Mail  Service  Co., 
Ltd.,  the  Bank  of  British  West  Africa,  and  of 
Elders  &  Fyffes,  Ltd.  (the  great  Canada  firm) 
would  seem  a  superhuman  task,  but  Sir  Alfred 
gets  through  it  all  with  the  utmost  coolness,  and  is 
withal  perhaps  the  most  courteous  and  approach 
able  man  in  England.  Qmte  recently  he  served 
on  the  Committee  appointed  by  the  Admiralty 
to  inquire  into  the  question  of  our  Naval 
Reserves,  and  in  recognition  of  his  great  services 
to  West  Africa  and  Jamaica  he  was  decorated 
in  1901  with  his  K.C.M.G.,  whilst  Jesus  Coll., 
Oxford,  has  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of 
Honorary  Fellow. 

JONES,  John  Frank,  C.M.G.,  of  41,  Hat- 
field Road,  St.  Albans,  and  of  the  New  Club, 
was  born  July  29,  1861.  He  joined  the  staff 
of  the  British  S.A.  Co.  upon  its  forma- 
tion. In  1896  he  was  appointed  Asst.-Secy., 
and  when  Mr.  Herbert  Canning  resigned  in  1898, 
he  succeeded  him  as  Secy.  In  addition  to  that 
post  he  was  made  Joint-Manager  with  Mr. 
Wilson  Fox  in  1902.  He  also  represents  the 
large  interests  of  the  Chartered  Co,  on  the  Boards 
of  several  Rhodesian  undertakings.  Although 
Mr.  Jones'  knowledge  of  Rhodesia  was  exceed- 
ingly extensive,  he  had  never  been  to  that 
country  until,  at  the  latter  end  of  1902,  he 
accompanied  Mr.  Beit,  Dr.  Jameson,  and  Sir 
Lewis  Mitchell  on  a  trip  extending  right  through 
Matabeleland  and  Mashonaland,  where  he 
acquired    a    practical    acquaintance    with    the 


coim try's  conditions  of  the  greatest  advantage 
to  hira  in  the  interests  of  the  Company  he  so  ably 
serves.  In  recognition  of  his  services  to  the 
Govt,  in  connection  with  the  S.A.  War  he  was 
made  a  C.M.G.  in  Oct.  1902. 

JONES,  The  Hon  Sidney  Twentym.^jj,  of 
Oiles,  GrahamstOMTi,  and  Ravensworth,  Clare- 
mont,  and  of  the  Civil  Service  (C.T.)  and  Port 
Ehzabeth  Clubs,  is  the  son  of  Thomas  Jones, 
of  Stanimore,  Rondebosch,  by  Sarah  Elizabeth 
Head  Twentyman,  dau.  of  John  Twentj-man,  of 
Dwerry  House,  Lancashire.  He  was  born 
Jan.  20,  1849,  and  educated  at  the  Diocesan 
Coll.,  Rondebosch,  and  the  S.A.  Coll.,  Cape 
Town.  He  took  the  second  class  certificate 
of  the  Cape  Board  of  Examiners,  graduated  B.A. 
in  1868  ;  entered  Trinity  Hall,  Camb.,  in  1868, 
and  was  Legal  Prizeman  and  Scholar  of  his  year, 
graduating  LL.B.  in  1872,  LL.M.  in  1876,  and 
LL.D.  in  1890.  He  was  called  to  the  Bar  at  the 
Middle  Temple  in  1873,  and  joined  the  Supreme 
Com-t  Bar  as  an  Advocate  in  1874.  In  1878  he 
entered  the  Cape  Town  Cavalry  as  Sec.  Lieut, 
and  later  the  D.E.O.V.R.  Subsequent  to  1881 
he  was  frequently  one  of  the  Law  Examiners 
at  the  Cape  Univ.  In  1882  he  was  raised  to  the 
Bench  of  the  Supreme  Court  and  assigned  as 
Senior  Puisne  Judge  to  the  High  Court  of  Griqua- 
land,  where  he  frequently  acted  as  Judge-Presi- 
dent. In  1887  he  was  assigned  to  the  Court  of 
the  Eastern  Districts,  and  occasionally  acted  as 
Judge-President,  which  office  he  has  held  since 
the  retirement  in  1901  of  Sir  Jacob  D.  Barry.  In 
1891,  during  the  absence  of  the  Chief  Justice  from 
the  Colony,  he  occupied  the  position  of  Senior 
Puisne  Judge  in  the  Supreme  Court  while  Sir 
John  Buchanan  was  Acting  Chief  Justice.  At 
Kimberley  he  was  President  of  the  Agricultvu-al 
Soc,  Chairman  of  the  Public  Schools,  and  Presi- 
dent of  the  Boating  Club,  which,  it  is  interesting 
to  state,  rowed  their  weekly  excursion  near  the 
scene  of  the  great  Modder  fight.  At  Grahams- 
town  for  some  time  he  was  Chairman  of  the 
Public  Schools,  of  the  Public  Library,  and 
President  of  the  Eastern  Province  Literary  and 
Scientific  Soc.  He  has  had  the  honour  of  being 
the  founder  of  the  leading  colonial  football 
club  (which  now  holds  the  championship  cup) — 
the  Villagers  F.C.  His  recreations  are  driving, 
riding,  rowing,  fishing.  He  married  Florence, 
dau.  of  Henry  M.  Arderne,  of  the  Hill,  Claremont, 
in  1878. 

JONES,  The  Most  Rev.  William  West, 
Archbishop      of   Cape   Town   and   Metropolitan 


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of  the  Church  of  S.A.,  of  Bishop's  Court,  Clare- 
mont,  C.C.,  and  of  the  Royal  Colonial  Institute, 
is  the  son  of  E.  H.  Jones.  Was  born  at  South 
Hackney,  May  11,  1838,  and  was  educated  at  the 
Merchant  Taylors'  Sch.  and  St.  John's  Coll., 
Oxon.  He  graduated  B.A.  1860,  M.A.  1864, 
B.D.  1870,  and  received  the  Hon.  Degree  of  D.D. 
1874.  He  was  Fellow  of  St.  John's  Coll.,  Oxon., 
1859;  Hon.  Fellow,  1895;  from  1861  to  1864  he 
was  Curate  of  St.  Matthew's,  City  Road,  London ; 
Vicar  of  S^lnlerstov^^l,  Oxon.,  1864-74  ;  Oxford 
Preacher  at  Whitehall  Chapel,  1870-72;  Rural 
Dean  of  Oxon.  1871-4  ;  was  consecrated  in  West- 
minster Abbey,  Bishop  of  Cape  Town  and  Metro- 
politan, 1874  ;  Archbishop  of  Cape  Town,  1897. 
He  married  Emily,  dau.  of  John  Allen,  of 
Altrincham,  Cheshire,  in  1879. 

JORDISON,  Frank  Lloyd,  of  Bulawayo, 
and  of  the  Bulawayo  and  Gwelo  Clubs,  is  the  son 
of  Dr.  Robert  Jordison,  of  Hornchurch,  Essex. 
He  was  born  July  28,  1866,  at  Hornchurch,  and 
was  educated  at  the  Albert  Memorial  Cottage, 
Framlingham,  Suffolk.  He  left  England  for 
S.A.  in  Dec.  1888,  and  proceeded  to  Johannes- 
burg, and  from  there  to  Bvilawayo  in  1894. 
He  is  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Rhodesia  ;  served 
as  Lieut,  in  the  '96  Rebellion,  and  raised  the 
Gwelo  Troop  of  the  Southern  Rhodesia  Volun- 
teers, of  which  he  became  Capt.,  resigning  his 
commission  in  July  190.3  (medal).  Recreations  : 
shooting  and  all  kinds  of  sports. 

JORRISEN,  Dr.,  acted  as  Justice  of  the 
High  Court  of  the  S.A.R.  during  the  Kriiger 
regime.  He  was  so  violently  opposed  to  the 
Reform  movement  that  he  honestly  recog- 
nised the  impossibility  of  maintaining  an 
impartial  attitude,  and  therefore  refused  to 
preside  over  tlie  Court  at  the  trial  of  the 
Reformers. 

JOUBERT,  Christiaan,  was  Minister  of 
Mines  for  the  Transvaal  under  the  Govt,  of  the 
S.A.R.,  and  was  one  of  the  members  of 
the  Industrial  Commission  appointed  by  the 
Transvaal  Govt. 

Sworn  evidence  was  adduced  that  the  attempt 
to  "  jump  "  the  Ferreira  claims  had  been  svig- 
gested  by  Mr.   Joubert  himself. 

JURISCH,  Carl  Heinrtch  Leopold  Max, 
Surveyor-Gen.  of  C.C,  of  Cape  Town,  is  of  German 
parentage  and  was  born  at  Jammi,  West  Prussia. 
Educated  at  Orandeny  and  Berlin.  He  entered 
the  German  Army  in  1860,  was  promoted  Capt. 


in  tlie  Royal  Artillery  in  1871.  In  the  interval 
he  fought  in  the  wars  of  Prussia  against  Denmark 
(1864),  against  Austria  (1866),  and  against 
France  (1870-1).  For  his  distinguished  services 
he  received  the  decoration  of  the  Iron  Cross  on 
the  battlefield  of  Sedan.  In  1872  he  went  to 
S.A.,  and  obtained  (July  1878)  the  appointment 
of  Col.  Govt.  Land  Surveyor  ;  was  appointed 
Acting  Examiner  of  Diagrams,  April  1879 ; 
Examiner  of  Diagrams,  July  1882  ;  University 
Examiner  in  Science,  1891  ;  Second  Asst. 
Survey  or- Gen.,  July  1892  ;  First  Asst.,  July 
1897  ;  and  Surveyor-Gen.,  Aug.  10,  1902.  He 
received  the  thanks  of  Lord  Kitchener  for  assist- 
ance rendered  in  compiling  maps  during  the 
S.A.  War  of  1899-1902.  He  married,  Sept.  2, 
1872,  the  Countess  Marie  Antoinette  de  Marillac. 

JUST,  Hartmann  Wolfgang,  C.B.,  C.M.G., 
son  of  the  late  Heinrich  Just,  of  Bristol,  was 
born  in  1854.  He  was  edvicated  at  Bristol 
Gram.  Sch.,  and  Corpus  Christi  Coll.,  Oxon. 
He  was  Private  Secy,  at  the  Colonial  Office 
to  the  late  Earl  of  Derby,  to  Earl  Stanley  (then 
Col.  F.  A.  Stanley),  to  the  late  M.  E.  Stanhope, 
to  Sir  Henry  Holland  (now  Lord  Knutsford), 
to  Sir  Geo.  Osborne-Morgan  and  the  Marquis  of 
Ripon.  He  subsequently  became  principal 
clerk  in  the  Colonial  Ofifice,  and  head  of  the 
S.A.  Dept.  In  1902  he  accompanied  Mr. 
Chamberlain  on  his  African  tour.  He  married, 
in  1879,  Katherine  Francis,  dau.  of  Samuel 
Roosham. 

JUTA,  Hon.  Sir  Henry  Hubert,  M.L.A.  for 
Port  Elizabeth  ;  K.C.,  of  Cape  Town,  was  born 
at  Cape  Town  in  1858.  He  was  educated  in 
Cape  Colony  and  in  England  ;  was  admitted  an 
advocate  of  the  Supreme  Coiu-t  of  Cape  Colony 
in  1880,  and  devoted  liimself  mainly  to  law 
reporting  and  Chamber  practice.  He  was  also 
formerly  Law  Examiner  at  the  Cape  Univer- 
sity. He  was  Judge  of  the  High  Court  of 
Griqualand  West ;  was  appointed  a  special 
Commissioner  in  the  settlement  of  the  Swazie- 
land  difficulties  in  1890  ;  became  Attorney- 
Gen,  on  Mr.  Schreiner's  resignation  in  1893,  but 
resigned  that  office  in  September,  1894.  From 
1896  to  1898  he  was  Speaker  of  the  Cape  Parlia- 
ment, and  he  coalesced  with  the  Progi-essive 
Party  in  the  endeavom-  to  persuade  the  Colonial 
Secy,  to  agree  to  the  temporary  suspension  of  the 
Cape  Constitution  towards  the  end  of  the  S.A. 
War.  He  was  last  returned  to  the  Cape  Parlia- 
ment in  Feb.  1904,  and  was  offered  office  in  Dr. 
Jameson's  Cabinet,  which,  however,  he  did  not 


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see  his  way  to  accept.  Sir  Henry  is  a  partner 
in  the  great  publishing  firm  of  Juta  &  Co.,  of 
Cape  Town,  and  married  a  dau.  Mr.  M.  M.  Tait. 

KEANE,  Heney  Augustus.  F.R.G.S.,  of 
Aram-Gah  (Abode  of  Peace),  79,  Broadhvirst 
Gardens,  South  Hampstead,  N.W.,  is  the  son  of 
James  and  Elizabeth  Keane,  of  London.  He 
was  born  in  1835  at  Cork,  Ireland,  and  educated 
at  his  native  place,  Dublm,  Jersey,  Rome  and 
Hanover.  He  has  devoted  liis  life  chiefly  to 
ethnological,  philological  and  geographical 
studies.  His  principal  hfe  work  has  been  the 
preparation  of  a  scheme  of  ethnology  in  tliree 
parts.  The  first  part  deals  with  fundamental 
problems — antiquity,  tmity,  cradle  dispersion, 
physical  and  mental  characters  of  man — 
Cambridge  University  Press,  1896.  Part  2, 
mth  the  main  division  of  mankind — Camb. 
Univ.  Press,  1900.  He  is  now  engaged  upon 
Part  3,  which  comprises  a  Universal  Anthropo- 
logical A.B.C.  with  20,000  entries,  of  which 
the  American  section  in  MS.,  5,000  entries  is 
completed.  His  works  about  Africa  include 
"  Africa,"  2  vokmies,  Stanford  Series ;  "  Boer 
States,  Law  and  People"  (Methuen) ;  "The 
Gold  of  Ophir,  Whence  Brought "  (Stanford).  His 
recreations  are  walking  and  poetry.  He  mar- 
ried, May  24,  1874,  the  dau.  of  VVilKam  Hearn 
Jacobs,  of  Chale  Abbey,  Isle  of  Wight,  sister  of 
the  late  Very  Rev.  Henry  Jacobs,  Dean  of 
Christchurch  N.Z. 

KEKEWICH,  Major-Gen.  Robert  George, 
C.B.,  of  Peamore,  Exeter  ;  and  of  the  Naval 
and  Military  Club,  was  born  in  Devonshire  on 
June  17,  1854,  and  comes  of  a  family  which  has 
produced  many  notable  nien,  including  Sir 
George  and  Mr.  Justice  Kekewich.  He  was 
educated  at  King  Edward's  Sch.,  Birmingham, 
and  at  Marlborough  Coll.,  and  joined  the  Loyal 
North  Lancashire  Regt.  in  1874.  Almost 
immediately  he  found  himself  in  the  tented 
field,  taking  part  in  the  Perak  Expedition  in 
1875-6  (medal  and  clasp)  ;  the  Sudan  Expedition 
in  1884-5,  as  D.A.A.G.  and  D.A.Q.M.G.  (Des- 
patches, medal  with  clasp,  bronze  star,  brevet 
of  Maj.) ;  the  Sudan  in  1888,  when  he  was 
at  SuakinasBrig.-Maj.  and  afterwards  D.A.A.G. 
of  Mounted  Troops,  and  was  present  at  the 
action  of  Gamaizah  (despatches  and  4th  class 
Medjidieh).  When  the  S.A.  War  (1899-1902) 
broke  out  Gen.  Kekewich  commanded 
Griqualand  West  and  Bechuanaland,  and  no 
man  worked  harder  than  the  hero  of  Kimbei'ley 
in   the    defence    of    that    town.     Lord    Roberts 


was  of  opinion  that  the  greatest  credit  was  due 
to  Col.  Kekewich  for  the  able  dispositions  which 
he  made  for  the  defence  of  Kimberlej',  an  un- 
walled  town,  spread  over  a  wide  area,  for  his 
rapid  organization  of  an  auxiliary  force  which, 
in  conjunction  with  the  regular  troops,  enabled 
him  to  keep  the  enemy  in  check,  and  for  the 
tact,  judgment,  and  resolution  which  he  dis- 
played throughout  the  siege. 

After  the  relief  of  Ivimberley  Gen.  Keke^vich 
was  given  the  command  of  a  mobile  cokimn, 
and  from  Feb.  1902  until  the  end  of  the  opera- 
tions he  had  command  of  a  group  of  mobile 
columns.  He  was  severely  wounded  at  the 
action  of  Moedwill  and  in  recognition  of  his 
various  distingviished  services  he  was  several 
times  mentioned  in  despatches  ;  received  the 
brev.  of  Col.,  was  afterwards  promoted  Maj.- 
Gen.,  and  decorated  with  the  C.B.  and  the 
Queen's  medal  with  two  clasps  and  the  King's 
medal  with  two  clasps.  But  among  his  most 
valued  souvenirs  of  the  war  is  a  handsome 
sword  presented  to  him  by  the  inhabitants  of 
Kimberley.  The  scabbard  is  emblazoned  with 
uncut  Kimberley  diamonds,  and  the  General's 
arras,  pictures  of  the  conning  tower  at  Kimberley, 
and  the  charge  of  his  own  regt.^the  Loyal 
North  Lancashires.  General  Kekewich  retired 
from  the  Army  in  1904.    He  is  not  married. 

KENNA,  Maj.  Paul  Aloysius,  V.C,  D.S.O., 
at  present  serving  in  Somaliland,  was  born  in 
1862  ;  is  second  son  of  Jas.  Kenna  ;  was  edu- 
cated at  Stonj'hurst,  and  entered  the  21st 
Lancers.  He  served  in  the  Sudan  in  1898, 
and  tliroughout  the  late  S.A.  Campaign,  com- 
manding a  column  from  Dec.  1901  to  the  end 
of  the  war.  From  Dec.  1902  he  has  been  in 
command  of  mounted  troops  of  the  Somali 
Field  Force  with  the  local  rank  of  Lieut. -Col. 
In  addition  to  the  V.C.  and  D.S.O.  he  possesses 
the  Royal  Humane  Soc.  Certificate  for  saving 
life  (June  1895) ;  for  several  years  he  headed  the 
list  of  gentlemen  riders  in  India,  and  has 
played  in  his  regimental  polo  team  for  14  years. 
Major  Kenna  married,  in  1895,  Lady  Cecil 
Bertie,    third  dau.  of  the  Earl  of  Abingdon. 

KESSLER,  Leopold,  of  9,  Hanover  Square, 
W.,  and  of  the  Rand  Club,  Johannesburg,  was 
born  in  the  mining  district  of  Upper  Silesia,  is 
the  son  of  a  manufacturer  and  mine  owner.  He 
was  educated  at  Berlin  and  the  Royal  Saxon 
Mining  Coll.,  Freiberg,  where  he  graduated 
as  mining  engineer.  The  anti-semitic  feeling  in 
Germany  cauesd  him  to  leave  that  country.     In 


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1890  he  accompanied  as  mining  engineer  an  ex- 
pedition through  Matabeleland,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1892,  when  he  left  for  the  Witwaters- 
rand,  acting  there  as  Consulting  Engineer  for 
several  financial  houses.  With  the  exception  of 
some  intervals,  during  which  he  inspected  mines 
of  other  countries,  and  led  an  exploring  expedi- 
tion through  Arabia  Petraea,  he  has  resided  in 
Johannesburg  ever  since.  He  is  the  author  of 
"  Valuation  Plans  of  the  Witwatersrand  Gold- 
fields  "  (Edward  Stanford,  1902). 

KESTELL  Rev.  J.  D.  Took  part  in  the 
war  of  1899-02  as  Chaplain  to  Gen.  De  Wet. 
He  was  captured  by  the  British,  and  was  de- 
tained in  their  camp  dm'ing  the  action  at  Gras- 
pan,  when  it  was  alleged  by  the  Continental 
Press  that  the  British  placed  Boer  women  in 
front  as  cover  to  their  troops.  Mr.  Kestell  es- 
caped and  attended  Mr.  Steyn  on  his  wanderings 
from  place  to  place  dxiring  the  late  stages  of  the 
war.  He  also  acted  as  one  of  the  Secretaries 
at  the  Peace  Conference  at  Vereeniging.  His 
book  "  Through  Shot  and  Flame,"  needless  to 
say,  contains  not  even  a  hint  of  the  Graspan 
incident  referred  to  above. 

KILPIN,  Ernest  Ftjlleb,  C.M.G.  (1901); 
J.P.  ;  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Assembly  of  the 
Cape  of  Good  Hope ;  of  Linford,  Kenilworth, 
near  Cape  Town,  and  of  the  Civil  Service  Club, 
C.T.  ;  was  born  in  Reading,  May  5,  1854, 
being  the  only  son  of  the  Rev.  S.  W.  Kilpin, 
who  died  Aug.  6,  of  the  same  year.  He  was 
educated  at  private  schools  in  Weymouth  and 
Reading,  and  entered  the  Cape  Civil  Service  in 
London  in  1874,  being  shortly  placed  in  charge 
of  the  West  of  England  and  South  Wales  Dis- 
trict for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  and  forwarding 
to  the  Cape  large  niunbers  of  the  artizans  re- 
quired for  the  construction  of  public  works. 
In  1876  he  went  to  Cape  Town  as  Private  Secy, 
to  the  late  Sir  Charles  Mills,  then  Under-Colonial 
Secy.,  and  when  Sir  Gordon  Sprigg  first  took 
office  (Feb.  8,  1878)  diu-ing  the  Kafir  War,  he 
sent  for  Mr.  Kilpin  to  join  him  on  the  frontier 
as  his  Private  Secy.  For  some  months  he 
resided  in  King  William's  Town,  and  organized 
and  carried  on  there  a  Colonial  Secy's.  Office 
in  miniatiu-e.  During  the  next  two  years 
Mr.  liilpin  accompanied  Sir  Gordon  Sprigg 
on  many  tours  of  inspection  through  the 
Colony  ;  attended  him  during  the  negotiations 
in  Kimberley  in  regard  to  the  annexation  of 
Griqualand  West  to  the  Cape,  and  was  with 
him  at  the  great  Disarmament  Pitso  in  Basuto- 


land,  and  at  tlie  siege  of  Morosi's  Mo\mtain. 
In  1886  he  was  appointed  Clerk- Assistant  of  the 
House  of  Assenably,  and  was  elected  Clerk  of 
the  House  in  1897.  When  Sir  Thomas  Scanlen 
was  Prime  Minister  in  1883  he  obtained  Mr. 
Kilpin' s  services  as  Priv.  Secy,  for  a  visit  to 
Basutoland  in  the  effort  to  secure  a  satisfactory 
settlement  of  that  territory,  which  at  that  time 
was  annexed  to  the  Cape.  He  has  been  Secy, 
of  the  following  Cape  Govt.  Commissions : 
Dorthesia,  1877  ;  War  ExpenditLU-e,  1881  ; 
Liesbeek  Municipality,  1883  ;  Diamond  Laws, 
1887  ;  Liquor  Laws,  1889  ;  Lighthouses,  1890  ; 
Fisheries,  1892;  Scab,  1893;  Defence,  1896. 
He  was  Secy,  of  the  Imperial  British  and 
German  Joint  Commission  on  Angra  Pequena 
and  West  Coast  Claims  in  1885,  for  which  in- 
quiry H.M.S.  Sylvia  was  specially  detached 
and  fitted  up,  proceeding  up  the  coast  as  far  as 
Walfisch  Bay.  He  has  been  Examiner  in  Short- 
hand under  the  Cape  Civil  Service  Commissioners 
since  that  paper  was  first  set  in  1889  ;  is  pro- 
prietor and  Editor  of  the  "  Cape  Civil  Service 
List,"  which  he  instituted  in  1885  ;  author  of 
the  "Parliamentary  Agent's  Manual  (Cape) 
1902,"  and  is  a  J.P.  for  the  whole  Colony. 
He  married,  in  1880,  Augusta  (Ladv  of  the 
Royal  Red  Cross,  1902),  dau.  of"  G.  W. 
Pilkington,  of  Cape  Town. 

KING,  Thomas  Burnham,  M.L.A.,  was  re- 
tiu-ned  vmopposed  to  the  Cape  Parliament  as 
Progressive  Member  for  Victoria  East  (C.C.)  in 
Nov.  1902,  and  was  re-elected  in  Feb.  1904. 

KING,  William  Joseph  Harding,  B.A., 
F.R.G.S.,  M.R.A.S.,  of  Wollescote  Hall,  near 
Stourbridge,  was  born  at  Chiu"chill  Court,  near 
Kidderminster,  April  28,  1869.  He  is  the 
eldest  son  of  the  late  Wm.  Hartley  King  and 
Louisa,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Harding,  of  Wad- 
hiu-st  Castle,  Sussex.  He  was  educated  at 
Newton  Abbot  Coll.  and  Jesus  Coll.,  Camb.,and 
at  the  Middle  Temple.  In  1900  he  made  an 
expedition  into  the  Sahara,  publishing  in  1903 
an  account  of  the  journey  in  a  paper  to  the 
Royal  Geographical  Society  Jovu-nal,  and  after- 
wards in  book  form  imder  the  title  of  "  A  Search 
for  the  Masked  Tawareks." 

IvIRK,  Sib  John,  G.C.M.G.,  K.C.B.,  of 
Wavertree,  Sevenoaks,  Kent,  and  of  the 
Athenseum  Club,  is  the  son  of  the  Rev.  John 
Kirk  ;  was  born  Nov.  1832,  at  Barry,  Forfar- 
shire, and  was  educated  at  the  Edinburgh  Univ., 
where  he  graduated  LL.D.     He  is   also   D.C.L. 


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Oxon.,  Sc.D.  Camb.,  and  M.D.  Edin.  Sir 
John  Kirk  served  diiring  the  Crimean  War  in 
Asia  Minor.  He  was  Chief  Officer  under  the 
Foreign  Office  in  Dr.  Livingstone's  second 
Expedition,  and  with  the  great  traveller  ex- 
plored and  mapped  the  Zambesi  from  the  coast 
to  the  Victoria  Falls,  and  discovered  Lake 
Nyassa,  1858-1864.  He  was  appointed  H.M. 
Vice-Consul  at  Zanzibar  in  1866,  and  Indian 
Assist.  Political  Agent  at  Zanzibar,  1868, 
Political  Agent  to  the  Viceroy  of  India  at 
Zanzibar,  1873  ;  H.M.  Consiil-Gen.  1873,  and 
H.M.  Agent  and  Consul-Gen.  1880.  He  was 
British  Plenipotentiary  to  the  African  Con- 
ference at  Brussels,  1889  ;  British  Delegate  at 
Brussels  to  fix  the  tariffs  under  the  Brussels 
Act,  1890  ;  Member  of  Commission  to  revise  the 
Slave  Trade  Instructions,  1891  ;  and  H.M. 
Commissioner  to  inquire  into  disturbances  on 
the  Niger,  1895.  Sir  John  Kirk  is  Chairman  of 
the  Uganda  Railway  Committee,  of  which  he 
was  first  appointed  a  member  in  1895.  He  is 
also  a  Director  of  the  Niger  Co.  He  married  in 
1867,  Helen  Cooko,  Gold  Medallist  of  the  Royal 
Geographical  Society. 

KIRK,  Lieut.  J.  W.  C,  B.A.  (Camb.),  of  the 
Junior  United  Service  Club,  was  born  at  Zanzi- 
bar ;  is  son  of  Sir  John  Kirk,  K.C.B.  (q.  v.)  ; 
was  educated  at  Marlborough  Coll.  and  King's 
Coll.,  Camb.  Entering  the  Duke  of  Cornwall's 
L.I.  he  proceeded  to  S.A.  and  served  throughout 
the  war ;  was  wounded  at  Paardeberg  (des- 
patches, Queen's  medal,  four  clasps,  and  King's 
medal).  Transferring  to  the  6th  Battn.  King's 
African  Rifles  he  served  in  the  M.I.  in  Somali- 
land  (1903).  He  is  the  author  of  a  gi-ammar 
of  the  Somali  Language. 

KIRKMAN,  Hon.  Thomas,  M.L.C,  F.R.M.S., 
of  Croftlands,  Equeefa,  Natal,  and  of  the  Micro- 
scopical Chib  (Lond.)  and  the  Victoria  Club, 
(Maritzburg),  is  second  son  of  the  late  Rev.  T.  P. 
Kirkman,  M.A.,  F.R.S.,  of  The  Croft,  near 
Warrington,  Lanes. ,  where  he  was  born  Dec.  22, 
1843.  He  was  edticated  at  Rossall  Sch.,  and 
went  to  Natal  with  his  brother  John,  in  1868, 
settling  on  a  Govt,  land  grant  in  Alexandra 
County.  He  was  elected  to  represent  his  county 
in  the  Legislative  Assembly  on  responsible 
government  being  granted  to  the  Colony  in  1 893, 
and  was  returned  to  the  Legislative  Council  in 
1 898.  For  fourteen  years  Mr.  Kirkman  has  served 
in  the  Volunteer  force,  seeing  active  service  for 
eight  months  in  the  Zulu  War,  1878-79.     He  takes 


an  interest  in  coffee  planting  and  microscopical 
studies,  and  was  elected  a  Fellow  of  the 
Royal  Microscopical  Soc.  in  1898.  He  is  un- 
married. 


KITCHIN,  Joseph,  of  Beckenham,  Kent, 
was  born  at  Croydon,  Surrey,  on  Dec.  18,  1870, 
and  is  therefore  still  a  young  man.  After 
leaving  school  at  the  early  age  of  14^  years,  ho 
followed  the  occupations  of  shorthand  writer, 
reporter  and  journaHst.  Early  in  Johannes- 
burg's fife  he  became  attracted  by  the  progress 
of  the  world's  premier  goldfield ;  he  made  a 
systematic  collection  and  study  of  information 
relating  to  Rand  mining,  and  prepared  much 
statistical  matter,  which  was  published  in  seven 
or  eight  newspapers,  one  in  Johannesburg, 
another  in  Paris,  and  the  rest  in  London.  After 
commencing  the  preparation  of  a  work  dealing 
with  the  history  and  position  of  S.  A. 
COS.,  he  decided,  instead  of  publishing 
a  book  of  his  own,  to  co-operate  with  Mr.  C.  S. 
Goldmann  in  his  work  on  "  South  African 
Mining  and  Finance,"  a  three-volume  work  which 
saw  the  light  in  Nov.  1895.  In  September, 
1895,  he  gave  up  his  scattered  journalistic 
contributions  in  order  to  become  the  Mining 
Editor  of  the  "  African  Review,"  a  position 
which  he  resigned  in  May,  1897,  in  order  to 
enter  the  service  of  A.  Goerz  &  Co.,  Ltd., 
taking  charge  of  that  Company's  Intelligence 
Dept.  in  London.  In  1899  he  paid  a  six 
months'  visit  to  Johannesbtu-g  in  the  interest 
of  the  Company,  and  before  returning  to  Eng- 
land accomplished  some  3500  miles  of  travelling 
in  the  sub-Continent,  visiting  Pretoria,  Belfast, 
Barberton,  Lourengo  Marques,  Durban,  Cape 
Town  and  Kimberley,  and  gaining  a  consider- 
able insight  into  the  actual  working  of  the 
mining  industry.  In  Sept.  1899,  he  was  ap- 
pointed a  second  Manager  of  the  Company 
in  London,  and  in  the  spring  of  1901  he  became 
sole  Manager  in  London.  He  has  now  served 
the  Goerz  Corporation  for  seven  years,  at  fu-st 
vinder  the  late  Mr.  Adolf  Goerz  and  latterly 
tmder  Mr.  Henry  Strakosch,  the  two  Managing 
Directors  who  took  up  residence  in  the  Metro- 
polis. Since  the  commencement  (on  a  very 
modest  scale)  of  his  business  career  he  has  never 
looked  back  and  has  consistently  moved  for- 
ward. He  is  a  hard  worker,  and  dabbles  a  Httle 
in  science.  He  takes  great  interest  in  all  that 
affects  the  gold  mining  industry,  though  being 
of  a  somewhat  retiring  nature  he  does  not  come 
much  into  public  view.    On  January   1,   1892, 


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he  married  Marianne,  dau.  of  John  Henry  Davy, 
of  Hastings. 

KLIMKE,  Joseph,  Ex-State  Mining  En- 
gineer of  the  late  S.A.R.,  a  Knight  of  the  French 
Legion  of  Honour,  Knight  of  the  Prussian  Red 
Eagle,  Third  Class,  Commander  of  the  Portu- 
guese "  Nossa  Senhora  da  Conceigao  de  Villa 
Vigosa,"  of  which  latter  order  he  wears  the  Star  ; 
was  born  Oct.  5,  1849  in  Upper  Silesia, 
Germany,  and  is  the  son  of  a  small  farmer. 
After  tending  a  two  years'  course  at  a  college 
in  his  native  country,  he  entered  at  the  age  of 
twenty  the  profession  of  mining.  Left  to  his 
own  resources  he  did  two  years'  manual  work 
as  a  miner  and  mechanic  in  coal  and  metal 
mines.  At  the  end  of  this  period  he  obtained 
two  years'  instruction  at  a  mining  school, 
and  therefore  he  received  tliree  more  years' 
training  in  engineering  and  mine  surveying 
offices.  After  being  admitted  as  Govt. 
Mine  Svuveyor, he  practised  a  short  time  and 
then  took  up  an  appointment  as  captain  of  a 
zinc  and  lead  ore  mine.  In  1880  he  was  ap- 
pointed manager  of  a  gold  mining  company 
in  Guayana,  Venezuela.  On  arriving  in  S. 
Ainerica  he  vigorously  devoted  himself  to 
attaining  a  knowledge  of  the  Spanish  language 
and  the  local  conditions  of  the  country.  Shortly 
after  his  arrival  he  removed  to  the  adjoining 
El  Callao  gold  field.  He  acquired  from  the 
Univ.  of  Caracas  the  diploma  of  Civil  Engineer, 
and  was  subsequently  instructed  to  draw  up  the 
working  plans  for  the  once  famous  El  Callao 
and  other  adjacent  mines.  In  1887  he  re- 
turned to  Evu:-ope,  but  after  a  very  brief  stay  he 
went  on  a  tour  of  inspection  to  the  Transvaal, 
arriving  there  in  Feb.,  1889,  about  the  close 
of  the  first  boom.  Anticipating  a  great  future 
for  the  Rand  he  settled  at  Johannesburg  as 
Consulting  Engineer,  and  was  appointed  in 
Sept.  1891  by  the  Govt,  as  State  Mining 
Engineer.  At  that  time  the  position  did  not 
carry  much  power  or  responsibility,  but  seeing 
that  with  the  rapid  development  of  the  mines 
the  number  of  accidents  increased  at  such  a 
serious  rate  he  undertook  to  draw  up  the  ne- 
cessary rules  and  regulations  for  the  Govt's 
supervision  of  all  mining  operations, 
and  over  all  boilers  and  machinery,  and  to 
establish  a  proper  technical  mining  depart- 
ment. Hitherto,  the  Mining  Dept.  had 
confined  itself  to  the  carrying  out  of  the  pro- 
visions of  the  Gold  Law,  consisting  chiefly  in  the 
disposal  of  mineral  lands  and  water  rights,  and 
receiving  the  taxes  from  the  proclaimed  gold 


fields.  The  conflicting  interests,  however,  of  the 
various  parties  of  the  mining  public,  and  the 
opposition  of  the  Govt,  itself  and  the  Volksraad 
to  every  new  measure  from  which  no  direct 
pecuniary  returns  were  derived,  made  it  a 
difficult  task  to  obtain  the  object  in  view. 
After  several  years  of  ceaseless  effort,  however, 
he  succeeded  in  obtaining  the  Volksraad' s 
sanction  to  the  Mining  Regulations  and  the 
Boiler  Law  in  their  latest  forms.  Since  those 
two  bills  came  in  force  the  use  of  the  metric 
system  in  place  of  the  old  measures  and  weights 
was  legalized  as  far  as  his  department  was  con- 
cerned. At  the  beginning  of  the  war  he  was  on 
leave  of  absence  in  Europe  when  all  the  mines 
stopped  working.  Some  of  these  were  mmie- 
diately  restarted  by  officials  of  his  department. 
Wlien  in  the  early  days  of  Feb.  1900  ru- 
mours reached  Europe  expressing  fear  that  the 
mines  might  be  blown  up  by  the  Boers  he  re- 
turned immediately  to  the  Transvaal,  and  it  is 
stated  that  he  arrived  just  at  the  time  when 
with  the  consent  of  the  Govt,  and  by  the 
order  of  his  representative  bore-holes  made 
in  some  of  the  working  shafts  to  prepare  for 
their  eventual  destruction.  Being  convinced 
that  wanton  destruction  of  this  character  was 
very  ill  advised  he  immediately  had  these  holes 
filled  up.  In  the  meantime  as  much  gold  as 
possible  had  been  extracted.  The  Govt, 
however  had  failed  to  pay  a  portion  of  the  work- 
ing cost,  while  indebtedness  to  an  enormous 
extent  had  been  incurred  for  supplies  with 
various  commercial  houses  of  Johannesbui'g. 
He  vigorously  pressed  the  Govt,  for  an 
immediate  settlement  of  these  accounts,  and 
took  measures  to  put  the  produced  gold  under 
proper  control.  As  a  result  of  this  he  was  sus- 
pended from  service,  but  permitted  to  retiu'n 
to  Europe.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  living 
in  Germany  and  in  London,  but  as  an  ex-burgher 
of  the  late  republic  it  is  understood  that  he 
intends  to  settle  later  on  at  Johannesburg.  At 
the  end  of  1903  he  was  summoned  to  Turkey, 
on  professional  business,  in  connection  with  the 
Govt,    of   that   country. 

KOCK,  Antonie  Franqois,  is  the  son  of  the 
late  Gen.  J.  H.  M.  Kock,  and  grandson  of 
Com.  J.  H.  L.  Kock.  His  grandfather,  who 
was  one  of  the  Boer  Pioneers  (Voortrekkers), 
fought  against  the  English  under  Warren  at 
Boomplaats.  His  father.  Gen.  Kock,  acted 
before  the  annexation  of  the  Transvaal  to  the 
British  in  1877  as  Member  of  the  Volksraad, 
and  in  the  war  of  1880-81  he  acted  as  Vecht- 


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Gen.  over  the  District  of  Potchefstroom. 
Advocate  Kock  was  born  at  Bronkhurstfontein 
District,  Potchefstroom, Sept.  20,  1869.  He  was 
educated  at  Potchefstroom  and  Pretoria.  In 
1885  he  took  the  Republican  Scholarship  at 
Pretoria,  and  was  sent  to  the  Netherlands,  where 
he  attended  the  Gymnasiam  at  Doetinchem. 
As  the  scholarship  was  subject  to  certain  re- 
strictions his  father  renounced  it,  giving  his 
son  a  free  hand.  In  1891  he  went  to  Scotland, 
and  during  his  stay  there  he  revived  the  S.A. 
Union  at  Edinburgh.  At  that  time  he  was 
endeavouring  to  establish  a  Union  of  all  South 
Africans  in  Europe.  After  remaining  seven 
months  in  Edinburgh  he  went  to  London,  where, 
in  1892,  he  was  admitted  as  a  student  of  the 
Middle  Temple.  He  was  called  to  the  English 
Bar,  and  after  a  short  visit  to  Paris  he  went  to 
Delagoa  Bay  in  June  1895,  and  attended  the 
inauguration  of  the  Delagoa  Baj^  Railway  as 
Member  of  the  Festivities  Committee.  He  was 
admitted  as  Advocate,  after  an  examination 
in  the  Local  Laws  of  the  Transvaal,  to  the  High 
Coiu-t  of  the  S.A.R.  On  June  8,  1897,  he  was 
appointed  a  Puisne  Judge  of  the  S.A.R.  Among 
other  well  known  cases  he  defended  Col.  Ferreira, 
who  was  tried  for  having  "  maliciously,  wrong- 
fully and  illegally  pegged  off  the  property " 
of  J.  B.  Robinson  at  Randfontein.  He  secured 
the  acquittal  of  the  colonel.  He  made  himself 
notorious  at  the  trial  of  Constable  Jones  (over- 
which  he  presided)  for  the  murder  of  the  Eng- 
lishman Edgar,  by  declaring  when  he  discharged 
the  prisoners  with  a  verdict  of  not  guilty  "  that 
he  hoped  that  the  police  under  difficult  cir- 
cumstances would  always  know  how  to  do 
their  duty."  In  the  troublovis  political  times 
before  the  war  he  showed  himself  an  uncom- 
promising opponent  of  the  British. 

At  the  meeting  of  burghers  at  Paardekraal, 
Krugersdrorp,  to  discuss  the  coming  war,  he 
addressed  the  burghers  urging  them  to  main- 
tain their  rights  as  an  independent  Republic 
against  Great  Britain.  At  the  outbreak  of 
the  war  he  accompanied  his  father,  who  was 
appointed  Assist.  Comdt.  Gen.,  and  was  present 
at  Elandslaagte,  and  with  him  when  he 
was  mortally  wovmded.  A  few  months  later 
he  joined  Assist.  Comdt.  Lucas  Meyer.  After 
being  with  the  Boers  before  Ladysmith 
for  some  time  he  went  with  Gen.  Meyer  to 
Colenso,  and  during  the  battle  of  Spion  Kop 
he  was  in  command  at  Colenso,  reinforcing 
the  Spion  Kop  position  with  about  1,500 
burghers,  and  at  the  same  time  kept  the 
British  at  bay  at   Colenso  and  the  lower  part 


of  the  Tugela  River.  After  remaining  three 
months  he  left  Colenso  on  leave  for  Pretoria, 
and  was  in  that  city  during  the  retreat  of  the 
burgher  forces  from  Colenso  and  Ladysmith. 
He  there  arranged,  in  conjimction,  it  is  said, 
with  State  Secy.  Reitz,  to  destroy  the  mines  and 
meet  the  British  on  their  ruins.  He  was  pre- 
vented from  doing  this,  and  was  arrested  by 
Dr.  Krause  on  June  2,  who  in  making  the 
arrest  asserted  that  he  acted  vmder  instruc- 
tions of  Commdt.  Gen.  Louis  Botha.  After 
being  confined  in  a  fort  he  was  taken  under 
armed  escort  to  Pretoria,  and  was  lodged  in  a 
room  on  the  racecoiu'se  amongst  about  5,000 
English  prisoners  of  war.  He  was  released 
after  narrowly  falling  into  the  hands  of  Lord 
Roberts,  and  went  to  join  the  forces  round 
Pretoria,  where  he  was  slightly  wounded  in  the 
leg.  Retreating  with  the  burghers  he  arrived 
at  Machadodorp,  where  as  President  of  Courts- 
Martial  he  tried  the  Cooper  case,  at  Machado- 
dorp, where  the  prisoner  was  sentenced  to  be 
shot  for  having  blown  up  a  railway  bridge  with 
dynamite  on  the  Delagoa  line,  causing  the 
death  of  a  night-watch  ;  and  the  case  of  Pienaar, 
a  Boer  Comdt.,  who  was  sentenced  to  six 
months'  imprisonment  with  hard  labour  at 
Nelspruit,  for  attempted  fraud  on  the  Trans- 
vaal Govt.  Proceeding  to  Delagoa  Baj', 
after  an  attempt  upon  his  life,  he  was  arrested 
by  the  Portuguese  authorities,  lodged  in  a 
fort  for  three  days,  and  then  requested  to  leave 
the  bay  for  Europe.  He  went  to  Paris  and  met 
Pres.  Kriiger.  He  then  visited  the  Boer  prison- 
ers of  war  at  Portugal,  and  subsequently  made 
several  attempts  to  get  back  to  the  scene  of  war 
in  S.  A.  and  finally  succeeded.  He  was, 
however,  captured  by  the  British  and  locked 
up  for  ten  weeks,  when  he  was  tried  as  a  rebel 
spy.  He  was  found  guilty  and  sentenced  to  be 
shot,  but  acquitted  on  a  legal  point  raised  by 
him  and  upheld  by  the  State  Attorney  at  Pre- 
toria. He  was  thereupon  banished  for  life, 
but  succeeding  in  escaping  and  making  his  way 
up  country  as  far  as  Estcourt.  He  then  went 
to  Pretoria  and  surrended  himself  under  the 
terms  of  surrender,  but  he  was  again  arrested 
and  lodged  in  the  Artillery  Camp.  He  finally 
took  the  oath  of  allegiance  and  was  liberated. 
He  is  at  present  practising  as  an  Advocate  in 
Johannesburg  and  editing  the  newspaper  "  De 
Transvaaler." 

KOHLER,  Chablks  William  Henry,  J. P., 
of  Riverside,  Paarl,  C.C.,  and  of  the  City  Club, 
C.T.,  is  the  eldest  son  of  William  Kohler,  Archi- 


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tect,  and  Mary  Fletcher  Hutchinson.  He  was 
born  Oct.  14,  18G2,  at  Calvinia,  C.C,  and  edu- 
cated at  Mr.  Close's  Sch.  and  (the  Rev. 
Hole's)  Trinity  Coll ,  C.T.  Mr.  Kohler  was  one 
of  the  earliest  pioneers  of  Johannesburg ;  he  was 
Chairman  of  the  Aurora  G.M.,  Co.;  Managing 
Director  of  the  Unified  G.M.  Co, ;  Chairman  of 
the  Paarl  Pretoria  Co.,  and  Director  of  the 
Langlaagte  United  Co,  1888-89.  He  purchased 
Riverside  in  1890,  and  has  since  carried  on  wine 
farming  very  successfully.  Mr.  Kohler  stood 
for  the  Legislative  Assembly  for  Stellenbosch  in 
1895,  but  retired  on  nomination  day.  He  was 
nominated  by  Stellenbosch,  Somerset  West,  etc., 
to  contest  a  seat  for  the  Cape  Legislative  Coun- 
cil, Aug.  1903.  He  is  a  Member  of  the  Cape 
Board  of  Horticulture,  and  was  a  Lieut,  in  the 
Paarl  D.M.T.  in  1901. 

KOTZE,  John  Gilbebt,  LL.B.,  K.C,  was 
born  at  Leeuwenhof,  C.T.  on  Nov.  5,  1849. 
He  is  the  youngest  son  of  the  late  P.  J. 
Kotz6,  who  was  Member  for  C.T.  in  the 
House  of  Assembly,  and  was  twice  Major  of 
that  city.  Judge  Kotze  was  educated  at 
the  S.A.  Coll.  ;  took  the  degree  of  LL.B. 
at  the  London  Univ.  in  Jan.  1873,  and  was 
called  to  the  Bar  by  the  Honourable 
Society  of  the  Inner  Temple  on  April  30, 
1874.  He  practised  at  the  Bar  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  C.T.,  and  of  the  Eastern  Districts 
Court  at  Grahamstown  ;  was  appointed  Judge 
of  the  High  Court  of  the  Transvaal  Pro- 
vince during  the  period  of  Bi'itish  annexation 
on  May  19,  1877,  which  appointment  he  held 
vmtil  the  retrocession  of  the  country  in  Aug., 
1881  ;  was  appointed  one  of  the  Commissioners 
rnider  the  Pretoria  Convention  to  investigate 
and  compensate  claims  for  losses  and 
injiu-ies  sustained  during  the  first  Boer  War, 
and  became  Chief  Justice  of  the  late  S.A.R., 
August  9,  1881.  He  was  Chairman  of  the  Board 
of  Examiners  in  Literature  and  Science  of  that 
State  from  1890-98,  and  was  created  a  Knight 
Grand  Cross  of  the  Order  of  the  Immaculate 
Conception  by  H.M.  the  King  of  Portugal  in 
May  1896,  in  recognition  of  his  services  in  the 
late  Transvaal  Republic.  In  consequence  of 
his  judgment  in  the  case  of  Brown  v.  Leyds, 
in  which  he  held  that  a  Volksraad  resolution 
could  not  override  the  Grondwet  or  Constitu- 
tion of  the  country,  and  because  he  refused 
to  renounce  the  right  of  testing  the  proceedings 
of  the  Executive  and  Volksraad  by  reference 
to  the  Grondwet,  he  was  summarily  and 
illegally  dismissed  from  office  as  Chief    Justice 


by  ex-Pres.  ELriiger  in  Feb.  1898.  He  was 
appointed  Attorney-Gen.  of  Southern  Rho- 
desia with  a  seat  in  the  Executive  and  Legis- 
lative Councils  of  that  territory,  Aug.  1900 ; 
acted  as  Administer  of  Southern  Rhodesia 
during  the  absence  of  Sir  WilKam  Milton, 
K.C.M.G.  from  May  to  Oct.  1902 ;  and  was 
appointed  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
Colony  of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  April  15, 
1903.  Mr.  Kotze,  together  with  the  late  Mr. 
Frederick  Jeppe,  edited  the  Transvaal  Statute 
Book  1845-1885.  He  has  also  edited  three 
volumes  of  reports  of  cases  decided  by  the 
High  Court  at  Pretoria  1877-88,  and  has  trans- 
lated into  English,  from  the  original  Dutch, 
Simon  Van  Leeuwen's  Commentaries  on  Roman 
Dutch  Law  in  2  vols,  royal  8vo.  He  married, 
in  1872,  Mary  Aurelia,  da\i.  of  the  late  Daniel 
Bell  of  Milton  House,  Clapham,  Surrey. 

KRIGE,  Gideon  Johannes,  M.L.A.,  re- 
presents the  electoral  division  of  Stellenbosch 
in  the  Cape  House  of  Assembly  to  whicli  he 
was  last  re-elected  in  the  Bond  interest  in  Feb. 
1904. 

KRUGER,  Stephanus  Johannes  Paultjs, 
ex-Pres.  of  the  S.A.R.,  was  born  Oct. 
10,  1825,  in  the  Colesberg  District  of  the 
C.C.  He  was  reared  in  a  hard  school, 
his  rough  training  on  the  veld,  during 
which  his  life  often  depended  on  his  readi- 
ness of  resom*ce,  presence  of  mind  and 
physical  strength,  early  in  life  endowed  hira 
with  those  qualities  of  self-reliance  and  resource 
which  were  to  prove  so  useful  to  him  in  his 
later  years.  His  boyhood  was  spent  in  the 
manner  familiar  to  the  Boers  of  the  early  days 
— farming,  hunting,  and  trekking.  There  were 
no  facilities  for  his  receiving  any  scholastic 
training,  and  even  now  he  has  added  nothing  to 
his  natural  sagacity  by  book-reading.  Such 
as  it  was,  however,  Paul  Kriiger's  early  training 
encouraged  those  characteristics  which  enabled 
him  to  lead  the  movement  which  wrested  the 
control  of  the  Transvaal  from  the  most  for- 
midable empire  the  world  has  yet  seen,  and  to 
hold  his  own  for  years  in  the  face  of  opposition 
before  which  the  boldest  might  well  have  quailed. 
At  the  age  of  ten  he  accompanied  his  father  on 
the  great  trek  in  search  of  a  new  country  where 
they  might  settle,  imtrammelled  by  the  re- 
strictions of  civilized  government.  At  that 
time  the  territory  lying  between  the  Vaal  and 
the  Limpopo  rivers  was  being  raided  by  Mosili- 
katsi,  a  Zulu  sub-chief  who  had  seceded  from 


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the  main  body  of  his  nation  with  a  large  number 
of  followers,  and  young  Kriiger — then  a  lad 
of  twelve  years — saw  his  first  active  service 
iinder  Comdt.  Potgeiter.  Soon  after  Mr. 
Kriiger  served  imder  Comdt.  Pretorius  in  the 
operations  against  Dingaan,  and  was  present  at 
the  desperate  fight  which  took  place  at  the 
Blood  River  on  Dec.  16,  1838,  where  the  few 
Boers  gained  a  great  victory  which  it  has  been 
their  custom  to  celebrate  every  year  since  then. 
He  also  took  part  in  the  primitive  expedition 
against  MosiUkatsi  in  1839. 

In  1841  Mr.  Ivriiger  became  a  Field  Cornet. 
In  1852  he  was  appointed  Comdt.  of  the 
Districts  of  Pretoria  and  Potchefstroom,  and 
in  1856  he  began  to  make  for  himself  a  position 
in  local  politics,  associating  himself  with  Gen. 
Pretorius  in  his  attempt  to  join  the  three  inde- 
pendent communities  of  Lydenburg,  Zout- 
pansberg,  and  Potchefstroom  under  one  Govt., 
with  a  new  Volksraad,  constitution,  and  capital 
in  Potchefstroom.  Pretorius  also  sought  to 
absorb  the  O.F.S.,  and  demanded  in  the 
Volksraad  at  Bloemfontein  that  the  adminis- 
tration of  the  O.F.S.  should  be  handed  over 
to  him.  Being  ordered  to  leave  the  coun- 
try, however,  he  returned  to  the  Transvaal, 
collected  an  army,  and  marched  with  it  back 
to  the  Free  State,  but  was  met  on  the  banks  of 
the  Rhenoster  River  by  Free  State  forces.  A 
conference  was  afterwards  held,  and  Pretorius 
bound  himself  not  again  to  enter  the  O.F.S. 
without  permission  of  its  Govt.  Many  Free 
Staters  who  had  joined  the  northern  invaders 
were  then  tried  for  high  treason,  and  it  is  on 
record  how  their  sentences  were  reduced  to 
nominal  fines  owing  to  the  solicitations  of 
Messrs.  ELriiger  and  Steyn.  As  a  matter  of 
interest  in  showing  the  trend  of  Mr.  Kriiger's 
character  in  those  first  days  of  his  public 
career,  the  Pres.  of  the  Free  State,  referring 
to  this  invasion,  stated  in  the  Raad  that  he  had 
proof  that  the  raiders  had  made  a  hideous 
complot  with  the  Basutos  under  Mosheshto  join 
in  the  attack  against  the  Orange  Republic. 

In  1862  Mr.  Kriiger  became  Comdt. -Gen., 
and  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Executive 
Council 

Some  years  later  (1877)  he  promised  Pres. 
Bvirgers  his  support  on  the  question  of  the 
inevitable  annexation  of  the  Transvaal,  but 
Mr.  Kriiger  secretly  prompted  the  resistance 
of  the  irreconcilables,  and  eventually  (May 
1877)  left  for  England  with  Dr.  Jorrisen  to  pro- 
test against  the  measure.  But  it  was  not 
thought  that  either  member  of  the  commission 


really  wished  the  Act  of  Annexation  to  be  an- 
nulled. In  fact  on  returning  to  the  Transvaal 
they  both  took  office  vmder  the  British  Govt., 
Mr.  Kriiger  only  relinquishing  his  post  owing 
to  the  refusal  of  the  Govt,  to  increase  his  re- 
mimeration. 

After  the  Convention  of  1881  Mr.  Kriiger  us 
Vice-Pres.  formed  one  of  the  tritunvirate  in 
whom  the  Govt,  was  vested,  but  in  1882  the  old 
form  was  restored  and  he  was  elected  Pres.  of 
the  Transvaal  State.  From  this  time  Mr. 
Kriiger's  history  is  the  history  of  the  Trans- 
vaal. His  policy  soon  began  to  declare  itself. 
In  that  year  the  first  of  many  laws  was  passed 
extending  the  term  of  residence  for  aliens  to 
qualify  for  naturalisation  from  one  to  five  years. 
Soon  followed  the  granting  of  monopolies,  the 
agitation  for  the  removal  of  the  Suzerainty  and 
freedom  in  their  external  relations,  whilst  he 
also  looked  around  for  new  countries  to  be 
acquired.  Thus  Mr.  Kriiger's  Govt,  annexed 
Mafeking  and  part  of  Bechuanaland  until  the 
Warren  Expedition  caused  a  retreat ;  part  of 
Zululand  was  taken  over,  and  hungry  eyes  were 
turned  towards  Swaziland  (the  cession  of 
which  we  ultimately  permitted).  In  1890-91 
an  expedition  was  sent  to  Chartered  territory, 
but  was  appropriately  turned  back  at  Rhodes' 
Drift.  Tongaland  was  also  coveted.  Mean- 
while in  1884  the  Pres.  and  Mr.  Smit  proceeded 
to  Europe  to  endeavour  to  obtain  some  modifica- 
tion of  the  Convention  and  to  raise  much 
needed  funds,  in  both  of  which  they  were  only 
partially  successful.  But  the  discovery  of  gold 
at  Moodies  in  1 885-6,  and  on  the  Witwatersrand 
later,  brought  revenue  to  the  country,  which 
enabled  Mr.  Kriiger  to  pursue  his  schemes 
without  remedying  the  ill-condition  of  the 
Govt.,  or  providing  for  the  large  population 
which  began  to  flock  into  the  country,  and 
without  allowing  it,  after  reasonable  residence, 
a  participation  in  the  management  of  State  or 
even  Municipal  ai^airs.  Political  agitation  for 
reforms,  improved  ways  of  commimication, 
remission  of  taxes,  security  of  titles,  etc.,  gave 
birth  to  the  Transvaal  Republican  Union  of 
Johannesburg.  The  Witwatersrand  Chamber 
of  Mines  was  also  formed  partly  to  protect 
shareholders'  interests,  and  for  eight  years  this 
Chamber  pleaded  to  the  Volksraad  for  reforms 
and  representation.  But  JMr.  Kriiger  remained 
obdurate.  Legislation  was  passed  making  this 
practically  an  impossibility  to  the  then  living 
generation  of  Uitlanders  who  had  taken  up  their 
residence  in  the  RepubUc.  Railways  were  kept 
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construction  was  only  permitted  tinder  such 
terins  as  were  granted  under  the  Netherlands 
Railway  and  Selati  Railway  concessions,  in 
which  connection  it  may  be  mentioned  that  the 
Selati  Railway  Co.,  in  order  to  obtain  its  con- 
cession, had  to  pay  bribes  or  make  presents  to 
many  members  and  of3ficials  of  the  First  Volks- 
raad.  The  dynamite  concession  was  another 
iniquitous  burden  upon  the  industry  which  had 
built  up  the  fortunes  of  the  country.  Pres. 
Kriiger  resolvitely  set  himself  against  miti- 
gating the  abuses  which  these  concerns  im- 
posed upon  the  legitimate  industries  on  the 
Transvaal.  It  is  true  that  he  secured  the 
Raad's  cancellation  of  the  latter  concession, 
but  in  a  few  months  it  was  renewed  in  a  still 
more  obnoxious  form. 

In  1888  Mr.  Ivi-iiger  was  re-elected  Pres. 
without  much  opposition.  Gen.  Joubert  re- 
ceiving but  few  votes,  but  in  1893  he  onlv 
defeated  the  General  by  7,881  votes  to  7,009. 
About  this  time  Mr.  I^iiger's  control  over 
affairs  appeared  to  be  none  too  sure.  Accord- 
ingly, in  defiance  of  the  Grondwet  (Constitu- 
tion) he  appointed  Mr.  Koch,  the  Landdrost  and 
Polling  Officer  of  Potchefstroom,  who  had  con- 
trived the  defeat  of  Mr.  Esselen  at  the  late 
election.  Minute  Keeper  to  the  Executive  with 
the  right  to  vote,  which,  with  the  President's 
casting  vote,  assured  the  latter  the  predominant 
voice  in  the  council.  His  position  thus  strength- 
ened, the  Pres.  turned  his  attention  to  other 
matters,  endeavouring,  not  without  some 
success,  to  subordinate  justice  in  the  courts 
to  the  requirements  of  his  government,  cur- 
tailing the  liberty  of  the  Press,  and  withholding 
the  right  of  public  meetings  and  political  or- 
ganization. However,  the  attempt  to  wrest 
from  the  High  Court  the  decision  in  the  cyanide 
case  while  still  sub  judice  miscarried  ;  tlae  en- 
deavour to  deprive  the  mines  of  their  Bewaar- 
platsen  rights  only  failed  after  the  Minister  of 
Mines  had,  on  his  owti  responsibiUty,  issued 
the  claim  licenses,  and  so  forced  the  Volksraad 
to  face  the  issue  of  confirming  or  reversing  his 
action — an  alternative  which  the  Govt,  could 
not  afford. 

Meanwhile  Mr.  Esselen  had  accepted  the 
State  Attorneyship  for  a  short  period,  during 
which  he  brought  about  great  reforms  in  the 
detective  and  police  departments,  and  his 
activity  in  putting  down  the  illicit  liquor  traffic 
amongst  the  natives  was  so  pronounced  that 
back-door  influence  was  not  long  in  making  his 
office  untenable.  Dr.  Coster,  a  Hollander, 
succeeded  him  and  was  found  more  amenable 


to  the  Pretorian  oligarchy.  Laws  were  passed 
in  defiance  of  the  provisions  of  the  Grondwet, 
and  were  made  retro-active,  and  on  several 
occasions  the  Pres.  and  Executive  forced  re- 
versals of  the  decisions  of  the  High  Court. 
Affairs  were  in  tliis  condition  when,  late  in  1895, 
reform  was  despaired  of  by  ordinary  methods, 
and  a  resort  to  force  was  freely  talked  of  as  a 
last  resource.  A  Reform  party  was  organized, 
vmder  the  presidency  of  Mr.  Charles  Leonard, 
and  eventually  the  active  assistance  of  the 
capitalist  element  was  won  over  to  the  move- 
ment. Dr.  Jameson  was  detained  on  the 
western  border  of  the  RepubUc  by  Mr.  Rhodes's 
orders  as  moral  support,  and  to  come  to  assist- 
ance in  case  of  urgent  necessity,  but  so  quiet 
were  the  preparations  that  even  ]Mr.  Kriiger  did 
not  realize  the  length  to  which  matters  had 
gone.  When  at  length  old  Hans  Botha  warned 
the  Pres.  of  the  danger,  he  replied  in  his  charac- 
teristic way  that  "if  they  wanted  to  kill  a  tor- 
toise they  must  wait  until  he  put  his  head  out 
of  the  shell."  Meanwhile  he  received  several 
deputations  to  induce  him  to  make  reasonable 
concessions,  and  then  Mr.  Ivriiger's  plan  of 
procrastination  began  to  reach  a  height  which 
had  never  previously  been  attained.  He  would 
promise  nothing,  but  said  that  he  would  do  his 
best  to  see  that  duties  on  food  stuffs  were  re- 
moved pending  confirmation  by  the  Volksraad  ; 
that  equal  subsidies  would  be  granted  to  Eng- 
lish as  to  Dutch  schools,  and  that  the  Nether- 
lands Railway  would  be  approached  with  a 
view  to  the  reduction  of  rates,  but  that  it  was 
impossible  to  grant  the  franchise  to  the  Uit- 
lander.  The  leaders,  however,  could  have  no 
faith  in  these  assurances,  and  matters  were 
hastened  by  Dr.  Jameson  crossing  the  border, 
on  Dec.  29,  notwithstanding  his  distinct  orders 
to  the  contrary.  The  following  night  Pres. 
ELriiger,  recognizing  that  the  brealdng  point 
was  nearly  reached,  issued  a  proclamation  warn- 
ing persons  from  disturbing  the  peace,  and 
stating  that  the  Govt,  was  prepared  to  consider 
grievances  without  delay.  Delegates  of  both 
parties  met  in  fact  in  Pretoria,  but  their  de- 
liberations resulted  in  nothing  further  than  the 
Boer  members  having  procured  a  full  list  of 
members  of  the  Committee ;  the  Uitlander 
delegates  were  handed  copy  of  a  resolution 
stating  that  the  High  Commissioner's  inter- 
vention had  been  accepted,  and  that  the  grie- 
vances would  be  earnestly  considered.  The 
surrender  of  Dr.  Jameson's  force  followed  hard 
upon  this,  but  the  Pres.  thought  that  he  had 
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Johannesburg,  and  although  the  doctor's  sur- 
render was  accepted  conditionally  upon  all 
lives  being  spared,  he  proceeded  to  let  it  be 
known  that  the  doctor's  life  depended  absolutely 
upon  all  arms  being  laid  down  in  Johannesburg, 
at  the  same  time  stating  to  the  High  Com- 
missioner that  disarmament  must  be  precedent 
to  any  discussion  of  grievances.  Accordingly 
all  arms  were  surrendered  in  good  faith  frona 
Jan.  6  to  8,  and  on  the  following  day  Pres. 
Kritger's  '*  Forgive  and  Forget "  policy  was 
inaugiorated  by  the  Reformers  to  the  number  of 
over  sixty  being  arrested,  tried,  and  found 
guilty  of  high  treason,  the  fovir  leaders  being 
condemned  to  death  and  the  others  to  finas  of 
£2,000  each,  two  years' imprisonment  and  three 
years'  banishment.  Soon  after  these  sentences 
were  pronounced  Govt,  agents  were  at  work 
trying  to  persuade  the  Committee  to  petition  in 
humiliating  terms  to  the  "  proved  magnanimity 
of  the  Govt. " ;  and  to  make  statements  impli- 
cating one  another  for  their  compUcity  in  the 
revolutionary  movement,  and  so  on.  Mean- 
while the  gaol  treatment  was  telling  severely 
upon  the  prisoners,  one  of  whom  had  already 
died  by  his  own  hand.  On  May  20,  ten  were 
liberated,  and  most  of  the  other  sentences  were 
commuted  to  lesser  terms  of  imprisonment,  but 
so  great  was  the  feeling  growing  throughout 
the  country  against  Mr.  Kriiger's  "  Cat  and 
Mouse "  treatment  that  monster  petitions, 
headed  by  two  hundred  S.A.  mayors,  at 
last  (May  30)  effected  the  release  of  all  the 
prisoners  (with  the  exception  of  Messrs.  Woolls- 
Sampson  and  Davies  and  the  four  leaders) 
conditionally  on  the  fines  being  paid  and  each 
binding  himself  not  to  meddle  in  the  internal  or 
external  politics  of  the  State  for  tlu-ee  years. 
After  much  bargaining  with  the  leaders,  Mr. 
Kriiger  liberated  the  latter  on  payment  of  a  fine 
of  £25,000  each  and  an  undertaking  not  to 
meddle  in  politics  for  fifteen  years. 

Negotiations  went  on  in  a  desultory  way. 
An  Industrial  Commission  of  Inquiry  was 
appointed  by  the  Executive  at  the  President's 
request,  and  a  mass  of  sworn  evidence  was  taken. 
In  the  report  which  followed  numerous  recom- 
mendations were  made  with  the  end  in  view 
of  prospering  the  industries  of  the  State  and 
benefiting  the  country  as  a  whole,  but  Mr. 
Blriiger  declined  to  adopt  the  recommendations, 
and  even  charged  the  chairman  of  the  committee, 
Mr.  Schalk  Burger,  with  being  a  traitor  to  his 
country  for  having  put  his  name  to  such  a 
report.  Ultimately  nothing  was  done  of  any 
benefit  to  the  Uitlander  interests  involved,  and 


it  became  apparent  that  little  was  to  be  gained 
by  British  diplomacy.  Mr.  liriiger,  who  was 
elected  Pres.  of  the  S.A.R.  for  the  fourth  and 
last  time  in  Feb.  1898,  was  hurr3^ng  armaments 
into  the  Transvaal  to  such  an  extent  that  it  was 
necessary  to  reinforce  the  British  garrison  in  S.A. 
The  climax  was  reached  when  the  Pres.  de- 
livered the  ultimatum  in  Oct.  1899  which  brought 
on  the  S.A.  War,  through  the  early  part  of  which 
he  remained  in  the  [country,  urging  and  en- 
couraging his  people  to  victory,  but  when  this 
seemed  at  length  a  remote  possibility,  his 
flight  to  Europe  was  rapidly  decided  upon, 
and  the  ex-President's  energies  were  devoted  un- 
successfully to  obtaining  foreign  intervention 
and  successfiilly  to  stirring  up  Anglophobia 
on  the  Continent.  But  Mr.  Ki-iiger  was  already 
an  old  man,  and  this  final  blow — the  defeat  of 
his  people  and  the  loss  of  his  country — marked 
practically  the  end  of  his  public  life. 

Strong,  fanatical,  obstinate,  shrewd  and 
autocratic,  Mr.  Kriiger  never  concealed  his 
dislike  to,  and  mistrust  of,  the  Uitlanders. 
When  the  Barberton  rush  brought  comparative 
affluence  to  the  country  he  never  once  visited 
the  town,  and  only  on  three  occasions  did  he 
visit  Johannesburg  during  nine  years,  although 
the  law  of  the  land  prescribed  that  the  Pres. 
should  visit  every  town  and  district  yearly. 
As  evidence  of  this  dislike  it  is  remembered 
that  in  addressing  a  mixed  crowd  at  Krugers- 
dorp,  where  some  detested  aliens  might  be  pre- 
sent, he  began  "  Burghers,  friends,  thieves,  mur- 
derers, newcomers,  and  others."  Nevertheless  he 
did  not  scruple  to  commandeer  their  services  for 
the  war  against  Malaboch,  until  diplomatic 
representations  from  Lord  (then  Sir  Henry) 
Loch  secured  exemption  for  them.  Nor  did  he 
scruple  to  fill  lucrative  posts  with  relatives  who 
were  quite  unfit  for  the  public  service,  nor  to 
appropriate  the  public  revenues  for  improve- 
ments on  his  personal  estates,  for  which  purposes 
he  had  little  difficvilty  in  obtaining  the  sanction 
of  the  Volksraad.  There  is  on  record  the  case 
of  the  editor  of  "  Land  en  Volk  "  successfully 
sustaining  an  alleged  libel  charging  the  Pres. 
with  fraud  against  the  State.  He  is  also  gener- 
ally believed  to  have  brought  away  with  him 
from  the  Transvaal  the  State  and  Trust  funds, 
variously  estimated  at  from  £250,000  to 
£700,000,  of  which  no  satisfactory  account  can 
be   obtained. 

Mr.  Kriiger  has  employed  part  of  his  exile  in 
writing  his  "Memoirs,"  for,  which  he  is  supposed 
to  have  received  £30,000.  They  were  dictated 
to  Mr.  A.  Schowalter,  the  editor  of  the  "  Buren- 


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freandes,"  who  gave  much  assistance  in  pre- 
paring them  for  publication.  He  now  hves 
in  ahnost  complete  retirement ;  in  a  country 
far  removed  from  liis  native,  but  now-for- 
bidden, veld ;  with  very  indifferent  health  ; 
but  with  recollections  of  a  long  and  arduous 
career  of  stirring  adventure  and  continual 
political  strife,  from  which  he  can  scarcely  regret 
to  be  released — even  in  lonely  but  peaceful 
exile.     See  "Obituaries." 

KUHN,  Peteb  Gysbebt,  M.L.A.,  is  member 
of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for  the  province 
of  Victoria  West.  He  sits  in  the  Bond  interest, 
and  was  last  elected  in  Feb.,  1904. 

LABUSCHAGNE,  Casper  Jekejuah,  M.L.C, 
J.P.,  of  Haasfontein,  Colenso,  Natal,  was  born 
at  Weenen  County,  Natal,  Dec.  8,  1854.  He  is 
the  son  of  John  Henderik  Labuschagne,  who 
fought  for  the  British  against  Machana  and 
the  Basutos,  on  the  occasion  of  their  invasion 
of  Natal,  and  also  against  Langalibalele.  Mr. 
C.  J.  Labuschagne' s  grandfather  was  one  of 
the  voortrekkers  who  left  Cape  Colony  for  Natal 
in  1836,  and,  becoming  an  officer  in  the  Boer 
Array,  fought  against  Dingaan  in  1837,  and 
afterwards  against  the  British  in  1842  at  Con- 
gella,  Durban 

Mr.  C.  J.  Labuschagne  was  appointed  J.P. 
in  1892  and  M.L.C.  in  Nov.  1898  He  is 
a  member  of  several  Rifle  Associations  ;  has 
won  several  prizes,  and  on  one  occasion  won 
a  gold  medal  for  the  best  aggregate  score. 
He  married,  in  1877,  Miss  Hatting,  the  youngest 
dau.  of  J.  M.  Hatting,  of  Blauwkrans,  Natal, 
on  whose  farm  Lord  Roberts'  son  is  biu-ied. 
Mr.  Labuschagne  lost  his  first  wife  in  1902, 
and  then  married  Mrs.  Pieters,  eldest  dau.  of 
William  Maude,  of  Dundee,  Natal. 

LAGDEN,  Sib  Godfbey  Yeatman,  K.C.M.G. 
(1897),  C.M.G.  (1894),  M.L.C,  Member  of  Execu- 
tive Council,  and  Commissioner  for  Native  Affairs, 
Transvaal ;  of  Blandford,  Park  Town,  Johannes- 
burg, and  the  Sports  Club,  London ;  is  the  son 
of  the  late  Rev.  Richard  Dowse  Lagden,  Bal- 
sham  House,  Camb.,  and  Sherbourne,  Dorset. 
He  was  born  in  1851  and  educated  at  Sher- 
bourne Sch.  A  bare  recital  of  his  official 
appointments  shows  that  he  has  had  a  dis- 
tinguished public  career.  He  entered  the  Civil 
Service  in  the  G.P.O.,  1869-77  ;  became  Chief 
Clerk  to  the  State  Secy,  of  the  Transvaal  under 
British  Administration  in  1878  ;  Private  Secy, 
to  the  Administrator,  Sir  OwenLanyon,  1878-81 ; 


and  Secy,  to  Execvitive  Council ;  was  present 
at  the  siege  of  Pretoria  and  afterwards  became 
Private  Secy,  to  Administrators  Sir  Evelyn 
Wood  and  Sir  William  Bellairs  ;  Secy,  to  Trans- 
vaal Sub-royal  Commission  on  Compensation 
Claims,  1881-82;  Special  War  Correspondent 
during  the  Egyptian  Campaign,  1882-83,  being 
present  at  all  engagements,  including  Tel-el- 
Kebir,  charge  of  Kassassin  and  capture  of  Cairo  ; 
was  appointed  Assist.  Colonial  Secy.,  Sierra 
Leone  ;  employed  on  Special  Financial  Mission 
to  Gold  Coast,  1883 ;  Government  Secy,  and 
Acct.,  Basutoland,  1884.  Asst.  Commissioner, 
1885;  acted  as  Resident  Commissioner,  1890; 
as  British  Commissioner,  Swaziland,  1 892 ; 
Resident  Commissioner,  Basutoland,  1893- 
1901.  It  will  thus  be  seen  that  Sir  Godfrey 
Lagden  has  represented  this  country  on  various 
missions,  but  it  was  as  British  Resident  in 
Basutoland  that  he  made  his  reputation.  "  To 
use  the  power  and  influence  of  the  chief  as  a 
means  of  governing  and  guiding  the  nation  " 
was  the  motto  of  his  rule,  and  it  is  claimed  that 
his  success  has  shown  how  a  black  population 
may  be  moulded  and  governed  with  its  own 
consent.  No  greater  evidence  exists  of  Sir 
Godfrey's  remarkable  faculties  for  inducing 
in  the  native  mind  an  appreciation  of  pro- 
gressive measures  than  the  result  of  the  intro- 
duction of  a  Native  Savings'  Bank  and  re- 
mittance agency  established  in  the  Transvaal 
in  Sept.  1902,  of  which  the  natives  have  taken 
full  advantage  from  its  initiation.  He  indulges 
in  most  games  and  sports,  and  has  had  con- 
siderable experience  of  big  game  shooting ; 
walked  from  the  Cape  Coast  to  Coomassie 
through  the  Ashanti  country  in  1883,  shooting 
and  collecting  specimens.  He  married  Frances 
Rebecca,  dau.  of  the  Rt.  Rev.  Henry  Brougham 
Bousfield,  Bishop  of  Pretoria. 

LAMBTON,  Capt.  Geobge  Charles,  D.S.O., 
of  Brownslade,  Pembroke,  S.  Wales,  was  born 
Nov.  10,  1872;  is  foiu'th  son  of  Lieut.-Col. 
F.  W.  Lambton,  late  of  the  Scots  Guards,  and 
of  Lady  V.  Lambton,  dau.  of  the  2nd  Earl 
Cawdor.  Capt.  Lambton  was  educated  at 
Wellington  Coll.,  and  entered  the  Worcester 
Regt.  in  1895,  gaining  his  Captaincy  in  1900. 
He  served  in  the  S.A.  War  1900-02;  was  present 
at  the  occupation  of  Johannesburg  and  Pre- 
toria, and  took  part  in  the  operations  which 
resulted  in  the  surrender  of  Prinsloo  in  the 
Brandwater  basin.  He  then  continued  fight- 
ing in  the  O.R.C.  and  C.C.  ;  was  present 
at  the  action  at  Botha\aIle,  and  subsequently 


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served  under  Gen.  Sir  C.  Knox  until  April, 
1902  (despa,tches,  D.S.O.,  Queen's  medal  with 
four  clasps.  King's  medal  with  two  clasps). 
Capt.   Lambton  is  unmarried. 

LAWRENCE,  James,  M.L.A.,  J.P.,  of  Kim- 
berley,  Muizenberg,  and  of  the  Kimberley 
Club  and  Civil  Service  Club  of  C.T.,  was  born 
at  Georgetown,  C.C,  in  1852.  Educated  at 
C.T.  and  Cradock,  he  has  represented  Kim- 
berley in  the  Cape  Colony  House  of  Assembly 
since  1894.  He  is  a  Progressive  Member,  and 
was  last  re-elected  in  Feb.  1904.  For  fourteen 
vears  he  has  been  Municipal  Councillor,  and 
Mayor  of  Kimberley  in  1889,  1892  and  1893. 
It  will  thus  be  seen  that  Mr.  Lawrence  has 
been  prominently  associated  with  the  muni- 
cipal affairs  of  the  great  diamond  city.  His 
other  public  positions  include  that  of  Chairman 
of  James  Lawrence  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  Director  of  the 
Board  of  Executors,  Kimberley,  and  Senior 
Whip  to  the  Progressive  Party  in  the  Cape 
Parliament.  He  also  served  on  the  Peninsular 
Commission  in  1902-3.  His  recreations  in- 
clude riding  and  driving.  Married,  in  1880, 
to  Miss  I\ilby,  of  Somerset  East. 

LEE,  Charles,  M.L.A.,  is  member  of  the 
Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for  the  Pro^ance 
of  Uitenhage,  and  was  last  re-elected  in  Feb. 
1904.     He  sits  in  the  Progressive  interest. 

LENFANT,  Capt.,  the  French  explorer, 
returned  to  Paris  in  April,  1904,  after  an  adven- 
turous journey  from  the  West  Coast  of  Africa, 
up  the  Niger,  along  the  Benue  (a  tributary 
of  the  Niger),  through  the  Suburi  marsh  country, 
thence  along  the  Shari  river  to  Lake  Chad,  the 
return  journey  only  occupying  sixty-five  days 
as  against  five  months  by  the  Congo  route. 
Capt.  Lenfant's  white  party  consisted  of  ten. 
They  were  confronted  with  innumerable  diffi- 
culties, hostile  natives  with  poisoned  arrows, 
and  much  sickness.  He  made  many  scientific 
observations,  and  discovered  a  monstrous 
silk-spinning  spider,  a  specimen  of  which  he 
brought  home. 

LEYDS,  Dr.  Willem  Johannes,  LL.D., 
Knight  of  the  Portuguese  Order  of  Villa  Vicoza, 
Commander  of  the  Legion  of  Honour,  Knt. 
of  the  Second  Class,  with  Star,  of  the  Prussian 
Red  Eagle,  and  Commander  of  the  Orders  of 
Jesus  Christ,  St.  Charles,  Orange-Nassau,  and 
Leopold  of  Belgium ;  of  2.5,  Wilhelminapark, 
Utrecht,  Holland,  and  of  the  Club  de  la  Haye, 


The  Hague  ;  was  born  at  Magelang,  Java,  oa 
May  1,  1859.  He  is  second  son  of  W.  J.  Leyds, 
who  was  youngest  son  of  the  Rev.  Leyds,  of 
Veandaal,  Holland,  by  Nine,  second  dau.  of 
the  Rev.  R.  van  Bessningen  van  Helsdingen. 
Dr.  Leyds  came  to  Europe  at  the  age  of  six, 
and  received  his  education  at  Haarlem  and 
Amsterdam.  His  original  intention  was  to 
become  a  teacher,  and  in  1874  he  passed  the 
final  examination  in  the  Govt,  school  for  the 
preparation  of  tutors.  Four  years  later  he 
qualified  as  a  teacher  of  drawing  ;  took  a  Govt, 
diploma  for  gymnastics,  and  passed  in  mathe- 
matics in  1879.  He  graduated  LL.B.  in  1882, 
and  after  a  further  two  j^ears  of  study  took 
the  Doctor's  degree  cum  laude  at  the  Univ. 
of  Amsterdam.  In  1884  Dr.  Leyds  went  to 
the  Transvaal  as  the  agent  of  the  concessionaires 
of  the  Netherlands  Railway,  to  advance  their 
interests,  at  the  same  time  taking  office  under 
the  S.A.R.  as  Attorney-Gen.,  a  dual  position 
which,  it  was  said,  he  could  not  occupy  with 
justice  to  both  the  State  and  the  Concessionaires. 
He  appears  to  have  dropped  the  former  office, 
but  was  appointed  Govt.  Commissioner  with 
the  Netherlands  Railway  Co.  in  1887.  He  was 
made  a  J.  P.  for  the  whole  Republic  in  1889, 
and  in  the  following  year  was  deputed  Govt. 
Syndic  with  the  National  Bank  of  the  S.A.R. 
Meanwhile  Dr.  Leyds  had  given  ample  evi- 
dence of  his  talent  for  diplomacy,  and  in  1890 
he  relinqmshed  the  office  of  Attorney-Gen.  for 
the  State  Secretaryship,  to  which  he  was  re- 
elected in  1894,  and  again  in  1898.  The  office 
carried  a  seat  in  the  Executive  Council,  and 
was,  after  the  Presidency,  the  most  onerous 
and  responsible  in  the  service  of  the  RepubUc. 
Diu-ing  all  these  years  he  had  been  filling  the 
public  offices  with  his  own  countrymen — a 
more  or  less  necessary  step,  seeing  that  English- 
men were  practically  barred  in  important 
positions  by  the  Kriiger  reqiine,  and  the  Boera 
themselves  were  incompetent  to  adequately 
participate  in  the  task  of  government.  But 
this  influx  of  Hollanders  was  not  welcomed 
by  Boer  or  Briton,  and  the  State  Secy.'s  in- 
creasing unpopularity,  added  to  the  anti-Hollan- 
der feeling,  made  it  expedient  for  him  to  resign. 
Dr.  Leyds  had  already  been  sent  on  poUtical 
missions  to  Lisbon  and  Berlin,  his  skill  in 
diplomacy  had  been  tried,  and  Mr.  Kjiiger 
appointed  his  able  and  useful  Secy.  Minister 
Plenipotentiary  in  Europe.  Dr.  Leyds  had  been 
for  years  the  President's  right-hand  man,  and 
it  is  doubtful  if  his  influence  on  affairs,  so  far 
as    concerned    the   Uitlanders,    was   as   malign 


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as  was  ofttimes  stated.  His  position  was 
a  delicate  one,  and  it  is  not  surprising  that  he 
created  feelings  of  resentment  amongst  the 
British. 

Dr.  Leyds  is  the  author  of  "  De  rechtsgrond 
der  schadevergoeding  voor  preventieve  hectenis  " 
(1884).  He  married,  July  10,  1884,  Louisa, 
second  dau.  of  F.  Roeff,  Mathematician. 

LINDUP,  Walter,  F.R.C.I.,  of  Fairview 
Tower,  Maritzburg,  Natal,  was  born  in  London, 
Jan.  3,  1858  ;  was  educated  at  the  Philological 
Sch.,  Marylebone  Road.,  Lond.,  and  studied 
dentistry  under  his  father.  He  now  prac- 
tises this  profession  in  Maritzburg.  He  was 
formerly  a  Director  of  the  Stanhope  and  New 
Heriot  G.M.  Cos.,  and  was  elected  a  Town 
Councillor  for  Maritzburg  in  1902.  Mr.  Lindup 
is  an  amateur  architect  and  painter  in  oils. 
He  married,  in  1902,  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  J.  D. 
HoUiday,  of  Maritzburg. 

LIPP,  Chahles,  J.P.,  of  the  Rand  and  Kim- 
berley  Clubs,  was  born  at  Fochabers,  Scotland, 
in  1861  ;  is  son  of  John  Lipp,  of  Fochabers, 
where  he  was  educated  at  Milne's  Institution. 
After  a  bank  training  in  the  Aberdeen  Town 
and  Coiinty  Bank  he  went  to  S.A.  in  1882. 
He  joined  the  Capi  of  Good  Hope  Bank,  and 
rapidly  rose  to  the  position  of  Manager  of 
their  Kimberley  branch  in  1889,  in  which  j'ear 
he  was  appointed  J.P.  for  Kmiberley.  He 
became  Manager  of  the  Kimberley  branch  of 
the  African  Banking  Corporation  in  1892,  and 
was  promoted  to  the  management  of  the  Johan- 
nesburg branch  in  1898,  which  position  he 
still  fills.  He  remained  in  that  town  during 
the  war,  and  was  appointed  J.P.  for  the  Wit- 
watersrand  in  1903.  He  married,  in  1890, 
Miss  Harvey,  of  Aliwal  North. 

LITHMAN,  Kael  Vilhelm  ;  of  "  Scandia," 
Rosebank,  nr.  Cape  Town,  and  of  the  City 
Club  (C.T.)  ;  was  born  Oct.  13,  1853,  at  Gothen- 
burg, Sweden  ;  is  youngest  son  of  a  Gothenburg 
merchant,  and  was  educated  at  the  Gothenbm-g 
Coll.,  where  he  matriculated  in  1872.  He 
went  to  S.A.  in  1879  as  Secy,  to  the  Swedish 
and  Norwegian  Consul-Gen.  at  Cape  Town. 
In  1881  he  became  Vice-Consul,  and  acted  as 
Consul-Gen.  in  1885  on  the  death  of  Ms  chief, 
whose  business  he  took  over  under  the  style 
of  Karl  Lithman  &  Co.  In  1886  he  was  ap- 
pointed Agent-Gen.  in  S.A.  to  the  Norwegian 
Veritas,  and  he  now  holds  the  general  agency 
of    the    principal    Scandinavian    underwriters. 


He  was  made  Consul  for  Venezuela  in  1887, 
and  in  the  same  year  founded  the  match 
factory  near  Cape  Town,  which  he  afterwards 
sold  to  the  Rosebank  Match  Co.,  Ltd.  Besides 
his  Consular  appointment  he  carries  on  a  timber, 
shipping,  insurance  and  general  merchant's 
business,  and  is  a  director  of  various  cos. 
He  married,  April  4,  1891,  Sophia  Akerberg, 
widow  of  the  late  Swedish  and  Norwegian 
Consul  at  Cape  Town. 

LITTLE,  James  Stanley,  of  the  Royal 
Colonial  Institute,  W.C.,  and  of  the  Author's 
and  Anglo-African  Writers'  Clubs,  is  a  son  of 
the  late  Thomas  Little,  of  Woodville,  Forest 
Hill.  He  was  educated  at  King's  Coll.,  London, 
and  went  to  S.A.  as  a  youth,  when  he  con- 
tributed to  the  "  Cape  Times  "  and  the  "  Natal 
Mercury."  He  returned  to  England  with  a 
knowledge  of  S.A.  questions,  which  he  utilized 
by  lecturing  on  various  matters  affecting  the 
coimtry  and  Imperial  Federation.  He  was 
a  Member  of  the  S.A.  Committee  (1886),  and 
served  on  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
State  Colonization  Association  and  the 
Executive  Council  of  the  Imperial  Federation 
League.  He  edited  the  "  African  Review " 
from  Dec.  1895  to  June  1897,  and  from  Aug. 
1891  to  Aug.  1902.  Mr.  Little's  main  work 
has  been  to  popularize  the  Imperial  idea.  As 
early  as  1876  h»  contributed  leading  articles 
to  the  "Natal  Mercury"  advocating  the 
annexation  of  the  Transvaal.  His  works 
especially  dealing  with  Imperial  subjects  began 
with  "A  World's  Empire"  (1879).  This  was 
followed  by  "South  Africa"  (1884),  "The 
United  States  of  Britain"  (1887),  "A  Vision 
of  Empire"  (1889),  "The  Enemies  of  South 
Africa  "  (series  of  articles  in  the  "  New  Century 
Review,"  1897),  "  Progress  of  British  Empire 
in  Century,"  published  in  Canada  (1902)  and 
in  Great  Britain  and  the  LTnited  States  (1903). 
During  the  past  twenty  years  he  has  worked 
hard  for  the  reform  of  the  Royal  Academy. 
On  subjects  connected  with  Imperial,  Colonial 
South  African,  artistic  and  literary  matters 
he  has  contributed  largely  to  the  periodical 
press  and  magazines,  including  the  "  Nineteenth 
Century,"  "-Academy,"  "Studio,"  "Library 
Review,"  "  The  Artist,"  "  The  Morning  Post," 
"  The  Literary  World,"  and  other  publications. 
He  is  also  the  author  of  some  half-a-dozen 
novels,  viz.  "My  Royal  Father"  (1886),  "The 
Day  Ghost"  (1887),  "  Doubt"  (1888),  "  Whose 
Wife  shall  she  be"  (1888),  "A  Wealden 
Tragedy  "  (1894).     He  wrote  the  life  and  work 


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of  W.  A.  Orchardson,  R.A.  (1897),  and  besides 
all  this  literary  activity  has  found  time  to 
write  two  plays,  wliich  have  been  presented. 
He  was  the  first  Executive  Secy,  of  the  Society 
of  Authors,  and  inaugurated  the  system  of 
annual  dinners,  with  a  dinner  to  American 
men  and  women  of  letters  in  1889.  He  was 
the  Hon.  Secy,  of  the  Shelley  Soc.  in  1886-7, 
and  in  conjunction  with  jVIr.  J.  Robinson 
organized  the  Shelley  Centenary  celebration 
at  Horsham,  Aug.  4,  1892.  His  recreations 
are  country  walks  and  genealogical  research. 
He  married,  March,  1895,  Fanny  Maud  Therese 
Lablache,  elder  dau.  of  Count  Luigi  de  la  Blache, 

LITTLEJOHN,  Robert,  of  8,  Cavendish 
Square,  London,  W.,  and  of  the  Constitutional, 
Caledonian,  and  Gresham  Clubs,  is  the  son  of 
the  late  Robert  Littlejolin,  Castle  Douglas, 
N.B.,  and  was  born  in  1855.  He  began  his 
business  career  in  the  service  of  the  Bank  of 
Scotland,  and  went  to  S.A.  in  1883  to  take  up 
a  banking  appointment  there.  He  was  Gen. 
Manager  of  the  African  Banking  Corporation  in 
S.A.  from  1891  to  the  end  of  1900,  when  he 
joined  the  Board  of  Directors  of  that  bank  in 
London.  He  is  also  a  director  of  other  cos. 
connected  \vith  S.A.  His  recreations  are  golf, 
shooting,  etc. 

LLEWELLYN,  Qicketer,  was  born  in  S.A. 
He  made  liis  first  appearance  in  important 
cricket  at  Pietermaritzburg  in  1896  against 
Lord  Hawke's  XI.  In  1899  he  went  to  Eng- 
land to  qualify  for  Hampshire,  for  which  county 
against  the  Australians  he  scored  90  in  his 
first  innings,  and  took  7  wickets.  In  1890 
he  showed  good  form  against  the  West  Indians, 
taking  13  wickets  and  making  over  50 
runs  in  one  of  his  innings.  In  1902  he  dis- 
played good  form  also  against  the  Australians, 
clean  bowUng  Clem  Hill  for  0  and  7.  In  addition 
to  his  left-handed  bowling,  he  is  a  brilliant 
field  at  mid-off  and  a  dashing  bat. 

LLEWELLYN,  Capt.  Hoel,  D.S.O.,  of 
Hersham  Cottage,  Walton-on-Thames,  and  of 
White's  Club,  was  born  Nov.  24,  1871,  at  the 
Court,  Langford,  East  Somerset,  and  is  son  of 
Col.  Evan  H.  Llewellyn,  M.P.  He  was  educated 
at  sea  on  H.M.S.  Britannia  (1884),  and  was 
midshipman  in  the  Royal  Navy  from  1888  to 
1890,  during  which  period  he  saw  active  service 
on  the  East  Coast  of  Africa  in  the  suppression 
of  the  slave  trade  (despatches).  From  the 
Navy  he  joined  the  British  S.A.   Police,  serving 


as  Artillery  Officer  throughout  the  ]\Iata- 
bele  War  of  1893-4  (despatches).  In  1896 
he  was  appointed  J.P.  (Rhodesia)  and  received 
his  Captaincy  in  the  B.S.A.  PoHce,  and  on  the 
outbreak  of  the  second  Matabele  War  in  that 
year  he  took  command  of  the  company's  artil- 
lery, greatly  distinguishing  himself  on  more 
than  one  occasion  by  liis  gallantry  and  presence 
of  mind  in  "  tight  places,"  being  recommended 
by  Gen.  Sir  Fred.  Carrington  for  the  coveted 
V.C.  He  continued  fighting  through  the 
operations  in  Mashonaland,  which  were  con- 
cluded in  1897.  Capt.  Llewellyn  served 
through  the  Anglo-Boer  War  from  the  com- 
mencement in  1899,  commanding  the  armoiured 
trains  north  of  Mafeking  until  Jan.,  1900,  when 
he  took  over  the  command  of  Col.  Phmier's 
artillery  until  the  relief  of  ]\Iafeking,  in  con- 
nection with  which  he  was  decorated  with  the 
D.S.O.  Transferring  to  the  S.A.  Constabulary, 
he  was  appointed  Comdt.  of  the  Lichten- 
bm-g  District  (until  Dec,  1902)  and  J.P.  for 
the  Transvaal.  He  married,  Oct.  20,  1902, 
Winifred  Lady  Ross,  yovmgest  dau.  of  A. 
Berens,   of  Castlemead,  Windsor. 

LOCHVER,  Hon.  J.  A.  van  Aarde,  M.L.C, 
is  a  member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Council 
for  the  North-west  Province. 

LOCKIE,  John,  M.P.,  J.P.,  of  Stonehall, 
Stonehouse,  Devon ;  Buston  Hall,  Lesbury, 
R.S.O.,  Northumberland ;  and  of  the  Royal 
Societies  Club  ;  is  son  of  John  Lockie  by 
his  wife  Elizabeth  Laidlaw  Smythe  ;  was  born 
July  30,  1863,  and  was  educated  at  George 
Watson's  Coll.,  Edinburgh,  afterwards  com- 
mencing his  commercial  career  with  a  Glasgow 
shipowner's  firm.  In  1892  he  estabUshed 
works  at  Jarrow-on-Tyne  for  the  manufacture 
of  brass  and  copper  tubes  and  engineering 
accessories.  He  is  the  owner  of  the  Planet 
line  of  ships,  is  Chairman  of  the  National  Indus- 
trial Assoc,  and  of  the  S.A.  Trade  Committee, 
of  which  he  guaranteed  the  expenses,  most  of 
which  he  actually  defrayed.  He  was  elected 
Conservative  M.P.  for  Devonport,  Oct.  22,  1902. 
Mr.  Lockie  is  keen  on  sports  and  the  collection 
of  curios.  He  married,  in  1893,  Annie,  dau.  of 
John  Farrell. 

LOEWENTHAL,  Leopold,  of  Edensor,  East 
Molesey,  Surrey,  was  born  on  Jan.  18,  1865,  at 
Glasgow,  and  was  educated  at  Hutchinson's  Sch., 
Glasgow,  and  the  Friedrich  Wilhelm  Univ., 
Germany.     In  the  early  days  of  Johannesburg 


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he  was  prominently  associated  with  municipal 
affairs  and  exercised  very  considerable  interest. 
Any  candidate  for  the  Town  Council  or  the  Volks- 
raad  who  had  his  support  was  invariably 
elected.  Mr.  Loewenthal  writes  trenchantly 
on  financial  subjects.  He  collects  18th  century 
English  furniture  and  old  Nankin  porcelain, 
and  makes  gardening  his  hobby. 

LOGAN,  Hon.  James  Douglas,  M.L.C,  J.P., 
of  Cape  Town  ;  Tweedside  Lodge,  Matjesfontein, 
C.C. ;  Dalguise  Castle,  Perthshire,  Scotland ;  and 
of  the  City  Club,  C.T.  ;  is  the  son  of  Mr. 
James  Logan,  of  Reston,  Berwickshire,  where 
he  was  born  Nov.  26,  1857.  He  was  educated 
at  Reston,  and  started  life  as  a  railway  clerk 
on  the  North  British  Railway.  He  then  went 
to  sea  as  an  apprentice  on  a  sailing  ship,  and 
was  wrecked  at  Simons  Town  twenty-five 
years  ago.  Joining  the  Cape  Govt.  Railway 
service  as  porter,  he  came  to  be  stationmaster, 
at  the  then  new  Cape  Town  Station,  and  worked 
through  the  different  grades  of  the  service 
until  he  was  appointed  Dist.  Superintendent 
over  the  railway  from  Touws  River  to  Prince 
Albert  Road.  Leaving  the  railway  service, 
he  purchased  the  Frere  Hotel,  Touws  River, 
started  a  wholesale  wine  and  spirit  store  in 
Cape  To-ttTi,  and  soon  became  refreshment  and 
advertising  contractor  on  the  Cape  Govt., 
O.F.S,  and  Rhodesian  Railway  systems. 
Matjesfontein,  on  the  Karoo,  he  transformed 
from  a  state  of  barrenness  to  a  condition  of 
fertility  by  means  of  diamond  drilling  for 
water,  converting  the  locality  into  a  charming 
residential  resort.  His  gardens  at  Matjes- 
fontein and  Tweedside,  where  he  has  also  been 
successful  in  boring  for  water,  now  contain 
orchards   unequalled  in   the   Colony. 

Mr.  Logan  was  elected  Member  of  the  Cape 
Legislative  Assembly  for  Worcester  in  1894, 
and  in  1898  was  retiu'ned  as  the  representative 
for  the  N.W.  Circle  in  the  Legislative  Council, 
where  he  sits  in  the  Progressive  interest.  During 
the  late  Boer  War  he  raised  and  commanded 
a  corps  of  District  Mounted  Troops,  and  was 
present  at  the  engagements  of  Belmont,  Modder 
River,  Rensburg,  etc.  He  is  a  keen  sportsman, 
a  first-class  shot,  and  very  fond  of  cricket.  He 
was  instrumental  in  bringing  Lord  Hawke's 
cricket  teams  of  1894  and  1898  to  S.A.,  and 
conducted  at  his  own  expense  the  tour  of  the 
S.A.  Amateur  Cricket  XI  in  1901,  which  showed 
up  very  creditably.  Mr.  Logan  married,  Sept.  9, 
1878,  Emma,  dau.  of  C.  H.  Haylett,  of 
Cape  Town. 


LOTTER,  Caspar  Jacobus,  M.L.A.,  is  mem- 
ber of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for  the 
Province  of  Jansenville,  having  been  last  elected 
in  Feb.  1904.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Bond. 

LOVEDAY,  Richard  Kelsey,  M.L.C, 
F.R.G.S.,  was  born  at  Pietermaritzburg  in  1854. 
Left  to  his  own  resoiu-ces  very  early  in  life,  and 
having  poor  health,  he  went  to  Pretoria  in  1872, 
and  entered  the  Deeds  Office  of  the  S.A.Pv.  in 
1873,  becoming  Master  and  Registrar  of  the 
High  Court  rnider  the  British  Administration 
after  the  annexation.  In  the  Boer  war  of  in- 
dependence he  was  second  in  command  of  the 
Pretoria  Rifles  who  were  besieged  in  Pretoria. 
On  the  Transvaal  regaining  self-government, 
Mr.  Loveday's  services  were  dispensed  with, 
though  he  subsequently  held  important  positions 
in  the  Transvaal.  He  was  elected  unopposed 
member  of  the  First  Volksraad  for  the  Bar- 
berton  Goldfields  in  1890  and  1891,  and  was 
the  only  member  of  the  Chamber  of  British 
descent.  He  was  a  strenuous  opponent  of  the 
Kriiger  regime  and  its  attendant  abuses.  In  the 
sessions  of  1893  and  1894  he  rendered  great  ser- 
vices to  the  Progressives,  and  in  the  course  of 
the  debate  on  the  Franchise  in  1895  he  dealt 
exhaustively  with  the  question,  and  exhorted 
the  Raad  to  appeal  to  the  country  on  the  matter. 
He  is  a  member  of  tlie  First  Legislative  Council 
of  the  Transvaal  Colonj'  and  director  of  several 
public  cos. 

LOVELL,  Edward  Alphonse,  of  Lagos,  West 
Africa  ;  of  Storridge  Vicarage,  Malvern,  and  of 
the  Junior,  Atlaenseum,  and  Northumberland 
County  Clubs,  was  born  1857  at  Winslow  Hall, 
Buckinghamshire.  He  was  educated  at  Rugby, 
and  Heidelburg  Univ.,  where  he  gradviated  M.A., 
M.B.,  and  D.C.L.  He  joined  the  Govt,  service 
in  1890  ;  was  Collector  of  Customs  1891,  and 
Acting  Treasurer  and  Colonial  Secy,  on  various 
occasions.  He  served  on  the  Boundary  Com- 
mission in  Paris,  1898. 

LOWREY,  Francis,  B.A.,  of  16,  Cheyne 
Walk,  Chelsea,  and  of  the  L^^nited  University  and 
Union  Clubs,  was  born  at  Barmoor,  Northumber 
land,  in  1856  ;  was  educated  at  Rugby  and  New 
Coll.,  Oxon.  (1st  class  Modern  History  School 
and  13.  A.  1878).  He  was  called  to  the  Bar,  Inner 
Temple,  in  1880,  and  was  for  some  time  a  member 
of  the  North-Eastern  Circuit.  He  was  subse- 
quently a  partner  in  the  publishing  firm  of  Swan, 
Sonnenschein  &  Co.,  and  afterwards  went  to 
Johannesburg  in  1889  ;  joined  the  Reform  Com- 


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mittee  in  1895-6 ;  was  arrested  for  his  participa- 
tion in  that  movement,  but  did  not  undergo  trial 
or  imprisonment.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Con- 
solidated Goldfields  of  S.A. 

LOWTHER,  Claude,  M.P.,  of  H.  3,  the 
Albany,  Piccadilly,  W.,  and  of  the  Carlton,  Gar- 
rick,  St.  James',  Marlborough,  and  Bachelors' 
Clubs,  is  the  son  of  Capt.  F.  W.  Lowther,  R.N., 
and  was  born  in  1870.  He  was  educated  at 
Rugby  and  Fribourg,  and  was  an  Attache  in  the 
Diplomatic  Service  for  some  years.  He  held  a 
Captaincy  in  the  Cumberland  and  Westmore- 
land Yeomanry  and  served  with  the  Imperial 
Yeomanry  in  S.A.  He  was  appointed  A.D.C. 
to  Sir  Charles  Warren,  who  recommended 
him  for  the  V.C.  for  saving  the  life  of  a  comrade 
at  the  battle  of  Fabers  Put.  He  successfully 
contested  the  Eskdale  division  of  Cumberland  in 
1900.  Capt.  Lowther  is  a  well  known  litterateiu- 
and  dramatist.  His  play,  the  "  Gordian  Knot," 
at  Her  Majesty's  will  be  well  within  the  public 
recollection. 

LUGARD,  Lady  (Flora  Louise),  of  Govern- 
ment House,  N.  Nigeria,  was  born  at  Woolwich, 
Kent,  is  the  dau.  of  Major-Gen.  George  Shaw, 
C.B.,  by  Marie  Adrienne  Junot  Desfontaines, 
and  was  educated  privately.  She  is  the  author 
of  "  Castle  Blair  "  and  other  books. 

In  1890  she  joined  the  staff  of  the  "  Times," 
and  was  for  ten  years  head  of  the  colonial  dept. 
of  that  paper,  which  post  she  resigned  in  1900. 
Lady  Lugard  always  took  a  great  and  active 
interest  in  S.A.  matters,  and  was  believed  to 
receive  a  large  share  of  the  late  Cecil  Rhodes' 
confidence  in  respect  of  his  political  schemes  for 
the  development  of  S.A.  She  gave  long  and 
important  evidence  before  the  Commission  which 
inquired  into  the  events  leading  up  to  the 
Jameson  Raid.  She  was  married,  June  11,  1902, 
to  Gen.  Sir  Frederick  Lugard  (q.v.). 

LUGARD,  Brig.-Gen.  Sir  Frederick  Deal- 
try,  K.C.M.G.,  C.B.,  D.S.O.,  Brig.-Gen.  and 
High  Commissioner  for  Northern  Nigeria ;  of 
Little  Parkhurst,  Abinger,  Surrey  ;  of  Govt. 
House,  Northern  Nigeria,  West  Africa  ;  and  of 
the  St.  James',  Junior  Army  and  Navy,  and  the 
Royal  Soe.  Clubs,  is  the  son  of  the  Rev.  F.  G. 
Lugard,  and  was  born  at  Fort  St.  George,  Madras. 
Educated  at  Rossel  and  Sandhurst,  he  entered 
the  Army  in  1S78,  and  served  with  the  9th  Foot 
in  the  Afghan  War  of  '79-80,  and  was  present  at 
the  engagement  of  Saidabad,  receiving  the 
Afghan  medal.      He  was  promoted  Capt.  in  the 


Norfolk  Regt.  in  1885,  and  served  in  the  Sudan 
in  that  year  with  the  Indian  Transport,  receiving 
the  medal  and  clasp  and  bronze  star,  and  with 
the  Bm-mese  Expedition  in  1886,  when  he  was 
mentioned  in  despatches  and  received  medal  and 
clasp.  In  1888  he  was  again  on  active  service, 
being  in  the  Nyassaland  operations,  when  he  was 
severely  wounded,  and  with  the  Imperial  East 
Africa  Co.'s  Troops  in  Uganda  in  1889-92, 
obtaining  medal  for  his  services.  In  the  years 
1894-5-6  he  commanded  the  expedition  sent  by 
the  Niger  Co.  into  the  interior.  Sir  Frederick 
Lugard  has  done  great  services  to  the  Empire 
and  to  civilization,  and  as  a  soldier,  administra- 
tor and  explorer  he  will  be  numbered  amortg 
those  who  during  the  Victorian  era  have  done  so 
much  to  consolidate  and  extend  British  influence 
and  power  in  x4frica.  Particularly  may  be  in- 
stanced his  able  report  to  the  Administrator  of 
the  British  East  Africa  Co.  at  that  critical  period 
in  1892,  when  Mr.  Gladstone's  Govt,  was  about 
to  abandon  Uganda.  This  report  did  much  to 
strengthen  the  cause  of  the  Anti-Evacuationist 
party.  Whilst  in  Nyassaland  he  was  unremitting 
in  his  efforts  to  suppress  the  Arab  slave  trade, 
waging  a  perpetual  war  against  the  traders  for 
that  purpose.  He  was  Commissioner  in  Lagos 
Hinterland  and  Comdt.  West  African  Fron- 
tier Force  in  1897.  He  married,  June  11, 
1902,  Flora  (q.v.),  dau.  of  Major-Gen.  George 
Shaw,  C.B.,  and  grand-dau.  of  the  Right  Hon. 
Sir  Frederick  Shaw,  Bart. 

LYONS,  C.\PT.  Henry  George,  F.R.G.S., 
F.G.S.,  of  Gezira,  Cairo,  and  of  the  Army  and 
Navy  Club,  was  born  in  London  Oct.  11,  1864. 
He  is  son  of  Gen.  T.  C.  Lyons,  C.B.,  was  educated 
at  Wellington  Coll.,  Berks.,  passing  into  the 
Royal  Engineers,  from  which  he  has  now  retired. 
He  is  Director-Gen.  of  the  Survey  Dept.  of 
Egypt ;  has  published  report  on  the  Island  and 
Temples  of  Philae,  and  has  also  contributed 
articles  on  Egypt  and  Cairo  in  the  supplementary 
volumes  of  the  "  Encyclopaedia  Britannica."  He 
married,  July  8, 1896,  Miss  Helen  Julia  Hardback. 

LYTTELTON,  Lieut.-Gen.  Hon.  Sir  Neville 
Gerald,  K.C.B.,  of  28,  Grosvenor  Road,  S.W., 
and  of  the  Army  and  Navy  and  Brooks'  Clubs, 
is  the  third  son  of  the  4th  Baron  Lyttelton ;  was 
born  at  Hagley,  Worcestershire,  Oct.  28,  1845, 
and  was  educated  at  Eton,  where  he  played  in  the 
Cricket  XL  in  1862-3-4,  and  was  keeper  of  the 
Wall  Football  in  1863.  He  won  the  100  yards 
at  Eton  in  1863,  and  played  racquets  and  lawn 
tennis.     Since    his    3choolda3'3    Sir    Neville    has 


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continued  to  play  cricket  for  many  years,  chiefly 
regimental  and  military,  and  has  had  a  good 
deal  of  large  and  small  game  shooting.  He 
joined  the  Rifle  Bi'igade  in  Jan.  1865,  becoming 
Lieut.-Col.  commanding  a  battalion  in  Dec, 
1892.  He  has  held  the  following  Staff  appoint- 
ments :  A.D.C.  to  Earl  Spencer,  Lord-Lieut,  of 
Ireland,  1868-73;  Private  Secy,  to  Mr.  Childers, 
Secy,  of  State  for  War  1880-2;  A.D.C.  to  Sir 
John  Adye,  Chief  of  Staff.  Egyptian  Campaign, 
1882;  Mil.  Secy,  to  Sir  John  Adye,  Governor  of 
Gibraltar,  1883-5;  Mil.  Secy,  to  Lord  Reay, 
Governor  of  Bombay,  1885-90;  A.A.G.,  War 
Office,  1895-97  ;  Asst.-Mil.  Secy.  1897-9  ;  Brig.- 
Gen.  Khartum  Campaign,  1898;  Major-Gen. 
Infantry  Brigade,  Aldershot,  1899 ;  Major-Gen. 
4th  Infantry  Brigade,  S.A.,  1899-1900;  Lieut.- 
Gen.  2nd  and  4th  Divisions  in  the  N.E. 
Transvaal,  C.C.  and  O.R.C.,  commanding  in 
Natal,  1900-02;  Lieut. -Gen.  commanding  Trans- 
vaal and  O.R.C.  from  1902  to  Feb.  1903,  and 
commanded  the  troops  inS.  A.  from  that  date  mi  til, 
under  the  new  Army  reorganization  scheme,  he 
retiu-ned  to  England  early  in  1904  to  become  one 
of  the  two  military  members  of  the  Cabinet 
Defence  Committee.  Gen.  Lyttelton  saw  active 
service  in  the  Fenian  raid  in  Canada  in  1866 
(medal  and  clasp),  Jowaki  Expedition  1877 
(medal  and  clasp),  Egyptian  War  1882,  when  he 
was  present  at  j?el-el-Kebir  (medal  and  clasp, 
bronze  star,  4th  class  Osmanieh,  brevet  of  Lieut.- 
Col.),  Khartum  Expedition  1898,  including  the 
battle  of  Khartvim  (Egyptian  medal  and  clasp 
and  medal,  was  promoted  Major-Gen.  and 
thanked  by  the  Houses  of  Parliament).  His 
fighting  in  the  S.A.  War,  1899-1902,  in- 
cluded the  campaign  in  Natal,  the  operations  in 
Eastern  and  N.E.  Transvaal  against  de  Wet,  and 
the  operations  on  the  Natal  border  (medal  with 
clasps  for  Tugela  Heights,  Relief  of  Lady- 
smith,  Laing's  Nek,  Belfast,  C.C.  and  O.R.C.  ; 
also  the  King's  medal  and  two  clasps) 
He  was  further  promoted  to  Lieut. -Gen., 
and  made  K.C.B.  He  was  eight  times  mentioned 
in  despatches  and  received  the  Good  Service 
Reward.  His  other  services  abroad  includes 
twelve  years  in  India.  Sir  Neville  married,  Oct. 
1,  1883,  Katharine  Sara,  dau.  of  the  Rt.  Hon. 
James  Stuart  Wortley. 

MAASDORP,  G.  H.,  M.L.A.,  was  formerly 
member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Council  for  the 
Midland  Circle.  At  the  general  election  in  Feb. 
1904,  he  was  returned  to  the  Lower  House  as 
member  for  Graaff-Reinet.  He  is  a  supporter 
of  the  Bond. 


McCarthy,  James  Abkan,  of  Freetown, 
Sierra  Leone,  is  of  African  parentage,  and  only 
son  of  J.  B.  McCarthy,  J.P.,  N.J.,  a  merchant 
of  Freetown  ;  was  educated  at  the  Grammar 
Sch.,  Freetown,  at  Wesley  Coll.,  Sheffield,  Eng-  ; 
and  is  Barrister-at-Law  and  Common  Law 
Scholar  of  the  Inner  Temple  (1879).  He  was 
appointed  Queen's  Advocate  of  Sierra  Leone  and 
Mem.  of  Exec,  and  Legislative  Councils  and  of 
the  Board  of  Education  of  that  Colony,  1889-95  ; 
was  appointed  Admiralty  Advocate  of  Sierra 
Leone  by  the  Lords  Commissioners  of  the  Ad- 
miralty ;  Escheator  of  Sierra  Leone,  1893  ; 
Acting  Chief  Justice,  May  to  Sept.,  1893,  and 
May  to  Aug.,  1894  ;  Solicitor-Gen.  Gold  Coast 
Colony  since  1895  ;  and  Acting  Puisne  Judge  of 
the  Gold  Coast,  1895,  1898  and  1902  ;  Actmg 
Attorney-Gen.,  1895  and  1899  ;  sole  Law  Officer 
of  the  Crown,  1900  and  1902.  When  Queen's 
Advocate  he  accompanied  the  Administrator, 
Maj.  Crooks,  on  a  special  mission  to  Monrooia  to 
congratulate  Pres.  Cheeseman  on  his  inaugura- 
tion, and  received  a  Knight  Commandership  of 
[  the  Liberian  Order  of  African  Redemption,  but 
I  was  not  permitted  to  accept  it.  He  married  : 
first,  Lillie,  dau.  of  the  late  Councillor  Vivian,  of 
I  Hull,  Eng.  ;  and  second,  Alice  Maude,  dau.  of 
Surgeon-Major  Davies  (retired). 

McCLINTOCK,  Capt.  Fbederick  William, 
F.S.A.,  of  Krugersdorp,  and  the  West  Rand  Club, 
Krugersdorp,  was  born  at  Dublin,  Aug.  10,  1S64. 
He  is  the  eldest  son  of  the  late  Lieut.-Col.  T.  E. 
McClintock,  of  the  Army  Pay  Dept.,  and  nephew 
of  the  famous  Arctic  explorer.  Admiral  Sir  Leo- 
pold McClintock.  Capt.  McClintock  was  edu- 
cated at  the  Pubhc  High  Sch,,  Dublin,  and 
proceeded  to  S.A.  at  the  age  of  21,  joining  the 
Education  Dept.  of  the  Natal  Civil  Service.  He 
subseqxiently  took  up  an  appointment  in  the 
Cape  Forestry  Dept. ;  went  to  the  Transvaal  in 
1895,  where  he  acted  as  secy,  to  some  mining 
groups,  and  became  identified  with  the  Krugers- 
dorp branch  of  the  S.A.  League.  At  the  out- 
break of  the  late  war  he  joined  the  Prince  Alfred's 
Guards  as  Sec. -Lieut.,  this  being  the  only  per- 
manent Colonial  Corps  which  is  entitled  to  carry 
its  colours  into  action — a  privilege  obtained  for 
the  regt.  by  the  late  Duke  of  Edinburgh,  after 
whom  it  is  named.  At  the  close  of  hostilities, 
he  retired  with  the  permanent  rank  of  Capt. ,  in 
recognition  of  services  rendered  dinging  the 
Anglo-Boer  War.  He  then  returned  to  the 
Transvaal,  where  he  is  engaged  in  secretarial 
duties  in  connection  with  the  Commission  in- 
vestigating Burgher  Claims  upon  the  Imperial 


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Govt.  He  married,  Aug.  10,  1896,  Miss  F.  L" 
Soundy,  dau.  of  J.  T.  Sovindy,  of  Cradock,  Cape 
-Colony. 

MACFARLANE,  Lieut.-Col.  George  James 
(Natal  Carbineers),  C.M.G.,  J.P.,  of  Redlands, 
Maritzburg,  and  of  the  Victoria  Club,  P.M.B., 
was  born  at  Maritzburg  June  6,  18.55.  He  is  son 
of  John  Macfarlane,  late  R.M.  of  Natal,  and  was 
educated  at  the  High  Sch.,  P.M.B.  He  served 
in  the  Zulu  War  in  1878-9,  and  was  besieged  in 
Ladysmith  in  1900.  He  was  Mayor  of  Maritz- 
burg, 1898-1902  ;  Deputy-Mayor  for  that  town, 
1903-3  ;  and  was  made  J. P.  in  1902.  Col. 
Macfarlane  has  taken  keen  interest  in  cricket, 
football  and  shooting,  and  possesses  a  fine  col- 
lection of  S.A.  big  game.  He  married,  Dec. 
1888,  Mary  Maria,  dau.  of  Walter  Macfarlane, 
late  Speaker  of  the  Natal  Legislative  Council. 

MACKENZIE,  Lieut.  Hector  Rose,  of 
Johannesberg  and  the  Natal  Club,  P.M.B. , 
is  the  eldest  son  of  the  late  Alexander  Mackenzie, 
Highland  Clan  historian  and  founder  of  "  Celtic 
Magazine  "  and  "  Scottish  Highlander,"  Inver- 
ness, and  Emma  Sarah,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late 
Thomas  Whitaker  Rose,  of  Bath.  He  was  born 
at  Ipswich  Feb.  25,  1867,  and  was  educated  at 
the  Royal  Academy.  Raining's  Coll.,  Inverness, 
and  Glasgow  Univ.  He  commenced  his  busi- 
ness career  as  private  secy,  to  the  late  Dr. 
Charles  Frazer  Mackintosh,  M.P.  for  Inverness- 
shire.  Passing  his  final  examination  as  a  Scots 
solicitor  in  1899,  he  joined  the  clerical  staff  of 
Crofters'  Commission  for  12  months,  commencing 
practice  as  solicitor  in  Inverness  in  April,  1890. 
In  1896  he  went  to  S.A.  and  entered  journahsm, 
passing  successfully  through  various  stages  until 
he  became  acting  editor  of  tlie  "  South  African 
Telegraph  "  (Cape  Town).  His  other  jom-naHstic 
positions  include  that  of  sub-editor  and  acting- 
editor  of  "  The  Press  "  (Pretoria)  ;  asst. -editor 
of  the  "  Durban  Star  "  ;  asst. -editor,  joint-editor 
and  editor  of  the  "  Cape  Mercury  "  (King  Wil- 
liam's Town)  ;  sub-editor,  "  Cape  Daily  Tele- 
graph "  (Port  Elizabeth  ) ;  asst.-editor  "  Cape 
Register  "  (Cape  Town)  ;  sub-editor,  "  Times 
of  Natal)"  (Pietermaritzburg)  ;  and  finally  asst. 
news-editor,  "  Rand  Daily  Mail "  (Johannes- 
burg). On  the  outbreak  of  war  he  joined  the 
Cape  Town  Highlanders  as  private  and  rose  to 
the  rank  of  corporal ;  he  served  at  Kuils  River, 
Mulder's  Vlei,  Tulbagh  Road,  Belmont,  Douglas 
and  Modder  River.  In  Sept.  1900,  he  was  ap- 
pointed Asst. -Manager  at  Maf eking  of  Western 
Division  of  the  Imperial  Transport  Service.     For 


some  time  during  1901  he  was  attached  to  the 
Army  Service  Corps  at  Army  Headquarters  at 
Pretoria  as  shorthand  writer  to  the  Director  of 
Supplies.  He  is  now  Lieut,  in  the  Natal  Ptoyal 
Regt.  and  on  the  Reserve  of  Officers,  and 
has  the  S.A.  War  (Queen's)  medal  with  three 
clasps.  He  is  the  author  of  "  Yachting  and 
Electioneering  in  the  Hebrides  "  and  "  Old  In- 
verness "  ;  also  of  several  articles  and  poems  in 
"  Blackwood's  Mag.,"  "  Chambers'  Journal," 
"  The  Celtic  Mag.,"  "  The  Cape  Illustrated 
Mag.,"  and  other  serial  publications.  He  mar- 
ried, July  19,  1892,  Barbara  Sutherland,  eldest 
surviving  dau.  of  John  Anderson,  late  of  the  71st 
Regt.  of  Foot  (Highland  Light  Infantry).  Issue, 
one  dau.,  Janet  Dorothy  Rose,  born  June  4,  1894. 

MACKENZIE,  William  Cossar,  D.Sc, 
F.R.S.  Edin.,  Imperial  Order  of  the  Osmanieh 
(3rd  class),  of  Ghizeh,  Egypt ;  the  Crescent, 
Cromer  ;  and  the  Royal  Societies  (Lond.),  Union 
(Edin.),  and  Turf  (Cairo)  Clubs,  was  born  Feb. 
15,  1866.  He  is  third  son  of  A.  D.  Mackenzie, 
J. P.,  of  Edinburgh  ;  was  educated  at  George 
Watson's  Coll.,  Edin.,  and  at  the  Edinburgh, 
Strassburg,  and  Halle  a.  S.  Univs.  After  leaving 
Halle  Univ.  in  1891,  he  was  appointed  Lecturer 
in  Agricultural  Chemistry  at  the  Durham  Coll. 
of  Science,  Newcastle-on-Tyne.  In  Dec,  1891, 
he  was  appointed  Lecturer  on  General  and 
Analytical  Chemistry  at  the  Ghizeh  Agricultiu-al 
Coll.,  and  became  Principal  of  that  institution  in 
June  1896.  In  1902  he  was  appointed  Principal 
of  the  Polytechnic  Sch.  of  Engineering  under  the 
Egj^tian  Ministry  of  Public  Instruction.  Both 
these  institutions  are  still  under  Dr.  Mackenzie. 
He  married,  June  27,  1902,  Marian,  younger  dau. 
of  Samuel  Gurney  Sheppard,  of  Leggatts,  Herts. 

MACKINNON,  Maj.-Gen.  Henry,  C.V.O., 
C.B.,  of  15,  Ovington  Sq.,  Lond.,  S.W.,  and  of 
the  Guards',  Travellers',  and  Union  Clubs,  is  the 
second  son  of  W.  A.  Macliinnon,  34th  Chief 
of  the  Clan.  He  was  born  in  London,  Dec.  15, 
1852,  and  educated  at  Harrow.  He  joined  the 
Grenadier  Guards  Jan.  22,  1870,  and  was  Asst. 
Military  Secy,  at  Malta  June,  1884,  to  July, 
1885  ;  Private  Secy.,  Madras,  July,  1895  to  July, 
1898.  On  the  formation  of  the  C.I.V.,  Col. 
Mackinnon  assumed  command,  which  he  retained 
throughout  the  regiment's  service  in  S.A.  He 
married,  Dec.  14,  1881,  Miss  Hatton,  dau.  of  CoJ. 
Hatton,  of  the  Grenadier  Guards. 

MACRORIE,  Right  Rev.  William  Kenneth, 
D.D.,  D.C.L.,  of  the  College,  Ely,  is  the  son  of 


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David  Macrorie,  M.D.  (Edin.),  and  was  born 
Feb.  8,  1832,  at  Liverpool.  He  was  educated  at 
Winchester  and  Brasenose  Coll.,  Oxon.  He 
graduated  M.A.  and  D.D.  of  Oxon.,  D.C.L.  of 
the  Univ.  of  the  South,  Tennessee,  and  M.A.  of 
the  Cape  Univ.  ;  Hulmeian  Exhibitioner,  1854. 
From  1855-58  he  was  Fellow  of  St.  Peter's  Coll., 
Radley ;  1858-60  he  was  Curate  of  Deane, 
Lanes.  ;  from  1860-61  he  was  Vicar  of  Wingater  ; 
from  1861-66  he  was  Rector  of  Wapping  ;  and 
from  1866-68,  Vicar  of  Accrington.  In  1869  he 
went  to  S.A.  as  Bishop  of  Maritzburg,  re- 
taining the  appointment  until  1892,  when  he 
left  S.A.  to  become  Canon  of  Ely.  In  his 
early  life  he  was  a  well  known  oarsman  and 
fond  of  fishing  and  fives.  At  the  present  time  his 
principal  outdoor  recreation  is  croquet.  On 
April  9,  1863,  he  married  Agnes,  dau.  of  William 
Watson,  of  South  Hill,  Liverpool. 

MACSHERRY,  Right  Rev.  Hugh,  Catholic 
Bishop  and  Vicar  Apostolic  of  the  Eastern  Prov. 
of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  of  St.  Augustine's 
Cliurch,  Port  Elizabeth,  and  Bishop's  House, 
Beaufort  St.,  Grahamstown  ;  is  the  son  of 
Arthur  MacSherry,  of  Loughgilly,  county  Ar- 
magh, Ireland.  He  was  born  at  Loughgilly 
Feb.  1,  1852,  and  was  educated  at  the  Diocesan 
Seminary,  Armagh,  and  at  Paris,  and  took  the 
degree  of  D.D.  He  was  ordained  Feb.  7,  1875, 
and  for  21  years  laboured  in  various  parishes  of 
his  native  diocese.  In  1893  he  was  appointed 
Administrator  of  Dundalk  ;  was  nominated  by 
Pope  Leo  XIII.  Titular  Bishop  of  Justinian- 
opolis,  and  was  consecrated  by  His  Eminence 
Cardinal  Logue  on  Aug.  2,  1896.  Since  then  he 
has  been  actively  engaged  in  the  administration 
and  development  of  the  different  missions  con- 
fided to  his  spiritvial  care.  In  1 896  he  was  elected 
as  coadjutor  to  the  Right  Rev.  Dr.  St.  Strobino. 
About  1897  he  proceeded  to  S.A.,  where  those 
qualities  which  have  endeared  him  so  generally 
in  Ireland  quickly  made  themselves  felt  in  his 
new  sphere  of  labour.  His  courtesy,  his  strength 
of  resolve,  and  breadth  of  view,  and  his  con- 
tagious zeal  for  work  all  have  stamped  him  as 
eminently  fitted  to  fill  with  honour  to  himself  and 
the  cause  of  religion  the  responsible  office  he  was 
appointed  to  occupy  by  the  Holy  See.  He  was 
mentioned  in  his  last  dispatch  (June  21,  1902) 
by  Lord  Eatchener  for  services  to  the  Army 
Chaplain's  Dept.  in  S.A. 

MAGUIRE,  James  Rochfort,  M.A.,  of  3, 
Cleveland  Square,  London,  W.,  was  born  in 
1855,    and   was   educated   at   Cheltenham    and 


Oxford  Univ.  He  was  called  to  the  Bar 
of  the  Inner  Temple  in  1883,  and  represented 
N.  Donegal  in  the  House  of  Commons  from  1890 
to  1892,  when  he  was  elected  for  West  Clare. 
His  Parliamentary  career  closed  in  1895,  and 
some  years  later,  at  the  instigation  of  Mr.  Rhodes, 
he  undertook,  in  company  with  Messrs.  C.  D. 
Rudd  and  F.  R.  Thompson  (q.v. ),  a  mission  to 
Lobengula,  and  obtained  from  that  chief  the 
concession  ceding  the  mineral  rights  over  the 
wliole  of  his  territories.  This  concession  was 
ultimately  taken  over  by  the  Chartered  Co.,  of 
which  Mr.  jMaguire  became  a  Director.  He  is 
also  on  the  directorate  of  the  Consolidated  Gold- 
fields  of  South  Africa,  and  the  Exploration  Co. 
He  married  a  dau.  of  Lord  Peel. 

MALAN,  Franqois  Stephanus,  M.L.A. 
(Malmsbury),  of  Schoongezicht  Kloof  St.,  Cape 
Town,  is  the  son  of  Daniel  G.  Malan,  of  Leeuwen- 
jacht,  Paarl,  and  is  descended  from  French 
Huguenot  stock,  Jacques  Malan,  his  direct  an- 
cestor having  landed  in  S.A.  in  1689.  Bom 
Mar.  12,  1871,  in  the  district  of  the  Paarl,  he  was 
educated  at  Paarl  ;  Victoria  Coll.,  Steilenbosch  ; 
and  Camb.,  graduating  B.  A.  (Science)  Cape  Univ.j 
also  LL.B.  Camb.  Admitted  as  an  Advocate 
of  the  Supreme  Court,  C.C,  Aug.,  1895.  Ap- 
pointed editor,  Nov.  15,  1895,  of  "  0ns  Land," 
one  of  the  leading  Dutch  newspapers  in  C.C. 
Elected  unopposed  M.L.A.  for  Malmesbury  in 
succession  to  the  Hon.  W.  P.  Schreiner,  Sept., 
1900  ;  re-elected  Feb.,  1904  ;  was  convicted  for 
publishing  defamatory  libel  on  Gen.  French, 
April  19,  1901,  and  sentenced  to  twelve  months' 
imprisonment  without  hard  labour.  He  is  one 
of  the  most  prominent  politicians  of  the  S.A. 
party,  and  commands  a  very  large  following 
among  the  Dutch.  Married  to  Miss  Johanna 
Brummer,  Sept.  21,  1897. 

MALLESON,  Percy  Rodbabd,  of  the  Wil- 
lows, Hex  River,  C.C,  and  of  the  Civil  Service 
Club,  Cape  Town,  was  born  at  Wimbledon,  Sur- 
rey, in  1867  ;  was  educated  at  Univ.  Coll.  Sch., 
Lond.,  and  Hertford  Coll.,  Oxon.  ;  was  sub- 
agent  on  Lord  Sudeley's  fruit  farms  in  1889-90  ; 
County  Council  Lecturer  on  Fruit  Growing, 
1891-2;  went  to  S.A.  in  1892,  and  assisted  in 
starting  the  first  large  fruit  farm  in  C.C,  and  in 
inaugurating  the  friiit  export  trade  to  Eng.  He 
is  now  Managing  Director  of  the  Cape  Orchard 
Co.,  of  Hex  River  ;  Mem.  of  Western  Prov.  Hor- 
ticultural Board,  the  Royal  Agricultural  Soc.  of 
Eng.,  the  Royal  Horticultural  Soc.  of  Eng., 
and  the  Royal  Colonial  Inst.    During  the  late  S.A. 


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War  he  served  as  an  officer  of  the  Hex  River 
D.M.T.,  and  as  Colonial  Mem.  of  the  Protected 
Horses  Board,  W.  Dist.  He  married,  in  1896, 
Beatrice  Mary,  dau.  of  H.  W.  Struben,  of 
Cape  Town,  and  Pretoria. 

MANLEY,  Francis  Hubert,  of  Alexandria  ; 
of  Spofforth  Hall,  Yorks.,  and  of  the  Khedivial 
Club,  Alexandria  ;  is  grandson  of  the  19th  Lord 
Hourton  and  son  of  Geo.  Manley,  of  Spofforth 
Hall,  Yorks.,  where  he  was  born  in  1872.  He 
was  educated  at  Ampleforth  Coll.,  near  York,  and 
acts  as  Reuter's  and  Lloyds'  Agent  at  Alexandria. 
Unmarried. 

MANNING,  Brigadier-Gen. William  Henry, 
of  the  Naval  and  Military  Club,  was  born  July 
19,  1863,  in  England,  and  was  educated  at  Cam- 
bridge, and  the  Royal  Military  Coll.,  Sandhurst. 
Gen.  Manning  entered  the  Army  in  Aug.  of  1886, 
and  served  in  the  Burmese  War  of  1887-89,  and 
in  the  Miranzai  and  Hazara  Expeditions  of  1891. 
He  proceeded  to  Central  Africa  in  1893  and  was 
promoted  Brevet-Major  and  then  Brevet-Lieut.- 
Col.  for  the  eminent  services  he  rendered  in 
Central  Africa  and  Northern  Rhodesia.  He 
was  made  Deputy  Commissioner  and  Comdt. 
of  the  troops  in  Central  Africa,  1897-1901,  and 
acted  as  Commissioner  and  Consul-Gen.  from 
Dec.  1897  to  Dec.  1898,  and  from  July  1900,  to 
April  1901.  Gen.  Maiming  was  appointed 
Inspector-Gen.  of  the  King's  African  Rifles,  Oct. 
1901,  and  it  was  undoubtedly  owing  to  the  great 
services  he  rendered  in  Central  Africa  that  he 
soon  after  was  given  the  command  of  the  Somali- 
land  Field  Force,  which  post  he  filled  from  Nov. 
1902  to  July  1903.  He  had  many  difficulties 
to  contend  with,  owing  chiefly  to  want  of  trans- 
port and  water.  In  spite  of  a  serious  reverse  his 
subordinate,  Col.  Plunkett,  sustained,  his  ser- 
vices were  retained  after  Gen.  Egerton  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  supreme  command.  Since  then 
he  has  been  doing  good  work,  and  has  greatly 
added  to  his  already  high  reputation  in  military 
circles.     General  Manning  is  unmarried. 

MARAIS,  Eugene,  was  formerly  editor  of  the 
Dutch  paper  "  Land  en  Volk,"  in  which  he  con- 
sistently and  patriotically  raised  his  voice  in 
support  of  a  pure  and  enlightened  Govt., 
and  spared  no  one  in  the  exposm-e  of  abuses, 
notably  in  the  Dynamite  case,  when  he  accused 
Mr.  J.  M.  A.  Wolmarans  of  accepting  a  bribe  of 
Is.  per  case  (estimated  at  that  time  to  amount  to 
nearly  £10,000  per  an.)  on  dynamite  as  a  con- 
sideration   for    his    support    in    the    Executive 


Council  of  which  he  was  a  member.  This  charge 
was  not  denied.  Then  there  was  the  case  of  his 
successfully  sustaining  his  alleged  libel  that  Mr. 
Kriiger  had  defrauded  the  State  by  charging 
heavy  travelling  expenses  for  a  certain  trip  on 
which  he  was  actually  the  guest  of  the  Cape 
Colonial  Govt.  Subsequently  (in  1893-4)  his 
exposure  of  thefts  of  Govt,  stores  by  Landdrost 
Kock,  a  satellite  of  the  Kriiger  regime,  at  last 
forced  a  private  investigation,  though  the  case 
was  not  allowed  to  be  brought  before  the  coiu'ts 
of  the  country.  At  the  time  of  the  Raid,  when 
matters  had  assvimed  their  most  threatening 
appearance,  Mr.  Marais  and  Mr.  Malan  hastened 
to  Johannesburg  fully  authorized  by  the  Execu- 
tive to  confer  with  the  Reform  Committee  and  if 
possible  to  avert  a  conflict.  These  gentlemen 
were  successful  in  so  far  as  they  persuaded  the 
Committee  to  appoint  representatives  to  treat 
with  a  commission  in  Pretoria  having  for  its 
object  the  removal  of  some  of  the  chief  grievances 
of  the  Uitlanders. 

MARAIS,  Johannes  Henock,  M.L.A.,  is 
member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for  the 
electoral  division  of  Stellenbosch,  for  which  he 
was  re-elected  in  Feb.,  1904,  in  the  Bond  in- 
terest. 

MARKHAM,  Arthur  Basil,  M.P.,  of  Stuffyn- 
wood  Hall,  Mansfield,  was  born  in  1867,  and  has 
represented  Mansfield  in  the  Liberal  interest 
since  1900.  He  is  chiefly  notorious  for  his 
antagonism  to  Rand  capitalists,  and  for  having 
in  the  course  of  a  speech  in  the  House  of  Com- 
mons made  charges  against  Messrs.  Wernher, 
Beit  &  Co.  of  criminal  misconduct  with  reference 
to  their  financial  operations,  and  declaring  that 
they  were  nothing  more  nor  less  than  swindlers. 
Mr.  Markham  repeated  thes3  statements  outside 
the  privileged  precincts  of  the  House,  whereupon 
]\Iessrs.  Wernher,  Beit  &  Co.  instituted  libel  pro- 
ceedings. Mr.  Markham,  however,  unreservedly 
withdrew  and  apologized  for  the  charges,  which 
he  admitted  were  without  foundation.  He 
married,  in  1898,  a  dau.  of  Capt.  Cmmingham. 

MARKS,  Capt.  Claude  Laurie,  D.S.O.,  of  11, 
Curzon  St.,  Mayfair  ;  the  Rectory  Farm,  Streat- 
ley,  Berks,  and  of  the  Junior  Naval  and  Military 
and  Imperial  Service  Clubs,  is  the  yoimgest  son 
of  the  Rev.  Professor  D.  W.  Marks.  He  was 
born  Dec.  11,  1864,  and  was  educated  at  Univ. 
Coll.  Sch.  Capt.  Marks  saw  much  active  service 
in  S.A.  in  1880,  1881,  and  1884,  and  was  largely 
instriunental  in  the  formation  of  a  company  of 


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Imperial  Yeomanry  (14th  Battn.),  which  did 
exceedingly  well  throughout  the  recent  Anglo- 
Boer  War,  in  connection  with  which  he  was  deco- 
rated with  the  D.S.O.  He  married,  Feb.  1,  1887, 
Carrie,  eldest  dau.  of  A.  Hoffnung,  late  Charge 
d' Affaires  at  the  Court  of  St.  James. 

MARKS,  Capt.  Harry  Hananel,  J.P.,  of 
Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Kent ;  6,  Cavendish 
Sq.,  W.  ;  and  of  the  Carlton,  Automobile,  and 
Royal  CinqiTO  Ports  Yacht  Clubs,  was  born  in 
London,  April,  1855  ;  is  son  of  the  Rev.  Prof. 
Marks,  of  Univ.  Coll.,  and  was  educated  at  that 
coll.  and  at  the  Athenee  Royal  of  Brussels.  Mr. 
Marlis  is  the  founder  and  editor  of  the  great  City 
dailj'  paper,  "  The  Financial  News  "  ;  is  Chair- 
man of  the  Argus  Printing  Co.,  and  Chm.  of  the 
Royal  Orthopaedic  Hospital.  He  represented 
East  Mai'ylebone  on  the  London  Covmty  Council, 
1889-92,  and  St.  George's-in-the-East,  1895-8. 
He  contested  North-East  Betlinal  Green  in  the 
Conservative  interest  in  1892,  and  represented 
St.  George's  Div.  of  the  Tower  Hamlets  in  Par- 
liament from  1895  to  1900.  He  is  J.P.  for  the 
county  of  Kent,  and  commands  the  1st  C.B.  the 
Buffs  (East  Kent  Regt.).  He  married,  in  1884, 
Annie  Estella,  dau.  of  William  Benjamin,  of 
Montreal. 

MARKS,  Samuel,  of  Zwartkoppies,  near 
Pretoria,  Transvaal,  and  of  Threadneedle  House, 
Bishopsgate  Street  Within,  E.C.,  is  one  of  the 
chief  partners  of  the  firm  of  Lewis  &  Maries,  of 
London  and  Pretoria.  From  very  modest 
beginnings  Mr.  Marks  established  a  big  position 
in  the  Kimberley  diamond  fields,  which,  how- 
ever, he  left  in  1881  for  the  Transvaal  Republic. 
From  the  first  he  was  persona  grata  with  Mr. 
Kriiger,  and  it  was  no  doubt  partly  owing  to 
his  influence  with  the  ex-President,  added  to 
his  natural  endowments,  that  he  was  enabled 
to  assist  in  building  up  so  rapidly  the  immense 
interests  which  the  firm  now  has  in  S.A. 
Concessions  for  the  exclusive  manufacture  of 
spirituous  liquors,  preserves,  etc.,  were  acquired, 
and  kept  up  more  as  a  hobby  than  as  a  source 
of  profit  ;  coal  properties  were  developed  on  a 
large  scale,  agriculture  was  encouraged,  and 
of  course  mining  interests  in  gold  and  diamonds, 
and  the  possession  of  real  estate  swelled  the  list 
of  the  finn's  main  enterprises.  Mr.  Marks  him- 
self is  on  the  Boards  of  the  Schuller  Diamond 
Mines,  Vereeniging  Estates,  Transvaal  Consoli- 
dated Coal  Mines,  Great  Eastern  Collieries, 
East  Rand  Mining  Estates,  Geduld  Proprietary 
Mines,   Modderfontein   Proprietary   Mines,    and 


the  Grootvlei  Prospecting  Synd.  He  is  credited 
with  being  the  shrewdest  judge  of  character  in 
London. 

MARSHALL,  Francis,  of  2,  Chesham  Place, 
W.,  was  formerly  in  the  Russian  trade  at  St. 
Petersburg,  where  he  lived  for  foiu-teen  years,  and 
is  now  a  director  of  several  leading  S.A.  Cos., 
including  the  Estate,  Finance  and  Mines,  the 
Elandsfontein  Deep  and  the  Eurafrican  Cos.  He 
is  quite  a  well-known  golfer,  and  married  a  sister 
of  the  present  Lord  Basing. 

MARSHALL,  Hon.  John  Edwin,  Judge  of 
the  Egyptian  Native  Courts  of  First  Instance  ; 
of  El  Kom,  Bulkeley,  Ramleh,  Alexandria ;  is 
the  eldest  son  of  the  late  WilKam  Marshall, 
Solicitor,  of  Dvirham  and  West  Hartlepool,  and 
grandson  of  the  late  John  Edwin  Marshall,  of 
Durham,  Solicitor  and  Registrar  of  the  Sunder- 
land County  Court.  He  was  born  Mar.  3,  1864, 
near  West  Hartlepool,  and  was  educated  at  the 
Durham  Sch.  Judge  Marshall  was  articled  in 
Jan.  1881,  to  Mr.  Thomas  Cousins,  J.P.,  Solicitor, 
of  Portsmouth,  and  passed  the  solicitors'  final 
examination  in  July,  1886.  He  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Middle  Temple  on  Oct.  26,  1886,  and 
was  called  to  the  Bar  on  Nov.  18,  1889.  He 
went  to  Egypt  in  Nov.  1890,  and  was  in  practice 
before  the  British  Consular  Courts  and  the  In- 
ternational Tribunals  for  seven  years,  and  in 
Dec.  1897,  was  appointed  a  Judge  in  the 
Egyptian  Native  Courts  of  First  Instance.  At 
the  time  of  the  appointment  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Bar  Covmcil  of  the  International  Tribunals, 
and  also  occupied  the  position  of  Treasurer  to 
that  body.  He  was  Senior  Legal  Adviser  to  the 
British  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  Egypt,  a  cor- 
respondent of  the  London  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
and  was  closely  identified  with  the  formation  of 
the  jurisprudence  relating  to  the  protection  of 
Trade  Marks  and  Patents  in  'Egypt.  He  was 
appointed  in  June,  1903,  by  the  Minister  of  Public 
Instruction,  Examiner  in  the  Law  relating  to 
Civil  and  Commercial  Procedure  at  the  School 
of  Law  in  Cairo.  He  married,  Jan.,  1888,  the 
dau.  of  the  late  Wm.  Best. 

MARSHALL-HOLE,  Hugh,  B.A.,  of  Bula- 
wayo,  and  the  Bulawayo  and  Salisbury  Clubs, 
was  born  at  Tiverton,  Devon,  May  16,  1865. 
He  is  son  of  Charles  Marshall-Hole,  of  Tiverton, 
and  grandson  of  the  late  Dr.  Medhurst,  pioneer 
missionary  in  China.  He  was  educated  at 
Blundell's  Sch.,  and  Balliol  Coll.,  Oxon.,  where 
he  graduated  B.A.,  and  took  Honours  in  Final 


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III 


Sch.  of  Law  in  1887.  He  joined  the  service  of 
the  B.S.A.  Co.  in  April,  1890  ;  was  transferred 
to  Mashonaland  in  1891,  and  has  served  in 
various  civil  capacities  in  S.  Rhodesia  from  that 
time.  During  the  Matabele  Rebellion  of  1896 
he  served  as  Lieut,  in  the  Rhodesia  Horse  (medal), 
and  he  also  served  as  Capt.  in  the  S.  Rhodesia 
Volunteers  during  the  late  S.A.  War  (medal  and 
clasp).  In  1901  he  was  sent  on  a  special  mission 
to  Arabia  to  report  on  and  organize  Arab  labour 
for  Rhodesian  mines.  He  now  occupies  the 
position  of  Civil  Commissioner,  Bulawayo,  and 
Govenoment  Representative  in  Matabeleland, 
and  in  1903  was  temporarily  appointed  Acting- 
Administrator  of  N.W.  Rhodesia  in  the  absence 
of  Mr.  R.  T.  Coryndon.  He  married,  in  1890, 
Ethel,  dau.  of  the  late  P.  Rickman,  of  Poole, 
Dorset. 

MASTER,  Brevet-Major  (Local  Lieut. -Col.) 
Richard  Chester,  of  Salisbury,  Rhodesia,  and 
the  Army  and  Navv  Club  ;  was  born  at  Ciren- 
cester, Aug.  29,  1870  ;  is  eldest  son  of  Col.  T.  W. 
Chester  Master,  of  the  Abbey,  Cirencester,  and 
of  Ivnole  Park,  Almondsbviry,  Glos.,  and  was 
educated  at  Harrow,  and  Christ  Chxn'ch,  Oxon. 
He  served  as  Lieut,  in  the  4th  Gloucester  Militia 
from  1890  to  1893,  when  he  was  gazetted  to  the 
King's  Royal  Rifles.  He  was  A.D.C.  to  H.E. 
the  High  Commissioner  for  S.A.  (then  Sir 
Alfred  Milner)  from  1898  to  1900,  and  served  in 
the  S.A.  War  in  1899  and  1900  as  Capt.  in  Run- 
ington's  Corps  of  Guides,  afterwards  (in  1901) 
raising  and  commanding  the  Western  Province 
Mounted  Rifles  for  the  Cape  Colonial  Defence 
Force.  Capt.  Chester  Master  was  mentioned  in 
despatches,  received  a  brevet  majority  and  medal 
with  six  clasps.  He  received  his  present  ap- 
pointment as  Commandant-Gen.  of  the  PoUce 
Forces  of  S.  Rhodesia  with  local  rank  of  Lieut. - 
Col.  in  Sept.,  1901.  Col.  Chester  Master  is  fond 
of  aU  field  sports,  and  was  Master  of  the  Cape 
Hunt  Club  Foxhoimds  from  1897  to  1901.  He 
married,  Aug.,  1901,  Geraldine,  eldest  dau.  of 
John  Hungerford  Arkwright,  Lord-Lieut,  of 
Herefordshire,  of  Hampton  Court,  Herefordshire. 

MATHERS,  Edward  P.,  F.R.G.S.,  F.G.S.,  of 
6.  Queen's  Gate  Terrace,  S.W.,  and  of  the 
Thatched  House,  Royal  Societies,  Colonial, 
Caledonian,  and  Imperial  Colonies  Clubs,  is  the 
second  son  of  the  lata  David  Mathers,  newspaper 
proprietor,  of  Edinburgh.  He  was  bom  at 
Edinburgh  on  Aug.  19,  1850,  and  was  educated 
at  the  High  Sch.,  Edinburgh,  and  Edinburgh 
Institution.        Mr.    Mathers    followed    the  pro- 


fession of  an  English  journalist  until  1878, 
when  he  migrated  to  S.A.,  where  he  commenced 
work  on  a  paper  in  Durban,  and  at  the  same 
time  acted  as  representative  of  a  London  daily 
paper  and  also  of  "  The  Scotsman."  He  was 
there  at  the  time  of  the  Zulu  campaign  and  re- 
mained in  S.A.  for  ten  years.  To  him  is  largely 
due  the  publicity  which  has  so  greatly  contri- 
buted to  the  enormous  development  of  the  S.A. 
Fields.  It  was  in  1883  and  1884  that  the  news 
of  the  discoveries  of  gold  in  the  De  Kaap  District 
roused  enormous  interest  throughout  S.A. 
With  a  small  party  of  explorers  he  found  liis 
way  tlirough  an  unknown  and  unhealthy  region 
to  the  new  Gold  Fields,  proceeding  by  steamer 
to  Lourengo  Marques,  whence  they  plunged  into 
the  interior  and  began  their  perilous  journey. 
The  difficulties  of  the  task  were  vividly  described 
in  liis  letters  to  the  "  Natal  Mercury,"  for  which 
he  was  acting  as  Special  Commissioner.  Many 
of  the  party  died  upon  the  way,  but  Mr.  Mathers 
retained  his  good  health  despite  the  trials  of  the 
journey  and  the  privations  it  was  necessary  to 
undergo.  Arrived  at  the  gold  fields,  Mr.  Mathers 
pui'sued  his  busy  career  in  connection  with  mining 
and  financial  journalism,  spreading  the  laiow- 
ledge  of  the  early  discoveries.  His  letters 
naturally  attracted  a  large  amount  of  attention, 
and  were  subsequently  collected  and  published 
under  the  title  of  a  "  Trip  to  Moodie's  "  in  1884. 
The  rush  to  the  Barber  ton  District  continued 
until  1887.  Then,  when  the  Rand  began  to  claun 
attention,  Mr.  Mathers  revisited  De  Kaap  and 
the  Rand  and  wrote  a  further  series  of  letters 
which  have  been  published  in  an  interesting 
volume  entitled  "'  Goldfields  Revisited,  1887." 
In  the  following  year  he  left  for  London.  He  had 
come  to  the  conclusion  that  the  Transvaal  was 
going  to  be  a  great  mining  centre,  and  that  as 
its  capital  for  the  development  of  the  mines  must 
come  from  England,  it  was  necessary  to  bring 
London  into  closer  touch  with  S.A.  His  chief 
intention  was  to  organize  a  newspaper  in  London 
in  the  interests  of  S.A.,and  returning  to  England 
he  started  the  journal  known  as  "  South  Africa." 
He  has  been  more  than  a  journalist,  however, 
he  has  travelled  and  explored  a  good  deal  in 
S.A.,  and  has  shown  in  a  remarkable  way  the 
possession  of  the  faculty  of  foresight.  His  paper 
has  been  very  successful ;  he  has  written 
"Golden  South  Africa"  and  "  Zambesia  "  ;  he 
founded  the  South  African  Dinner,  which  has 
proved  a  useful  and  popular  annual  function  in 
London.  Mr.  Mathers  is  thoroughly  imperialistic, 
and  having  a  hearty  distrust  of  Boer  methods, 
he  foretold  long  before  the  war  against  Kriiger 


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the  inevitableness  of  a  final  and  desperate  con- 
flict with  the  Boers.  Since  the  starting  of  his 
paper  he  has  paid  many  visits  to  S.A.,  and  was 
there  at  the  outbreak  of  hostilities,  having  a 
narrow  escape  of  being  locked  up  in  Ladysmith. 
He  has  a  fine  S.A.  Library,  and  at  his 
residence  he  has  some  fine  pictures  of  S.A. 
Among  his  cviriosities  is  the  skull  of  a  hippo- 
potamus which  was  shot  by  him  on  the  Pimgwe 
River,  and  a  battle-axe  given  to  him  by  Um 
bandine,  the  Swazie  king.  He  is  a  Director  of 
the  Swazieland  Corporation,  and  in  addition  to 
the  books  already  msntioned,  he  has  published 
"  South  Africa,  and  How  to  Reach  it "  (1889),  and 
"The  Story  of  'South  Africa'  Newspaper  and 
its  Foimder  "  (1903).  He  married,  Aug.  6,  1885, 
Mary  Augusta,  eldest  dau.  of  R.  H.  Powys,  of 
North  Dene,  Natal. 

MATHESON,  Greville  Ewing,  of  Tan-y- 
brjTi,  Lower  Road,  HaiTow-on-the-Hill,  and  of 
the  Savage  Club,  was  born  at  Soham,  Cambs.  He 
is  the  eldest  son  of  the  late  Rev.  D.  L.  Matheson, 
of  Wolverhampton,  and  great-grandson  of  the 
late  Rev.  D.  Greville  Ewing,  of  Glasgow  ;  and 
was  educated  at  Tettenhall  Coll.,  Staffordshire, 
and  privately.  He  has  been  on  the  staff  of 
Donald  Currie  &  Co.,  managers  of  the  Union- 
Castle  Line,  since  1883  ;  has  been  Hon.  Secy,  of 
the  Anglo-African  Writers'  Club  since  its  incep- 
tion in  1895  ;  Joint  Editor  of  "  The  Hampstead 
Annual  "  since  1899,  and  has  published  "  About 
Holland"  (1894),  and  (under  nom  de  plume  of 
M.  E.  Greville)  "  From  Veld  and  Street ;  Rhjrmes 
more  or  less  South  African  "  (1899),  and  numerous 
articles  and  verses  in  various  newspapers,  etc. 
His  recreations  are  golf,  gardening  and  novel 
reading.  He  married,  in  1887,  Emily  Elizabeth, 
dau.  of  the  late  Thomas  Pugh,  of  Pen-y-lan, 
Oswestry. 

MATHIAS,  Capt.,  — .,  D.S.O.,  of  Krugers- 
dorp,  went  up  to  the  Rand  in  the  early  days, 
where  he  has  been  associated  with  the  Robinson, 
Crown  Reef  and  other  mines.  He  distinguished 
himself  as  a  Squadron  Commander  of  the  Im- 
perial Light  Horse  in  the  attack  on  Waggon  Hill, 
Jan.  6,  1900.  In  1902  he  was  appointed  Asst.- 
Commissioner  of  Police  for  the  West  Rand. 

MATTHEWS,  Dr.  JosiAH  Wright,  F.R.G.S., 
of  Johannesbiu'g,  and  of  the  Civil  Service  (C.T.), 
Gold  Fields  (Johannesburg),  and  Jmiior  Conser- 
vative (Lond.)  Clubs,  was  born  in  1841  at  York, 
Eng.,  where  he  was  educated  privately,  and 
:studied  medicine  there  and  at  Glasgow.     Late 


in  1864  he  sailed  to  Durban  in  medical  charge  of 
an  emigrant  ship,  and  obtained  an  appointment 
in  the  Natal  Govt.  Med.  Service  and  a  lucrative 
private  practice.  In  1871,  however,  he  took  a 
trip  to  India,  and  returning  to  England,  gradu- 
ated M.D.  at  Aberdeen.  Dr.  Matthews  shortly 
returned  to  Natal,  but  was  attracted  by  the  new 
El  Dorado  and  practised  his  profession  at  Kim- 
berley.  When  the  Cape  Legislative  Council 
was  constituted  he  was  returned  as  senior  mem- 
ber, becoming  Vice-Pres.  of  the  Council.  With 
annexation,  Kimberley  became  an  Electoral 
Division  of  the  C.C.,  and  in  1881  the  doctor 
entered  the  Cape  Assembly,  resigning  after  the 
special  session  of  1883.  Recovering  from  a 
serious  accident,  he  toured  the  Transvaal ;  took 
another  trip  home  ;  engaged  in  a  visit  to  America, 
and  went  up  to  the  Rand  in  1889.  He  became 
member  of  the  Johannesburg  Sanitary  Board  in 
1892,  and  took  an  important  part  in  public  and 
social  life. 

Dr.  Matthews  published  in  America  in  1887 
"  Incwadi  Yami "  (My  Book)  or  "  Twenty 
Years'  Personal  Experience  in  South  Africa." 
He  has  lectured  considerably  before  Rand  gather- 
ings, and  addressed  big  audiences  at  the  Chicago 
Exhibition  in  1893  on  S.A.  affairs.  He  is  an 
enthusiastic  collector  of  curios,  objects  of  vertu, 
coins,  medals,  etc.,  and  was  awarded  a  bronze 
medal  by  the  Kimberley  South  African  and  In- 
ternational Exhibition  of  1892.  He  married,  in 
1867,  Lucy  Virginia,  fifth  dau.  of  Dr.  Lindley,  an 
American  pioneer  missionary  in  S.A.  who  gave 
his  name  to  a  town  in  the  O.R.C. 

MAVROGORDATO,  Theodore  Etienne, 
J.P.,  F.R.G.S.,  of  Johannesburg  ;  son  of  Stephen 
Ma\Togordato  and  Lanny  nie  Sarell ;  was  born 
at  Constantinople  in  1861,  and  was  educated  in 
Berlin.  He  joined  the  Cyprus  service  in  Jan., 
1881  ;  Asst. -Inspector  of  Cyprus  Military  Police, 
1883  ;  Inspector  of  same,  1884  ;  had  charge  of 
Special  Police  Force,  1895  ;  became  Local  Com- 
mandant, Asst. -Commissioner,  Governor  of 
Prison  and  Deputy  Coroner  June  7,  1895  ;  Act- 
ing Commissioner,  Papho,  1897  ;  Acting  Com- 
missioner, Limassol,  1900  ;  transferred  to  Trans- 
vaal service  Nov.  4,  1901,  becoming  Asst. -Com- 
missioner of  Police  and  J.P.,  Johannesburg.  He 
married,  in  1886,  Ethel  Constance,  eldest  dau. 
of  the  late  Rev.  Joseph  Kenworthy,  Rector  of 
Ashworth,  Yorks. 

MAXWELL-HIBBERD,  Charles,  Post- 
master-Gen. of  Pietermaritzburg,  Natal,  and  of 
the   Victoria   Club,   Maritzburg,   is   the   son   of 


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the late  Charles  Hibberd,  of  Ventnor,  I.W.,  and 
grandson  of  the  late  William  Hibberd,  of  Har- 
bridge,  Hants ;  was  bom  at  Bryantspuddle, 
Dorsetshire,  and  entered  the  Electric  &  Inter- 
national Telegraph  Co.  in  1867  ;  stationed  at 
Ventnor,  I.W.,  he  had  the  advantage  of  serving 
under  Mr.  W.  H.  Preece  (now  Sir  W.  H.  Preece) 
until  1870.  Then,  when  the  British  Govt,  took 
over  the  telegraplis,  he  was  engaged  in  giving 
instruction  in  telegraphy  at  various  post-offices 
in  England,  and  during  the  Franco-German  War 
acted  as  private  telegraphist  to  the  late  Lord 
Granville,  then  Foreign  Minister,  at  Wahner 
Castle,  Deal.  At  the  close  of  the  war  Mr.  Max- 
well-Hibberd  was  attached  to  the  Engineering 
Dept.  of  the  Central  Telegraph  Office,  G.P.O!', 
London,  as  a  Junior  Engineering  Inspector, 
where  he  remained  until  Jan.  1,  1885,  when  he 
was  appointed  a  Second  Class  Asst. -Surveyor 
out  of  some  900  applicants.  As  an  Asst. -Sur- 
veyor (or  Inspector)  of  the  G.P.O.,  Mr.  MaxweU- 
Hibberd  was  attached  to  the  South  Wales  Dis- 
trict, where  he  obtained  a  thorough  knowledge 
of  the  organization  of  the  postal  and  telegraph 
services  of  the  country.  He  did  much  good  work 
in  revising  the  postal  services  of  South  Wales, 
and  in  1894  was  promoted  over  several  of 
his  seniors  to  a  First  Class  Asst.-Surveyorship. 
This  promotion  necessitated  his  transfer  to 
another  district,  and  he  then  went  to  North 
Wales,  where  he  worked  until  Nov.,  1900,  when 
at  his  own  request  he  was  transferred  to  the 
North-Westem  Postal  District  of  England.  In 
April,  1903,  he  was  appointed  Postmaster-Gen. 
of  Natal.  He  married,  Oct.  1876,  Mary  Jane, 
dau.  of  the  late  W.  Wm.  Sheppard,  of  Ttmbridge 
Wells. 

MAY,  Col.  William  Allan,  R.A.M.C,  C.B., 
of  1,  Nelson  Gardens,  Stoke  Damerel,  Devon, 
dnd  the  Army  and  Navy  Club,  is  the  son  of 
Joseph  May,  F.R.C.S.  Eng.,  of  Stoke  Damerel. 
He  was  bom  Sept.  18,  1850,  at  Devonport, 
Devon,  and  was  educated  at  the  Gram.  Sch., 
Tavistock,  Devon,  and  Guy's  Hospital  Med. 
Sch.,  London.  On  Sept.  24,  1874,  Col.  May 
joined  the  Army  Medical  Service,  and  was  pro- 
moted Lieut. -Col.  Royal  Armv  Medical  Corps 
Sept.  30,  1894,  and  Col.  March  22, 1903.  He  was 
Principal  Medical  Officer  8th  Div.  of  the  Field 
Force,  S.A.,  from  Jan.,  1900,  to  end  of  campaign. 
May  30,  1902,  with  local  rank  of  Col.  He  was 
mentioned  in  despatches,  C.B.  (1902)  and  has 
the  Queen's  medal  with  three  clasps  (C.C, 
Wittebergen,  Transvaal)  and  King's  medal 
with     two     clasps    (S.A.     1901,      S.A.      1902). 


He  was  appointed  Principal  Medical  Officer, 
Natal,  Aug.,  1902,  with  local  rank  of  Col.,  and 
Principal  Medical  Officer,  Egypt,  May,  1903. 
Col.  May  is  a  M.R.C.S.  Eng.,  and  L.S.A.  He 
married,  Feb.  3,  1896,  Cecilia  Adele  Aloise,  dau. 
of  the  late  Gustav  A.  B.  C.  von  Ohlhaffen. 

MAYDON,  John  George,  M.L.A.,  J.P.,  of 
Seaiield,  Lower  Muzimkulu,  Natal ;  of  Nethuley, 
Maritzburg,  Natal ;  and  of  the  Dtirban,  Victoria 
(P.M.B.),  John  Carpenter,  and  Junior  Constitu- 
tional Clubs,  was  born  Oct.  14,  1857  ;  is  only  son 
of  the  late  John  Maydon,  of  Salden,  Bucks  ;  was 
educated  at  City  of  London  Sch.,  and  went  to 
Natal  in  1878  in  order  to  take  part  in  the  Zulu 
War,  through  which  he  served  wath  the  Coast 
colimin.  On  the  establishment  of  responsible 
govt,  in  Natal  in  1893  he  was  elected  M.L.A.  for 
Durban  County.  Visiting  England  in  1897  he 
did  not  seek  re-election  ;  spent  two  years  in 
travel  and  the  study  of  the  racial  problem,  be- 
coming an  ardent  advocate  for  war  as  the  only 
means  of  solving  the  question  of  British  su- 
premacy in  S.A.  On  war  being  declared,  he 
offered  his  services  to  the  military  authorities. 
Tliese  were  not  accepted,  and  he  became  cor- 
respondent of  the  "  Daily  News,"  being  first  with 
Lord  Methuen.  After  Magersfontein  he  joined 
Gen.  French,  with  whom  he  was  at  the  reUef  of 
Kimberley,  and  the  captures  of  Cronje  and  Bloem- 
fontein,  receiving  a  scalp  woi.ind  at  Driefontein. 
Returning  to  Natal  in  April,  1901,  he  was  re- 
elected to  the  Assembly  as  member  for  Durban 
Boro'  in  succession  to  Sir  John  Robinson,  and 
worked  to  secure  a  more  vigorous  development 
of  Natal' s  resources.  Upon  the  resignation  of 
the  Hime  Ministry  in  1903  he  joined  the  Sutton 
Administration  as  Colonial  Secy. 

Mr.  Maydon  is  the  author  of  a  short  account 
of  the  early  operations  of  the  S.A.  War  entitled 
"  French's  Cavalry  Campaign."  He  married  : 
first,  a  dau.  of  the  late  D.  King  ;  and  second, 
Dorothy  Isabella,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  I.  L. 
Cope,  of  Highlands,  Natal. 

MEINTJES,  L.  S.,  was  born  in  1868  in  Aber- 
deen, C.C,  and  is  descended,  as  his  name  indi- 
cates, from  one  of  the  old  Dutch  families  who 
originally  colonized  the  Cape  Peninsula.  He 
went  up  to  Johannesburg  in  1891,  and  first  took 
to  cycling  about  that  time,  his  first  performance 
on  the  track  being  made  on  the  Wanderers'  Club 
ground,  when  he  won  the  only  three  open  events. 
His  times  were  so  good  that  the  club  committee 
decided  to  send  him  to  Eng.  and  America.  He 
arrived  in  Eng.  in  April,  1893,  and  beat  all  the 


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English  records  for  one  and  two  miles  and  from 
seven  to  25  miles,  and  from  a  flying  start  he  held 
the  records  for  three,  four  and  five  miles.  He 
was  also  the  first  to  cover  24  miles  within  the 
hour.     The  times  of  his  records  were  as  follows — 

((Beating    Sanger's  per- 
formance by  j;  sec.). 
Made  at  Heme  Hill, 
June  29,   1893. 
(Heme    Hill,    June    15, 
{      1893,  against  time. 


1  mile  2  min.  9^  sec. 


9 
10* 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
25 


16 
19 
21 
24 

27 
29 
32 
34 
37 
39 
42 
44 
47 
49 
52 
54 
57 
59 
61 


37 

504 

234 

53| 

lU 

15 

42i 

5 

41^ 
13' 

45* 
15i 

43| 
17| 
5U 

25!; 

514 

12^ 
304 
5U 


(Brixton      Cup 
July  8,  1893. 


Race, 


Heme   Hill,    July,    11, 
1893,  against  time. 


Then  generally  recognized  as  the  Ten  Miles' 
Championship  of  England. 

MEIRELLES,  Viscount  De  {see  De  Meirelles) 

MEIRING,  Johannes  Heneicus,  M.L.C,  J.P., 

of  Northdene,  Aliwal  St.,  Bloemfontein,  and  of 
the  United  Ser\dce  Club,  and  Ramblers'  Club, 
Bloemfontein,  is  descended  from  a  French 
refugee  family  who  fled  to  Holland  after  tha 
revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes  in  1684,  his 
direct  descendant,  Arnoldus  Maui-itivis  Meiring, 
having  gone  to  the  Cape  as  minister  of  the  D.R. 
Church  at  Tulbagh,  C.C,  in  1734.  The  subject 
of  our  sketch  is  the  son  of  J.  W.  H.  Meiring, 
Mayor  of  Worcester,  C.C,  where  Mr.  J.  H. 
Meiring  was  born  Oct.  22,  1849.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  that  town  ;  was  Headmaster  of  the 
Govt.  Sell,  at  Murraysdorp,  C.C,  in  1872,  and 
in  1881  went  to  the  O.F.S.  as  Secy,  to  the  Min- 
ing Board  at  Jagersfontein,  where  he  subse- 
quently entered  the  Free  State  Civil  Service  as 
Public  Prosecutor  to  the  Special  Court  for  the 
trial  of  I.D.B.  cases,  as  well  as  to  the  Magistrates' 
Court.     In  1886  he  became  Landdrost,  Clerk  and 


Public  Prosecutor  at  Harrismith,  and  in  1889 
when  the  O.F.S.  entered  into  a  Customs  Union 
with  the  C.C,  he  was  appointed  Collector  of 
Customs  of  the  State.  He  attended  the  Customa 
Conferences  of  189G  and  '98.  He  retained  this 
appointment  tmtil  the  British  occupation  on 
Mar.  13,  1900.  Seven  days  later,  however,  he 
was  reinstated  by  Lord  Roberts,  and  on  the 
military  regime  being  superseded  by  civil  govt., 
his  position  as  Collector  of  Customs  for  the  O.R.C. 
was  confirmed  by  Lord  Mihier.  In  1902  Mr. 
Meiring  was  nominated  a  member  of  the  Legis- 
lative Council  for  the  O.R.C,  and  he  took  part 
in  the  Customs  Conference  in  1903  as  Customs 
Adviser. 

From  1883  to  1894  he  was  J.P.  for  the  re- 
spective districts  in  which  he  held  office,  and 
from  the  latter  year  has  been  a  J.P.  for  the  whole 
Colony.  He  married,  Jan.  30,  1872,  AimaC, 
dau.  of  J.  G.  de  Wet,  of  Worcester,  C.C. 

MEIRING,  Rev.  Pietee  Gerhard  Jacobus, 
Dutch  Reformed  Minister,  of  Joubert's  Park, 
Johannesburg,  is  the  youngest  son  of  J.  W.  H. 
Meiring,  J.P.,  of  C.C,  who  for  a  considerable 
nvmiber  of  years  was  Mayor  of  Worcester.  He 
was  born  Dec.  20,  1860,  at  Worcester,  C.C,.  and 
was  educated  at  the  Public  Sch.,  Worcester  ;  the 
Victoria  Coll.,  and  the  Tlieological  Seminary, 
Stellenbosch,  and  is  a  B.A.  of  the  Cape  Univ., 
Cape  Town.  He  is  Scriba  of  the  Gen.  Assem. 
of  the  D.R.  Chixrch,  Transvaal,  and  is  joint- 
editor  of  the  "  Vereeniging,"  the  official  organ 
of  the  Church ;  is  an  able  writer,  an  eloquent 
preacher,  and  exercises  considerable  influence. 
He  married,  Nov.  23,  1902,  Susanna  M.,  young- 
est dau.  of  the  late  Adrian  J.  Louw,  of  the  Paarl, 
every  one  of  whose  seven  daughters,  it  is  inte- 
resting to  note,  is  married  to  a  D.R.  minister. 

MELLISS,  Brevet  Lieut.-Col.  Charles 
John,  V.C,  Indian  Army,  Brilliant  Star  of 
Zanzibar,  2nd  class,  and  Bronze  Medal  of  Royal 
Hiunane  Society  ;  is  the  son  of  Lieut. -Gen.  G. 
J.  MeUiss.  He  was  born  in  India  Sept.  12,  1862, 
and  was  educated  at  Wellington  Coll.  Col. 
MeUiss  took  part  in  the  Mazeni  Rebellion,  E. 
Africa,  1896;  Tirah  Campaign,  1897-8;  and 
Ashanti  Campaign,  1900,  and  was  four  times 
wounded.  He  is  the  author  of  "  Lion  Hunting 
in  Somahland."  He  married,  Aug.,  1901, 
Kathleen,  youngest  dau.  of  General  Walter,  CB. 

MERRIMAN,  Hon.  John  Xavier,  of 
Schoongezigt,  Stellenbosch,  C.C,  and  of  the 
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115 


Clubs,  was  born  at  Street,  near  Glastonbury, 
Somerset,  on  March  15,  1841,  his  father  basing 
being  the  Bishop  of  Grahamstown.  He  was 
educated  at  Dive  Coll.,  Rondebosch,  and  at 
Radley  Coll.,  Oxford.  Mr.  Merriman  is  a  land 
surveyor  by  profession,  but  he  has  made  politics 
the  principal  business  of  his  life.  He  entered 
the  Cape  Parliament  in  1869,  and  has  sat  con- 
tinuously from  that  date  until  the  general 
election  in  1904,  when  he  was  defeated  at  the 
poU.  From  1875  to  1878,  and  again  from  1881 
to  1884  he  sat  in  the  Cabinet  as  Commissioner 
for  Crown  Lands,  and  from  1890  to  1893  he  was 
Treasurer-Gen. — a  portfolio  which  he  subse- 
quently held  in   1899-1900. 

Mr.  Merriman  is  a  good  debater  and  an  ex- 
ceedingly able  man,  but  he  is  a  mass  of  pre- 
judices, which  have  inclined  him  to  every 
extreme — Bond-friend  and  Anti-Bond.  No 
party,  consequently,  has  felt  that  it  could 
absolutely  depend  upon,  or  trust,  him  politically. 
His  natural  asperity  of  manner  and  innate 
disagreeableness  are  disadvantages  which  he 
appears  to  cultivate  for  the  express  purpose 
of  alienating  support  and  making  enemies.  In 
fact,  he  has  been  described  as  an  excellent  type 
of  a  gentleman  who  has  deliberately  cast  off 
the  manners  of  one. 

As  an  apologist  for  rebellion,  he  urged  that 
Cape  Colonials  who  rebelled  during  the  late 
S.A.  War  should  receive  full  compensation  for 
losses  caused  by  the  invasion  of  the  Colony.  Mr. 
Merriman  is  a  member  of  the  Council  of  the  Univ. 
of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  as  representative  of 
the  Colony  of  Natal.  He  married,  Sept.  16, 1874, 
Agnes,  dau.  of  the  Hon.  J.  Vintcent. 

MICHAU,  J.  J.,  M.L.A.,  was  returned  at  the 
general  election  in  Feb.,  1904,  as  Bond  Member 
for  the  electoral  div.  of  Riversdale  in  the  Cape 
Parliament. 

IvnCHELL,  Sir  Lewis,  M.L.A.,  J.P.,  of 
Edingight,  Rondebosch,  C.T.  ;  Rhodes'  Build- 
ings, C.T.,  and  of  the  Imperial  Colonies  Club,  is 
a  descendant  of  an  old  Cornish  family.  He  was 
born  at  Plymouth  in  1842,  and  was  educated  at 
Christ's  Hospital.  He  was  for  many  years  Gen. 
Manager  of  the  most  important  banking  instit\i- 
tion  in  S.A.,  viz.,  the  Standard  Bank  of  S.A.,  Ltd. 
He  represented  the  C.C.  at  the  Mint  Conference 
at  Pretoria  in  1893,  and  Rhodesia  at  the  Company 
Law  Conference  at  Johannesburg  in  1902,  and  at 
the  Customs  Conference  at  Bloemfontein  in  1903. 
He  is  now  Chairman  of  the  De  Beers  Consolidated 
Mines,  and  a  Director  of  the  British  S.A.  Co.,  in 


connection  with  which  he  undertook  a  tour 
through  Rhodesia  in  the  autumn  of  1902  with 
Mr.  Beit,  Dr.  Jameson  and  Mr.  J.  F.  Jones — a 
tour  which  resulted  in  many  difficulties  of  the 
northern  settlers  being  greatly  ameliorated. 

Sir  Lewis  was  elected  to  fill  one  of  the  vacant 
seats  for  C.T.,  in  the  Progressive  interest,  in  the 
House  of  Assembly  at  the  latter  end  of  1902,  and 
at  the  general  election  in  Feb.,  1904,  was  returned 
for  the  electoral  division  of  Wynberg,  entering 
Dr.  Jameson's  Ministry  without  portfolio.  He 
is  Pres.  of  the  S.A.  Progressive  Association,  and 
a  prominent  member  of  various  local  societies. 
He  is  a  frequent  lecturer  in  C.T.,  and  is  closely 
associated  with  everj'  movement  tending  towards 
political,  commercial  and  social  progress  in  the 
colony.  During  the  S.A.  War  he  acted  as  Pres. 
of  the  Martial  Law  Board.  He  is  one  of  the 
Trustees  of  the  late  Cecil  Rhodes,  and  was 
knighted  on  the  occasion  of  the  King's  birthday 
in  1902.  He  married  a  dau.  of  Ed.  Philpots, 
Civil  Commissioner  of  C.C. 

MILLAIS,  John  Gotllk,  F.Z.S.,  of  Comptons 
Brow,  Horsha,m,  Sussex,  and  of  the  Royal 
Societies'  Ckxb  ;  fourth  son  of  Sir  John  E.  Millais, 
Bart.,  D.C.L.,  Pres.  of  the  Royal  Acad.  ;  was 
born  in  London,  Mar.  25,  1865  ;  was  educated  at 
Marlborough  and  Tiinity  CoU.,  Camb.  After 
leaving  Cambridge  he  served  two  years  in  the 
3rd  Batt.  Somerset  L.I.  (1884^5).  During  this 
period  he  began  to  illustrate  works  on  sport  and 
natural  history,  notably  for  the  Badminton 
Library,  and  for  H.  Seebohra's  books.  In  1886 
he  began  his  hunting  expeditions,  and  the  next 
spring  joined  the  1st  Batt.  Seaforth  Highlanders, 
in  which  hg  served  for  seven  yeaxs.  Since  then 
he  has  embarked  on  the  following  expeditions 
for  the  purpose  of  studying  nature  at  first  hand, 
and  making  a  collection  of  heads  of  wild  animals 
which  includes  red  roe,  fallow,  mule  and  wliite- 
tailed  deer  ;  grey,  comm-on  and  Greenland  seals  ; 
wapiti ;  moose  ;  bighorn  ;  caribou  ;  reindeer  ; 
elk ;  waterbuck ;  sable  and  roan  antelopes, 
koodoo,  hartebeste,  sassaby,  dmker,  steinbuck, 
klipspringer,  white- tailed  and  brindled  gnus, 
Cape  buffalo,  pallah,  leopard,  lion,  brown  bear, 
etc.  In  the  process  of  acquiring  this  collection 
he  has  travelled  in  W.  America  (1886),  Iceland 
(1892),  S.A.  (1893),  S.  Norway  (1898),  N.  Nor- 
way (1899),  N.  Africa  (1900),  Newfoundland  and 
Canada  (1902),  and  Newfoundland  again  (1903). 
He  is  also  said  to  have  the  most  complete  col- 
lection of  British  birds  in  any  private  museum, 
numbering  4,000  specimens,  obtained  by  his  gun 
in  the  British   Islands. 


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Anglo-African  Who's  Who 


He  is  Vice-Pres.  of  the  Anglo-African  Writers' 
Club,  and  is  the  author  of  "  Game  Birds  and 
Shooting  Sketches"  1892;  "  A  Breath  from  the 
Veldt,"  1895;  "British  Deer  and  their  Horns," 
1897  ;  '■  The  Life  and  Letters  of  Sir  John  Everett 
Millai?.,  Bart.  :  a  Biography,"  1S90  ;  "  The  Wild 
Fowler  in.  Scotland,"  1901;  "The  Natvu-al 
History  of  the  Sui'face  Feeding  Ducks,"  1902, 
and  he  is  now  engaged  upon  a  history  of  the 
British  mammals.  B  asides  the  study  of  natural 
history  and  the  pxirsuit  of  big  game,  his  recrea- 
tions are  lawn  tennis,  shooting  and  fishing.  He 
married,  Oct.  31,  1894,  Frances  Margaret,  second 
dau.  of  P.  Skipwith,  of  Hundleby. 

MILLER,  Allister  Mitchell,  of  Embabane, 
Swaziland,  and  of  the  Pretoria,  Barberton,  and 
International  (Louren^o  Marques)  Clubs,  was 
born  at  Singapore,  April  30,  1865  ;  is  son  of 
Alexander  and  Agnes  INIiller,  of  Wick,  Caithness, 
N.B.,  and  was  educated  privately  and  at  the 
Liverpool  Coll.  After  being  on  the  staS  of  the 
"  Liverpool  Mercury,"  which  he  joined  in  1884, 
he  went  to  S.A.  in  1887  as  sub-ed.  of  the  "  Cape 
Argus  "  ;  became  ed.  of  the  "  Gold  Fields  Times  " 
at  Barberton,  Jime,  1888,  and  in  the  following 
Aug.  was  appointed  Govt.  Secy,  to  the  first 
White  Committee  elected  \inder  charter  in 
Swaziland,  later  being  appointed  Secy,  and 
Agent  to  ICing  Umbandine,  as  well  as  a  member 
of  the  Committee  and  a  Magistrate.  On  the 
death  of  Umbandine,  he  took  up  farming  until 
1891,  when  he  became  Manager  of  the  Swaziland 
Corporation,  Ltd.  During  the  late  war  he 
served  as  Secy,  to  the  Resident  Commissioner  for 
Swaziland,  attached  to  the  18th  Brigade,  and 
was  afterwards  second  in  command  of  a  corps 
of  scouts  with  rank  of  Lieut.  He  is  a  F.S.A., 
F.R.C.I.,  and  Fellow  of  the  Geological  Society  of 
S.A.  He  has  written  "  A  Short  History  of 
Swaziland,"  and  mmaerous  papers  on  that 
coimtry.  He  married,  Nov.  21,  1891,  Beatrice 
Mary,  dau.  of  John  Thorbiirn. 

MILLER,  Edv/ard  Henky,  F.R.C.L,  of 
Bulawayo,  and  the  Rhodesia  Club,  was  bom  in 
London  in  1874  ;  is  grandson  of  Roger  Woods 
Miller,  L.C.M.,  and  was  educated  at  the  City  of 
Ijondon  Sch.  and  at  Neuweid,  Prussia,  and  Paris. 
He  served  on  the  Medical  Staff  of  the  B.S.A. 
Police  during  the  Matabele  War  of  1896,  and 
again  saw  fighting  in  the  Boer  War,  1899-1900. 
He  is  librarian  of  the  Bulawayo  Public  Library  ; 
Secy,  of  the  Rhodesian  Museum  ;  on  the  Council 
of  the  Rhodesia  Scientific  Assoc.  ;  Member  of  the 
S.A.  Assoc,  for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  and 


has   published    papers   on    entomology,    biblio- 
graphy, etc. 

MILLS,  John  Saxon,  3,  Essex  Court,  Temple, 
and  54,  Overstrand  Mansions,  S.W.,  and  of  the 
Royal  Colonial  Institute;  is  the  son  of  James 
Mills  and  Martha  Mills,  of  Ashton,  and  was  born 
at  Ashton-under-Lyne  ;  was  educated  at  Man- 
chester Gram.  Sch.,  the  Owen's  Coll.  and  St. 
John's  Coll.,  Camb.,  and  read  as  a  student  of  the 
Inner  Temple.  Was  appointed  editor  of  the 
"  Cape  Times  "  at  the  beginning  of  1901  ;  re- 
signed later  the  following  year,  when  he  returned 
to  England.  He  is  thoroughly  conversant  with 
all  the  political  and  economic  conditions  of  S.A. 
Was  closely  associated  with  the  suspension 
movement  in  C.C.,  and  it  is  generally  believed 
that  his  resignation  was  not  unconnected  with 
his  persistent  but  fruitless  advocacy  of  that 
measure.  Mr.  Mills  was  formerly  on  the  editorial 
staff  of  the  "  Daily  News,"  and  is  a  contributor 
to,  among  other  journals,  the  "  Fortnightly 
Review,"  the  "  National  Review,"  and  the 
"  Empire  Review,"  and  is  now  editing  a  new 
organ  advocating  the  "  new  Protection,"  en- 
titled the  "  Senator,"  the  first  number  of  which 
was  pubhshed  early  in  1904.  He  has  published 
a  volume  of  verses.  His  recreations  are  music 
and  many  open-air  sports.  He  married  Miss 
Grace  Keeler,  July  6,  1901. 

MILNER,  Viscount,  G.C.B.  (1901),  G.C.M.G. 
(1897),  P.C.  (1901),  of  Svmnyside,  Johannesburg, 
and  of  Brook's,  Reform,  Athenaeum,  and  New 
Univ.  Clubs,  was  born  Mar.  23,  1854.  He  is 
son  of  Charles  Milner,  M.D.  by  Mary,  dau.  of 
Major-Gen.  Ready.  He  was  educated  in  Ger- 
many, at  King's  Coll.,  London,  and  at 
Balliol  Coll.,  of  which  he  was  a  Scholar,  1872-6. 
He  has  been  a  Fellow  of  New  Coll.,  Oxford,  since 
1877.  At  Oxford  he  carried  all  before  him, 
taking  the  Hertford,  Craven,  Eldon,  and  Derby 
Scholarships,  in  addition  to  taking  "  Firsts  "  in 
Moderations  and  "  Greats."  He  was  succes- 
sively Treas.  and  Pres.  of  the  Union  Debating 
Society — then  in  its  palmiest  days — and  a 
weighty  contributor  to  its  debates.  As  an 
undergraduate  he  was  a  Liberal  tempered  with 
the  Imperial  sentiment.  He  was  an  intimate 
friend  of  Arnold  Toynbee,  of  whose  career  he 
has  written  a  charming  monograph.  He  is  a 
Barrister  of  the  Inner  Temple  (1881),  and  for 
three  or  four  years  (1882-5)  was  principally  en- 
gaged in  journalism,  in  association  with  Mr.  John 
Morley  on  the  "  Pall  Mall  Gazette,"  etc.  In 
1885   he   unsuccessfully   contested   the   Harrow 


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Division.  In  1887  he  became  Private  Secy,  to 
Lord  (then  the  Right  Hon.  G.  J.)  Goschen,  dis- 
playing abilities  which  were  highly  valued  by  the 
then  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer.  In  1889  he 
entered  the  Egyptian  Service,  and  subsequently 
became  Under  Secy,  of  State  for  Finance  in 
Egypt.  Lord  Milner  completed  his  work  in 
Egypt  with  the  publication  in  1892  of  "  England 
in  Egypt " — one  of  the  most  valuable  contribu- 
tions to  African  literature.  The  work  went 
throvigh  many  subsequent  editions.  In  1892  he 
was  appointed  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Inland 
Revenue  in  succession  to  Lord  Iddesleigh  and 
Sir  Algernon  West,  and  was  made  C.B.  in  1894, 
and  K.C.B.  a  year  later.  In  1897  he  was  pro- 
moted to  succeed  Lord  Rosmead  in  the  dual 
office  of  Governor  of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  and 
High  Commissioner  for  S.A. — positions  which 
have  been  perhaps  the  most  onerous  in  the  gift 
of  the  Crown.  The  G.C.M.G.  was  conferred  upon 
him  in  that  year,  the  G.C.B.  in  1901,  when  he  was 
also  raised  to  the  peerage  as  Baron  Milner  and 
made  a  Privj'  Councillor.  In  the  same  year  he 
relinquished  the  Governorship  of  the  C.C.  to 
fill  the  appointment  of  Governor  of  the  Transvaal 
and  O.R.C.  The  following  year  he  was  created 
Viscount  Milner.  In  Sept.,  1903,  the  Colonial 
Secretaryship  was  pressed  upon  Lord  Milner  by 
Mr.  Balfour,  on  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Chamber- 
Iain,  but  he  could  not  be  prevailed  upon  to  accept 
the  office  in  view  of  his  still  unfinished  work  in 
S.A.     Lord  Milner  is  unmarried. 

MILTHORP,  Bernard  Thomas,  F.R.C.I.  ; 
2nd  Assistant  of  the  B.C.  A.  Protectorate  ;  son  of 
of  C.  H.  Milthorp,  J.P.,  late  of  Bradford,  Yorks., 
where  he  was  born  Nov.  10,  1871  ;  was  educated 
at  Bedford  Gram.  Sch.  ;  was  appointed  Asst. 
Collector  in  the  B.C.A.  Protectorate,  Dec.  24, 
1896  ;  was  stationed  at  Fort  Johnson,  S.  Nyassa, 
from  April  ],  1897,  to  Nov.  17,  1897,  whence  he 
was  transferred  owing  to  ill-health  to  Blantyre, 
Dec.  31,  1897.  From  Aug.  1899  to  Jan.  1900 
he  was  stationed  at  Chiromo,  on  the  Lower  Shir6 
River ;  from  then  until  Apr.  1901  at  Fort 
Anderson,  Mlange  ;  and  from  there  he  returned 
to  Blantyre,  where  he  was  stationed  till  Apr.  17, 
1902.  After  a  short  leave  of  absence  he  was 
stationed  at  Liwonde  (Upper  Shir6  River),  Fort 
Hill  (Nyassa  Tanganyika  Plateau),  and  Chik- 
wana  (W.  Shire  Dist.),  where  he  is  at  present  in 
charge,  having  been  promoted  from  2nd  Asst., 
Feb.  13,  1902.     Unmarried. 

MILTON,    Sir   William   Henry,    K.C.M.G. 

(1903),   of  Govt.    House.    Salisbury,   Rhodesia; 


son  of  Rev.  Wm.  Milton,  of  Newbury  ;  was  bom 
Dec.  3,  1854  ;  was  educated  at  Marlborough,  and 
entered  the  Cape  Civil  Service  in  1878,  officiating 
as  Clerk  to  the  Executive  Council  in  1885  ; 
Acting-Secy,  in  the  Prime  Minister's  Dept.,  1890  ; 
Priv.  Secy,  to  the  Right  Hon.  Cecil  Rhodes 
during  his  Premiership  from  July  1,  1891  ;  was 
Chief  Clerk  and  Chief  Accountant  in  the  Colonial 
Secy.'s  Office  from  Dec.  1,  1891  ;  and  was  made 
Permanent  Head  of  the  Prime  Minister's  Dept., 
March  8,  1894.  In  Aug.  1896  he  was  detached 
from  the  Cape  Civil  Service  to  go  to  Rhodesia, 
where  he  became  Chief  Secy,  and  Secy,  for  Native 
Affairs  in  Sept.  1896  ;  Acting  Administrator  of 
Rhodesia,  July  1897  ;  Administrator  of  Mashona- 
land  and  Senior  Administrator  of  S.  Rhodesia, 
Dec.  3,  1898.  He  was  appointed  Administrator 
of  S.  Rhodesia  Dec.  20,  1902,  and  is  also  Pres.  of 
the  Executive  and  Legislative  Councils  of  S. 
Rhodesia.  Sir  William  married,  in  1883,  Eve- 
line, dau.  of  A.  R.  Borcherds,  of  Wynberg,  C.C. 
He  has  three  sons  at  Bedford  Gram.  Sch.,  who 
are  all  promising  athletes,  the  eldest,  C.  H.  Milton, 
being  the  possessor  of  the  sch.  athletic  cham- 
pionship (1903). 

MITFORD,  Bertram,  F.R.G.S.,  of  the 
Junior  Athen,Bum,  Savage,  Authors,  and  New 
Vagabond  Clubs,  is  the  third  son  of  E.L.Osbaldes- 
ton  Mitford,  of  Mitford  Castle,  Northumberland. 
and  of  Hunmanby  Hall,  Yorks.  ;  was  educated 
at  the  Royal  Naval  Sch.,  New  Cross  ;  Hurstpier- 
point  Coll.,  and  by  Continental  tutor.  He  went 
to  S.A.  at  the  beginning  of  1874,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  stock  farming,  and  at  the  time  of  the 
Kafir  War  of  1877-78  he  held  posts  in  the  Cape 
Civil  Service  on  the  frontier.  At  the  close  of  the 
Zulu  War,  he  trekked  alone  through  Zululand. 
exploring  the  battlefields  and  intervie\ving  the 
principal  indunas.  On  various  visits  to  Africa 
he  has  travelled  in  Matabeleland,  and  visited 
Zanzibar,  Mozambique  and  other  East  Coast 
ports,  and  has  also  travelled  in  Baluchistan  and 
on  the  N.W.  border  of  India.  He  is  also  well 
acquainted  with  the  continent  of  Eiu-ope,  and  at 
one  time  went  in  for  cUmbing  in  the  High  Alps. 
He  is  fond  of  most  forms  of  out-door  sport,  prin- 
cipally shooting. 

Mr.  Mitford  was  proprietor  and  past  editor  of 
the  "  East  London  Advertiser  "  from  1886  to 
1888.  In  the  latter  year  he  took  seriously  to 
literature  as  a  profession,  and  has  published  the 
following  volumes  :  "  Through  the  Zulu  Coim- 
try,"  "  A  Romance  of  the  Cape  Frontier," 
" 'Tween  Snow  and  Fire,"  "Golden  Face." 
"  Tlie    Gun-runner,"     "  Tiie    Luck    of    Gerard 


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Ridgeley,"  "  Renshaw  Farming's  Quest,"  "  The 
King's  Assegai,"  "  The  White  Shield,"  "  The 
Induna's  Wife,"  "  The  Word  of  the  Sorceress," 
"  The  Curse  of  Clement  Waynflete,"  "  A  Veldt 
Official,"  "  Tlie  Expiation  of  Wynne  Palliser," 
"  Fordham's  Feud,"  "  The  Sign  of  the  Spider." 
"The  Ruby  Sword,"  "The  Weird  of  Deadly 
Hollow,"  "  John  Ames  :  Native  Commis- 
sioner," "  Aletts,"  "  War — and  Arcadia,"  "  The 
Triumph  of  Hilary  Blachland,"  "  Dorrien  of 
Cranston,"  "  Haviland's  Chum,"  "  A  Veldt 
Vendetta,"  and  "  Tlie  Sirdar's  Oath."  All  of 
these  except  the  first  named  are  novels,  the 
scenes  of  which  are  mostly  laid  in  S.A. 

MOLTENO,  James  Tennant,  M.L.A.,  is 
Member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for 
Somerset  East.  He  is  a  member  of  the  S.A. 
Party,  and  was  last  re-elected  in  Feb.  1904. 

MOLTENO,  Percy  Alfort,  of  3  and  4,  Fen- 
church  St.,  London,  E.G.,  was  bom  in.  Edinburgh ; 
is  of  Italian  descent,  and  is  a  son  of  the  late  Sir 
John  Charles  Molteno,  who  was  first  Prime  Minis- 
ter of  the  Cape  from  1872  till  1876.  He  is  a  son- 
in-law  of  Sir  Donald  Currie,  and  partner  of  the 
firm  of  Donald  Currie  &  Co.  The  Dumfriesshire 
Liberal  Association  has  adopted  Mr.  Molteno  as 
Parliamentary  candidate  at  the  next  election. 

MOMBASA,  The  Lorb  Bishop  of.  (^ee 
Peel,  Right  Rev.  W.  G.) 

MONTEIL,  Commandant,  left  Senegal  in  Aug. 
1890,  on  a  journey  to  Lake  Tchad,  reaching 
Segour  on  the  Upper  Nile,  the  furthest  point  at 
which  the  French  had  established  their  authority, 
on  Dec.  20,  1890.  Thence  he  struck  out  across 
the  bend  of  the  Niger  for  Say,  and  on  to  Argimgu, 
the  fortified  capital  of  Kabbi.  He  then  pro- 
ceeded to  Sokoto,  Kano  (where  he  received  an 
enthusiastic  welcome),  and  Kuka,  eventually 
reaching  Tripoli  after  a  difficult  and  dangerous 
journey  late  in  1892. 

MONYPENNY,  William  Flaville,  B.A.,  of 
JohannesbiH"g,  and  of  the  Imperial  Service,  Oriel, 
and  Rand  and  Athenspum  (Johannesburg)  Clubs, 
was  bom  in  co.  Armagh,  Ireland,  Aug.  7,  1866. 
He  is  descended  from  a  collateral  branch,  settled 
in  Ireland,  of  a  Scotch  family  whose  headquarters 
are  at  Pifmilly,  in  Fife.  He  was  educated  at  the 
Royal  Sch.,  Dungannon,  at  Trinity  Coll.,  Dublin, 
where  he  graduated  B.A.,  and  at  Balliol  Coll., 
Oxon.  After  leaving  the  Univ.  he  contributed 
for  a  time  to  the  "  Spectator  "  ;  joined  the  staS 


of  the  "  Times  "  as  Asst. -Editor  in  1893,  and  was 
appointed  Editor  of  the  Johannesbiirg  "  Star  " 
early  in  1899,  and  in  that  capacity  and  as  cor- 
respondent of  the  "  Times "  he  incurred  the 
displeasure  of  the  Boer  Govt.,  who,  in  the  begin- 
ning of  Sept.,  attempted  to  arrest  him  on  a  charge 
of  high  treason,  but  he  escaped  to  British  terri- 
tory. On  the  outbreak  of  the  S.A.  War  he  ob- 
tained a  commission  in  the  I.L.H.,  and  served 
with  that  regt.  through  the  siege  of  Ladysmith. 
He  was  afterwards  Director  of  Civil  Supplies  in 
Johannesburg  during  Col.  Colin  Mackenzie's 
tenure  of  office  as  Military  Gov.,  and  he  resiuned 
the  editorial  control  of  the  Johannesburg  "  Star  " 
when  that  paper  reappeared  at  the  beginning  of 
1902. 

MORCOM,  WILLL4M  Boase,  K.C.  (1888),  of 
327,  Loop  St.,  Maritzburg,  and  the  Victoria  Club, 
P.M.B.,  was  born  at  Redruth,  Cornwall,  Oct.  9, 
1 846.  He  first  entered  the  Civil  Service  as  Clerk 
Asst.  to  the  Natal  Legislative  Council  in  1872, 
afterwards  filling  various  offices  under  the  Colo- 
nial Govt.  In  1878  he  was  admitted  to  practice 
as  an  Advocate  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Natal. 
He  was  Attorney-Gen.  for  the  Transvaal  in  1 880  ; 
was  made  Q.C.  in  1888  ;  became  Attorney-Gen. 
for  Natal  in  1889,  from  which  he  retired  when 
that  colony  was  given  responsible  govt,  in  1893. 
He  was  appointed  Minister  of  Justice  for  Natal 
in  1903.     Mr.  Morcom  is  not  married. 

MOREL,  Edmund  D.,  of  Hawarden, 
Chester,  was  bom  in  Paris  in  1873.  He  was 
educated  at  Bedford,  and  early  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  a  joimialistic  career.  He  has  contributed 
for  a  number  of  years  to  many  of  the  leading 
magazines  and  newspapers  on  W.  African  ques- 
tions, and  as  he  is  regarded  as  a  leading  authority 
his  contributions  have  excited  considerable 
public  interest.  His  exposiu-es  of  the  Congo 
scandals  have  particularly  done  much  to  bring 
the  whole  question  of  the  Congo  Administration 
under  the  attention  of  the  Govt.  He  is  the 
editor  of  the  "  West  African  Mail,"  and  is  the 
author  of  "Affairs  of  West  Africa"  (1903), 
"The  British  Case  in  French  Congo"  (1903), 
"  The  Congo  Slave  State,"  "  Trading  Monopolies 
in  W^est  Africa,"  and  other  pamphlets  too 
numerous  to  mention.  He  married,  in  1896, 
Miss  Mary  F.  Y.  Richardson. 

MORGAN,  Benjamin  Howell,  of  Orchard 
House,  Westminster,  and  the  National  Liberal 
Club,  was  bom  Aug.  24,  1873,  at  Glenarberth, 
Cardiganshire,   is   the  fourth  son  of  Benjamin 


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Morgan,  of  White  Caetle,  and  was  educated  as 
an  engineer.  He  has  since  taken  a  deep  interest 
in  general  economic  and  trade  questions,  and  is 
a  well-known  authority  on  such,  particularly  as 
affecting  S.A.  affairs.  In  1895  he  travelled 
through  the  U.S.  and  Canada,  studying  the 
economic  conditions  prevailing  there,  and  later 
made  a  similar  journey  through  Europe,  visiting 
principally  engineering  and  manufacturing  estab- 
lishments. At  the  age  of  23  he  was  appointed 
editor  of  a  trade  journal,  and  a  few  years  later 
became  Editor  of  the  "  Engineering  Times,"  a 
position  which  he  now  holds.  At  the  close  of 
the  S.A.  War  in  June,  1902,  he  was  appointed 
Trade  Commissioner  to  S.A.  to  inqTiire  into  and 
report  upon  the  state  of,  and  openings  for,  trade 
in  engineering  and  machinery.  The  results  of 
his  investigations  were  comprised  in  a  volume 
published  in  the  following  November.  This 
report  has  been  described  as  a  "  masterly  "  work, 
and  has  given  rise  to  much  comment  and  dis- 
cussion. He  is  one  of  the  most  strenuous  oppo- 
nents of  the  Shipping  Ring,  whose  methods  he 
exposed  in  his  report  and  subsequent  lectures 
before  the  Royal  Colonial  Institute  and  else- 
where. He  is  a  Vice-Pres.  of  the  Nottingham 
Society  of  Engineers,  and  Fellow  of  the  Royal 
Colonial  Institute,  etc.,  and  is  the  author  of 
"  The  Engineering  Trades  of  South  Africa," 
"  The  Trade  and  Industry  of  South  Africa," 
"  The  Prevention  of  Strikes  and  Lock-outs," 
"  High  Speed  Steam  Engines,"  and  other  tech- 
nical works.  Mr.  Morgan  is  unmarried,  and 
indulges  in  fly-fishing  and  golf  as  recreations. 

MORLAND,  LiEUT.-CoL.  (local  Col.) 
Thomas  Lethbridge  Napier,  C.B.,  D.S.O.,  of 
the  Naval  and  Military  Club,  was  born  in  Canada, 
Aug.  9,  1865  ;  is  son  of  the  late  Thos.  Morland, 
and  was  educated  at  Charterhouse.  He  joined 
the  King's  Royal  Rifle  Corps  Aug.  23,  1884  ;  was 
promoted  Capt.  in  Apr.,  1893  ;  was  at  the  Staff 
Coll.,  1891-92;  A.D.C.  to  the  Governor  and 
G.O.C.,  Malta,  1895-98  ;  joined  the  W.  African 
Frontier  Force  Feb.  5,  1898,  and  was  appointed 
Commandant  of  the  Northern  Nigeria  Regt.  in 
1901.  Col.  Morland  married,  in  1890,  Mabel, 
eldest  dau.  of  Admiral  and  Mrs.  St.  John,  of 
Stokefield,  Thomburv,  Glos.  Mrs.  Morland  died 
in  1901. 

MUIR.  Thomas,  C.M.G..  M.A.,  LL.D.  (Hon.), 
F.R.S.,  of  Mowbray  Hall.  Rosebank,  near  Cape 
Town,  and  of  the  Civil  Service  Club  (C.T.), 
was  bom  at  Stonebyree,  Lanarkshire,  Aug.  25, 
1845,  and  is  son  of  the  late  Geo.  Muir  of  that 


place.  He  was  educated  at  Wishaw  Public 
Sch.,  Glasgow  Univ.,  and  in  Germany.  In 
1868  he  was  appointed  Sub-Warden  of  College 
Hall,  St.  Andrews  ;  Asst.  Prof,  of  Mathematics 
in  Glasgow  Univ.  in  1871  ;  was  elected 
F.R.S.E.  in  1874,  and  became  in  the  same 
year  Head  of  the  Mathematical  and  Science 
Depts.  of  the  High  Sch.  of  Glasgow,  and  mem- 
ber of  the  London  Mathematical  Soc.  In  1879 
he  was  appointed  Examiner  in  Mathematics 
and  Natural  Philosophy  for  Glasgow  Univ., 
was  elected  Pres.  of  the  Edinburgh  Mathematical 
Soc.  in  1883  ;  was  awarded  the  Keith  Medal 
of  the  Royal  Soc.  of  Edinbvirgh  for  Mathem- 
atical Research  in  1884  ;  appointed  Exam,  of 
Secondary  Schools  imder  the  Scotch  Education 
Dept.  in  1885  ;  Examiner  in  Mathematics  and 
Natural  Plulosophy  for  St.  Andrews  Univ., 
1886 ;  Hon.  Fel.  Royal  Scottish  Geographical 
Soc,  1892  ;  and  in  the  same  year  was  chosen 
for  his  present  post  as  Supt.-Gen.  of 
Education  for  Cape  Colony. 

Mr.  Muir  was  appointed  Vice-Chancellor 
of  the  Univ.  of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  in 
1897  ;  was  awarded  the  Keith  Medal  for  the 
second  time  in  1899,  and  was  elected  F.R.S. 
in  1900.  He  is  a  Trustee  of  the  S.A.  Museum ; 
the  S.A.  Pubhc  Library  ;  and  of  the  S.A.  Art 
Gallery,  of  which  latter  he  is  also  Chairman. 
He  is  member  of  the  Geological  Commission, 
the  Meteorological  Commission,  and  of  the  Civil 
Service  Commission ;  Vice-Pres.  of  the  S.A. 
Assoc,  for  the  Advancement  of  Science  ;  Vice- 
Pres.  of  the  Cape  To^vn  Musical  Union  Soc, 
and  Chairman  of  the  Chamber  Music  Union. 
He  is  author  of  "  A  Treatise  on  the  Tlieory  of 
Determinants^"  a  "  History  of  Determinants," 
and  of  various  other  works  and  contributions 
to  scientific  journals,  and  learned  societies' 
publications.  Mr.  Muir  has  taken  much  interest 
in  the  development  of  musical  taste  in  the 
Colony,  and  besides  his  more  serious  geograph- 
ical and  mathematical  studies,  plays  golf  and 
lawn  tennis.  He  married,  in  1874,  Margaret, 
youngest  dau.  of  the  late  Dugald  Bell,  of 
Glasgow. 

MULDER,  Hon.  Hendrik  Johannes, 
M.L.C.,  of  "  Armoed,"  Oudtshoorn  District, 
C.C,  was  born  at  Oudtshoorn.  He  com- 
menced business  in  1865,  and  now  carries 
on  a  large  ostrich  farm.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Cape  Legislative  Council  for  the  South- 
West  Province,  having  been  first  elected  in 
1891  at  the  head  of  the  poll.  He  is  an  elder  of 
the  D.R.   Church,  and  has  a  large  family. 


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MULLINS,  Majob,  V.C,  of  Johannesbiirg. 
For  some  time  a  partner  in  the  late  firm  of 
Hudson,  Hutchinson  &  Mullins,  Attorneys, 
of  Johannesburg,  has  joined  Sir  A.  Woolls- 
Sampson  in  a  financial  and  estate  business  in 
that  town. 

MUNNHv,  Ex-Landdrost  J.  H.  Took 
service  under  Mr.  Kriiger's  Govt,  as  Inspector 
of  Mines  and  Acting  States  Mining  Engineer, 
and  joined  the  Boers  on  the  outbreak  of  the 
war  in  1889,  remaining  in  the  field  vmtil  cap- 
tured by  Colenbrander's  Scouts  in  April,  1901. 
He  then  spent  fifteen  months  as  a  prisoner  of 
war  in  India.  Until  peace  was  signed  Mr. 
Munnik  was  an  irreconcilable,  but  he  then 
determined  to  accept  the  inevitable  and  become 
a  loyal  British  subject.  Mr.  Munnik  occupied 
his  leisixre  time  as  a  prisoner  in  writing  a  romance 
of  the  Boer  War,  entitled  "  Major  Greville,  V.C, 
D.S.O." 

MURRAY,  Hon.  Charles  Gideon,  of 
Johannesburg,  and  the  Bachelors'  Club,  Lon- 
don ;  third  son  of  Lord  EUbank  (10th  Baron)  ; 
was  born  Aug.  7,  1877,  and  was  educated  at 
Blairlodge,  Polmont,  N.B.,  and  abroad.  In 
1891  he  was  appointed  Asst.  Priv.  Secy,  to  the 
Lieut. -Governor  of  British  New  Guinea  ;  was 
Clerk  to  the  Govt.  Secy.,  British  New  Guinea, 
1899  ;  Resident  Magistrate,  Western  Di\dsion, 
B.N.G.,  1900;  Priv.  Secy,  to  Sir  Godfrey 
Lagden,  Commissioner  for  Native  Affairs  for 
the  Transvaal,  1901 ;  and  Asst.  Native  Com- 
missioner for  the  Zoutpansberg  Dist.  of  the 
Transvaal  in  1902.  His  recreations  are  shoot- 
ing,   riding,    golf   and    tennis.     Unmarried. 

NATHAN,  Ejhl,  J.P.,  of  Johannesburg, 
Transvaal,  and  of  the  Rand  and  New  Clubs 
(Johannesburg),  was  born  at  Graaff  Reinet, 
C.C,  Dec.  23,  1859 ;  is  second  son  of  the 
late  Ed.  Nathan,  merchant,  of  that  town,  and 
was  educated  at  GraaS  Reinet  Coll.  He  was 
Registrar  of  the  Supreme  Court,  C.C, 
in  1880-81  ;  was  admitted  as  Solicitor  and 
Notary  Public  of  the  Supreme  Court  in  1881  ; 
practised  at  Port  Elizabeth  until  1889,  and 
during  the  last  five  years  of  his  residence  there 
was  Deputy-Sheriff  of  the  town.  From  1889 
he  practised  at  Johannesburg  until  1895,  when 
he  proceeded  to  London,  joined  Gray's  Inn, 
and  was  called  to  the  Bar  in  1898.  Returning 
to  Johannesburg,  Mr.  Nathan  continued  his 
law  practice  until  the  war,  in  which  he  served 
as  Lieut,  and  afterwards  as  Capt.  in  the  J.M.R. 


Subsequently  he  was  a  member  of  the  Permit 
Committee.  He  is  a  Director  of  a  few  Rand 
Cos.,  and  married,  Feb.  27,  1884,  Lizzie,  dau. 
of  the  late  Henry  Godfrey. 

NATHAN,  Major  Sir  Matthew,  R.E., 
K.C.M.G.,  of  11,  Pembridge  Sq.,  London, 
W.,  and  the  Army  and  Navy  Club,  was  born 
in  London  Jan.  3,  1862.  He  is  son  of  the  late 
Jonah  Nathan,  of  Pembridge  Sq.,  and  was 
educated  privately  and  at  the  R.M.A.,  Woolwich, 
He  entered  the  Royal  Engineers  in  1880,  be- 
coming Capt.  in  1889,  and  Maj.  in  1898.  He 
served  in  the  Nile  Expedition  in  1885,  and 
in  the  Lushai  Expedition  in  1889  (medal 
with  clasp).  Sir  Matthew  acted  as  Secy,  to 
the  Colonial  Defence  Conm;iittee  in  1895, 
administered  the  Govt,  of  Sierra  Leone  in  1899, 
became  Governor  of  the  Gold  Coast  in  1900, 
and  Governor  and  Commander-in-Chief  of  the 
Colony  of  Hong  Kong  and  its  Dependencies 
Oct.,    1903.     He   is   unmarried. 

NEETHLING,  Hon.  M.  L.,M.L.C,of  Stellen- 
bosch,  C.C ;  comes  of  an  old  Prussian  family. 
He  was  for  naany  years  Chairman  of  the  Muni- 
cipal Commissioners  of  Stellenbosch  and  mem- 
ber of  the  Divisional  Council,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Cape  Legislative  Council  for  the  Western 
Province. 

NESER,  Johannes  Adriaan,  J.P.,  of  Klerks- 
dorp,  Transvaal,  was  born  in  the  Colesburg 
District,  C.C,  July  11,  1860.  He  is  son  of 
Christiaan  Petrus  Neser  and  Johanna  Catharina 
nee  Joubert,  his  fatlier  having  been  a  success- 
ful and  progressive  farmer.  He  was  educated 
at  Colesburg  Dist.  Sch.  and  at  Victoria  Coll., 
Stellenbosch,  and  was  an  undergradtiate  of  the 
Cape  Univ.  He  was  then  articled  to 
various  attorneys  in  Cape  Town  ;  became  partner 
of  Slinter  at  Colesberg  from  1885  to  1892  ; 
went  to  Klerksdorp  and  interested  himself  as 
far  as  the  repressive  policy  of  the  late  regime 
permitted  in  the  interest  of  progress  and  in 
the  practice  of  his  profession  of  Attorney  at 
Law  and  Notary  Public.  He  is  also  J.P.  for 
the  Potehefstroom  Dist.,  Transvaal ;  member 
of  the  Commission  appointed  by  H.E.  the  Gov- 
ernor to  inquire  into  the  Register  of  Mining 
Rights ;  member  of  the  Royal  Colonial  Inst.  ; 
and  a  patron  of  many  forms  of  sport.  He 
married,  Dec.  11,  1886,  Maria  Angelina  Rochlin, 
of  Colesberg. 

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Square,  London,  W.,  and  of  Warnford  Court, 
E.G.,  is  a  brother  of  Sigismund  Neumann  (q.v.) 
and  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Leo  Hirsch  &  Co. , 
one  of  the  largest  firms  of  Kafir  Brokers.  He 
is  on  the  London  Committees  of  the  S.A. 
Gold  Mines,  Ltd.,  and  the  Witwatersrand  Town- 
sliip.  Estate  and  Finance  Corporation,  Ltd.  Mr. 
L.  Neumann  races  in  England,  and  is  a  popular 
figure  in  Society. 

NEUMANN,  SiGiSMTTND,  Salisbury  House, 
London,  E.C.,  of  146,  Piccadilly,  W.,  and  of 
Invercauld,  N.B.,  was  born  in  Bavaria  in 
1856.  Spending  most  of  his  youth  in  Wurtem- 
burg,  he  went  to  S.A.,  when  still  young,  and 
founded  the  firm  of  S.  Neumann  &  Co.,  mine 
owners,  diamond  buyers  and  financiers,  of  Lon- 
don and  S.A.,  of  which  he  is  the  chief  part- 
nOT.  The  firm,  which  included,  up  till  recently, 
Mr.  C.  Sidney  Goldmann  (q.v.),  and,  Mr.  H.  J. 
King  among  its  partners,  is  chiefly  identified 
with  the  following  companies,  which  have  admir- 
able prospects  of  yielding  a  long  series  of 
dividends  when  normal  conditions  in  S.A.,  are 
restored :  Treasury,  Wolhuter,  New  Modder- 
fontein  Consolidated  M.  R.,  Witwatersrand 
Deep,  Knight  Central,  Driefontein  Deep,  African 
Farms  and  Cloverfield  Mines.  Messrs.  S.  Neu- 
mann &  Co.  Eire  associated  with  other  large 
mining  and  financial  groups  in  the  control  of 
the  Randfontein  Deep  and  the  West  Rand 
Consolidated  Gold  Mines,  and  it  has  representa- 
tives on  the  Boards  of  the  Rand  Mines,  Rand 
Mines  Deep,  the  East  Rand  Proprietary  Mines, 
and  its  subsidiaries,  the  City  Deep,  South  City, 
Wolhuter  Deep,  Klip  Deep,  South  Wolhuter, 
Suburban  Deep,  the  Turf  Mines,  the  South 
African  Gold  Mines,  and  other  Cos.  They  are 
also  one  of  the  chief  owners  of  Salisbury 
House,  a  huge  block  of  new  buildings  in  London 
WaU. 

Mr.  S.  Neumann  lias  for  many  years  rented 
Invercauld,  where  Mrs.  Nemnann  entertains  on 
a  large  scale,  and  he  has  also  a  country  seat 
near  Newmarket.  He  is  a  good  gun  shot,  and 
shows  considerable  skill  at  whist  and  bridge. 

NEWBERRY,  Charles,  J.P.,  F.R.C.I.,  of 
Prynusberg,  O.R.C.,  was  born  at  Brampton, 
Huntingdon,  May  17,  1841.  He  is  son  of 
W.  Newberry,  of  Brampton,  and  was  educated 
privately.  He  emigrated  to  Natal  in  1864, 
and  after  a  seven  years'  residence  there  trans- 
ferred to  the  Kimberley  diggings,  and  later  to 
the  Basutoland  border  of  the  O.R.C.,  where  he 
coraraenced    tree    planting   on    a    large    scale. 


He  married  Elizabeth  Mary,  dau.  of  the  Rev.   T. 
Daniel,  of  Tliaba  'Nchu,  O.R.C. 

NEWTON,  Francis  James,  C.M.J.,  Bar- 
rister-at-Law,  of  Salisbury,  Rhodesia ;  Hilling- 
don  House,  Uxbridge;  and  of  Arthur's  Club, 
was  born  at  St.  Croix,  W.I.,  Sept.  13,  1857. 
He  was  educated  at  Rugby  and  Univ. 
Coll.,  Oxford,  where  he  graduated  M.A.  Ho 
was  A.D.C.  to  Sir  Hercules  Robinson  in  1881, 
and  acted  as  his  private  secy,  from  1883  to  '89. 
From  1890  to  1895  he  was  Colonial  Secy,  and 
Receiver-Gen.  for  the  Bechuanaland  Protec- 
torate, and  was  Resident  Commissioner  in 
Bechuanaland  from  1895  until  1897.  But 
after  the  Jameson  Raid  inquiry  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  British  Honduras  as  Colonial  Secy., 
where  he  served  from  1898  to  1901,  occupying 
a  similar  position  in  the  Barbados  from  1901-2, 
when  he  returned  to  England  with  a  view  to  a 
further  appointment  in  S.A.  In  the  latter 
year  he  was  appointed  Treas.  of  S.  Rhodesia 
and  member  of  the  Executive  Council.  Mr. 
Newton  married,  March  12,  1889,  Henrietta, 
eldest  dau.  of  D.  Cloete,  of  Newlands,  Cape 
Town. 

NICHOLSON,  CoL.  John  S.,  was  bom  in 
1868.  He  is  son  of  W.  Nicholson,  of  Basing 
Park,  and  brother  of  W.  G.  Nicholson,  M.P. 
for  East  Hants.  Obtained  his  commission  in 
the  7th  Hussars  in  1884  ;  went  to  Bulawayo 
as  an  Imperial  representative  to  take  over  the 
command  of  the  M.M.P.  very  soon  after  the 
outbreak  of  the  Matebele  War  (1896),  rendering 
conspicuous  services  till  the  close  of  the  cam- 
paign in  Matabeleland.  Towards  the  end  of 
1896  he  was  appointed  Commandant  of  the 
Chartered  Co.'s  forces  north  of  the  Zambesi. 

NIGHTINGALE,  Thomas  Slingsby,  of  103, 
Comeragh  Rd.,  Kensington,  and  of  the  Royal 
Societies  Club,  was  born  at  Bedford,  C.C.,  Jan. 
29,  1866.  He  is  eldest  son  of  the  late  Percy 
Nightingale,  Inspecting  Civil  Commissioner, 
C.C.  (d.  1895),  and  great-grandson  of  Sir 
Chas.  E.  Nightingale,  7th  Bart.,  of  Knees- 
worth  Hall,  Cambridgeshire,  and  was  educated 
at  the  Royal  Naval  Sen.,  New  Cross,  and  at  St. 
George's  Sch.,  Brampton,  Hvmtingdon.  He 
joined  the  Cape  Civil  Service  as  clerk,  and  after 
filling  various  minor  offices  at  K.  W.  Town, 
Cape  Town,  P.  Elizabeth,  and  Kimberley, 
became  Acting  R.M.,  Sub-Collector  of  Customs 
and  Port  Officer  at  Port  NoUoth  in  1891,  and 
first-class     clerk     and    asst.    warehouse    keeper 


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Customs  Dept.  at  East  London  (C.C.)  and  Port 
Elizabeth  in  1896.  In  Nov.,  1898,  he  was 
appointed  Chief  Clerk  in  the  London  office  of 
the  Cape  Agent-Gen.,  and  became  Asst.-Secy. 
in  April  1902.  He  was  appointed,  under  Rule 
274,  a  Commissioner  of  the  Supreme  Coxirt  of 
the  C.C.  Mr.  Nightingale  married,  in  1900, 
Doris,  dau.  of  Chas.  S.  CoUison,  of  East  Bilney, 
Norfolk. 

NILAND,  B.,  M.L.A.,  represents  the  electoral 
division  of  Fort  Bea\ifort  in  the  Cape  Parlia- 
ment, to  which  he  was  elected  in  the  Progres- 
sive interest  in  Feb.  1904. 

NIND,  Chables  Edward,  of  the  Conserva- 
tive (London),  the  Kimberley,  Rand,  Civil 
Service  (C.T.)  and  City  (C.T.)  Clubs,  is  son  of  the 
Rev.  P.  H.  Nind,  of  Woodcote  House,  Oxon., 
where  he  was  born  Aug.  24,  1847.  He  was 
educated  at  Marlborough  Coll.  Originally  in 
business  for  some  years  in  Bombay  and  Bvir- 
mah,  he  went  to  S.A.  in  1881,  and  has  resided 
in  Kimberley  mostly  since  that  time.  He  is  a 
Director  of  the  De  Beers  Consolidated  Mines 
and  various  other  S.A.  Cos. 

NORRIE,.  Ebenezeb  Steven,  of  the  New 
Club,  Johannesburg,  was  bom  in  New  Zealand. 
He  is  second  son  of  the  Rev.  Thos.  Nome,  Pres- 
byterian Minister  of  Papakiu-a,  Auckland,  N.Z., 
who  married  Elizabeth  Angus,  eldst  dau.  of 
the  late  Ebenezer  Steven,  of  Glasgow.  Mr. 
Norrie  joined  the  staff  of  the  South  British  Fire 
and  Marine  Insurance  Co.  of  New  Zealand, 
in  1884,  and  arrived  in  Johannesburg  in  Feb., 
1893,  as  the  Transvaal  Representative  of  that 
institution  which  is  there  domiciled  in  its  own 
premises.  Mr.  Norrie  is  a  non-resident  Fellow 
(for  life)  of  the  R.C.I. 

OATS,  Francis,  M.L.A.,  of  Kimberley,  and 
of  St.  Just,  Cornwall,  is  member  of  the  Cape 
Legislative  Assembly  for  the  electoral  division 
of  Namaqualand,  for  which  he  was  last  re- 
elected in  Feb.,  1904.  He  supports  the  Pro- 
gressive Party  ;  is  a  Director  of  the  De  Beers 
and  a  few  other  S.A.  Cos. 

O'CALLAGHAN,  Sir  Francis  Langford, 
K.C.M.G.  (1902),  CLE.  (May  1883),  C.S.I. 
(Jan.  1888),  of  Crichmere,  Guildford,  is  the  son 
of  the  late  James  O'Callaghan,  J.P.  of  Drisheen, 
County  Cork,  and  is  descended  directly  from 
one  of  the  Chiefs  of  the  Clan  or  Sept  of  O'Cal- 
laghans  outlawed  by  Charles  I.   in   1642.     He 


was  born  July  22,  1839,  at  Kilcorman  Rectory, 
Limex'ick,  and  educated  at  private  schools  and 
at  Queen's  Coll.,  Cork.  He  graduated  M.E. 
Royal  (formerly  Queen's)  Univ.,  Ireland. 
He  is  M.I.C.E.  and  F.R.G.S.  He  entered  the 
service  of  the  Govt,  of  India  in  the  Pubhe 
Works  Dept.  under  covenant  with  the  Secy, 
of  State  for  India  in  June,  1862.  He  was  posted 
to  the  Central  Provinces,  then  governed  by 
the  late  Sir  Richard  Temple  ;  was  frequently 
mentioned  favourably  in  the  Administration 
Reports  by  that  and  subsequent  Governors. 
He  was  posted  to  the  State  Railways  branch 
in  1870,  when  that  branch  was  organized  by 
Lord  Mayo,  then  Viceroy  of  India.  He  rose 
quickly  through  the  various  grades  of  the  Dept. 
and  in  1889  succeeded  Sir  Guildford  Molesworth 
as  Consulting  Engineer.  I)uring  this  period  he 
was  Engineer-in-Chief  for  the  construction  of 
various  State  Railways,  and  was  several  times 
thanked  by  the  Govt,  of  India  for  his  services. 
In  1892  he  was  appointed  Secy,  to  the  Govt, 
of  India,  and  retired  from  the  service  under  the 
age  rule  in  1894.  He  was  created  CLE.  for 
construction  of  the  bridge  over  the  Indus  at 
Attock,  and  C.S.I,  for  the  building  of  the  rail- 
way through  the  Bolan  Pass  in  1885-86.  In 
Sept.,  1895,  he  was  selected  as  managing  member 
(or  Director)  of  the  Uganda  Committee  at  the 
Foreign  Office,  and  it  was  in  recognition  of  his 
services  on  that  Committee  that  he  received 
the  K.C.M.G.  among  the  Coronation  honours 
in  1902.  He  married,  on  Sept.  22,  1875,  A.  M. 
Powell,  dau.  of  Col.  Powell,  of  County  Cork. 

O' CONNER,  Gen.,  commenced  his  military 
career  in  the  Corps  of  Guides  which  distinguished 
itself  before  Metz.  Dviring  the  second  siege  of 
Paris,  necessitated  by  the  Comnnme,  he  was 
A.D.C.  to  De  Gallifet.  He  campaigned  in 
Timis  and  commanded  the  cavalry  in  Tonking. 
He  is  now  engaged  in  active  operations  in 
Morocco. 

O'DWYER,  Arthur  Williamson,  F.A.S., 
F.R.C.I.,  of  Old  Calabar,  is  the  son  of  Maj. 
Gage  Hall  O'Dw^'er,  late  of  the  1st  Indian 
Regt.  He  was  born  Feb.  21,  1861,  at  Free- 
town, Sierra  Leone,  and  was  educated  at  the 
Roman  Catholic  and  Wesleyan  High  Schs. 
at  Freetown.  Mr.  O'Dwyer  entered  the  Public 
Works  Dept.  as  Clerk  in  1878,  and  was 
transferred  to  Customs  and  Harbour  Master's 
Office,  1879.  He  relinquished  office  for  mer- 
cantile pvirsuits  in  1880,  and  travelled  to  the 
Oil  Rivers,  now  Southern  Nigeria,  and  became 


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Consular  Clerk  to  E  H.  Hewett,  C.M.G.,  H.M. 
Consul-Gen.  for  Bights  of  Benin  and  Biafra, 
1888.  He  saw  active  service  dviring  the  block- 
ade of  Opobo,  1889,  and  was  mentioned  in 
despatches  and  received  the  thanks  of  H.M.'s 
Secy,  of  State  for  Foreign  Affairs.  Mr.  O'Dwyer 
served  respectively  as  Store  Keeper  to  the 
Protectorate  Administration,  and  PajTuaster 
of  the  Chartered  yacht  Whydan.  He  was 
appointed  Clerk  of  the  Post  Office  in  1894, 
Chief  Clerk  1897,  and  Postmaster  in  1900.  He 
was  transferred  to  Pay  and  Quartermaster's 
Office,  Southern  Nigeria  Regt.,  in  1902.  He 
is  unmarried. 

OLIVER,  H.  A.,  M.L.A.,  is  one  of  the  four 
Progressive  members  for  Namaqualand,  for 
which  electoral  division  he  was  returned  in 
Feb.  1904.  He  speaks  lucidly  and  forcibly, 
and  is  regarded  as  a  considerable  acquisition 
to  the  debating  power  of  the  House. 

O'MOLONY,  Chidley  Kearnan,  of  Kiltanon 
House,  Kjmberley,  is  the  son  of  Lieut.  Henry 
Anthony  O'Molony,  was  born  at  Cawnpore, 
Jan.  1845,  while  the  first  Sikh  War  was  raging, 
his  father  being  present  at  the  battles  of  Movodku, 
Ferozeshah,  Aliwal,  and  Sobraon.  Mr.  O'Molony 
comes  of  the  very  ancient  Milesian  family  of 
Molony  of  Kiltanon,  co.  Clare,  his  father  was 
second  son  of  Lambert  Molony,  formerly  of  the 
H.E.I.C.S.,  and  again  assumed  the  prefix 
which  was  dropped  by  the  head  of  the  family 
after  the  Revolution  of  1688,  the  family  name 
still  remaining  without  the  prefix.  His  early 
years  were  spent  in  the  Royal  Navy,  retiring 
from  the  service  soon  after  obtaining  a  first- 
class  certifieate  for  the  rank  of  Paymaster. 
He  served  in  Australia  and  in  New  Zealand 
during  the  closing  periods  of  the  Maori  War  in 
the  sixties ;  also  in  the  South  Sea  Islands, 
including  the  Samoa  and  Fiji  groups  ;  in  the 
Channel  Fleet,  and  on  the  West  Coast  of  Africa. 
Mr.  O'Molony  was  mentioned  in  despatches 
by  Col.  (now  Gen.)  Kekewich  for  services  in  his 
Civil  capacity  diu-ing  the  siege  of  Kimberley 
by  the  Boers  in  1899-1900.  Mr.  O'Molony  is 
Town  Clerk  and  Treas.  of  the  important 
borough  of  Kimberley,  in  which  capacity  he 
has  served  for  some  years  and  still  holds  the 
appointment.  He  is  a  J.P.  for  the  District  of 
Kimberley,  of  a  studious  disposition,  and  is  also 
very  fond  of  shooting.  He  married,  in  1872, 
Emma,  dau.  of  the  late  H.  Schofield  Sugden, 
formerly  Deputy-Gov.  of  H.M.  Prison  at 
Gibraltar.     Of  his  five  children  one  son,  Chidley 


Selwyn  Anthony  O'Molony,  is  in  the  service  of 
the  O.R.C.  and  another,  Ernest  Andrew 
O'Molony,  is  in  the  Rhodesian  Railway  Service. 

OOSTHUIZEN,  Okkert  Axmero,  M.L.A., 
is  Bond  member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assem- 
bly for  the  electoral  division  of  JansenviUe, 
for  which  he  was  re-elected  in  Feb.  1904. 

ORPEN,  Joseph  Millaed,  F.R.C.I.,  of 
Salisbury,  Rhodesia,  and  Avoca  District,  Barkly 
East,  C.C,  is  the  son  of  the  late  Rev.  Charles 
Edward  Herbert  Orpen,  M.D.,  F.R.C.P.  Lon- 
don, F.R.C.S.  Dublin,  was  born  in  Dublin, 
Nov.  5,  1828,  and  educated  privately. 

Mr.  Orpen  is  probably  the  oldest  of  the  S.A. 
Parliamentarians,  and  was  until  late  in  1903 
Surveyor-Gen.  of  Rhodesia,  having  administered 
its  Dept.  of  Lands  and  Agricultm-e  since  1896. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  its  Legislative  and 
Executive  Councils. 

On  Dec.  24,  1846,  when  just  tiu'ned  seven- 
teen, he  arrived  with  three  of  his  brothers  in 
Table  Bay.  Thence  they  went  to  their  elder 
brother's  farm,  "  Taaibosch-fontein,"  in  the 
then  Colesberg  District,  between  Naauwpoort 
and  De  Aar.  After  a  few  months'  study  with 
his  father,  who  arrived  in  the  Colony  with  his 
wife  and  the  rest  of  the  family  in  Jan.  1848, 
Mr.  Orpen,  in  1849,  passed  his  theoretical  and 
practical  examinations  for  a  Cape  Govt.  Land 
Surveyorship,  and  received  that  appointment 
as  well  as  a  Justiceship  of  the  Peace  early  in 
1851.  In  the  Kafir  War  of  that  year,  he  served 
as  a  Lieut,  of  Volunteers.  Early  in  1852,  he, 
with  his  eldest  brother,  F.  H.  S.  Orpen,  under- 
took to  survey  for  the  Govt,  of  the  tlien  "  Orange 
River  Sovereignty "  the  Harrisniith  or  Vaal 
River  District  of  that  Colony.  In  Aug.  1853, 
H.M.  Ministers  announced,  through  a  Special 
Commissioner  sent  to  Bloemfontein,  their 
intention  to  abandon  the  territory  immediately, 
calling  upon  its  Eiu-opean  inhabitants  to  elect 
delegates  and  constitute  a  Republican  Govt. 
Mr.  Orpen  and  his  brother  were  elected  dele- 
gates at  Harrismith,  and  received  instructions 
from  their  constituents  to  protest  against  and 
resist  abandonment.  This  Assembly  of  Dele- 
gates, of  which  Mr.  J.  M.  Orpen  is  the  only 
surviving  member,  met  on  Sept.  5,  1853,  and, 
after  a  short  session,  passed  a  unanimous  pro- 
test against  abandonment,  and  elected  a  stand- 
ing committee  to  represent  them  permanently 
in  so  doing.  Of  tliis  committee  Mr.  Orpen  and 
his  brother,  who  had  each  taken  a  prominent 
part    in    the     Assembly's      proceedings,     were 


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elected  members.  The  committee  supported  a 
public  deputation,  which  proceeded  to  England 
to  petition  Govt,  against  abandonment,  but 
on  Sept.  23,  1854,  H.M.  Special  Commissioner 
formally  abandoned  the  territory,  removed  the 
troops  and  Govt,  officers,  and  handed  over  the 
administration  to  those  who  had,  under  his 
encouragement,  organized  a  movement  in  favour 
of  abandonment.  In  the  Convention  which 
thus  created  the  O.F.S.  Republic,  it 
was,  however,  stipulated  that  an  elective 
constituent  and  Legislative  Council  should  be 
called  together  within  three  months,  and  Mr. 
Orpen  was  at  once  re-elected  by  Harrismith 
to  represent  it  in  the  first  Volksraad  of  the  Free 
State.  He  then  took  a  leading  part  in  the 
framing  of  the  Constitution  of  that  State,  which 
lasted,  with  little  rnodification,  till  the  recent 
fall  of  the  two  Republics.  After  the  proro- 
gation of  that  Volkrsaad  (of  which  Mr.  Orpen  is, 
likewise,  the  sole  survivor),  he  was  appointed 
by  the  Pres.  to  conduct  negotiations  and  open 
up  friendly  relations  with  Moshesh,  the  aged 
chief  of  Basutoland,  which  had  been  received 
under  the  Queen's  sovereignty  and  then  aban- 
doned by  H.M.  Govt.  After  Mr.  Orpen  had 
successfully  opened  these  negotiations  and 
relations,  the  Pres.  at  the  public  request  of  the 
inhabitants  of  the  District  of  Winbiu-g,  induced 
him  to  accept  the  position  of  Landdrost  of 
that  district.  To  it  the  District  of  Harrismith 
was  annexed  by  a  resolution  of  the  Volksraad 
in  its  next  session.  Tlius  Mr.  Orpen  was  given 
the  fiscal  and  magisterial  administration  of 
two-thirds  of  the  Free  State,  which,  being 
bounded  by  the  Vaal  River,  then  included  a 
considerable  territory  afterwards  comprised 
in  the  Transvaal  Republic.  His  position  in- 
cluded an  ex-officio  membership  both  of  the 
Volksraad  and  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Justice 
and  Appeal,  which  was  called  "  The  Court  of 
Combined  Landdrosts,"  and  consisted  of  three 
of  those  officials.  In  this  court  Mr.  Orpen  at 
times  presided,  being  then  only  twenty-four 
years  of  age.  Within  a  few  rhonths  of  his 
appointment  (in  Sept.  1854),  Mr.  Orpen  had 
to  deal  with  the  first  attempt  on  the  part  of 
the  adherents  of  Comdt.-Gen.  Marthinus 
Pretorius,  of  the  Transvaal,  to  overthrow  the 
Govt,  of  the  O.F.S.  By  diplomacy,  however, 
Mr.  Orpen  was  successful  in  frustrating  this 
attempt,  though  it  was  renewed,  in  an  armed 
invasion  by  Pretorius  and  Kriiger,  a  few 
years  later.  Co-operating  with  the  Paramount 
Chief  of  the  Basutos,  Mr.  Orpen  produced  a 
satisfactory     state     of     affairs     on     the    whole 


Basuto  border  of  his  District,  while  he  success- 
fully repressed  attempts  by  burghers  of  the 
Free  State  to  kidnap  native  children  beyond 
and  within  its  borders.  In  connection  with  this 
practice  of  kidnapping,  Mr.  Orpen  was  sent  on 
a  mission  to  the  territories  north  of  Natal,  and 
so  demonstrated  the  extensive  nature  of  that 
practice,  that  legislation  against  it  was  passed 
in  the  Cape  Parliament  and  the  Free  State 
Volksraad.  In  1856,  Mr.  Orpen  was  deputed 
by  the  Pres.  to  represent  him  in  giving  direc- 
tions on  the  spot  to  officers  of  a  Free  State 
Commando,  sent  to  coerce  the  native  chief, 
Wietzie,  and  remove  him  from  the  Harrismith 
District,  where  he  was  occupying  farms  granted 
to  whites  during  the  British  regime.  During 
this  commando,  Mr.  Orpen  (with  difficulty  and 
by  his  own  action  alone)  restored  to  their 
mothers  a  number  of  native  children  who  had 
been  seized  by  members  of  the  commando. 
The  first  expeditionary  force,  having  broken  up 
without  accomplishing  its  object,  the  Pres. 
gave  Mr.  Orpen  authority  to  raise  and  take 
command  of  another  commando,  with  which 
he  carried  the  operations  to  a  successful  con- 
clusion. In  the  Presidential  speech  at  the 
opening  of  the  next  session  of  the  Raad,  these 
services  were  brought  to  the  notice  of  the 
Assembly,  and  at  the  conclusion  of  the  session 
a  vote  of  thanks  for  these  and  other  service, 
was  accorded  to  him.  He  soon  afterwards 
resigned  and  retired  to  the  District  of  Aliwal 
North,  in  the  C.C,  where  the  Governor, 
Sir  George  Grey,  entrusted  him  with  extensive 
surveys.  Seeing  that  a  war  was  imminent 
between  the  Free  State  and  the  Basutos  over 
a  question  of  disputed  frontier,  he  used  his 
influence  with  the  Paramount  Chief,  Moshesh, 
to  induce  him  to  propose  to  the  Pres.  that  all 
questions  at  issue  should  be  referred  to  the 
arbitration  of  the  Governor  of  the  Cape.  This 
proposal  was  not  accepted,  and  the  Pres.,  after 
repulsing  an  invasion  by  Pretorius  and  Kriiger, 
declared  war  upon  Moshesh,  but  being  unsuc- 
cessful, eventually  proposed  to  Moshesh  the  very 
mediation  which  he  had  before  declined,  also 
begging  Sir  George  Grey  to  press  it  upon 
Moshesh.  The  latter  at  once  accepted  it, 
and,  acting  on  Mr.  Orpen's  advice,  commenced 
a  series  of  petitions  to  the  British  Govt,  to  be 
again  taken  under  its  sovereignty.  This,  after 
some  years  and  another  war,  led  to  the  ulti- 
mate annexation  of  Basutoland  to  the  British 
dominions, 

Mr.  Orpen,  in  1863,  acquired  landed  property 
in  the  District  of  Aliwal  North,  upon  which  he 


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still  carries  on  farming  operations  on  an  exten- 
sive scale.  In  Feb.  1872,  he  was  chosen  (in  a 
bye-election)  to  represent  the  division  of  Queens- 
town  in  the  Cape  House  of  Assembly.  Both  be- 
fore and  after  his  election,  he  strongly  advocated 
the  gradual  and  steady  extension,  with  the  con- 
sent of  the  native  tribes,  of  British  authority 
over  the  coimtries  lying  outside  Colonial  juris- 
diction between  the  Cape  Colony  and  Natal, 
where  native  relations  existed,  entailing  serious 
responsibilities,  without  practical  means  of 
fulfilling  them.  Mui-der  and  intertribal  blood- 
shed were  rife,  and  general  misgovernment 
prevailed.  During  the  sessions  of  1872  and 
1873,  Mr.  Orpen  pressed  his  views  in  the  Assem- 
bly, and  moved  for  select  committees  to  con- 
sider the  state  of  the  Colony's  native  relations, 
and  elicited  much  information  through  the 
reports  of  those  committees.  He  voted  against 
the  introduction  of  Party  Government,  on  the 
grounds  that  it  would  lead,  with  disastrous 
results,  to  native  affairs  becoming  the  football 
of  party  politics. 

After  the  dissolution  of  the  Cape  Parliament 
in  1873,  Mr.  Orpen  was  asked  by  the  first 
Ministry  of  the  C.C.  to  take  office  as  British 
Resident  in  the  territory  between  the  Umtata 
and  Natal,  with  the  object  of  developing  and 
extending  the  authority  and  jurisdiction  of 
Govt,  there.  That  territory  was  in  a  state  of 
war  on  his  arrival  in  it  in  Aug.  1873,  but  before 
Nov.  of  that  year  British  authority  had  so  far 
advanced  that  on  the  outbreak  of  the  rebellion 
of  Langalibalele,  in  Natal,  Mr.  Orpen  was  able 
to  raise  a  native  army  and  take  part  in  the 
movements  for  suppressing  the  outbreak. 
His  services  in  this  respect  were  honoiu"ably 
mentioned  in  1874,  both  by  the  Natal  and  Cape 
Govts,  in  their  reports  to  their  respective 
Parliaments.  Without  external  support  Mr. 
Orpen  succeeded  in  establishing  authority, 
jurisdiction,  and  just  administration  as  far  as 
the  borders  of  Natal,  and  was  able  to  punish 
some  of  the  chiefs  in  those  territories  placed 
under  his  charge  for  murders  committed  under 
the  pretext  that  the  victims  were  guilty  of 
witchcraft,  and  thus  to  a  great  extent  suppressed 
that  cruel  system.  Mr.  Orpen's  administration 
in  the  territories  mentioned,  lasted  from  Aug., 
1873,  to  June,  1875.  The  last  territory  an- 
nexed during  that  time  was  Griqualand  East, 
at  that  time  governed  by  Adam  Kok.  He  and 
his  people,  the  Griquas,  had  been  permitted  to 
occupy  it  (it  being  land  ceded  to  Govt.)  on  the 
written  stipulation  that  they  should  eventtially 
be  placed   under   the   direct   administration   of 


the  Govt.  Adam  Kok  in  Council  now  asked, 
and  caused  the  request  to  be  recorded,  that  he 
should  be  either  placed  under  direct  administra- 
tion or  made  wholly  independent.  Governor 
Sir  Henry  Barkly  thereupon,  acting  on  the 
advice  of  his  ministers,  proceeded  to  Kokstad, 
declared  the  Govt,  of  Adam  Kok  at  an  end, 
accorded  him  a  retiring  pension  of  £1,000  a 
year,  and  placed  the  administration  in  the  hands 
of  Mr.  Orpen.  In  1875,  after  very  honourable 
mention  in  the  Governmental  report  to  Parlia- 
ment, Mr.  Orpen  resigned  his  office  and  returned 
to  farming  and  the  practice  of  his  profession. 

It  was  while  he  was  engaged  in  a  large  survey 
for  Govt,  in  the  District  of  Hay,  in  Griqualand 
West,  that  a  rebellion  of  the  Griquas,  Korannas 
and  Kafirs  of  that  territory  broke  out  in  1878. 
Mr.  Orpen  was  appointed  at  fu"st  Capt.  of  the 
Corps  of  Gviides,  then  Chief  of  the  Intelligence 
Dept.  on  the  Staff,  and  afterwards  Maj.  in  com- 
mand, as  well  as  a  C.C.  and  R.M.  over  the  seat 
of  the  rebellion.  He  held  these  offices  for  six 
months  till  the  close  of  the  rebellion  and  the 
Bechuanaland  War.  He  was  engaged  in  several 
battles  and  honourably  mentioned  in  despatches 
,by  Lieut. -Governor  Sir  W.  O.  Lanyon,  and  by 
Gen.  Sir  Charles  Warren,  on  whose  staffs  he  had 
served. 

In  1879,  Mr.  Orpen  was  re-elected  member  of 
the  Cape  House  of  Assembly  for  the  Division  of 
Aliwal  North.  He  retained  that  seat  till  Aug. 
1881,  when,  after  the  impotent  close  of  the  cam- 
paign in  Basutoland,  Col.  C.  D.  Griffith,  C.M.G., 
who  had,  before  the  rebellion,  been  a  most  suc- 
cessful Governor's  Agent  and  Chief  JNIagistrate, 
retired,  as  he  did  not  consider  the  restoration  of 
authority  possible  by  him,  under  existing  circum- 
stances. He  advised  that  Mr.  Orpen  should  suc- 
ceed him,  as  he  believed  that  only  under  his 
administration  was  there  any  possibihty  of 
success.  In  the  admittedly  difficult  task  of 
administering  Basutoland  without  extraneous 
support,  Mr.  Orpen  met  with  a  considerable 
measiore  of  success.  He  collected  a  large 
amount  of  Hut  Tax,  pxinished  the  Chiefs  Jona- 
than and  Joel,  who  had  fought  against  each 
other,  and  restored  authority  over  a  considerable 
portion  of  the  population,  but  one  of  the  Basuto 
chiefs,  Masupha,  being  opposed  to  the  estabhsh- 
ment  of  Colonial  authority,  the  Ministry  gave 
up  the  attempt  to  enforce  it,  withdrew  all 
magisterial  jurisdiction,  and  determined  to 
appeal  to  the  Imperial  Govt,  to  undertake  itself 
the  govt,  of  Basutoland,  and  allow  the  repeal 
of  the  Act  annexing  it  to  the  C.C.  Upon 
this,   Mr.    Orpen  was  retired,   in  March,    1883, 


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with  expressions  of  high  regard,  and  shortly 
afterwards  Basutoland  reverted  to  the  direct 
rule  of  the  Imperial  Govt. 

Mr.  Orpen  then  went  to  reside  on  his  property 
in  what  is  now  the  District  of  Barkly  East.  In 
1889,  he  was  again  elected  Senior  Member  for  the 
Electoral  Division  of  Wodehouse  to  the  Cape 
House  of  Assembly,  was  re-elected  in  a  subse- 
quent general  election,  and  held  his  seat  till 
1896,  when  he  was  called  to  be  Svirveyor-Gen.  of 
Rhodesia  and  Member  of  its  Executive  and 
Legislative  Councils.  He  married,  March  31, 
1859,  Elise  Pauline,  dau.  of  the  Rev.  S.  RoUand. 

ORPEN,  W.  Redmond,  M.L.A.,  represents 
Prieska  in  the  Cape  House  of  Assembly  ;  was  first 
elected  in  Feb.  1904,  and  supports  the  progressive 
party  in  the  House. 

ORSMOND,  M.C.,  M.L.A.,  represents  Aliwal 
North  in  the  Cape  Parliament ;  was  elected  in 
Feb.  1904,  and  is  a  Progressive  member. 

PALMER,  Sir  Elwin  Mitfobd,  K.C.B., 
K.C.M.G.  ;  1st  class  Osmanieh,  1st  class  Medji- 
dieh,  1st  class  St.  Saviour  (Greece)  ;  of  Cairo, .. 
Egypt,  and  Park  Mansions,  Albert  Gate,  London, 
is  the  son  of  Edward  Palmer,  He  was  born 
March  3,  1852,  and  was  educated  at  Lancing 
Col.  Sir  Elwin  served  in  the  Indian  Finan- 
cial Dept.  from  1870-1885,  and  occupied 
the  position  of  Acct. -General  in  Egypt, 
1885-89,  and  was  Financial  adviser  to  H.H. 
the  Khedive,  1889-98.  He  is  at  the  present  time 
Gov.  of  the  National  Bank  of  Egypt  and 
Pros,  of  the  Agricultural  Bank  of  Egypt. 
He  married  Mary  Augusta  Lynch,  dau.  of  Maj. 
Clogstown,  V.C. 

PARK,  Maitland  Hall,  of  17,  Mill  St., 
The  Gardens,  Cape  Town,  and  of  the  Imperial 
Colonies  (London)  and  Civil  Service  and  City 
Clubs  (C.T.),  is  the  youngest  son  of  the  late 
Rev.  Hugh  Park,  and  was  born  Oct.  10,  1862,  at 
Cumbernauld,  Diunbartonshire,  N.B.  He  was 
educated  at  the  Glasgow  High  Sch.,  and 
Glasgow  Univ. ,  where  he  headed  the  list  in  open 
Bursary  Competitions  and  graduated  in  Arts 
some  years  later,  in  1885,  In  1885  he  was  ap- 
pointed Sub-Editor  of  the  "  Glasgow  Herald," 
and  a  year  later  he  joined  the  staff  of  the 
"  Pioneer,"  Allahabad,  N.W.P.  India,  and 
remained  there  as  Assistant  Editor,  Officiating 
Ed.  and  Ed. -in-Chief  until  1902  when  he  was 
appointed  Chief  Editor  of  the  "  Cape  Times  " 
in  succession  to  Mr.  Saxon  Mills (q. v.)     He  is  an 


able  journalist  who  has  made  his  mark  in  India, 
and  who  bids  fair  to  worthily  carry  on  the  high 
traditions  of  the  "  Cape  Times." 

PARKIN,  De.  G.  R.,  C.M.G.,  resigned  the  post 
of  Principal  of  Upper  Canada  Col.  to  accept 
the  position  of  Organizer  of  the  Rhodes 
Scholarships,  a  scheme  which  involves  his 
travelling  round  the  world. 

PARSONS,  Major  Harold  Daniel  Edmttnd, 
C.M.G.,  of  Southbourne-on-Sea,  and  the  Isth- 
mian Club,  is  the  fourth  son  of  Major-Gen. 
J.  E.  B.  Parsons,  Indian  Army,  who  was  the 
fourth  son  of  the  late  Lieut. -Gen.  J.  D.  Parsons, 
C.B.,  of  the  Indian  Army,  who  was  great-grandson 
of  Samuel  Parsons,  of  Powerstown,  County  Tip- 
perary.  Hewasborn  July  3,  1863,  in  London,  and 
was  educated  at  Dulwich  Coll.  He  joined  the 
"  Queen's "  Regt.  in  1882  and  saw  active 
service  in  the  Burmese  Campaign  in  1887,  re- 
ceiving medal  with  two  clasps.  He  joined  the 
Army  Ordnance  Dept.,  1890,  and  was  promoted 
Capt  in  the  following  year.  He  was  Chief 
Ordnance  Officer,  Straits  Settlements,  1894  to 
1898,  and  in  the  latter  year  was  promoted  Maj. 
He  served  in  the  S.A.  Campaign  in  1899-1902 
with  distinction.  He  held  the  appointment  of 
Chief  Ordnance  Officer  of  various  districts,  and 
was  mentioned  in  despatches.  He  received 
his  C.M.G.  in  1800  and  the  Queen's  medal  with 
three  clasps  and  ling's  medal  with  two  clasps. 
He  is  now  serving  as  Chief  Ordnance  Officer  of 
the  Western  District.  He  married,  Feb  10,  1892, 
Julia,  second  dau.  of  Thomas  Archer,  C.M.G. , 
of  Grassmere,  Queensland,  late  Agent-Gen,  for 
Queensland.  He  has  one  son,  Harold  Archer 
James,  born  1895. 

PEACE,  Sir  Walter,  K.C.M.G.,  Chevalier  de 
I'ordre  de  Leopold,  of  39,  Hyde  Park  Gate,  S.W., 
and  of  the  St.  Stephen's,  Junior  Constitutional, 
Imperial  Service,  Colonial,  and  Durban  Clubs, 
was  born  at  Huddersfield,  Oct.  19,  1840.  He  is 
the  son  of  James  Peace,  professor  of  music,  of 
Huddersfield,  and  was  educated  at  a  private 
academy  in  that  town.  Sir  Walter  went  to  Natal 
in  1863,  and  became  head  of  the  firm  of  Peace, 
Blandy  &  Co.,  merchants.  He  was  Consul  for 
Belgiiun  at  Durban,  and  Vice-Consul  for  Portugal. 
1870-1879.  He  was  appointed  Natal  Emigration 
and  Harbour  Board  Agent  in  London  in  1880, 
and  Agent-Gen.  for  Natal  in  1893,  in  whicli 
year  he  was  made  C.M.G.,  receiving  the  honour 
of  Knighthood  in  1897.  He  is  the  auther  of 
"  Our  Colony  of  Natal  "  and  "  Notes  on  Natal." 


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Sir  Walter  is  a  fellow  or  member  of  various 
Institutes,  and  Hon.  Member  of  the  Institute 
of  Marine  Engineers.  He  was  one  of  the  Royal 
Commissioners  for  the  Paris  Exhibition  in  1900  ; 
was  a  Commissioner  for  the  Colonial  and  Indian 
Exhibition  in  1886  ;  is  a  Member  of  the  Advisory 
Conmiittee  of  the  Board  of  Trade  in  connection 
with  the  Imperial  Institute,  and  is  a  member 
of  Mr.  Chamberlain's  Tariff  Commission,  He 
married,  April  24,  1869,  Caroline,  youngest  dan. 
of  Wm.  Tilbrook,  of  Woodham  Lodge,  near 
Chelmsford. 

PEACOCK,  John  Michael,  of  Addiscombe, 
Queenstown,  C.C.,  and  of  the  National 
Liberal  (Lond.)  and  City  (C.T.)  Clubs;  is 
son  of  George  Peacock  of  Manchester,  where  he 
was  born,  Feb.  22,  1831  ;  was  educated  privately, 
and  proceeding  to  the  Cape  became  senior 
partner  in  the  merchant  firm  of  Peacock  Bros., 
of  London,  Queenstown,  and  East  London 
(G.C).  He  represented  King  WUliamstown 
in  the  Cape  House  of  Assembly  from  1874  to 
1877  ;  was  appointed  by  the  Scanlen  Ministry 
a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Advice  to  Sir 
Chas.  Mills,  the  first  Agent-Gen.  for  the  Cape 
of  Good  Hope  in  1883  ;  and  sat  in  the  Legislative 
CouncU  for  the  E.  Circle,  C.C,  from  1891  to  1898. 
Mr.  Peacock  married,  Sept.  25,  1867,  a  dau.  of 
I.  Hincksman,  cotton  spirmer,  of  Preston,  Lanes. 

PEAKE,  Major  (local  LiEUT.-CoL.)  Malcolm, 
R.F.A.,  C.M.G..  4th  Class  of  the  Imperial  Orders 
of  theOsmanieh  (1899)  and  Medjidieh  (1896),  of 
Cairo,  and  of  the  Naval  and  Military,  Boodle's, 
and  the  Cavalry  Clubs  ;  was  born  in  London, 
March  27  1805;  is  youngest  son  of  Frederick 
Peake,  of  Burrough,  Melton  Mowbray,  Leicester- 
shire, was  educated  at  Charterhouse,  and  joined 
the  Egyptian  army  in  July,  1895.  He  served 
in  the  various  campaigns  of  1896,-97,-98,-99 
for  the  recovery  of  the  Sudan  and  the  destruction 
of  the  Dervish  power.  He  received  a  brevet 
majority  in  1896,  and  was  subsequently  decorated 
with  the  Medjidieh,  the  Osmanieh,  and  the  Queen's 
medal  and  the  Khedive's  medal  with  clasps  for 
Ferket,  Hafir,  Nile  (1897),  Atbara,  Khartum 
and  Nile  (1899).  Major  Peake  commanded  a 
battery  of  artillery  under  Lord  Kitchener 
when  Comdt.  Marchand  was  encountered  at 
Fashoda  in  Sept.  1898,  and  had  command  of  the 
expedition  sent  to  the  Upper  Nile  in  Dec.  1899 
to  clear  the  sudd  away  and  open  a  waterway, 
which  was  completed  in  May  1900,  in  which 
month  the  first  steamer  from  the  north  reached 
Gondokow.     For  this  service  he  was  decorated 


with  the  C.M.G.  He  now  commands  the  artil- 
lery of  the  Egyptian  army,  and  is  in  charge  of  all 
small  arms  and  anununition  connected  with  the 
Egyptian  army  and  the  Anglo-Egyptian  Sudan. 
He  married,  June  20,  1900,  Louisa,  eldest  dau. 
of  the  late  P.  H.  Osborne,  of  Currandooley,  New 
South  Wales. 

PEARSE,  Samuel  Herbert,  F.R.C.I.,  of 
Lagos,  and  Old  Calabar,  N.  Africa,  was  born  in 
the  Colony  of  Lagos,  Nov.  20,  1865,  and  is  the 
only  surviving  son  of  the  late  Rev.  S.  Pearse,  of 
the  C.M.S.  He  was  educated  at  the  C.M.S. 
Gram.  Sch.  at  Lagos ;  was  trained  to  com- 
mercial pursuits  on  the  West  Coast,  and  entered 
into  a  partnership  in  1890  with  the  late  I.  A. 
Thompson,  trading  in  Lagos  and  London.  This 
partnership  was  dissolved  in  1894,  when  he 
started  on  his  own  account  at  Lagos  and  after- 
wards at  Old  Calabar.  In  1897  he  visited  Benin 
city  and  the  adjoining  forests,  under  Govt, 
auspices,  reporting  on  the  rubber  resources,  etc. 
He  was  elected  in  1901  a  Life  FeUow  of  the  R.C.I. 
He  married,  in  June,  1897,  Constance,  eldest  dau. 
of  J.  P.  Decker,  of  Lagos. 

PEARSON,  Alfred  Naylor,  of  Pietermaritz- 
burg,  was  born  May  17,  1856,  at  Leeds,  Eng, 
and  was  educated  in  liis  native  town  and  at  the 
Royal  Sch.  of  Mines,  London.  In  1874  he 
obtained  a  Royal  Exhibition  at  that  Institution, 
and  for  two  years  was  at  the  head  of  tlie  examina- 
tions, thus  gaining  two  additional  scholarships. 
In  1877  he  accepted  a  position  in  Kutch,  IncMa, 
in  connection  with  the  development  of  the 
mineral  resom-ees  of  the  State.  After  thirteen 
months'  service  he  resigned  and  was  appointed 
temporarily  Curator  of  the  Victoria  and  Albert 
Museum,  Bombay,  and  acting  Prof,  of  Biology 
of  the  Elphinston  Coll.  in  that  city.  In  1880  he 
wais  appointed  Resident  Engineer  of  the  Wjmaad 
G.M.C.,  resigning  that  position  in  1882  to  assume 
temporary  charge  for  two  and  a-half  years  of 
the  Meteorological  Department  in  Western 
India.  In  1884  he  was  made  Fellow  of  the 
University  of  Bombay  ;  at  the  end  of  that  year 
he  left  for  Australia,  and  in  the  following  j'^ear 
was  appointed  Exaininer  for  higher  degrees  in 
various  science  subjects  at  the  University  of" 
Melbourne.  In  1886  he  was  appointed  Chemist 
to  the  Dept.  of  Agricultiu-e,  Victoria,  and 
svibsequently  Chemist  of  Lands,  Agriculture 
and  Wat-er  Supply  in  that  Colony.  In  1888 
he  was  appointed  Member  of  the  Royal  Inter- 
colonial Commission  to  report  on  proposals  by 
Pastetu:  and  others  for  suppressing  the  rabbit 


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pest  in  Australia.  After  serving  on  various 
conferences  and  receiving  a  resolution  of  thanks 
for  "  splendid  services  to  the  Agriculture  of  the 
State,"  he  was  appointed  in  1901  Director  of 
Agriculture  in  Natal,  and  subsequently  gazetted 
also  as  Commissioner  of  Industries  for  that 
Colony. 

Under  his  direction  a  large  experimental  farm 
of  3,600  acres  is  being  laid  out.  He  is  the  author 
of  many  reports,  papers,  and  other  writings  upon 
the  development  of  the  mineral  resources  of 
India,  meteorological  works  on  parts  of  India, 
agricultiu-al  subjects  connected  with  Australia, 
also  on  various  educational,  scientific  and  literary 
matters,  and  a  scheme  of  agricultural  settlement 
for  Natal,  which  he  has  written  in  co-authorship 
with  the  Sxirveyor-Gen.  He  married :  first, 
in  1882,  the  eldest  dau.  of  Dr.  R.  T.  Corbett, 
M.D.,  etc.,  Glas.,  and  second,  in  1896,  the  eldest 
dau.  of  Richard  Harding,  and  sister  of  Maj. 
R.  Harding,  of  Melbourne,  Australia. 

PEEL,  The  Right  Revd.  William  George, 
D.D.,  Lord  Bishop  of  Mombasa,  of  Bishop's 
Court,  Mombasa,  East  Africa,  and  the  Mombasa 
Club,  was  born  in  N.  India,  in  1854.  He  is  son 
of  Capt.  Peel,  who  daed  in  Calcutta  of  cholera. 
He  was  educated  at  the  Blackheath  Proprietary 
Sch.,  and  at  the  Church  Missionary  Theological 
Coll.,  Islington ;  was  ordained  Deacon  at  St. 
Paul's,  London,  in  1879  ;  Priest,  1880 ;  and  was 
consecrated  Bishop  in  1899.  He  was  Ciu-ate, 
Trowbridge,  Wilts,  1879-80  ;  Rugby  Fox  Master, 
Noble  Coll.,  Masulipatam,  1880-87  (Acting- 
Principal  for  three  years) ;  Acting  Secy.  Church 
Missionary  Society,  Diocese  of  Madras,  1888,  '89 
and  '92,  and  was  Secy,  of  the  Chm-ch  Missionary 
Society,  Diocese  of  Bombay,  1892-99.  He 
married,  Aug.  3,  1880,  Agneta  Jane,  dau.  of  the 
Rev.  R.  Guy  Bryan,  late  Principal  of  Monkton 
Combe  School,  nr.  Bath. 

PEIRSON,  Joseph  Waldie,  F.R.G.S., 
F.R.C.I.,  of  Johannesburg  (P.O.  Box  561),  of 
2,  Mitre  Court  Buildings,  Temple,  E.C.,  and  of 
the  Royal  Societies  (London),  the  Rand,  New, 
Athenaeum  and  Wanderers'  (Johannesburg) 
Clubs,  and  the  Jockey  Club  of  S.A.  ;  was  bom 
at  Darlington,  Coimty  Durham,  July  31,  1865. 
He  is  eldest  son  of  Joseph  Peirson,  of  Stokesley, 
Yorks.,  and  Margaret,  dau.  of  Thomas  Waldie, 
of  Darlington  ;  was  educated  at  the  High  Sch., 
Pietermaritzburg,  and  at  Dr.  Ehrlich's  Sch.,  at 
Newcastle-on-Tyne.  He  is  a  Barrister  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  and  Advocate  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  Transvaal.     He  went  to  Natal  in 


1877,  and  to  Johannesburg  in  1889,  where  he  is 
on  the  boards  of  several  G.M.  Cos.  He  has  been 
member  of  the  Provincial  Synod  of  S.A.  and 
on  the  Diocesan  Synods  of  Maritzburg  and  Pre- 
toria on  several  occasions,  and  is  Chancellor  of 
the  Diocese  of  Pretoria  (1903).  He  is  also  Vice- 
Pres.  of  the  Geological  Soc.  of  S.A.  ;  on  the 
Council  of  the  Soc.  of  Accomitants  and  Auditors 
of  Eng.  (Transvaal  branch) ;  Fellow  of  the 
Chartered  Inst,  of  Secretaries  (Eng.) ;  Member 
of  the  Council  of  the  Witwatersrand  Agricultural 
Soc.  ;  Mem.  of  the  Johannesburg  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  and  Mem.  of  the  Transvaal  Chamber 
of  Mines.  His  recreations  are  racing  and  bridge. 
Unmarried. 

PENTON,  Major  (local  Lieut.-Col.)  Richard 
Hugh,  D.S.O.,  R.A.M.C,  3rd  class  Medjidieh, 
4th  class  Osmanieh ;  of  the  War  Office,  Cairo, 
Egypt,  and  the  Jrniior  United  Service  Club,  is 
the  eldest  son  of  the  late  Major-Gen.  John  Pen- 
ton.  He  was  born  April  25,  1863,  in  Norfolk, 
and  was  educated  at  Norwich.  Major  Penton 
is  M.R.C.S.  and  L.R.C.P.  Lend.  He  joined  the 
R.A.M.C.  as  Capt.  in  1887,  and  saw  service  in  the 
Dongola  Expedition  in  1896  (despatches,  medal, 
two  clasps  and  D.S.O.),  in  the  Nile  Expedition  as 
S.M.O.  of  the  Infantry  Division  of  the  Egyptian 
Army  (despatches,  medal,  two  clasps,  Order  of 
the  Osmanieh),  and  in  the  Nile  Expedition  of 
the  following  year  he  served  as  P.M.O.  of  the 
Egyptian  Army  in  the  first  advance  against  the 
Khalifa  (clasp  and  Egyptian  medal  and  3rd 
class  Medjidieh). 

PETERS,  Dr.  Carl  Friedrich  Htjheet, 
of  68,  Buckingham  Gate,  London,  S.W.  is 
the  son  of  a  Lutheran  clergyman  in  Hanover. 
He  was  bom  at  Neuhaus,  Hanover,  in  1856,  and 
was  educated  at  the  High  Sch.  of  Ifeld  (Hartz 
Moiuitains),  and  at  the  Univ.  of  Gottingen, 
Tiibingen,  Berlin,  and  in  London.  He  is  weU 
known  as  an  African  explorer  and  adminis- 
trator, and  is  the  f  ovinder  of  the  German  Coloniza- 
tion Socy.  In  1884  he  acquired  in  S.A.  large 
tracts  of  land,  and  obtained  for  them  an  Im- 
perial Protectorate  from  the  German  Govt. 
As  head  of  the  German  East  Africa  Co.,  he  ex- 
tended its  possessions  and  organized  its  stations, 
and  was  instrumental  in  bringing  about  a  Colonial 
Congress  in  Berlin  in  1886.  In  1887  he  returned 
to  E.  Africa  and  fought  his  way  through  Manica- 
land  with  reckless  bloodshed  and  tried  to  place 
Uganda  under  German  protection.  He  became 
Imperial  German  High  Commissioner  in  the 
Kilimanjaro  district,  but  had  to  resign  his  com- 


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mission  in  the  German  service  after  an  inquiry 
into  his  treatment  of  the  natives  in  German  E. 
Africa,  which  resulted  in  a  verdict  of  "  misuse  of 
official  power."  He  commanded  the  German 
Emin  Pacha  Relief  expedition  in  1889-90,  and 
later,  in  1899-1901,  he  embarked  on  a  journey 
through  Portuguese  territory  south  of  the  Zam- 
besi and  along  the  eastern  border  of  Charterland, 
spending  much  time  in  the  Makalango  country, 
on  behalf  of  a  gold  syndicate  which  he  had 
formed  in  England.  The  results  of  his  trip  were 
published  in  a  book  called  "  The  Eldorado  of 
the  Ancients,"  much  of  which  is  devoted  to  show- 
ing that  the  region  between  the  Lower  Zambesi 
and  the  Limpopo  was  the  Land  of  Ophir,  and  even 
the  Egyptian  "  Punt."  He  further  maintains 
that  Pharaoh  kept  a  Governor  in  this  district,  of 
w^hich  Quilimane  was  at  that  time  the  port. 
Dr.  Peters  has  travelled  on  foot  or  horseback 
about  20,000  miles  in  the  interior  of  Africa. 
His  hunting  trophies  include  5  lion  skins,  17 
rhino'  horns,  7  double  elephant  tusks,  and  4 
leopard  skins.  He  has  been  decorated  with  the 
Order  of  the  Prussian  Crown,  Albrecht  Order 
(King  of  Saxony),  Order  of  the  Falcon  (Grand 
Duke  of  Saxony),  Order  of  the  Lion  of  the  Zah- 
ringens  (Baden),  etc.  In  addition  to  "  The 
Eldorado  of  the  Ancients,"  he  is  the  author  of 
several  works,  including  "  New  Light  on  Dark 
Africa,"  "  King  Solomon's  Golden  Ophir,"  "  Sun 
and  Soul,"  etc.,  etc.     Unmarried. 

PHILLIPS,  Lionel,  D.L.,  J.P.,  of  33,  Gros- 
venor  Square,  London,  and  of  Tylney  Hall, 
Winchfield,  Eng.,  was  born  in  London  in  Aug. 
1854.  He  was  on  the  diamond  fields  of  Kimber- 
ley  in  the  early  days,  but  in  1889  he  coached  up 
to  the  Rand,  and  joined  the  fu-m  of  H.  Eckstein 
&  Co.,  of  which  he  became  the  chief  after  the 
death  of  Hermann  Eckstein.  As  a  mining  engi- 
neer he  had  a  very  considerable  experience,  but 
it  required  all  his  knowledge,  resolution  and 
energy  to  combat  the  difficulties  of  the  early 
days  of  the  Witwatersrand — not  only  the  eco- 
nomic difficulties  which  had  to  be  solved,  but 
also  the  obstacles  which  a  reactionary  govt. 
placed  in  the  way  of  progress.  These  latter 
bore  especially  hard  on  the  mining  industry, 
and  in  those  days  every  captain  of  industry  in 
the  S.A.R.  was  forced  in  self-defence  to  take  an 
active  part  in  local  politics.  As  Pres.  of  the 
Johannesburg  Chamber  of  Mines  and  chief 
partner  in  the  premier  firm  of  the  Rand,  Mr. 
Lionel  Phillips  exercised  the  greatest  influence 
in  matters  mineral  and  political.  The  long  and 
bitter  fight  against  Mr.  Kriiger's  govt,  found  an 


ardent  champion  in  Mr.  PhilHps.  He  was  one 
of  the  four  leaders  of  the  Reform  movement, 
and  after  the  failure  of  the  ill-starred  raiding 
enterprise,  he  was  tried  v/ith  Col.  Frank  Rhodes, 
J.  Hays  Hammond,  and  Sir  Geo.  Farrar  (q.v.), 
and  was  condemned  to  death — a  sentence  which 
was  afterwards  communted  to  a  fine  of  £2.5,000 
and  banishment,  in  default  of  an  undertaking 
not  to  eddle  in  the  politics  of  the  State  for 
15  years,  {See  also  Dr.  Coster  and  Judge 
Gregorowsky).  On  returning  to  England  Mr. 
Phillips  became  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Wernher, 
Beit  &  Co.,  in  connection  with  which  he  takes  a 
highly  prominent  place  in  financial  circles, 
although  so  far  as  directorships  go  he  sits  only 
on  the  London  Committees  of  the  Angelo  Deep, 
Cason  G.M.,  Main  Reef  Deep,  and  Main  Reef 
East  Companies,  and  on  the  European  Com- 
mittee of  the  East  Rand  Proprietary  Mines. 
Mr.  Phillips  is  an  able  speaker,  and  whether  in 
bis  public  utterances  or  with  his  pen,  always 
expresses  himself  in  adequate  and  convincing 
phrases.  He  takes  a  more  than  ordinary  in- 
terest in  Egyptology  ;  is  J.P.  for  Hampshire  ; 
a  D.L.,  and  a  member  of  the  Committee  on  Com- 
mercial Edvication  in  connection  with  the  Lon- 
don Chamber  of  Commerce. 

When  in  the  Transvaal  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lionel 
Phillips  were  at  the  head  of  the  Uitlander  com- 
munity. In  England  they  entertain  considerably 
and  make  capital  hosts.  Mrs.  Phillips,  after 
the  Raid,  published  an  interesting  history  of 
that  period. 

POISSON,  Frederick  Cutlar,  of  Bar- 
tholomew House,  London,  E.G.,  is  a  cadet  of 
one  of  the  best  families  of  S.  Carolina.  He  was 
for  some  time  engaged  in  mining  in  California, 
Texas,  and  other  States.  Subsequently  he 
went  to  the  De  Kaap,  where  he  went  through 
rough  times.  In  1887,  however,  he  left  there 
for  the  Witwatersrand,  and  managed  to  ac- 
cumulate a  comfortable  fortune.  Since  his 
marriage  Mr.  Poisson  has  resided  mainly  in 
England.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  Consolidated 
Goldfields  of  Mexico  and  the  Rand  Investment 
Corporation,  besides  being  on  the  Boards  of 
the  Belfast  G.M.  Co.,  the  Copiapo  Gold  Mines, 
Felton's  Copala  Mines,  Mexican  (Oaxaca)  Synd., 
and  the  Vista  AUegre  G.M.  Estate. 

POTT,  William,  of  the  Rand,  New,  and  Pre- 
toria Clubs,  belongs  to  an  old  Border  family, 
about  which  Tancred  quotes  in  his  "  Annals," 
an  old  document,  dated  1521,  referring  to  the 
"  Potts,  Rutherfords,  Dalglishes,  and  Robsons, 


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who,  with  their  followers,  made  a  raid  into  Eng- 
land with  two  sleuthhounds  and  carried  off  a 
niimber  of  sheep  and  about  100  head  of  cattle." 
He  was  born  in  RoxbvrrghRhire,  educated  at  Edin- 
burgh Acad.,  and  went  to  New  Zealand  in 
1883  to  start  stock  farming,  but  not  satisfied 
with  this,  proceeded  to  the  Transvaal  in  connec- 
tion with  the  Oceana  Consolidated  Co.  in  1880. 
He  took  up  the  property  management  for  Mr. 
J.  C.  A.  Henderson  in  1890,  and  the  general 
managership  of  the  Henderson  Cos.  in  1895, 
having  meanwhile  visited  Matabeleland  (1894) 
and  been  on  two  extended  big  game  shoots  be- 
tween Leydsdorp  and  Komati  Poort  (1892-3). 
He  represented  "  South  Africa "  as  special 
correspondent  in  Natal  with  Sir  G.  White's  force, 
and  was  tlirough  Ladysmith  in  that  capacity. 
Mr.  Pott  is  unmarried. 

POWELL,  Edmtjnd,  of  "  Cambria,"  Harfield 
Ed.,  Claremont,  near  Cape  Town,  and  of  the 
City  Club,  C.T.,  was  born  in  Worcestershire 
in  1849.  He  is  son  of  W.  Powell,  of  Worces- 
ter, where  he  was  educated,  and  commenced 
his  business  career.  He  joined  the  reporting 
staff  of  the  "  City  Press  "  in  1871,  becoming 
sub-editor  of  that  well-loiown  joui-nal.  Trans- 
ferring to  the  "  Cape  Argus,"  as  sub-ed.  in  1880, 
he  became  editor  in  the  following  year,  combining 
■with  that  the  Resident  Directorship  of  the  Argus 
P.  &  P.  Co.,  in  1889.  During  this  time  he  has 
taken  part  in  most  public  movements  in  the 
capital  of  the  Colony,  including  election  work 
and  the  organization  of  the  Progressive  party. 
Ho  is  on  the  executive  of  the  S.A.  Newspaper 
Press  Union.  Mr.  Powell  married,  in  1876,  Ellen 
Maria,  dau.  of  Thomas  Price,  of  Worcester. 

POWRIE,  F.,  M.L.A.,  sits  in  the  Cape  Legis- 
lative Assembly  as  Progressive  Member  for 
Wodehouse,  for  which  electoral  division  he  was 
elected  in  Feb.,  1904. 

PRETORIUS,  Hon.  M.  J.,  M.L.C.,  is  Member 
of  the  Cape  Legislative  Council  for  the  North- 
East  Circle,  for  which  electoral  division  he  was 
re-elected  in  Feb.,  1904.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
S.A.  party. 

PRICE,  Thomas  Ries,  C.M.G.,  J.P.,  of  Bryn 
Tirion,  The  Berea,  Johannesbiirg,  and  of  the 
Civil  Service  (C.T.),  Rand,  Pretoria,  Bloem- 
fontein,  and  East  London  Clubs,  was  born  at 
Merthyr  Tydvil,  South  Wales,  Feb.  20,  1848. 
He  is  the  son  of  the  late  Rees  and  Hannah  Price, 
of  Carmarthenshire,  and  was  educated  at  Bal- 
larat,    S.    Australia,    and    Swansea.     Mr.    Price 


was  trained  for  the  railway  service,  and  had  a 
varied  experience  in  different  depts.  of  the 
Great  Western  Railway  until  1880,  when  he 
became  District  Traffic  Superintendent  of  the 
Cape  Govt.  Railways  at  Grahamstown,  and 
acted  as  Asst. -Traffic  Manager  at  Cape  Town. 
He  was  Asst. -Traffic  Manager  at  Port  Ehzabeth 
in  1881  ;  Traffic  Manager  of  the  Eastern  System 
in  1882  ;  Traffic  Manager  of  the  Northern  Sys- 
tem in  1892;  Cape  Govt.  Railway  Agent  in 
the  Transvaal  and  O.R.C.  in  the  same  year ;  Chief 
Traffic  Manager  in  1893,  and  Asst.  General 
Manager  of  Railways  in  1901.  He  acted  as 
Sir  James  Sivewright's  adviser  on  railway 
matters  in  the  negotiations  with  the  Transvaal 
in  1890 ;  is  Hon.  Col.  of  the  Railway  and 
Post  Office  Batt.  of  the  Cape  Peninsula  Regt., 
is  J.  P.  for  the  Colony  of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope, 
and  Vice-Pres.  of  the  Cape  Cambrian  Society. 
He  married,  March  20,  1872,  Miss  Mary  Howell, 
of  Neath. 

PRIOR,  Melton,  the  famous  war  corres- 
pondent and  artist,  is  well-known  in  S.A., 
where  he  has  represented  the  "  Illustrated 
London  News  "  on  many  occasions.  His  ser- 
vices on  behalf  of  that  paper  have  been  retained 
on  the  following  occasions  : — Ashanti  War,  1873  ; 
the  Carlist  Rising,  1874;  the  Herzegovinian, 
Servian,  Turlvish,  Basuto,  Zulu  and  first  Boer 
Wars;  Egypt,  1882;  the  Sudan  and  Nile  Expedi- 
tion, the  Burmese  War,  the  Jameson  Raid  epi- 
sode of  1896,  the  Graeco-Tvirkish  War  and  the 
Tuchim  rising  of  1897.  He  was  besieged  in 
Ladysmith  diiring  the  Boer  War  of  1899-1902, 
and  is  now  representing  his  paper  in  the  Russo- 
Japanese  War.  In  addition  to  these  services 
as  war  artist,  Mr.  Prior  accompanied  liing 
Edward's  (then  Prince  of  Wales' )  suite  to  Athens 
in  1875,  travelled  with  the  Danish  King's  expe- 
dition through  Iceland,  accompanied  the  Mar- 
quess and  Marchioness  of  Lome  on  their  first 
visit  to  Canada,  and  was  present  at  the  Bei'lin 
Conference.  In  1902  he  left  to  represent  his 
journal  at  the  Coronation  Durbar  at  Delhi. 

RABIDGE,  W.,  M.L.A.,  represents  Vryburg 
in  the  Cape  Parliament,  to  which  he  was  returned 
in  Feb. ,  1904.    He  supports  the  Progressive  party. 

RABIE,  Dirk  de  Vos,  M.L.A.,  is  Bond  Mem- 
ber of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for  Wor- 
cester, for  which  electoral  division  he  was  re- 
elected in  Feb.  1904. 

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is  member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for 
flumansdorp,  for  which  electoral  division  he  was 
re-elected  in  Feb.,  1904,  He  belongs  to  the  S.A. 
party. 

RADZIWILL,  Princess  Catherine,  of  Kenil- 
worth,  near  Cape  Town,  was  born  in  1858  ;  she  is 
descended  from  a  princely  Polish  family,  her 
father,  Count  Adam  Rzewuski  having  been 
formerly  Ambassador  at  Madrid,  and  A.D.C. 
to  Czar  Nicholas  I.  Her  mother  was  Mdlle. 
Daschkoff.  The  Princess  was  a  niece  of  Gen. 
Skobeloff,  and  also  of  Mme.  de  Balzac,  wife  of 
the  great  novelist  at  whose  house  in  Paris  she 
spent  many  of  her  early  days.  She  was  edu- 
cated in  the  Parisian  capital,  and  was  betrothed 
at  the  age  of  fifteen  to  Prince  W.  Radziwill, 
whom  she  married  in  1873.  She  then  resided 
mostly  at  Berlin  where  she  became  intimately 
acquainted  with  the  Emperor  William  II, 
the  Emperor  and  Empress  Frederick  and  the 
present  German  Emperor,  and  moved  in  the 
highest  covu-t  and  diplomatic  circles  in  Germany 
and  Russia. 

Taking  up  journalism,  she  started  a  weekly 
paper  in  Cape  Tohti  called  "  Greater  Britain." 
In  May,  1902,  she  was  convicted  in  Cape  Town 
of  forging  the  late  Mr.  Cecil  Rhodes'  signature 
to  a  bill  for  £1,000,  and  was  sentenced  to  two 
years'  detention  in  a  house  of  correction.  She 
was  released,  however,  in  Aug.  1903,  and  in 
the  following  Nov.,  obtained  a  writ  against  Mr. 
Rhodes'  trustees  in  respect  of  a  claim  against 
his  estate  for  £1,400,000  under  an  alleged  agree- 
ment dated  about  June  20,   1899. 

Princess  Radziwill  has  published  some  novels 
in  French,  and  has  contributed  a  good  deal 
to  the  British  and  American  press. 

RATHBONE,  Edgar  Philip,  of  Johannes- 
burg (P.O.  Box  927),  and  of  the  Rand,  Pretoria, 
and  Barberton  Clubs,  was  born  at  Liverpool, 
Sept.  3,  1856.  He  is  the  son  of  the  late  Mr. 
Philip  H.  Rathbone,  of  Liverpool,  was  edu- 
cated at  Univ.  Coll.,  London,  the  Royal 
Sch.  of  Mines,  London,  and  at  the  Sch.  of 
Mines  at  Freiberg  and  Liege.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  following  institutions  :  Institute  of 
Civil  Engineers,  Institution  of  Mining  and 
Metallurgy,  S.  African  Association  of  Engineers, 
Chemical,  Metalliu-gical  and  Mining  Society 
of  S.A.,  Geological  Society  of  S.A.,  and  is  an 
Associate  Member  of  the  Chamber  of  Mines, 
Johannesburg,  During  some  twenty-five  years 
Mr.  Rathbone  has  been  engaged  in  active 
imining  operations  in  S.A.,    Bolivia,    Argentine 


Republic,  the  Brazils,  Mexico,  U.S.A.,  British 
Coliuubia,  Klondyke,  and  many  of  the  European 
mining  districts.  From  the  first  he  showed  a, 
firm  belief  in  the  deep-level  properties  of  the 
Rand,  upon  which  he  made  many  reports, 
and  did  great  service  to  the  industry,  together 
with  Mr.  W.  A.  Wills,  by  writing  a  series  of 
articles  drawing  attention  to  the  immense 
potentialities  of  the  Rand  Goldfields,  principally 
through  the  medium  of  the  "  South  African 
Mining  Joiu-nal  "  and  the  "  African  Review." 
He  is  at  present  the  sole  mining  correspondent 
in  the  Transvaal  of  the  "  Times,"  and  also  acts 
as  correspondent  of  the  "  Financier  and  Bul- 
lionist."  For  several  years  Mr.  Rathbone 
occupied  the  position  of  Chief  Inspector  of 
Mines  under  the  late  Transvaal  Govt.  He 
married  Miss  Barbara  Georges  in   1892. 

RAUBENHEIMER,  H.  J.,  M.L.A.,  is  the 
new  Bond  representative  of  the  electoral  divi- 
sion of  George,  C.C,  in  the  Assembly,  having 
been  first  elected  in  Feb.   1904. 

RAYNE,  Leonard,  of  Johannesburg,  has 
for  some  years  past  been  a  prominent  figure 
as  actor  and  manager  in  the  theatrical  world 
of  S.A.  He  is  lessee  of  the  Gaiety  Theatre, 
Johannesburg,  joint  lessee  of  the  Port  Elizabeth 
Opera  House,  besides  running  several  theatrical 
ventures  in  other  S.A.  towns. 

REED,  Rev.  George  Cxtllen  Harvey, 
F.R.G.S.,  F.R.C.I.,  of  the  London  Mission, 
Dombaclema ;  of  Bulilima,  S.  Rhodesia,  and 
the  Bulawayo  Club  ;  was  born  at  St.  Leonard' s- 
on-Sea,  Eng.,  ;  is  son  of  the  Rev.  Andrew  Reed, 
B.A.,  and  grandson  of  the  Rev.  Andrew  Reed, 
D.D.,  founder  of  the  Earlswood,  Reedham, 
and  Putney  Asylums.  He  was  educated  at 
the  Univ.  Coll.  Sch.,  Lend.,  and  Univ. 
Coll.,  Lend.  He  first  visited  S.A.  in  1887,  and 
travelled  for  five  years  in  Cape  Colony  and 
Natal.  In  1894  he  undertook  mission  work 
in  Rhodesia  under  the  Lond.  Missionary  Soc. 
Unmarried. 

REID,  Arthur  Henry,  F.R.C.L,  of  Manna- 
mead,  Kenilworth,  Cape  Town,  and  of  the  City 
(C.T.)  and  Rand  Clubs  ;  was  born  at  Plymouth, 
Devon,  July  5,  1856 ;  was  educated  at  the 
Gram.  Sch.,  Plymouth,  and  was  trained  as 
an  engineer.  He  went  to  Cape  Town  in  1877  as 
Asst.  City  Engineer ;  was  appointed  City 
Engineer  of  Grahamstown  in  1879,  and  in 
1882  started   a  private  practice  in  Port  EUza- 


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beth.  He  went  to  the  Rand  in  1886,  practising 
as  an  architect  ;  sat  on  the  Johannesbiirg 
Town  Council  for  some  years,  and  took  an  active 
part  in  the  foundation  of  scientific  and  technical 
institutions.  In  1897  he  returned  to  Cape  Town 
where,  in  partnership  with  his  brother,  Walter 
Reid,  he  still  practises  his  profession.  Mr.  A.  H. 
Reid  is  Fellow  of  Royal  Inst,  of  British  Archi- 
tects ;  Fel.  Sanitary  Inst,  of  Great  Britain ; 
Chairman  of  Board  of  Examiners  for  Sanitary 
Inst,  in  S.A.  ;  Past  Pres.  of  S.A.  Assoc,  of 
Engineers  (Johannesbiirg)  ;  Councillor  for  City 
of  Cape  Town,  and  F.S.A.  He  married,  June  15, 
1884,   Miss  Victoria   Walsh. 

REYERSBACH,  Louis  J.,  of  Welfenheim, 
Johannesburg,  was  born  in  Hanover,  Germany, 
in  1869.  He  is  son  of  M.  M.  Reyersbach,  and  was 
educated  in  Hanover.  Mr.  Reyersbach  was  for 
some  years  in  Kimberley  and  London  in  charge 
of  the  diamond  business  of  the  great  firm  of 
Wernher,  Beit  &  Co.  He  joined  the  house  of 
H.  Eckstein  &  Co.,  at  the  end  of  1901,  and 
represents  that  firm  on  the  Boards  of  the  Rand 
Mines,  Ltd.,  the  Robinson,  and  other  of  the 
premier  G.M.  Cos.  of  the  Rand.  He  was  in 
Kimberley  dvu'ing  the  siege,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Executive  of  the  Transvaal  Chamber  of 
Mines.  Mr.  Reyersbach  married,  in  1897,  Miss 
Martha  Wallach,  of  Aix-la-Chapelle. 

REYNOLDS,  Edward  Charles,  of  Highgate, 
London,  and  of  the  Durban,  Pretoria  and  City 
(C.T.)  Clubs,  was  born  in  London,  Oct.  12, 
1869,  and  was  educated  privately.  He  has  been 
long  connected  with  banking  interests  in  S.A., 
and  is  now  Manager  of  the  National  Bank  of 
S.A.  Ltd.,  London.  He  married,  in  1895,  Miss 
Caldecott,  of  Johannesbiirg. 

RHODES,  Col.  Francis  William,  D.S.O. 
Born  in  1851,  is  the  son  of  the  late  Rev.  F. 
W.  Rhodes,  Vicar  of  Bishop  Stortford,  and  elder 
brother  of  the  late  Right  Hon.  Cecil  J.  Rhodes. 
He  was  educated  at  Eton,  and  entered  the 
1st  (Royal)  Dragoons  in  1873,  obtaining  Col.'s 
rank  in  1889.  He  took  part  in  the  Sudan  cam- 
paign in  1884,  and  was  present  at  El  Teb  and 
Tamai,  for  which  he  received  the  Egyptian 
medal  with  clasp  and  the  Khedive's  Star.  Later 
Col.  Rhodes  served  in  the  Nile  Expedition 
under  Gen.  Sir  Herbert  Stewart,  who  described 
him  as  the  best  A.D.C.  a  General  was 
ever  fortunate  enough  to  have.  He  took  part 
in  the  actions  of  Abu  Klea  and  El  Gubat.  In 
1888  he  was  employed  at  Suakin,  being  present 


at  the  action  at  Gamaizah.  He  was  Military 
Secy,  to  the  Governor  of  Bombay,  and  acted 
at  Chief  Staff  Officer  to  Sir  Gerald  Portal's 
Uganda  Mission,  when  he  suffered  severely 
from  black-water  fever.  He  returned  home  in 
1893,  and  subsequently  acted  as  administrator 
in  Rhodesia  during  Dr  Jameson's  absence  in 
Europe. 

Col.  Rhodes  represented  the  Consolidated 
Goldfields  of  S.A.  in  Johannesburg,  and 
took  a  leading  part  in  the  Uitlanders'  Re- 
form movement  of  1895-6,  for  which  he  was 
condemned  to  suffer  death  by  hanging.  This 
sentence  was  commuted  on  the  same  terms  as 
Messrs.  Hays  Hammond,  Lionel  Phillips  and 
Sir  Geo.  Farrar.  On  being  liberated  from 
Pretoria  gaol  with  a  fine  of  £25,000,  he  refused 
to  give  his  undertaking  not  to  meddle  in  the 
politics  of  the  State,  and  was  put  across  the 
border.  He  immediately  proceeded  to  Mata- 
beleland  to  take  part  in  the  suppression  of  the 
rebellion.  He  attended  the  Delhi  Durbar  as  the 
guest  of  Lord  Kitchener. 

RICARDE-SEAVER,  Major  F.  I.,  Knt.  Com- 
mander of  the  Royal  Military  Order  of  Christ, 
Knight  Commander  of  the  Order  of  Isabella 
the  Catholic,  Knight  Officer  of  the  Imperial 
Order  of  the  Rose  ;  member  of  the  Athenaeum 
Club  ;  was  born  in  1836  at  Hand  Park,  Rush, 
in  the  County  of  Dublin.  He  was  early  intended 
for  the  law,  but  his  inclination  being  in  the 
direction  of  Natvu^al  Science  the  idea  of  a  legal 
career  was  abandoned,  and  he  applied  himself 
to  the  study  of  chemistry,  electricity,  geology, 
mining  and  engineering.  At  the  age  of  twenty 
he  proceeded  with  the  late  Prof.  Forbes, 
F.R.S.,  to  the  Andes  and  adjacent  territories 
in  S.  America,  for  the  purpose  of  studying 
the  geological  conditions,  and  to  ascertain,  if 
possible,  the  probable  mineral  wealth  of  the 
country.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  mission  he 
was  appointed  Govt.  Assayer  at  Valparaiso,  a 
position  which  he  retained  for  several  years. 
At  the  age  of  twenty-six  he  accepted  the  position 
of  Inspector-Gen.  of  Mines  to  the  Argentine 
Republic.  For  twelve  years  he  laboured  to  open 
up  the  country  by  means  of  railways  and  tele- 
graphs, with  such  success  that  in  1874,  1,500 
miles  of  rails  were  in  regular  traffic,  and  3,000 
more  were  in  course  of  construction,  while 
8,000  miles  of  telegraph  wires  were  available 
for  communication  between  the  various  parts  of 
the  Republic.  He  also  initiated  the  laying  of 
the  Trans-Atlantic  Cable  via  Brazil  to  Europe. 
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ever  not  spent  entirely  in  peaceful  pursuits, 
for  when  war  broke  out  with  Paraguay  he  was 
created  a  Major  in  the  Argentine  Army,  and 
served  with  distinction  tlirovigh  that  long  and 
severe  campaign.  During  this  period  he  made 
several  business  visits  to  Europe  for  the  purpose 
of  conducting  important  negotiations  more  or 
less  of  a  financial  character  on  behalf  of  the 
Republic.  In  1871  he  raised  in  London  a  loan  of 
£6,000,000  for  the  Argentine  Govt.,  the  whole 
of  which  sum  was  devoted  to  the  constrviction 
of  railways,  telegraphs,  and  other  public  works. 
In  1874  he  retiirned  to  Europe  in  a  Consular 
capacity.  He  then  devoted  himself  to  science 
and  literatiire  for  some  time,  publishing,  amongst 
other  works,  what  is  still  a  standard  work  of  refer- 
ence, "The  Mineral  and  other  Resources  of  the 
Argentine  Republic."  He  also  acted  as  Special 
Correspondent  for  various  papers  in  S.A. 

Maj.  Ricarde-Seaver   is  a  strong   Imperialist, 
and  in  the  year   1888  he  took  up  the  subject 
of    S.    African    development.       The    expansion 
of  our  Empire  north  and  west  of  the  Transvaal 
was  due  in  some  measure  to  his  foresight  and 
energy.    He  obtained  a  concession  of  400  square 
miles  from  Khama  in  Bechuanaland  and  suc- 
ceeded   in    obtaining    the    financial    support    of 
Lord  Rothschild  and  other  capitalists,  who  sub- 
scribed £50,000  to  carry  out   explorations  right 
up  to  the  Zambesia  and  beyond.     In  conjunc- 
tion  with    Lord    Gifford,    V.C,    and    others   he 
organized  an  expedition  to  proceed  to  Bulawayo 
and  obtain  from  the  King  Lobengula  the  right 
to  prospect  and  work  gold  and  other  mines  in 
Matabeleland  and  Mashonaland.    It  was  at  this 
period  that  he  was  brought  into  contact  with 
the  great  Imperialist,  Cecil  Rhodes,  and  on  the 
suggestion  of  Lord  Rothschild  it  was  arranged 
that  their  efforts  should  be  devoted  to  obtaining 
frona    H.]\I.    Govt,    the    charter    to    administer 
that  great  territory  known  as  Rhodesia.    He  is  a 
Fellow  of  the  Royal  Soc.  of  Edin.,  of  the  Geo- 
graphical  Soc.    of  London,   of  the  Royal   Geo- 
graphical Soc,  a  member  of  the  Royal  Institu- 
tion of  Great  Britain,  and  an  Associate  of  the 
Institute    of    Civil    Engineers.        Mr.    Ricarde- 
Seaver  married  first,   in  1863,  an  English  wife, 
whom    he  lost   in  1875,    leaving    an   only  son; 
secondly,  he  married  H.S.H.  the  Princess  Marie 
Lousie    de    Looz    et    Corswarem,    nee     Princess 
Godoy  de  Bassano  of  Spain.     The  Princess  died 
in     1880,     and     in     1891     Mr.     Ricarde-Seaver 
married  the  Marquise  de  la  Lam-encie-Charras, 
of  Paris  and  Chateau  de  Charras. 

RICHARDS,  Roger  Charnock,  of  3,  Grace- 


chiu-ch  St.,  E.C.,  and  of  2,  King's  Bench  Walk, 
Temple,  E.C.,  and  of  the  City  Liberal  Club, 
Barrister-at-Law ;  was  formerly  a  chemical 
manufacturer  in  Manchester,  is  now  a  director 
of  many  important  mining  cos.,  including 
Henderson's  Transvaal  Estates,  and  the  Con- 
solidated Rand-Rhodesia  Trust.  Mr.  Richards 
has  always  taken  a  keen  interest  in  politics  ; 
he  once  unsuccessfully  contested  a  parliamentary 
constituency  in  the  Liberal  interest ;  and  has 
sat  on  a  Govermnent  railway  commission.  He 
plays  golf,  and  one  of  his  sons  was  captain  of 
Dulwich  College. 

RICKETTS,  Arthur,  C.M.G.,  M.B.  (Lond.), 
M.R.C.S.,  L.R.C.P.,  of  "  Freslifield,"  Woodside 
Park,  London,  was  born  at  Hay  wards  Heath, 
Sussex,  Aug.  7,  1874.  He  is  son  of  Wm.  Tyler 
Ricketts,  Solicitor,  of  Chailey,  near  Lewes, 
and  was  educated  at  Dulwich  Coll.  He  was 
House  Physician  at  Univ.  Coll.  Hosp.,  and 
served  as  Civil  Surgeon  in  the  S.A. 
Field  Force,  1899-1901,  being  mentioned  in 
Lord  Roberts'  despatches,  and  receiving  the 
C.M.G.,  medal  and  clasps  for  Paardeburg, 
Driefontein,  Relief  of  Kimberley,  Wittebergen 
and  Transvaal.  He  returned  to  S.A.  as  Sui'g.- 
Capt.  in  the  Irish  Horse,  1902,  relinquishing 
his  command  in  Feb.,  1903,  mth  the  hon.  rank 
of  Capt.  in  the  Army, 

ROBERTSON,  James,  of  Salisbury,  Rhodesia, 
entered  the  Administrator's  Dept.,  Dec,  1895  ; 
acted  as  Secy.,  to  the  Administrator  from  April 
1896,  to  Sept,  1897.  He  served  in  the  Mashona- 
land Rebellion,  1896-97  (medal)  ;  was  Acting 
Under-Secy.,  Apr.  26-June  1898;  and  from 
Jan.  31  to  May  1, 1899,  Acting  Govt.  Representa- 
tive at  Enkeldoorn,  June  1898  ;  and  \yas 
appointed  Clerk  to  the  Legislative  and  Executive 
Councils,  May  1,  1899. 

ROBERTSON,  William,  R.JL,  of  Bethlehem, 
O.R.C.,  was  born  at  Swellendam,  C.C,  Nov.  17, 
1861.  He  is  of  Scotch  descent ;  grandson  of  the 
Rev,  Dr.  Wm,  Robertson,  of  Cape  Town,  and 
son  of  Peter  John  Robertson,  He  was  educated 
at  Grey  Coll.,  Bloemfontein,  and  entered  the 
Free  State  Govt,  service  as  clerk  to  the  State 
Attorney  in  1881,  subsequently  holding  the 
following  appointments :  Clerk  to  the  Com- 
missioner at  Thi.lja  'Nchu,  1884  ;  Asst,  Registrar 
of  the  High  Com-t,  1885;  Landdrost  Clerk  at 
Kroonstad,  1886  ;  Landdrost  Clerk  at  Bloem- 
fontein, 1890  ;  Postmaster  at  Bloemfontein,  and 
Landdrost  at   Ficksburg,    1891  ;    Landdrost  at 


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Boshoff,  1894 ;  and  Landdrost  at  Kroonstad,  1895. 
He  was  reappointed  Magistrate  of  KJroonstad  after 
the  British  occupation  in  May,  1902,  and  became 
R.M.  of  Bethlehem  in  the  June  following. 

Mr.  Robertson  was  considered  one  of  the  best 
target  shots  in  the  Free  State  from  1888  to 
1898,  and  in  the  latter  year  secured  a  badge  in 
the  Governor's  Prize,  being  11th  out  of  some 
300  competitors.  He  has  also  won  several 
cups  and  medals  at  target  shooting.  He  married, 
March  14,  1888,  Ada  Elizabeth,  eldest  dau.  of 
the  late  State  Attorney  C.  J.  Vels. 

ROBINSON,  Major  Ebnest  Rokeby, 
F.R.G.S.,  F.R.C.I.  ;  of  Sandown,  Isle  of  Wight  ; 
the  Green  House,  Besuidenhout,  Johannesbiu-g  ; 
and  of  the  Junior  United  Service  and  the  Sports 
Clubs,  was  born  at  Brussels,  Jan.  30,  1872  ;  is 
son  of  Maj.  John  Robinson  of  Lydd,  Kent  ; 
was  educated  privately  ;  joined  the  4th  Royal 
Irish  Rifles,  and  has  seen  service  in  the  Niger- 
Sudan  Campaign,  1896-7  (mentioned  in  Sir 
Geo.  Goldie's  Report,  medal  and  clasp);  com- 
manded the  artillery  in  the  operations  on  the 
Niger,  1895-8  (R.  Niger  Co.'s  medal  and  clasp)  ; 
Ebusa-Upinam  Expedition,  1898  (clasp)  ;  Sierra 
Leone  Rebellion  as  Adjt.  of  the  S.L.F.F.,  1898-9 
(medal  and  clasp)  ;  S.A.  War  as  Adjt.,  Staff 
Capt.  and  D.A.A.G.  Imp.  Yeo.,  1900-1902;  (two 
medals  with  three  and  two  clasps. )  Slaj.  Robinson 
has  won  several  swimming  trophies,  and  has  had 
some  big  game  shooting  on  the  Niger.  He 
married,  Jan.  19,  1901,  Minnie  Edith,  dau.  of 
John  Crochett,  of  Wimbledon  and  Singapore. 

ROBINSON,  Leo  George,  J.P.,  of  Bulawayo  ; 
was  appointed  Clerk  in  the  Chief  Native  Com- 
missioner's Office,  Bulawayo,  Feb.  1,  1897  ; 
Asst.  Native  Commissioner,  July   1,   1897. 

ROBINSON,  Joseph  Benjamin,  of  Dudley 
House,  Park  Lane,  was  born  in  Cradock,  Eastern 
Province,  C.C.,  in  1845.  Formerly  farming  in 
the  Colony,  he  moved  to  the  Vaal  River  diggings 
and  then  to  Kimberley,  of  which  he  was  Mayor 
in  1880.  He  was  M.L.A.  for  Griqualand  (West) 
for  ioui  years,  and  went  to  the  Rand  in  July 
1896.  He  was  one  of  the  first  capitalists  to  sink 
money  in  the  new  fields.  Within  three  days  of 
his  arrival  he  pvirchased  the  Langlaagte  Estate 
(which  at  that  tune  included  the  Block  "B") 
for  £7,000,  and  in  the  foUomng  Sept.  he  bought 
a  half  interest  in  the  De  Villiers  Mynpacht  (now 
the  Robinson  G.M.  Co.)  for  £1,100,  and  two 
months  later  was  able  to  buy  the  remaining 
moiety  for  £12,000.     Shortly  afterwards,   with 


extraordinary  perspicuity,  he  made  up  his  mind 
as  to  the  westerly  trend  of  the  main  reef  series, 
and  pvtrchased  for  the  Robinson  Synd.  the  large 
block  of  farms  constituting  the  Randfontein 
group.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  Robinson  South 
African  Bank,  and  Chairman  of  the  large  group 
of  Randfontein  and  Langlaagte  Cos.,  and  is 
perhaps  the  only  financial  magnate  who  always 
plays  a  lone  hand  in  regard  to  his  African  enter- 
prises. Mr.  Robinson  served  in  the  Basuto  War, 
and  was  at  other  times  on  commando.  He  was 
on  intimate  terms  with  ex-Pres.  Ivriiger  ;  takes 
considerable  interest  in  politics,  and  is  fond  of 
yachting.     He  is  married,  and  has  a  large  family. 

RODD,  Sis  James  Rennell,  K.C.M.G.,  C.B., 
of  the  British  Embassy,  Rome  ;  17,  Stratford 
Place,  W.,  and  of  the  Travellers',  Athenaeum, 
St.  James',  Beefsteak,  Aiathors',  and  Cos- 
moplitan  Clubs,  M'as  born  Nov.  9,  1858.  He  is 
son  of  the  late  Major  Jas.  Rennell  Rodd,  and 
was  educated  at  Haileybiiry  Coll.,  and  at  Balliol 
Coll.,  Oxon,  where,  in  1880,  he  gained  the 
Newdigate  Prize  with  a  poem  on  Sir  Walter 
Raleigh.  He  joined  the  Diplomatic  Service,  and 
after  serving  in  Berlin  (where  he  had  much  con- 
fidential work  entrusted  to  him),  in  Athens, 
Rome  and  Paris,  he  went  to  Zanzibar,  where  he 
acted  as  Agent  and  Consul-Gen.  for  some  months. 
In  1894  he  was  transferred  to  Cairo,  becoming 
Second  Secy,  to  the  British  Agent,  and  acting 
on  various  occasions  as  Agent  and  Consul-Gen. 
In  1897  he  was  selected  to  leave  on  a  special 
mission  to  the  Emperor  Menelik  in  Abyssinia. 
On  his  retiurn  he  resumed  his  duties  at  Cairo, 
imtil  in  1901  he  was  appointed  Secy,  of  Embassy 
at  Rome.  In  addition  to  several  vohunes  of 
poems  he  has  piiblished  a  biographical  sketch 
of  the  Emperor  Frederick,  and  "  Customs  and 
Lore  of  Modern  Greece."  He  married,  in  1895, 
Lilias,  dau.  of  the  late  Jas.  Gutherie,  of  Craigie, 
Forfarsliire. 

ROGERS,  Sir  John  Godprey,  K.C.M.G., 
D.S.O.,  Grand  Cordon  of  the  Medjidieh,  2nd 
class  Osnianieh,  of  Cairo,  Egypt,  and  the  Ttnrf 
(Cairo)  and  Junior  Army  8.nd  Navy  (London) 
Clubs,  is  the  second  son  of  the  late  G.  F.  H. 
Rogers,  and  Francis,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late 
Richard  Phillips,  of  Gaile,  co.  Tipperary.  He 
was  born  April  11,  1850,  in  Dublin,  and  was 
educated  at  Trinity  Coll.,  Dublin,  where  he 
graduated  B.A.,  M.B.,  M.Ch.  Sir  John  entered 
the  Army  Medical  Dept.  in  1871.  and  was  made 
Surg,  in  1873,  Surg.-Maj.  in  1S82,  and 
Surg.-Lieut.-Col.    in    1891.     He    served   in   the 


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Afghan  War  in  1878  to  1881  (medal).  He 
accompanied  the  Egyptian  Expedition  in  1882, 
and  was  present  at  Kassassin  and  Tel-el-Kebir 
(despatches,  medal  with  clasp,  and  bronze  star). 
He  was  appointed  temporarily  P.M.O.  of  the 
Egyptian  Army  during  the  cholera  epidemic 
of  1883,  and  was  later  appointed  permanently 
to  that  post.  Sir  John  organized  the  Medical 
Corps  of  the  Egyptian  Army,  and  went  through 
the  Nile  Expedition  as  P.M.O.  in  1884-85 
(despatches,  clasp,  and  3rd  class  Osmanieh). 
He  served  with  the  Sudan  Frontier  Field 
Force  in  1885-86,  and  was  present  at  the 
action  of  Giniss  (despatches,  D.S.O.).  With  the 
Suakin  Field  Force  in  1885  he  took  part  in  the 
action  of  Gamaizan  (despatches,  clasp,  2nd 
class  Medjidieh,  promoted  Major-Gen.).  While 
he  was  Director-Gen.  of  the  Sanitary  Dept., 
Ministry  of  Interior,  1892-99,  he  introduced 
various  legislative  Acts  dealing  with  the  sanita- 
tion of  the  country  and  the  outbreaks  of  cholera 
and  plague.  He  retired  from  the  Egyptian 
service  Nov.,  1899,  and  was  appointed  Local 
Manager  of  the  New  Egyptian  Co.,  Ltd.,  1899. 
He  is  also  Local  Manager  of  the  Sudan  Develop- 
ment and  Exploration  Co.,  Ltd. ;  Chairman  of 
the  Anglo-American  Nile  Steamer  and  Hotel 
Co.,  Ltd. ;  Director  of  the  Agricultural  Bank 
of  Egypt,  and  of  some  other  cos.  His  recrea- 
tions are  fishing  and  shooting,  and  he  has 
travelled  in  Canada,  Iceland,  Finland,  Russia 
and  Sweden  in  search  of  sport.  He  married,  Sept. 
26,  1883,  Edith  Louisa  JuUa,  dau.  of  the  late 
Major  W.  F.  H.  Sykes,  of  the  Bombay  Cavalry. 

HOLLAND,  Capt.  George  Murray,  V.C, 
1st  Bombay  Grenadiers,  Indian  At-my,  is  the 
son  of  the  late  Major  Patrick  Murray  RoUand, 
R.A.  He  was  born  at  Wellington,  Irdia,  May  12, 
1869;  was  educated  at  Harrow,  and  Sandhurst, 
and  on  Nov.  9,  1889,  joined  the  2nd  Batt.  Bed- 
fordshire Regt.  as  2nd  Lieut.,  became  1st  Lieut, 
in  1891,  Capt.  Nov.  9,  1900,  and  in  Aug.  of  the 
following  year  joined  the  Indian  Army.  He 
was  Adjt.  of  the  1st  Bombay  Grenadiers 
from  1894  to  1901,  and  was  with  the  Somaliland 
Field  Force  from  Oct.,  1902,  to  June,  1903, 
acting  as  Intelligence  OiJicer  to  the  Berbera- 
Bohotle  Flying  Column,  and  Staff  Officer  to 
Maj.  J.  E.  Gough's  Column.  It  was  while  in 
Somaliland  that  Capt.  RoUand  won  the  coveted 
distinction  of  the  Victoria  Cross,  under  circimi- 
stances  related  in  the  biographical  sketch  of 
Maj.  W.  G.  Walker  (q.v.). 

ROLLER,     Major     George     Conrad,     of 


Tadley,  Basingstoke,  and  the  Arts  Club,  was 
born  in  London  in  1856.  He  is  son  of  Freelern 
Wm.  Roller,  and  was  educated  at  Westminster 
Sell.,  afterwards  studj'^ing  hard  for  three  years  in 
Paris  imder  Bougereau.  He  then  travelled  for 
some  years  in  Australia,  New  Zealand,  Peru 
and  Argentina.  He  is  an  artist  by  profession, 
and  was  made  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Soc.  of 
Painter  Etchers  in  1887.  He  rode  for  many  years 
as  a  qualified  gentleman  rider  ixnder  National 
Hunt  Rules,  until  a  severe  accident  made  him 
relinqtiish  this  form  of  sport.  He  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  Siirrey  Bench  in  1888,  and  to  the 
London  County  Bench  in  the  following  year. 
When  the  S.A.  War  broke  out  he  volunteered 
and  went  out  with  the  Middlesex  Yeomanry  as 
Col.-Sergt.,  soon  obtaining  his  Commission. 
On  returning  home  in  1900  he  took  up  a  com- 
mission in  the  I.Y.  in  G.  Britain,  He  married, 
in  1884,  Mary,  dau.  of  W.  Halliday,  of  Thames, 
New  Zealand. 

ROSS,  Archar  Russell,  was  appointed 
Native  Commissioner  for  the  Makoni  Dist., 
Apr.  20,  1895.  In  1900  he  was  sent  on  special 
service  to  purchase  cattle  in  Australia. 

ROSS,  Hon.  William,  M.L.C,  was  born  at 
Stranraer,  Scotland,  in  1850.  He  was  for 
many  years  Manager  of  the  Oriental  Bank 
Corporation,  and  is  now  head  of  the  firms  of 
Ross,  Priest  &  Page,  of  Kimberley,  and  Ross, 
Page  &  O'Reilly,  of  Johannesburg.  He  has 
been  member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Council  for 
Griqualand  West  since  1883.  He  is  fond  of 
sport,  a  well-known  boxer,  and  married  a  dau. 
of  the  late  Geo.  Page,  of  Bloemfontein. 

ROULIOT,  George,  Kjit.  of  the  Legion  of 
Honour,  was  born  in  France,  Aug.  15,  1861.  He 
was  educated  in  Paris,  and  at  the  Univ. 
of  Bonn,  Germany.  He  took  an  engineering 
degree  in  Paris,  and  went  to  S.A.  in 
1882  as  General  Manager  of  the  Cie.  Generale 
de  Mines  de  Diamants  in  Kimberley,  where  the 
Cape  Govt,  appointed  him  to  the  Dutoitspan 
Mining  Board  and  the  Board  for  the  Protection 
of  Mining  Interests.  After  the  De  Beers  Amalga- 
mation in  1890  he  left  Kimberley  and  joined 
Mr.  Beit  and  Lord  Randolph  ChtirchiU  in  their 
expedition  through  Mashonaland,  returning  -\da 
Beira.  Mr.  Rovdiot  joined  the  firm  of  Eckstein 
in  1892,  and  was  admitted  a  partner  two  years 
later.  He  was  one  of  the  early  believers  in  the 
Deep  Levels,  and  was  associated  with  the  Rand 
Mines,  Ltd.,  from  the  inception  of  the  Company. 


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He  has  been  on  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  | 
Chamber  of  Mines  since  1894,  and  was  Pres. 
of  the  Chamber  from  1897  imtil  1902.  Mr. 
Rouliot  worked  assiduously  for  the  reopening 
of  the  mines  during  the  latter  part  of  tlie  war 
period,  and  his  services  in  this  connection  were 
acknowledged  in  Lord  Kitchener's  despatches. 

ROWLAND,  Frederick,  of  Parktown  West, 
Johannesburg  (Box  4375),  and  of  the  Athenagum 
Club,  Johannesbtu'g,  was  born  Apr.  13,  1871  ; 
was  educated  privately,  and  went  to  S.A.  in 
Jiine,  1889,  engaging  in  commercial  pursuits  in 
Cape  Town,  Dui'ban,  Lindley,  Bloemfontein  and 
Johannesbiu"g.  He  acted  as  Secy,  of  the  Chemical 
and  Metalku-gical  Soc.  in  1896  ;  was  secy,  of 
companies  from  1897  to  1899  ;  became  Secy,  of 
the  Uitlander  Council  on  its  inception  in  1889, 
and  remained  such  until  the  outbreak  of  war  ; 
was  secy,  of  the  committee  formed  for  the 
purpose  of  raising  Irregular  Corps  in  Natal ; 
became  Lieut,  of  Bethune's  M.I.  on  formation  ; 
Capt.  and  Quartermaster  in  Nov.  1900 ;  re- 
signed Apr.  1902,  to  take  up  appointment  in 
the  Mines  Dept.  of  the  Transvaal.  This  he 
vacated  in  the  following  Nov.  to  enter  the 
service  of  H.  Eckstein  &  Co.  He  is  also  Secy. 
to  the  Chemical.  Metallurgical  and  Mining 
Soc.  of  S.A.,  and  Associate  of  the  Chartered 
Institute  of  Secretaries,  Eng.  While  on  active 
service  he  married,  Aug.  6,  1900,  Mavid  Mary 
Peutney,  who  served  as  nurse  in  the  Natal 
Volunteer  service  through  the  siege  of  Lady- 
smith. 

ROWLATT,  Frederick  Terry,  of  Cairo, 
and  of  the  Tm-f  Club,  Cairo,  was  born  at  Alex- 
andria, Feb.  10,  1865  ;  is  son  of  the  late  A.  H. 
Rowlatt,  banker,  of  Egypt ;  was  educated  at 
Fettes  Coll.,  Edin.,  where  he  won  swimming 
prizes  ;  entered  the  Bank  of  Egypt  in  London 
in  1885  ;  transferred  to  the  Egyptian  branch, 
of  which  he  acted  as  Manager.  He  left  this  to 
take  vip  the  sub-governorship  of  the  National 
Bank  of  Egypt  in  Cairo.  He  became  a  Fellow 
of  the  Institute  of  Bankers,  London,  in  1902. 
He  married.  May  14,  1903,  Edith  May,  dau. 
of  T.  E.  Cornish,  C.M.G.,  of  Alexandria. 

ROWSELL,  Charles  Frederick,  of  Ridge 
Green  House,  South  Nvitfield,  Eng.,  M^as  born 
in  London,  June  21,  1864.  He  was  originally  a 
solicitor,  and  practised  as  such  for  a  good  many 
years,  and  then  joined  the  well-finown  firm 
of  Lewis  &  Marks  {see  Isaac  Lewis  and  Samuel 
Marks).     Although  the  firm   with   which   he  is 


connected  is  not  interested  in  Rhodesian  vmder- 
takings,  Mr.  Rowsell  himself  has  a  considerable 
stake  in  the  prosperity  of  Charterland,  and  is 
Chairman  of  the  United  Rhodesia  Goldfields, 
the  Jumbo  G.M.  and  the  Mayo  Rhodesia  De- 
velopment Co.,  besides  being  on  the  Boards 
of  the  Tanganyika  Concessions  and  the  Zam- 
besia  Exploring  Co.  He  also  represents  his 
firm  as  Chairman  of  the  Grootvlei  Prospecting 
Synd.,  Simoona  Development  Co.,  and  Director 
of  the  East  Rand  Mining  Estates,  Swaziland 
Corporation,  Transvaal  Estates  and  Develop- 
ment Co.,  Transvaal  Farms  and  Finance  Co., 
Transvaal  Proprietary,  African  and  European 
Agency,  Goldfields  of  Matabeleland,  Inter- 
national Syndicate  and  many  other  Cos. 

Mr.  Rowsell  has  been  the  sole  architect  of  his 
own  fortunes,  having  come  to  London  in  1890 
without  literally  a  single  acquaintance  in  the 
great  metropolis.  It  is  needless  to  say  that  he 
has  raised  his  structure  in  a  remarkably  able 
manner.  He  married,  in  1903,  Miss  Olive  C. 
Wright. 

ROYLE,  Charles,  of  Cairo,  and  of  the 
Khedivial  (Cairo),  and  the  Junior  Athenaeum 
(London)  Clubs,  was  born  at  Lymington,  Hants, 
Dec.  24,  1838 ;  is  fourth  son  of  Wm.  Royle, 
solicitor ;  was  educated  at  Queenwood  Coll., 
Hants,  and  served  as  an  officer  in  the  Royal 
Navy  from  1854  to  1863.  Mr.  Royle  is  a  Bar- 
rister-at-Law,  having  been  called  to  the  Bar 
at  Lincoln's  Inn,  Nov.,  1865,  and  is  Judge  of 
the  Egyptian  Court  of  Appeal.  He  is  author  of 
"  The  Egyptian  Campaigns,"  published  by 
Hurst  &  Blackett.     Umnarried. 

ROYLE,  George,  of  Gezireh,  Cairo  and  Port 
Said  ;  of  11,  De  Vere  Gardens,  London  ;  and  of 
the  Khedivial  Sporting  Club,  Cairo,  and  Con- 
stitutional Club,  London  ;  is  the  fifth  son  of 
the  late  William  Royle,  sohcitor,  of  Lymington, 
Hants,  and  was  born,  July  8,  1841,  at  Lyming- 
ton. He  was  educated  at  Queenwood  Coll.  and 
Southampton  Coll.  Mr.  Royle  was  present  at  the 
taking  of  Peiho  Forts,  1860,  and  with  the  Naval 
Brigade  on  the  march  to  Pekin,  and  was  engaged 
with  Flotilla  on  the  Pei  Ho  and  Wen  Ho  Rivers 
during  the  continuance  of  hostilities.  He  was 
subsequently  on  H.M.S.  Havock  when  that 
vessel  successfully  attacked  the  pirate  town  of 
Foo-Shan  on  the  Yangtze,  and  captm-ed  many 
Imperial  war  junks  later  on  vip  the  Yangtze 
River.  He  left  the  Royal  Navy,  1863  or  1864, 
and  was  called  to  the  Bar  at  Lincoln's  Inn, 
Jan.   1870.      He  went  to  Egypt  (Port  Said)  in 


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1871,  and  was  appointed  P.  &  O.  Agent  in  1875. 
He  has  been  Manager  of  the  Port  Said  and  Suez 
Coal  Co.  since  1872,  and  was  appointed  represen- 
tative in  Egypt  of  Lambert  Bros.,  Ltd.,  in  1902. 
He  is  also  Chairman  of  the  local  Board  of 
Directors  of  the  Egyptian  Salt  and  Soda  Co. 
His  recreations  are  yachting  and  sculling,  and 
formerly  Alpine  climbing.  He  married,  in  1878, 
Fannie  Longueville,  eldest  dau.  of  Thomas 
Snow,  Barrister-at-Law. 

RUDD,  Charles  Dunell,  of  23,  Hyde  Park 
Gardens,      London ;       Ardnamurchan,      Argyll- 
shire ;    and  of  the  Union  and  United  University 
Clubs,  and  Rear  Commodore  of  Roj'^al  Highland 
Yacht    Club ;     was    born    at    Hanworth    Hall, 
Norfolk,   Oct.   22,    1844.      He  was  educated  at 
Plarrow  and  Cambridge,   at  both  of  which  he 
distinguished  himself  in  athletics.     He  won  the 
Harrow  mile,  J-mile,  hurdle  race,  and  throwing 
the  cricket  ball  in  '62  ;    carried  off  the  Inter- 
University    Racquet     trophies    for     Camb.    in 
'65,  and  owing  to  a  breakdown  through  over- 
training at  Camb.,  he  sailed  to  the  Cape  in  1866 
for  the  benefit  of  his  health,  and  there  occupied 
some  few  years  mainly  in  shooting  expeditions  in 
Zululand  and  Swaziland  together  with  the  famous 
John  Dunn  and  others.    He  joined  the  first  rush 
to  Kimberley,  where  he  and  Mr.  Cecil  Rhodes 
each  purchased  a   quarter  claim   in   De  Beers, 
which     they    subsequently     amalgamated    and 
worked  in  partnership  (1871),  thus  forming  the 
niicleus  which,  after  a  long  series  of  purchases, 
amalgamations,     and     absorptions,     taldng    up 
many  years  of  patient  effort,  eventually  led  to 
the    formation    of    the    De    Beers    Consolidated 
Mines.   The  foimdations  of  the  Rhodes  and  Rudd 
partnership  were  laid  by  a  series  of  profitable 
piunping   contracts   in   the    De   Beers   and    Du 
Toit's  Pan  mines,  and  were  further  strengthened 
by  the  acquisition  of  various  diamond  properties. 
From     1883    to     1888    Mr.     Rudd    represented 
Ivimberley   in   the   Cape   Parliament,    with   the 
main  object  of  introducing  legislation  bearing  on 
the  questions  of  the  compound  system,  and  the 
I.D.B.  and  the  liquor  laws.     These  ends  being 
attained  he  did  not  seek  re-election. 

The  year  1886  witnessed  the  inception  of 
the  Gold  Fields  of  S.A.,  Ltd.,  from  which 
the  existing  colossal  corporation  in  its  "  Con- 
solidated "  form  was  developed  under  the 
joint  managing  direction  of  Messrs.  Rudd  & 
Rhodes.  Mr.  Rudd  was  also  instrumental  in 
obtaining  the  mineral  and  land  concessions  from 
Lobengula  in  1888,  on  which  the  Charter  to  the 
British  S.A.  Co.,  was  based.     He  has  now  retired 


from  his  directorships  and  all  active  business  in 
the  City.  He  married :  first,  in  1868,  Miss 
Chiappini;  and  second,  in  1898,  Miss  Wallace. 

RUFFER,  Dr.  Marc  Armand,  M.A.,  M.D. 
(Oxon),  B.S.,  F.L.S.,  F.S.S.,  F.R.M.S.,  2nd  class 
Medjidieh,  2nd  class  Osmanieh,  Commander  of 
the  Orders  of  the  Saviour  of  Greece,  and  St. 
Anne  of  Russia  ;  of  Ramleh,  Egypt,  and  of  the 
Royal  Societies  (Lond.),  Turf  (Cairo)  and 
Khedivial  (Alexandria)  Clubs,  was  born  at 
Lyons,  France,  Aug.  29,  1859  ;  is  third  son  of 
the  late  Baron  A.  de  Ruffer,  late  Consul  of 
Switzerland  ;  was  educated  privately,  and  at 
Brasenose  Coll.,  Oxon,  Univ.  Coll.,  Lond.,  the 
Sch.  of  Medicine  and  Institut  Pasteur,  Paris. 
From  1886  to  1888  he  was  Medical  House 
Physician  and  Obstetrive  Assistant  of  Univ. 
Coll.  Hospital ;  he  was  Medical  Registrar  at 
the  Victoria  Park  Hosp.,  1890  ;  Director  of 
the  British  Institute  of  Preventive  Medicine, 
1892-96  ;  Prof,  of  Bacteriology,  Cairo  Medical 
Sch.,  1896-8.  He  was  appointed  Pres.  of 
the  Sanitary  Maritime  and  Quarantine  Coixncil 
of  Egypt,  1897  ;  Member  of  the  Indian  Plague 
Commission,  1899-1900  ;  and  EgjTptian  Dele- 
gate to  the  International  Sanitary  Conference, 
Paris,  1903.  He  is  a  member  of  many  scientific 
associations,  and  is  the  author  of  a  nmnber  of 
scientific  works.  He  married,  Nov.  11,  1900, 
Alice  Mary,  eldest  dau.  of  Capt.  John  Tyndale 
Greenfield,  R.A. 

RUNCIMAN,     William,     M.L.A.,     J.P.,     of 

"  The  Highlands,"  Simonsto^^Ti,  C.C,  and  of 
the  Royal  Naval  Club  (Simonstown),  and 
City  Club  (C.T.)  ;  was  born  at  Sliields,  Eng., 
in  Apr.,  1858.  He  is  the  eldest  son  of  tiie 
late  Capt.  Wm.  Runciman  of  the  Merchant 
Service.  He  was  educated  at  Lsith  and  Dunbar, 
Scotland,  and  migrated  with  his  family  in  1873, 
to  Cape  Town,  where  his  father  held  for  some  time 
the  position  of  Dock  Master.  Soon  after  arrival 
in  Cape  Town  Mr.  Rimciman  joined  the  well 
known  firm  of  W.  Anderson  &  Co.,  IMerchants 
and  Mail  Steamship  Agents.  At  the  age  of 
19  years  he  was  promoted  to  fill  the  place  of 
Manager  to  the  Simonstown  Branch  of  the 
business.  From  manager  he  was  soon  promoted 
to  junior  partner,  and  is  now  senior  partner, 
the  name  of  the  firm  being  changed  to  Wm. 
Rtmciman  &  Co.  Since  his  advent  in  Simonstown 
Mr.  Rimciman  has  devoted  a  great  deal  of  time 
to  public  affairs ;  from  the  inauguration  of 
Municipal  Government  he  has  sat  in  the  Council 
Chamber,  and  he  has  been  repeatedly  and  is  still 


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Mayor.  To  his  untiring  energy  the  town  owes 
much  of  its  present  prosperity.  The  railway 
extension  from  Kalk  Bay,  the  sanitation,  the 
water  supply,  the  fine  public  schools,  the 
town  lighting,  and  public  library  are  all 
mementos  of  bis  assiduous  perseverance  and 
skilful  policy.  He  has  also  done  good  service  in 
the  Simonstown  District  as  Divisional  Councillor 
for  the  Cape  Division,  of  which  body  he  has  been 
a  member  for  the  past  ten  years.  He  has  been 
Member  of  the  Legislative  Assembly  of  the  Cape 
Parliament  for  some  five  or  six  years  ;  sits  as  a 
strong  Progressive  ;  has  rendered  good  service 
in  educational  matters  already,  and  bids  fair  to 
fill  a  prominent  place  in  Cape  politics  in  the 
not  distant  future.  He  married,  in  1883, 
Elizabeth  Sarah,  eldest  dau.  of  A.  N.  Black,  of 
Simonstown,  by  whom  he  has  two  sons  and  a 
daughter. 

RUNDLE,  Major-Gen.  Sir  Henry  Macleod 
Leslie,  K.C.B.,  K.C.M.G.,  D.S.O.,  second  son  of 
the  late  Capt.  J.  S.  Rundle,  R.N.,  was  born 
at  Newton  Abbot,  N.  Devon,  Jan.  6,  1856. 
He  was  educated  at  ttie  Royal  Mil.  Acad.  ; 
entered  the  Royal  Artillery  in  1876,  and  first 
saw  service  in  the  Zulu  War  in  1870,  afterwards 
taking  part  in  the  Boer  War  of  1881.  Subse- 
quently he  proceeded  to  Egypt,  where  he  acted 
for  about  fourteen  years  as  Chief  Staff  Officer 
to  the  Sirdar  and  Adjt.-Gen.  to  the  Egyptian 
Army.  Sir  Leslie  was  second  in  command  to 
Lord  Kitchener  at  the  battle  of  Omdurman. 
In  the  S.  African  War,  1899-02,  he  commanded 
the  8th  Division.  He  latterly  also  acted  as 
MiMtary  Governor  of  the  Eastern  O.R.C.,  -with 
headquarters,  at  Harrismith.  On  returning  to 
England  he  was  given  the  command  of  the 
South-Eastern  District  at  Dover  in  succession 
to  Sir  William  Butler.  He  married,  in  1887, 
Eleanor  Georgina,  dau.  of  the  late  Capt.  H.  J. 
M.  Campbell,  R.A. 

RUSSELL,  Robert,  I.S.O.,  of  33,  Prince 
of  Wales  Mansions,  Battersea  Park,  London, 
was  born  at  Edinbvirgh  in  1843  ;  was  educated 
at  the  Church  of  Scotland  Training  Coll.  and 
the  Univ.  of  Edinburgh,  and  has  had  a  long 
and  useful  public  career  mainly  devoted  to 
educational  matters  in  Natal.  In  18fi5  he  was 
appointed  Headmaster  of  Durban  High  Sch., 
and  became  Supt.  of  Education  and  Secy, 
to  the  Council  of  Education  in  1878.  He 
was  for  some  years  Chairman  of  the  Survey 
Board  and  Member  of  the  Civil  Service  Board, 
and  was  appointed  to  represent  Natal  on  the 


Coimcil  of  the  Cap 3  Univ.  in  1896.  He  was 
mainly  instrumental  in  establishing  the  Cadet 
system  in  vogue  in  Natal.  Mr.  Russell  retired 
from  the  Civil  Service  of  the  Colony  in  1903  on 
fuU  salary  specially  voted  by  the  Natal  Parlia- 
ment. In  the  same  year  he  was  created  a  Com- 
panion of  the  Imperial  Service  Order.  He  Ls  tha 
author  of  "  Natal :  the  Land  and  its  Story  " 
(1903). 

RUSSELL,    Robert,    Jxjnr.,  M.A.,    B.C.L., 

of  26,  Victoria  St.,  London,  S.W.,  and  of  the 
New  Vagabonds'  Club,  was  born,  Aug.  13, 
1867,  at  Durban.  He  is  son  of  Robert 
Russell,  ex-Supt.  of  Education  for  Natal  (q.v.), 
and  was  educated  at  Pietermaritzburg  High 
Sch.,  and  at  Merton  Coll.,  Oxon.,  where  he 
graduated  with  honours  in  law.  He  is  now 
about  to  enter  for  the  higher  degree  of  D.C.L. 
Wliile  at  Oxford  he  played  in  his  college  cricket 
and  Association  football  teams  from  1886  to 
1888.  Retvu-ning  to  Natal  he  was  an  Acting 
Inspector  of  Schools  for  the  Colony  in  1891-2  ; 
was  called  to  the  Bar  of  the  Inner  Temple  in 
1893  ;  and  received  his  present  appointment 
as  Secy,  to  the  Natal  Govt.  Agency  in  the  same 
year.  Mr.  Russell  contributes  verse  to  the 
"Westminster  Gazette,"  "Sketch,"  and  "  Pall 
Mall  Gazette,"  He  married.  May  5,  1895,  May, 
dau.  of  the  late  A.  S.  Smith,  of  Tudor  Hill 
House,  Sutton  Coldfield. 

SAJVIPSON,  Victor,  K.C,  M.L.A.,  of  Kimber- 
ley,  and  of  the  Civil  Service  and  Kimberley 
Clubs,  was  born  at  Cape  Town  in  1855.  He  was 
educated  privately,  and  in  1871  entered  the 
Civil  Service  mider  the  Imp.  Govt.  ;  served  for 
eight  years  in  the  Control  and  Audit  Office ; 
Accountant  for  East  Griqualand  to  1881.  He 
passed  B.A.  and  LL.B.  while  in  the  Civil 
Service,  and  obtained  the  Cape  Univ. 
Chancellor's  Gold  Medal  for  essay  on  the 
native  question  in  1877.  He  was  called  to  the 
Cape  Bar  in  Dec,  1881  ;  was  made  Q.C.  in 
1896  ;  is  the  leader  of  the  Kimberley  Bar,  and  was 
a  Director  of  De  Beers  Mines  from  1902  to  1904. 
Mr.  Sampson  is  a  sovmd  Progressive,  and  was 
returned  to  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for 
the  electoral  division  of  Albany  in  1898,  being 
re-elected  at  the  general  election  in  Feb.  1904. 
In  the  same  month  he  joined  Dr.  Jameson's 
Cabinet  as  Attorney-Gen. 

SARGANT,  Edmund  Beale,  M.A.,  of  the 
Oxford  and  Cambridge  Club,  London,  and  the 
Athenaeum    Club,    Johannesburg,   was    born   in 


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London  in  1855.  He  is  son  of  Henry  Sargant, 
Barrister-at-Law,  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  and  was 
educated  at  Rugby  Sch.,  University  Coll.,  and 
Trinity  Coll.,  Camb.  He  fills  the  position  of 
Director  of  Education  for  the  Transvaal. 

SAUER,  Hon.  J.  W.,  of  Kenilworth,  C.C;  is  son 
of  an  O.F.S.  Landdrost  ;  was  educated  at  the  S. 
African  Coll.,  after  which  he  was  articled  to  Fair- 
bridge  &  Arderne,  Attorneys,  of  Cape  Town,  and 
practised  for  many  years  in  conjunction,  first  with 
Mr.  H.  S.  Caldecott  (q.v.),  and  after  with  Mr. 
Orsmond  at  AJiwal  North.  He  entered  the  Cape 
ParUament  as  member  for  that  constituency, 
for  which  he  has  since  been  re-elected  on  many 
occasions.  Formerly  associated  with  Sir  Gordon 
Sprigg,  he  broke  with  him  in  1876  on  questions  of 
native  poHcy.  From  1881  to  1884,  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Scanlen  Ministry  as  Secy,  for 
Native  Affairs,  and  became  Colonial  Secy,  in 
Mr.  Rhodes'  Ministry  in  1890,  but  was  one  of 
three  who  wrecked  it  three  years  later.  Although 
not  a  member  of  the  Afrikander  Bond,  he  is 
one  of  its  most  effective  supporters,  and  makes 
no  secret  of  his  indifference  to  the  Imperial 
interest  in  C.C.  Mr.  Sauer  has  declined  a 
knighthood.  He  was  Commissioner  of  Public 
Works  in  Sir.  G.  Sprigg' s  last  Cape  Ministry, 
and  was  defeated  at  the  general  elections  in 
Feb.,  1904.  He  still  retains  his  practice  as  an 
attorney  in  C.T.  He  married  a  dau.  of  Henry 
Cloete,  of  Constantia,  C.C. 

SAUNDERS,  Capt.  Frederick  Anastrasius, 
3rd  West  Yorks  Regt.,  F.R.C.S.,  L.R.C.P. 
Edin.,  F.R.G.S.,  F.R.C.I.,  F.S.A.,  Fel.  Obstetri- 
cal Soc,  of  Grahamstown,  and  of  the  Scottish 
Conservative  Club,  Edin.,  and  the  Junior  Con- 
servative Club,  Lend.,  was  born  in  London, 
June  12,  1859  ;  and  was  educated  at  King 
Edward  VI  Sch.,  Gt.  Berkhampstead,  Herts. 
He  commanded  the  second  detachment  of  the 
First  City  (Grahamstown)  Volunteers  at  Lange- 
berg,  Bechuanaland,  in  1897  (medal),  and  diu'ing 
the  late  S.A.  War  acted  as  Station  Staff  Officer, 
as  Adjt.  of  Marshall's  Horse,  and  as  Adjt.  of 
the  1st  C.V.,  which  he  now  commands  (Queen's 
and  King's  medals,  three  clasps).  Capt. 
Saunders  married :  first,  in  1882,  Cissy,  only 
dau.  of  Col.  Barnes,  St.  Helena  Regt.,  and  step- 
dau.  of  the  11th  Earl  Lindsay  ;  and  second,  in 
1893,  Lucy  Anderson,  dau.  of  Prof.  J.  Meikle- 
john,  of  St.  Andrew's  Univ.,  Scotland. 

SAWERSHAL,    Henry    George    Emanuel 


Julius  Edward,  was  draughtsman  in  the 
Public  Works  Dept.  at  Queenstown,  C.C, 
May,  1882  ;  was  Asst.  Surveyor  on  Tembuland 
Commission,  Aug.,  1882 ;  Computer  at  the 
Royal  Observatory,  C.C,  July,  1885 ;  Asst. 
Surveyor,  Bechuanaland  railway  extension, 
Aug.,  1890 ;  became  Asst.  to  the  Surveyor- 
Gen,  in  Mashonaland,  Sept.,  1891  ;  acted  as 
the  B.S.A.  Co.'s  representative  at  Umtali  Jtme 
to  Aug.  1896  ;  Acting  Asst.  Surveyor-Gen., 
Jan.  1897,  and  has  twice  acted  as  Surveyor- 
Gen.  He  was  Acting  Examiner  of  Diagrams, 
Feb.  28,  1901. 

SCANLEN,  Hon.  Sir  Thomas  Charles, 
K.CM.G.,  M.L.C,  of  Salisbury,  Rhodesia; 
and  of  the  Civil  Service  (C.T.)  and  Sahsbury 
Clubs ;  was  born  at  Albany,  near  Grahams- 
town, July  9,  1834.  He  is  son  of  the  late  Chas. 
Scanlen,  V/ho  formerly  represented  Cradock 
Dist.  in  the  Cape  House  of  Assembly.  Sir 
Thomas  was  educated  in  the  Eastern  Province 
until  war  in  1850  interrupted  his  studies.  He 
resided  at  Cradock  from  1845  for  over  30  years, 
where  he  was  member  of  the  Divisional  Council 
and  Chairman  of  the  Municipality,  besides  which 
he  represented  that  constituency  in  the  Cape 
Parliament  continuously  from  1870  to  1896. 
He  was  J.P.  for  the  Cape  and  Cradock  Districts ; 
became  Prime  Minister  and  Attorney-Gen. 
of  C.C.  in  1881,  and  Premier  and  Colonial 
Secy,  in  1882-1884.  He  was  appointed  Legal 
Adviser  to  the  B.S.A.  Co.,  Oct.  1894  ;  member 
of  the  Executive  Council  of  S.  Rhodesia,  Jan. 
1896,  becoming  senior  member,  Dec.  20,  1896  ; 
Acting  Public  Prosecutor,  Apr.  1896  ;  Pres. 
of  the  Compensation  Board,  Sept.  1896  ;  was 
appointed  Acting  Administrator  of  S.  Rhodesia 
in  Dec.  1898,  and  again  in  Jan.  1903;  and  has 
acted  as  the  Company's  representative  on  several 
occasions.  Sir  Thomas  was  appointed  M.L.C.  in 
May  1899,  and  was  last  reappointed  in  June 
1903,  with  precedence  of  nominated  members. 
He  is  also  Chairman  of  Committee  in  the 
Legislative  Council.  In  July  1902,  he  became 
senior  member  of  the  Farming  and  Transport 
Aid  Board.  Sir  Thomas  was  twnce  married: 
first,  to  Emma  Riackwray  (d.  1862) ;  and  second, 
to  Sarah  Dennison  (d.  Feb.  1903). 

SCHIEL,  Col.,  has  had  a  long  experience 
of  S.A.  He  was  a  Native  Commissioner 
in  the  Zoutpansberg,  and  Organizer  of  the 
Staats  Artillerie  of  the  S.A.R.,  and  in  the  late 
Boer  War  (1899)  was  appointed  to  the  com- 
mand of  the  German   Brigade.      He  was    cap- 


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tured  at  Elandslaagte,  and  during  his  captivity 
at  St.  Helena  wrote  a  book,  "  Twenty-three 
Years  of  Storm  and  Sunshine  in  South  Africa." 

SCHOELLER,  De.  Max,  Member  of  the 
German  Colonial  Council ;  of  Zelten  21a,  Berlin  ; 
of  Rittergat  Bingel  bei  Diiren  (Rheinland)  ; 
and  of  the  Union  Club,  Berlin  ;  was  born  at 
Diiren,  July  28,  1865.  He  is  son  of  Alexander 
Schoeller  by  his  wife  Adele  Casstargeis,  and 
received  a  liberal  education  at  Diiren,  Cologne, 
Aix-la-Chapelle,  Munich,  and  Freiburg-i-Br. 
Dr.  Schoeller  travelled  through  Northern  Abys- 
sinia in  1894,  afterwards  publishing  "  Mitteil- 
ungen  iiber  meine  Reise  in  der  Colonie  Eritrea 
(Nord  Abessinien),  1894."  The  years  1896 
and  1897  he  spent  in  German  and  British  East 
Africa  and  Uganda,  publishing  three  volumes 
entitled  "  Mitteilungsn  liber  meine  Reise  nach 
Aequatorial  Ost  Africa  und  Uganda  1896-97." 
Throughout  1897  he  travelled  in  S.A.  He 
married,  Nov.  28,  1903,  Elizabeth  Wessel. 
Dr.  Schoeller's  merits  have  been  recognized  by 
the  following  Orders  conferred  upon  him  : 
Roter  Adler  of  the  IV.  class,  Friedrichs  III.  cl., 
Ernestiner  IV.  cl.,  Eiserne  Krone  III.  cl.,  Itali- 
enische  Krone  IV.  cl.,  Medjedie  II.  cl..  Villa 
Vicosa  II.  cl.,  Sonnen  und  Lowen  II.  cl.,  and 
Erloser  IV.  cl. 

SCHOEMAN,  Johannes  Hendrick,  M.L.A., 
is  Bond  Member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  As- 
sembly for  Oudtshoorn,  for  which  electoral 
division  he  was  re-elected  in  Feb.  1904. 

SCHREINER,  Olive  {see  Jlrs.  Cronwright- 
Schreiner). 

SCHREINER,  Hon.  W.  P.,  K.C.,  C.M.G., 
was  born  in  the  Wittebergen  Native  Reserve, 
now  part  of  the  Herschel  District  of  the 
C.C,  in  1857.  He  is  son  of  the  late  Rev.  G. 
Schreiner,  a  German  missionary  of  the  L.M.S., 
and  brother  of  the  celebrated  S.A.  novelist, 
Olive  Schreiner,  now  Mrs.  Cron-\\Tight-Schreiner 
(q.v.).  Mr.  Schreiner  was  edvicated  at  Cradock, 
Bedford  and  Grahamstown,  and  at  the  Univs. 
of  Cape  Town,  Cambridge  and  London, 
where  he  distinguished  himself  in  scholarly 
attainments.  He  took  a  Senior  in  Law  Tripos 
and  the  Chancellor's  Legal  Medal  in  1881,  and 
was  called  to  the  Bar  of  the  Inner  Temple  in 
the  following  year,  when  he  was  also  admitted 
an  Advocate  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
C.C.  In  1885  he  was  appointed  Parlia- 
mentary Draughtsman  ;  became   Legal   Adviser 


to  the,  High  Commissioner  in  1887,  filling  this 
appointment  until  1893,  when  he  joined  the 
late  Cecil  Rhodes'  second  Ministry  as  Attorney- 
Gen.,  having  in  that  year  been  elected  as 
Member  for  Kimberley  in  the  Cape  House  of 
Assembly.  He  resigned  the  Attorney-General- 
ship later  in  1893  ;  was  elected  member  for 
Barkly  West  by  the  aid  of  the  Bond  vote  in 
1894,  and  again  became  Attorney-Gen.  in 
Sept.  of  that  year.  His  relations  with  Mr. 
Rhodes,  which  had  been  for  many  years  of  a 
cordial  nativre,  were  broken  off  by  the  Jameson 
Raid.  He  left  the  Cabinet,  refusing  to  join 
the  new  Ministry  under  Sir  Gordon  Sprigg.  He 
became,  however,  Premier  in  1898,  retaining 
that  position  until  June,  1900.  In  the  general 
election  in  Feb.  1904,  he  failed  to  be  re-elected 
to  the  House  of  Assembly. 

To  the  student  of  S.  African  pohtics  it  has 
not  always  been  clear  whether  Mr.  Schreiner' s 
attitude  was  pro-Boer  or  pro-British.  His 
tendency  seems  to  waver  between  the  two  ex- 
tremes. Without  being  an  actual  member  of 
the  Afrikander  Bond,  he  has  on  occasions  been 
a  supporter  of  that  organization  ;  in  fact,  he 
has  in  some  quarters  been  suspected  of  an 
inclination  to  follow  the  extremists  in  their 
desire  to  constitute  S.A.  an  independent 
Republic.  However  that  may  be,  it  may  be 
said  that  during  his  Premiership  he  neither 
prevented  nor  promoted  the  S.A.  W^ar,  though 
a  strong'man  in  his  official  position  might  pos- 
sibly have  done  either.  He  is  said  to  have 
resisted  British  measures  of  coercion,  and  to 
have  given  no  eiacouragement  to  anti-British 
aims.  He  neither  stopped  arms  going  into  the 
Transvaal,  nor  permitted  an  early  organized 
defence  of  Kimberley  and  the  Cape  Colonial 
frontier,  nor  did  he,  by  a  display  of  resolution, 
appear  to  aim  at  convincing  Pres.  Kriiger  that 
the  Colony  would  tolerate  no  disloyal  actions 
on  the  part  of  British  subjects  in  the  event  of 
his  issuing  an  ultimatum.  In  short,  his  halting 
methods  of  conciliation  in  the  pre-war  period 
stood  a  very  good  chance  of  being  misinter- 
preted by  a  large  section  of  the  British.  Gene- 
rally, he  is  looked  upon  as  a  man  of  high  attain- 
ments and  character  (somewhat  hampered  as 
a  politician  by  a  "  cross-bench  "  habit  of  mind), 
with  a  racial  bias  towards  the  Dutch  propa- 
ganda, and  an  intellectual  sympathy  with 
British  methods  and  characteristics.  Mr. 
Schreiner  has  been  delegated  at  various  times 
to  conferences  between  S.  African  Govts.  ;  was 
a  Member  of  the  Jameson  Raid  Committee, 
and  gave  evidence  before  the  B.S.A.  Committee 


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of  the  House  of  Commons  in  1897.  He  is  a 
man  of  the  keenest  intellect,  of  brilliant  parts, 
a  practised  speaker,  and  a  successful  lawyer. 
He  married  a  sister  of  Mr.  Reitz,  at  one  time 
Pres.  of  the  O.F.S. 

SCHREINER,  Theophilus,  M.L.A.,  repre- 
sents Tembuland  in  the  Cape  Legislative  As- 
sembly. He  has  for  many  years  been  a  pro- 
minent politician,  and  sits  as  a  supporter  of 
the  Progressive  party.  He  was  last  re-elected 
at  the  general  election  in  1904. 

SCHULLER,  WiLHELM  Cheistian,  of  Johan- 
nesburg, S.A.,  and  25,  Paulinen  Strasse,  Stutt- 
gart, Germany,  and  of  the  Royal  Colonial 
Institute,  was  born  Jan.  18,  1842,  at  Stuttgart, 
and  was  educated  in  his  native  city  and  in 
London.  In  1889  he  went  to  S.A.  and 
proceeded  direct  to  Johannesburg.  It  is 
claimed  that  he  and  his  son,  Oscar  H.  Schuller, 
were  the  discoverers  and  pioneers  of  the  now 
famous  Pretoria  Diamond  Fields.  In  April 
1897,  father  and  son  took  up  and  prospected 
the  Farm  Rietfontein  351  (District  Pretoria). 
On  Aug.  2  his  son  discovered  the  first  diamond, 
and  vigorous  work  resulted  in  a  true  diamond 
pipe  or  crater  being  opened  up.  A  great  deal 
of  local  incredulity  was  displayed,  both  Mr. 
Schuller  and  his  son  being  designated  swindlers, 
salters  and  rogues.  Undaunted,  however,  they 
persevered,  and  proved  that  the  mine  was 
genuine.  The  general  impression  seemed  to 
be  that  it  was  impossible  to  find  diamonds 
outside  of  Griqualand  West  and  the  O.F.S. 
Pres.  Kriiger  also  threw  every  obstacle 
possible  in  the  waj^  but  subseqiiently  he  modi- 
fied his  attitude,  and  helped  the  owners  with 
legislation,  as  he  was  afraid  that  the  late  Mr. 
Rhodes  might  step  in.  A  company  was  floated 
and  named  after  the  discoverers,  "  The  Schuller 
Diamond  Mines,  Ltd.,  of  which  Mr.  Schuller 
was  a  Director.  He  is  also  now  a  Director  of 
Byeneestpoort  Diamond  Mines,  Ltd.,  the  Rand 
Reefs  G.M.  Co.,  and  other  similar  undertakings. 
Mr.  Schuller  has  done  much  to  promote  gym- 
nastic exercises,  and  has  given  many  prizes  and 
trophies  to  the  Wanderers'  Gymnastic  Soc. 

SCHUMACHER,  Raymond  William,  of 
Palhnghurst,  Johannesburg,  second  son  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Erwdn  A.  Schumacher,  of  Porchester 
Terrace,  W.,  was  born  in  London  in  1871.  He 
was  educated  at  Eastbourne  under  Mr.  F. 
Schreiner,  brother  of  the  ex-Premier  of  the  Cape, 
and     at    Harrow.     He     studied    banldng    and 


finance  in  London,  and  for  some  years  on  tho 
Continent  before  going  to  Johannesburg  in 
1894,  where  he  entered  the  employment  of  the 
firm  of  Eckstein  soon  after  his  arrival,  and 
became  a  partner  of  that  firm,  together  with 
Sir  Percj^  Fitzpatrick,  in  1898.  Although  not 
one  of  the  Reformers,  he  gave  evidence  at 
Pretoria  at  the  trial  of  the  Committee  in  Feb. 
1896,  and  was  imprisoned  for  a  few  hours  for 
refusing  to  divulge  his  thoughts  !  In  1899, 
before  the  war,  he  became  Chairman  of  the 
Johannesburg  Relief  Committee.  One  of  the 
last  to  leave  Johannesburg  when  war  broke  out, 
he  quickly  returned,  and  served  with  the  Rand 
Rifles  as  Capt.,  taking  an  active  interest  in 
encouraging  rifle  shooting  among  the  British 
population  on  the  Rand,  and  in  the  Transvaal 
Volunteer  movement.  He  is  now  Maj.,  and 
second  in  command  to  Sir  Godfrey  Lagden  in 
the  T.R.I.  He  also  takes  an  interest  in  most 
forms  of  sport.  He  is  chairman  of  a  large 
number  of  leading  gold  mining  cos.,  and 
director  of  several  more,  and  a  member  of  the 
Rand  Water  Board.  Politically  he  holds 
Imperialistic  views,  and  hopes  to  see  an  intelli- 
gent effort  made  to  protect  British  trade  within 
the  Empire.  Mr.  Schumacher  married,  June  8, 
1903,  Hope,  youngest  dau.  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ed.  L.  Weigall,  of  40,  Holland  Park,  W. 

SCOBLE,  John,  of  Pretoria  (P.O.  Box  384),^ 
Transvaal,  was  born  in  London,  March  11, 
1826,  his  father  having  been  Secy,  of  the  Anti- 
Slavery  Society,  and  afterwards  M.P.  for  the 
county  of  Elgin,  Canada.  He  was  educated 
privately,  and  at  the  age  of  20  joined  the  staff 
of  the  "  Morning  Herald,"  Lond.,  becoming 
City  editor  of  that  paper  in  1849,  subsequently 
occupying  a  similar  position  on  the  "  Morning 
Post."  In  1860  he  went  to  Natal ;  was  ap- 
pointed J.P.  for  Newcastle  Div.  in  1872  ;  was 
a  member  of  the  Newcastle  and  Zulu  Border 
Defence  Commission  ;  went  to  Transvaal  Gold- 
fields  in  1873  ;  was  appointed  Gold  Commis- 
sioner and  Special  Landdrost  in  1875,  and 
Landdrost  at  Middelburg  from  1877  to  1879. 
In  1880  he  once  more  adopted  journalism,  and 
edited  the  Transvaal  "  Argus,"  until  publication 
ceased  ■with  the  first  Boer  War,  in  which  he 
served  as  a  volunteer  in  the  Pretoria  Rifles  in 
the  defence  of  Pretoria.  On  conclusion  of 
peace  he  went  to  the  Jagersfontein  diamond 
fields  ;  estabhshed  the  "  Free  State  Argus  " 
and  a  daily  paper  called  the  "  Breakfast  Table." 
In  1882  he  became  editor  of  the  "Transvaal 
Advertiser,"    and    advocated    British    interests. 


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until  publication  was  suspended  in  1898.  In 
1902  he  resumed  and  still  retains  the  editorship. 
Prior  to  the  last  S.A.  War  Mr.  Scoble  acted 
as  Pretoria  correspondent  of  the  London 
"  Times."  In  1900  he  piiblished,  in  collabora- 
tion with  H.  R.  Abercroinbie,  a  political  history 
of  the  Transvaal,  called  the  "  Rise  and  Fall  of 
Kriigerism,"  which  went  through  two  editions 
and  a  cheap  reprint.  He  married  :  first,  in 
1849,  Miss  Marian  Richmond  ;  and  second,  on 
Oct.  1,  1890,  Miss  Annie  van  der  Riet. 

SCOTT,  John  E.,  of  Bulawayo,  practised  as 
a  solicitor  in  Johannesburg,  afterwards  going 
to  Bulawayo,  where  he  was  the  first  to  follow 
that  profession.  He  was  a  member  of  the  first 
Sanitary  Board,  and  has  always  taken  a  leading 
interest  in  local  affairs.  He  was  elected  Mayor 
of  Bulawayo  in  1902,  and  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Bulawayo  Chamber  of  Mines. 

SCOTT,  William  Edward  Edw,\bds,  of 
Hartley,  Rhodesia,  was  appointed  Asst.  Native 
Commissioner  at  Umtali  in  May,  1896,  and 
became  Native  Commissioner  for  the  Hartley 
District,  Apr.  1,  1897. 

SEARLE,  Charles,  M.L.A.,  is  Member  of 
the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for  the  electoral 
division  of  George ;  is  a  supporter  of  the 
Bond,  and  was  last  returned  to  the  House  in 
Feb.  1904. 

SEARLE,  James,  M.L.A.,  is  Member  of  the 
Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for  Port  Elizabeth, 
for  which  constituency  he  successfully  sought 
re-election  at  the  general  election  in  1904. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Progressive  party. 

SEEAR,  John,  of  The  Quarry,  Cheara, 
Surrey,  and  of  Salisbury  House,  London  Wall, 
E.C.,  was  formerly  with  the  firm  of  George 
Hasluck  &  Co.,  accountants,  of  which  he  is  still 
a  sleeping  partner.  He  is  a  director  of  a  large 
nimaber  of  public  cos.,  chiefly  Rhodesian  and 
Finance.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  Bulawayo 
Market  and  Offices,  Crescens  (Matabele)  Mines, 
Crewe's  Rhodesia  Development,  Davies'  Selukwe 
Development,  Ibo  Investment  Trust,  Koffy- 
fontein  Mines  (also  Life  Governor),  Lomagmida 
Development,  Rhodesia  Exploration  (and  Mana- 
ging Director),  the  Rhodesia  -  Matabeleland 
Development  and  the  Warnford  Explora- 
tion Cos.  He  is  co-Managing  Director  with 
Mr.  W.  A.  Wills  of  the  Estate,  Finance  and 
Mines    Corporation;    is   Managing    Director    of 


the  Goldfields  of  Matabeleland,  and  is  on  the 
Boards  of  the  Rand  Rhodesia,  Oceana  Con- 
solidated, Transvaal  Goldfields  and  Van  Ryn 
G.  Mines.  In  addition  to  these  directorships 
he  is  on  the  London  committees  of  a  few  other 
limited  companies. 

SELOUS,       Frederick       Courteney,       of 
Heatherside,     Worplesdon,     Surrey,     was    born 
near    Regent's    Park,    London,    Dec.    31,    1851, 
and  is  of  mixed  Huguenot  and  English  descent 
on  the  father's  side,  and  of  English  and  Scottish 
descent  in  the  maternal  line.     He  was  edvicated 
at  Bruce  Castle  (Tottenham),  Rtigby,  Neuchatel, 
and  Wiesbaden,  and  when  still  a  boy  went  to 
S.A.,  landing  at  Algoa  Bay   on   Sept.    4,   1871, 
with   the    intention   of    going   to    tlae  diamond 
fields.     But    instead    of    this    he    started    on    a 
trading  expedition  through  Griqualand.     In  the 
following    year    he    set    out    for    Matabeleland, 
meeting  on  the  way  Mr.   G.   A.   Phillips,  with 
whom  he  made  the  acquaintance  of  Lobengula, 
who    granted   Mr.    Selous   permission    to    shoot 
elephants  because  he  was    "  only  a  boy."     In 
1877,  after  a  trip  to  England,  he  again  visited 
the  Zambesi.     From    1882  to    1892  Mr.    Selous 
was    constantly    travelling    over    the    Mashona 
plateau,  and  during  that  time  roughly  mapped 
out    the   country   by   taking   compass   bearings 
wherever  possible  from  hill  to  hill,  and  sketching 
the    courses   of    the   rivers    and    streams    from 
the  tops  of  hills.      Mr.   Selous   was    associated 
with  IMaj.   Johnson    as    guide    and  intelligence 
officer  in  the  work  of  opening  up  Mashonaland 
with  the  early  pioneers,  and  it  was  in  this  con- 
nection that  he  prepared  the  track  known  as 
the  Selous  Road  from  Tuli  to  Fort  Salisbury, 
400  miles  long,  as  well  as  various  other  roads 
connecting     the     mining     centres.     He     com- 
manded a  troop  of  R.H.V.  in  the  second  Mata- 
bele War  (189G),  and  was  afterwards  for  a  short 
period  associated  with  the  Partridge  &   Jarvis 
group.     During  the  last  few  seasons  Mr.  Selous 
has    been    hunting    in    Asia    Minor,    in    North 
America,  and  in  E.  Africa  again.     His  museimi 
at     Worplesdon     contains     many     magnificent 
trophies  of  the  chase  in  different  parts  of  the 
world.     He  has  written  a  good  nmnber  of  in- 
teresting books  on  travel  and  sport ;  has  lec- 
tured considerably,   and  was  awarded  in   1893 
the  Founders'  Medal  of  the  Royal  Geographical 
Society  in  recognition  of  his  extensive  explora- 
tions and  svu-veys  in  B. S.A.     He  married,  Apr.  4, 
1894,  Marie   Catharine   Gladys,    eldest    dau.    of 
the     Rev.     Canon    Maddy,     Rector    of    Down 
Hatherley,  Glcs. 


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SENIOR,  Bernard,  Auditor-Gen.  of  the 
O.R.C.  ;  of  Bloemfontein,  S.A.,  and  of  the 
Royal  Societies'  Club  ;  son  of  the  late  John 
Senior,  solicitor,  of  2,  New  Inn,  London, 
was  born  at  Wimbledon,  Surrey,  June  23, 
1865.  He  entered  the  Home  Civil  Service  as 
Clerk  to  the  Boundary  Commission  under  the 
Redistribution  of  Seats  Act,  in  Dec.  1884.  He 
was  attached  to  the  Scotch  Education  Dept. 
in  1885,  and  again  in  1888.  In  1887  he 
was  selected  as  Private  Secy,  to  the  late 
Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Francis  Sandford  (afterwards 
Lord  Sandford),  Under-Secy.  of  State  for  Scot- 
land. In  May  1888  he  was  appointed  First- 
Class  Clerk  in  the  Colonial  Secy.'s  Office 
on  the  Gold  Coast.  He  was  elected  Local 
Auditor  of  the  Colony  of  Lagos  in  1889,  and 
held  a  similar  position  on  the  Gold  Coast  from 
Dec.  1889  to  Feb.  1894.  For  the  next  two 
years  he  was  Local  Auditor  of  British  Bechuana- 
land,  and  when  that  Colony  was  incorporated 
with  the  C.C.  in  Nov.  1895  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  Island  of  Cyprus  as  Local 
Auditor,  which  position  he  held  until  Oct.  1, 
1902,  when  he  was  elected  Auditor-Gen. 
of  the  O.R.C.  He  is  a  Director  of  the  National 
Bank  of  the  O.R.C,  and  is  Chairman  of  the 
Govt.  Tender  Board.  He  is  Hon.  Treas. 
of  the  O.R.C.  Turf  Club,  and  is  Hon.  Secy,  of 
the  United  Service  Club,  Bloemfontein.  He 
married.  Mar.  31,  1891,  Florence  Mary,  yoiuigest 
dau.  of  the  late  Dr.  S.  B.  Farr,  of  Andover,  Hants. 

SERGEANT,  Lietjt.-Col.,  F.R.G.S.,  is  eldest 
son  of  Capt.  Sergeant  late  of  the  74th  High- 
landers and  the  Turkish  Contingent,  of  St. 
Benet's  Abbey,  near  Bodmin,  and  of  Barn 
Park,  Cornwall.  In  1S74  he  organized  and 
raised  the  Cadet  Corps  of  the  2nd  Devon  R.V., 
which  he  commanded  until  1882,  and  also 
held  a  commission  in  the  1st  Somerset  R.V. 
from  1877  to  1880.  In  1882  he  was 
gazetted  to  a  commission  in  the  4th  Royal 
Fusiliers,  obtaining  his  Captaincy  in  1883.  He 
served  with  this  battn.  until  1889.  In  1884 
he  went  out  to  S.A.  with  the  1st  detachment  of 
Methuen's  Horse,  acting  as  Assist.  Sergt.- 
Maj.  in  connection  with  the  preliminary  drill 
and  instruction  of  the  men.  Early  in  the 
following  year  he  received  a  commission  in  the 
Pioneer  Regt.,  Bechuanaland  Field  Force,  and 
commanded  a  detachment  (despatches)  until 
the  termination  of  the  expedition.  In  1886 
he  joined  the  Reserve  of  Officers,  and  was  pro- 
moted Capt.  in  1889.  He  was  gazetted  to  a 
company   in   the   5th    Rifle    Brigade    in    1890, 


and  received  his  hon.  majority  in  the  same 
year.  In  1893  he  was  promoted  to  the  sub- 
stantive rank  of  Maj.,  and  in  Aug.  1895  re- 
ceived his  hon.  Lieut. -Colonelcy. 

Col.  Sergeant  was  appointed  an  Esquire  of 
the  Order  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem  in  1892, 
and  promoted  Knight  of  that  Order  in  1894. 

He  has  written  much  on  sport,  travel,  and 
colonization  in  the  "  Field,"  and  is  the  author 
of  several  books  and  pamphlets.  He  repre- 
sented the  "  Pall  Mall  Gazette  "  as  Special  Com- 
missioner during  the  Matabele  War  of  1896. 
As  a  cyclist  he  takes  a  practical  interest  in 
military  cycling,  and  is  standing  counsel  to  the 
National  Cyclist  Union  of  Great  Britain.  He 
has  patented  various  improvements  in  con- 
nection with  firearms,  of  which  he  has  expert 
knowledge. 

SETON-KARR,  Sir  Henry,  Knt.,  C.M.G., 
M.P.,  J.P.  and  D.L.  for  Roxbiu-ghshire,  of 
Kippilaw,  St.  Boswells,  N.B.  ;  of  22,  Sloane 
Gardens,  S.W.,  and  of  the  Carlton,  Imperial 
Service  and  New  (Edinburgh)  Chxbs  ;  is 
the  son  of  G.  Berkeley  Seton-Karr,  of  the 
Madras  Civil  Service,  who  was  Resident  Com. 
missioner  at  Belgaum,  Southern  Mahratta, 
during  the  great  Mutiny.  He  was  born  Feb.  5, 
1853,  in  India,  and  educated  at  Harrow  and 
Oxford,  where  he  took  honours  in  law  and 
graduated  M.A.  In  1879  he  was  called  to  the 
Bar,  and  practised  on  the  Northern  Circuit. 
He  was  elected  to  Parliament  for  St.  Helen's, 
Lanes.,  in  1885,  and  has  held  his  seat 
through  five  contested  elections,  increasing  his 
majority  from  57  to  1,878.  He  is  greatly  inter- 
ested in  State  colonization  and  the  national 
food  supply  in  time  of  war.  He  was  elected  as 
a  member  of  the  Royal  Commission  appointed 
to  consider  this  subject  in  1903,  and  originated 
the  Sharpshooters'  Corps  for  service  in  S.A. 
in  1899.  During  the  years  1900-01-02  he 
acted  as  Vice-Chairman  and  Hon.  Secy,  of  the 
Sharpshooters'  Committee,  who  sent  out  three 
and  half  battalions  (18th,  21st,  23rd  LY.) 
for  service  during  the  war.  For  this  he 
received  his  C.M.G.  He  is  Chairman  of  the 
Liverpool,  St.  Helens,  and  S.  Lancashire 
Railway  Co.  ;  Vice-Chairman  of  the  Widnes 
and  Runcorn  Bridge  Co.,  and  a  Director  of 
various  other  cos.  Sir  Henry  is  widely  known 
as  a  keen  sportsman,  having  shot  big  game 
in  S.A.,  Western  America,  Norway,  British 
Colombia,  and  Scotland.  He  has  a  very  fine 
collection  of  big  game  sporting  trophies,  in- 
cluding   buffalo,    antelope,    grizzly,   black  bear 


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and  mountain  lion,  and  has  an  elk  forest  in 
Norway.  His  publications  include  "  The  Call 
to  Arms"  (1901),  and  many  sporting  articles 
and  reviews.  He  married:  first,  in  Nov.,  1880, 
Edith,  dau.  of  the  late  W.  Pilkington,  D.L.,  of 
Roby  Hall,  Liverpool,  who  died  in  1884  ;  and 
second,  in  1886,  Janie,  eldest  dau.  of  W. 
Tharburn  of  Edinburgh. 

SEWELL,  Cyril  Otto  Hudson,  of  Ciren- 
cester, Glos.,  was  born  at  Pietermaritzburg, 
Natal,  Dec.  19,  1874  ;  is  eldest  surviving  son 
of  J.  J.  Sewell,  late  of  the  Colonial  Office,  Natal. 
He  was  educated  at  Maritzburg  Coll.,  and 
accompanied  the  first  S.A.  cricket  team  to 
England  in  1894.  He  was  the  youngest  player 
in  the  XI.  ;  headed  the  batting  averages,  and 
was  the  only  member  of  the  team  to  complete 
1,000  rvms  during  the  tour. 

He  took  up  law  as  a  profession,  and  has 
practised  for  some  years  at  Circenester.  Quali- 
fied by  residence  there,  he  has  played  in  the 
Gloucester  County  XI.  every  year  since  1895, 
with  the  exception  of  1897,  when  he  was  called 
to  S.A.  on  the  death  of  his  father.  Mr.  Sewell 
married,  Feb.  21,  1903,  Maud  Evelyn,  eldest 
dau.  of  Mrs.  Maunsell-Collins,  of  Carlyle  Gardens, 
London. 

SHAND,  William  Robertson,  formerly 
Clerk  at  Knysna  and  Swellendam,  was  appointed 
Asat.  Magistrate  at  Willowmore  Aug.  1,  1890  ; 
at  Glen  Grey,  Apr.  2,  1893  ;  joined  the  Char- 
tered Co.'s  service  as  Asst.  Magistrate  at  Gwelo, 
Oct.  1,  1898  ;  has  acted  as  Civil  Commissioner 
and  R.M.  in  the  C.C.  on  various  occasions,  and 
also  as  Asst.  Magistrate  at  Enkeldoorn  and 
Bulawayo,  and  as  Magistrate  at  Gwelo. 

SHARP,  Ernest  Chappel,  J.  P.  for  S. 
Rhodesia  ;  of  Salisbury,  Rhodesia  ;  joined  the 
Chartered  Co's.  service  as  Clerk  in  the  Surveyor- 
General's  Office,  Apr.  1,  1894 ;  was  Acting 
Asst.  Registrar  of  the  High  Court,  Feb.  18, 
1896  ;  served  in  the  Matabeleland  and  Mashona- 
land  Rebellions  until  Sept.  1,  1896  ;  was  Secy, 
to  the  Assessment  of  Compensation  Board, 
Sept.  7,  1896  ;  Acting  High  Sheriff  and  Chief 
Clerk  to  Public  Prosecutor,  Sept.  7,  1896  ;  Asst. 
Statist,  Mch.  1897  ;  and  Clerk  to  Civil  Com- 
missioner, Salisbury,  Apr.  4,  1900. 

SHARPE,  Montagu,  D.L.,  J.P.,  of  Brent 
Lodge,  Hanwell,  W.  ;  3,  Elm  Court,  Temple, 
E.C.,  and  the  Junior  Carlton  Club  ;  only  son  of 


Commander  Benjamin  Sharpe,  J. P.,  for  Middle- 
sex (who  died  in  1883),  by  Marianne  Fanny, 
dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  Geo.  Montagu  ;  was  born 
in  Oct.  1856  ;  was  educated  at  Felstead,  and 
was  for  some  years  in  the  Civil  Service  from 
which  he  retired  in  1883.  He  took  his  degree 
of  D.L.  in  1888,  and  was  called  to  the  Bar  of 
Gray's  Inn  in  1889.  He  was  placed  on  the 
Commission  of  the  Peace  for  Middlesex  in 
1883  ;  is  an  Alderman  of  that  county,  and  has 
been  Vice-Chairman  of  the  first  Middlesex 
Coimty  Council  since  1889.  He  has  also  been 
Deputy-Chairman  of  the  Middlesex  Quarter 
Sessions  since  1896,  and  is  Chairman  of  the 
Petty  Sessions  and  Commissioner  of  Taxes 
for  Brentford  Dist.,  and  has  been  Chairman  of 
the  Hanwell  Conservative  Assoc,  since  1883. 

Mr.  Sharpe  is  Chairman  of  John  Birch  &  Co., 
Ltd.,  engineers,  trading  in  India,  Japan,  S. 
America  and  Egypt,  in  which  latter  country 
the  company  received  from  the  Govt,  a  con- 
cession for  establishing  a  system  of  light  rail- 
ways in  the  provinces  of  Beherah  and  Garbieh. 
This  concession  was  taken  over  by  the  Egyptian 
Delta  Light  Railway  Co.,  Ltd.,  of  which  Mr. 
Sharpe  is  a  Director.  He  is  also  on  the  Board 
of  the  Tendring  Hundred  Water  Co. 

In  Freemasonry  he  is  P.G.D.  Grand  Lodge, 
Eng.,  and  is  Pres.  of  the  League  of  Mercy, 
Brentford  Div.  He  was  winner  of  the  Civil 
Service  Mile  Challenge  Cup  for  three  years,  and 
of  other  races.  His  recreations  are  now  photo- 
graphy, boating,  workshop,  hunting  and  shoot- 
ing. He  married,  July,  1888,  Mary  Annie, 
only  dau.  of  Capt.  John  Parsons,  R.N. 

SHAW,  Flora  Louise,  maiden  name  of 
Lady  Lugard  (q.v.). 

SHORT,  George,  served  as  Sergt.  on  the 
Mount  Darwin  patrol  in  1897.  He  then  entered 
the  Chartered  Company's  service,  Mch.  7,  1898. 

SILBERBAUER,  C,  Christian,  of  C.C, 
was  born  in  S.A.  Although  he  claims  to  be  an 
independent  representative  member  of  the  Cap& 
Legislative  Assembly,  he  has  leanings  towards 
the  Bond,  and  was  supported  by  that  organiza- 
tion in  his  candidature  for  Tembuland,  for 
which  he  was  elected  unopposed  in  Nov.  1902. 

SILBERBAUER,  W.,  M.L.A.,  represents  the 
electoral  division  of  Richmond  in  the  Cape 
House  of  Assembly.  He  is  a  Member  of  the 
S.  African  party,  and  was  last  returned  in  that 
interest  in  Feb.  1904. 


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SIM,  Thomas  Robertson,  F.L.S.,  F.R.H.S., 
of  Natal,  is  the  son  of  a  well  known  Aber- 
deenshire botanist  and  fruit  grower.  He 
was  born  at  Aberdeen,  Scotland,  in  1858,  and 
was  educated  at  the  old  Aberdeen  Gram. 
Sch.  and  at  the  Univ.  of  that  town.  He  has 
always  been  closely  connected  with  econ- 
omic horticulture,  botany  and  sylviculture. 
After  a  thorough  training  in  these  subjects  in 
many  of  the  best  horticultural  schools  of 
England  and  America,  including  the  Hort, 
Society's  Garden,  Chiswick  ;  the  Royal  Gardens, 
Kew ;  Harvard  Univ.  Botanic  Gardens,  and 
a  few  years  of  active  connection  with  fruit 
growing  and  nursery  work  in  Scotland,  he 
emigrated  in  1888  to  S.A.,  where  after  being  a 
short  time  Curator  of  the  Botanic  Gardens  of 
King  Williamstown,  he  joined  the  Civil  Ser- 
vice of  C.C.,  passing  through  various  grades  in 
the  Forest  Department  up  to  District  Forest 
Officer  in  the  Eastern  Conservancy,  where  also 
he  was  occasionally  utiUzed  as  lecturer  on 
Forestry  and  Fruit  Culture.  In  1902,  when 
the  reorganization  of  the  Forest  Service  of 
Natal  was  proposed,  he  was  selected  to  carry 
that  out,  and  was  transferred  as  Conservator 
of  Forests  of  Natal,  with  which  appointment 
was  also  conjoined  that  of  fruit  expert.  Be- 
sides numerous  contributions  to  magazine 
literature,  he  is  the  author  of  "  The  Ferns  of 
Kaffraria,"  "  Check  List  of  the  Flora  of  Kaff- 
raria,"  "  The  Ferns  of  South  Africa,"  and  the 
"  Forest  Flora  of  Cape  Colony,"  which  latter 
work  is  now  in  the  press. 

SIVEWRIGHT,  Sir  James,  K.C.M.G., 
M.A.,  of  Tullyallan,  Fifeshire,  N.B.,  and  of 
Lourensford,  C.C,  was  born  at  Fochabers, 
Elginshire,  in  Dec.  1848.  He  was  entered  at 
Aberdeen  Univ.  in  1862  as  a  Bursar,  and 
graduated  M.A.  in  1866.  He  adopted  tele- 
graphic engineering  as  a  profession,  and  after 
holding  an  appointment  in  the  Indian  tele- 
graphs, became  Superintending  Engineer  of  the 
Southern  Division  of  England  in  1870.  He 
was  Secy,  to  the  Society  of  Telegraph  Engineers, 
and  was  appointed  Gen.  Manager  of  S. 
African  Telegraphs  in  1877,  from  which  he 
retired  on  a  pension  in  1884.  He  received  the 
C.M.G.  on  the  conclusion  of  the  Zulu  War,  in 
which  he  also  earned  the  S.A.  War  medal  with 
clasp.  After  a  short  rest  in  England  he  re- 
turned to  the  Cape,  and  entered  the  political 
arena  in  1888  as  first  member  for  Griqualand  E., 
defeating  Mr.  Zietsman  by  a  large  majority. 
On  July  17,  1890,  Sir  James  joined  the  Rhodes' 


Ministry  without  portfolio,  but  subsequently 
(Sept.  1890)  was  appointed  Commissioner  of 
Crown  Lands  and  Public  Works,  and  energeti- 
cally supported  his  chief  in  the  extension  of  th© 
Cape  railway  and  telegraph  systems  north- 
wards, and  his  negotiation  with  the  Transvaal 
Executive  for  the  construction  of  the  Bloem 
fontein-Johannesburg  section  was  considered  a 
diplomatic  achievement  of  no  slight  merit. 
He  was  knighted  on  completion  of  railway  com- 
munication with  the  Transvaal.  Sir  James 
went  out  of  office  in  the  disruption  of  1893,  but 
returned  as  Commissioner  of  Public  Works  in 
the  Sprigg  Ministry  of  1896. 

He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Johannes- 
burg Waterworks  Co.  ;  was  largely  responsible 
for  the  reduction  of  the  S.A.  cable  rates,  and 
worked  hard  for  a  high  level  of  efficiency  in 
departmental  affairs,  as  well  as  in  all  business 
imdertakings  with  which  he  has  been  connected. 
He  was  the  pioneer  of  Cold  Storage  in  the  Cape, 
and  having  decided  to  remain  in  liis  British 
home,  is  devoting  his  energies  to  the  develop- 
ment of  the  coal  and  iron  measiores  of  the  East 
of  Scotland.  Sir  James  married,  in  1880, 
Jennie,  dau.  of  George  Page,  of  Bloemfontein, 

SKINNER,  H.  Ross,  of  Johannesburg,  was 
delegated  by  the  Transvaal  Chamber  of  Mines 
to  proceed  to  the  East  in  order  to  investigate 
and  report  upon  the  labour  supply  there  for  the' 
S.A.  mines. 

SLATER,  J.,  M.L.A.,  represents  Victoria 
East  in  the  Cape  House  of  Assembly  in  the 
Progressive  interest.  He  was  elected  at  the 
general  election  in  Feb.   1904. 

SLOLEY,  Herbert  Cecil,  of  the  Residency, 
Maseru,  Basutoland,  was  born  at  Calcutta, 
Feb.  4,  1855.  He  is  son  of  the  late  Robert 
Hugh  Sloley,  of  Calcutta  ;  was  educated  at  th© 
Greenwich  Proprietary  Sch.,  and  proceeding  to 
S.A.  served  with  the  Cape  Mounted  Riflemen 
and  various  Colonial  forces  until  1884,  when 
he  was  appointed  Sub-Inspector  of  Basutoland 
Police.  He  was  promoted  Inspector,  1S86(.'; 
Asst.  Commissioner  in  Basutoland,  1888  ;  Govt. 
Secy,  in  Basutoland,  1895  ;  and  Resident  Com- 
missioner in  Basutoland  in  1901.  He  has  seen 
considerable  service  in  the  field,  and  wears  the 
war  medal  with  clasp,  1877-8-9  ;  medal  with 
clasp  for  1880-1,  and  the  S.A.  War  medal  for 
1899-1900.  He  married,  Nov.  18,  1886, 
Charlotte,  dau.  of  the  late  John  Dick,  of  C.C. 
and  Scotland. 


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SMARTT,  De.  Thomas  William,  M.L.A.,  of 
C.T.,  is  an  Irishman  by  birth,  and  trained 
for  the  medical  profession,  which  he  abandoned 
to  take  a  more  prominent  role  in  Colonial 
politics.  He  was  formerly  a  political  adherent 
of  Sir  Gordon  Sprigg,  whose  Ministry  he  joined 
from  May  to  Oct.  1898,  as  Colonial  Secy. ; 
afterwards  in  June  1900  becoming  Commis- 
sioner of  Public  Works  in  Sir  Gordon  Sprigg's 
fourth  Administration.  Ever  a  staunch  Pro- 
gressive, he  seceded  from  the  Govt,  on  the 
Suspension  movement,  taking  with  him  the 
main  body  of  the  Progressive  party.  Dr. 
Smartt  then  for  a  long  time  bore  the  brunt  of 
the  hard  work  on  behalf  of  the  Progressives 
xmtil,  in  June  1903,  Dr.  Jameson  became  the 
recognized  leader  of  the  party.  In  the  general 
election  in  Feb.  1904  Dr.  Smartt  defeated  Sir 
Gordon  Sprigg  at  East  London  (C.C. ),  and  took 
office  vmder  Dr.  Jameson  as  Commissioner  for 
Crown  Lands  and  Public  Works  in  the  same 
month.  Dr.  Smartt  is  a  capable  administrator, 
a  fluent  speaker,  and  possesses  a  youthful 
appearance. 

SMITH,  Charles  Aubrey,  B.A.,  of  the 
Avenue  House,  West  Drayton,  and  the  Sports 
and  Green  Roona  Clubs  and  the  M.C.C.,  was 
born  in  London,  July  21,  1863,  and  was  educated 
at  Charterhouse  and  Cambridge.  Since  his 
Charterhouse  days,  when  he  played  in  the 
school  XL  (1880-1),  he  has  been  a  keen  wielder 
of  the  willow.  He  played  for  Cambridge  Univ. 
1882-3-4-5,  for  Stissex  County  from  1882-92, 
captained  the  English  team  in  Australia  1887-8, 
and  was  also  Capt.  of  the  Enghsh  XL  in  S.A. 
in  1888-9.  For  some  little  time  he  then  settled 
down  in  Johannesburg,  but  returned  to  England, 
and  adopted  the  theatrical  profession  with  a 
success  which  is  well  known  to  the  theatre-going 
public.  He  married,  Aug.  15,  1896,  Isabella, 
dau.  of  the  late  Major  Wood,  of  Abbey  Wood, 
Kent. 

SMITH,  Col.  Sir  Chas.  Bean  Euan  {see 
Euan-Smith. ) 

SMITH,  Edward  Duffus,  of  Salisbury, 
Rhodesia,  entered  the  Chartered  Co.'s  service 
as  Clerk  in  the  Pay  Office,  Bulawayo,  June  1, 
1896  ;  transferred  to  Controller's  Office,  Salis- 
bury, May  1,  1897,  of  which  he  became  Account- 
ant, Apr.  1,  1898 ;  was  appointed  Clerk-in- 
Charge,  Stores  Dept.,  Salisbury,  Jvily  1,  1901. 

SMITH,    Frank   Braybrooke,    of   Pretoria, 


was  born  in  Huntingdonshire  in  1864.  He  is 
son  of  W.  Crexton  Smith,  a  well  known  agri- 
culturist and  authority  upon  farming  and 
estate  management.  Mr.  F.  B.  Smith  was 
educated  privately  and  at  Downing  CoU., 
Camb.  ;  was  Professor  of  Agriculture  and 
Vice-Principal  of  the  South-Eastern  Agri- 
cultural Coll.,  Wye,  Kent,  from  its  fovmdation 
in  1894  until  Apr.  1902,  when  he  was  appointed 
Agricultural  Adviser  to  Lord  Milner,  and  upon 
the  establishment  of  the  dept.  in  July,  1902, 
he  was  appointed  Director  of  Agriculture  for 
the  Transvaal. 

Mr.  Smith  has  always  taken  a  keen  interest 
in  agriculture,  agricultural  education  and 
organization,  and  is  the  author  of  several 
articles  and  papers  on  these  subjects.  In  1900 
he  undertook  an  extensive  tour  through  the 
U.S.A.  and  Canada  for  the  purpose  of  studying 
the  agricultural  conditions  and  admmistration 
of  those  countries,  and  his  observations  thereon 
are  published  in  a  work  entitled  "  Agriculture 
in  the  New  World."  He  indulges  in  hunting, 
shooting,  and  other  country  pursuits,  and  is 
unmarried. 

SMITH,  Frederick  William,  J.P.,  of  Bula- 
wayo, joined  the  Cape  Govt,  service  June  10, 
1881  ;  Cape  Mounted  Pohce,  Jan.  16,  1883 ; 
won  the  first  prize  essay  on  Colonial  police 
administration,  June,  1885,  and  was  appointed 
Chief-Constable  at  King  Williamstown,  Nov. 
19,  1885  ;  became  Supt.  of  the  King 
WilHamstown  Borough  Police,  Mch.  8,  1888 ; 
was  made  J.P.,  Dec.  20,  1889,  and  was  selected 
by  the  Cape  Govt,  to  reorganize  the  Port  Eliza- 
beth Police  Dept.,  Jan.  1,  1895  ;  afterwards 
returning  to  King  Williamstown.  He  was 
seconded  for  service  in  Matabeleland  to  re- 
organize the  Municipal  Police,  July  1,  1898 ; 
was  made  J.P.  for  Rhodesia,  July  27,  1898  ; 
and  was  appointed  Inspector  conamanding  the 
Municipal  Police  and  head  of  the  detective 
dept.  for  Matabeleland,  Nov.  24,  1898. 

SMITH,  Hon.  G.  D.,  M.L.C,  is  member  of 
the  Cape  Legislative  Council  for  British  Bechu- 
analand.  He  is  a  Progressive,  and  was  last 
elected  in  1904. 

SMITH,  Sir  John  Smalman,  Knt.  Bachelor, 
M.A.,  J.P.,  of  Courtfield,  Chiswick,  and  the  St. 
Stephen's  Club,  was  born  at  the  Chauntry, 
Quatford,  Salop,  Aug.  23,  1847  ;  is  eldest  son 
of  the  late  S.  Pountney  Smith,  J.P.,  of  Shrews- 
bury, and  was  educated    at    Shrewsbury    Sch. 


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147 


and  St.  John's  Coll.,  Camb.,  where  he  graduated 
M.A.  He  went  to  the  Gold  Coast  as  Pviisne 
Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  in  1883  ;  was 
transferred  to  Lagos  as  sole  Judge  of  the 
Supreme  Court  in  1886,  and  was  Chief  Justice 
from  1889  to  1885,  when  he  was  invalided, 
retiring  from  the  service  in  the  following  year. 

Sir  John  is  a  Vice-Pres.  of  the  African  Soc, 
founded  in  memory  of  Mary  Kingsley,  and  is 
J.P.  for  Middlesex. 

SMITH,  Percy  George,  of  Gwelo,  Rho- 
desia, was  Clerk  in  the  Chief  Accountant's 
Office,  C.G.R.,  Jan.  1889  ;  Clerk  to  the  Engi- 
neer-in-Chief,  C.G.R.,  1889  ;  Magistrates' 
Clerk  at  Kimberley,  1892 ;  Asst.  Magistrate, 
Douglass,  1893  ;  Additional  Magistrate,  Bula- 
wayo,  July  1894 ;  Magistrate  at  Bulawayo, 
July  1896  ;  and  became  C.C.  and  R.M.,  Gwelo, 
in  July  1897. 

SMITHERS,  H.  Langworthy  Hampden, 
of  Koffyfontein,  O.R.C.,  and  Uppertown, 
Johannesburg,  whose  mother  is  a  cousin  of 
Robert  Browning,  was  born  on  Mar.  19,  1857, 
at  Brussels.  He  arrived  in  Natal  in  1867  with 
liis  parents,  when  he  devoted  his  attention  to 
learning  farming.  He  went  to  the  diamond 
fields  in  1870,  and  to  Pretoria  in  1874.  He 
vvas  commandeered  by  the  Boers  in  1875,  and 
served  on  commando.  He  joined  the  Trans- 
vaal Civil  Service  in  1870,  and  was  appointed 
to  the  special  service  of  the  Postal  Dept.  by 
Sir  Owen  Lanyon.  In  1880-81  he  took  part 
in  the  defence  of  Pretoria,  and  was  present  at 
tlie  engagements  near  that  town.  In  1881  he 
returned  to  the  diamond  fields,  and  went  to 
Koffyfontein  in  1892,  where  he  was  very  suc- 
cessful as  a  digger.  On  war  breaking  out  he 
v/as  commandeered  by  the  Boers  to  fight 
against  the  English,  but  he  fled  the  country, 
passing  through  the  Boer  lines  to  the  Gordon 
Highlanders'  camp  at  Graspan.  He  returned 
later,  and  took  a  prominent  part  m  the  defence 
of  Koffyfontein,  becoming  O.C.,  Koffyfontein 
Defence  Force,  on  the  retirement  of  Major 
Robertson,  K.L.H.  He  was  elected  Maj^or  of 
Koffyfontein  and  J.P.  for  Fauresmith  by  the 
British  Govt.  He  did  much  good  work  on  the 
Hospital  Board,  etc.  Mr.  Smithers  is  an  old 
footballer  and  lawn  tennis  player.  He  is  a  fair 
rifle  shot,  and  very  interested  in  music.  He 
married,  Jime  5,  1884,  Elsa,  eldest  dau.  of  the 
late  Mr.  Dietrich,  of  Sea  Point  near  Cape  Town. 
He  has  five  children.  His  eldest  son,  aged  18 
years,  served  19  months  against  the  Boers. 


SMITH-WRIGHT,  Edward  Henry,  of 
Salisbury,  Rhodesia ;  joined  the  Chartered 
Co.'s  service  in  July  1895,  as  Clerk,  passing 
through  various  grades  until,  in  Oct.  1897,  he 
was  appointed  Examiner  of  Accovuits,  Audit 
Dept.  ;  Secy,  to  the  Tender  Board  at  SaUs- 
bm*y,  Nov.  1898  ;  and  Acting  Chief  Examiner 
of  Accounts,  Feb.  15,  1901. 

SMUTS,  Jacobus  Abraham,  M.L.A.,  is 
Bond  Member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly 
for  Mahnesbury,  for  which  electoral  division 
he  was  last  elected  at  the  general  election  in 
1904. 

SMUTS,  J.  C,  an  Afrikander  by  birth,  was 
educated  in  the  C.C.  and  at  Cambridge  Univ., 
where  he  took  his  higher  degrees  with  great 
distinction.  He  was  called  to  the  English  Bar  ; 
retm-ned  to  S.A.,  and  was  appointed  State- 
Attorney  to  the  Transvaal  Republic — an  ap- 
pointment which  gave  great  satisfaction  to 
the  Progressives,  with  whom  he  was  accoimted 
an  able  and  zealous  worker.  He  is  described  as 
of  the  Hollander  type — tall,  thin,  and  fair, 
with  a  pointed  yellow  beard.  He  has  con- 
siderable eloquence  in  the  Taal,  and  knows  how 
to  arouse  a  thrill  of  emotion  in  his  audience. 

SNOW,  El-Kaimakam  (Lieut.-Col.)  Cecil 
LoNGUEViLLE,  Bey,  4th  class  Medjidieh ;  of 
Port  Said,  and  the  Turf  Club,  Cairo  ;  was  born 
at  Kensington,  Aug.  5,  1863  ;  was  educated 
privately  at  Boulogne  s.M.,  and  at  Merchant 
Taylors'  Sch.,  Crosby,  Liverpool.  He  joined 
the  N.W.  Mounted  Police  of  Canada  in  1885, 
taking  part  in  the  suppression  of  the  Rice 
Rebelhon.  In  1891  he  joined  the  Egyptian 
Coastguard  Service  ;  received  the  Order  of  the 
Medjidieh  (4th  class)  in  1901,  and  was  promoted 
Kaimakam  (Lieut.-Col.)  in  1903.  He  is  now 
Director  of  the  Suez  Canal  and  Red  Sea  dis- 
tricts. He  married,  Aug.  10,  1900,  Miss  Ulrica 
Beatrice  Vallanee. 

SOLOMON,  Hon.  Sir  Richard,  K.C.M.G., 
C.B.,  K.C.,  M.L.C.,  of  Zasm  House,  Pretoria, 
was  born  at  Cape  Town,  Oct.  18,  1850.  He  is 
son  of  the  late  Rev.  E.  Solomon,  a  missionary 
in  the  Transkei  territories.  He  was  educated 
at  the  S.A.  Coll.  and  at  Peterhouse,  Camb. 
(23rd  Wrangler),  and  was  called  to  the  Bar  of 
the  Inner  Temple  in  1879.  He  accompanied 
Lord  Rosmead  as  Legal  Adviser  to  Mauritius 
on  the  Commission  of  enquiry  in  1886  ;  vi^as 
Chairman     of     the     Mining     Commission ;  and 


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Member  of  the  Native  Law  Commission.  He 
entered  the  Cape  Parliament  in  1893.  In  1896 
he  was  retained  with  Advocate  Wessels  to 
defend  the  Reform  prisoners.  He  was  Attor- 
ney-Gen. of  the  C.C.  from  1898  to  1901,  in  which 
year  he  received  his  knighthood. 

Sir  B-ichard  was  appointed  Legal  Adviser  to 
Lord  Kitchener,  C.I.C.  in  S.A.,  from  1901  to 
the  end  of  the  Boer  War,  for  which  services  he 
received  the  C.B.  He  was  then  appointed 
Legal  Adviser  to  the  Transvaal  Administration 
(1901-2).  He  represented  S.A.  at  the  Delhi 
Durbar  in  1902-3  (gold  and  silver  medals), 
and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Executive  and 
Legislative  Councils  and  Attorney-Gen.  of  the 
Transvaal  since  1902,  in  which  capacity  he  has 
had  an  onerous  task  to  perform  in  the  framing 
and  adapting  the  laws  to  the  new  conditions. 
He  married,  Mary,  dau.  of  the  Rev.  J.  Walton, 
and  sister  of  Mr.  Lawson  Walton,  K.C.,  M.P. 

SPEIGHT,  Arthur  Edwin,  of  Bulawayo, 
was  Clerk  in  the  Customs  Dept.  at  Mafeking, 
Oct.  10,  1895  ;  East  London,  June  1898  ;  and 
Umtah,  July  9,  1899.  He  became  Sub-Col- 
lector at  Umtah,  Feb.  12,  1900  ;  Clerk  in  the 
Customs  Administrative  Branch  in  Dec.  of  that 
year,  and  Chief  Examining  Officer  at  Bula- 
wayo, Apr.  16,  1901. 

SPIRO,  Socrates,  Bey  (Sanieh)  ;  Order  of 
the  Medjidieh  (4th  class)  ;  of  Ramleh,  Alex- 
andria, and  of  the  San  Stefano  Club,  was  born 
in  Cairo,  Aug.  24,  1860.  He  is  of  Greek  origin, 
his  father  having  been  a  noted  Greek  scholar. 
He  was  educated  at  the  American  Mission  Sch., 
Cairo  ;  entered  the  Egyptian  Govt,  service  in 
1883  ;  was  Priv.  Secy,  to  Lord  (then  Mr.) 
Milner,  L^nder-Secy.  for  Finance,  during  his 
last  tour  of  inspection  of  the  provinces  of  Up. 
Egypt  in  1892;  was  Priv.  Secy,  to  Sir  Clinton 
(then  Mr.)  Dawkins,  Under-Secy.  for  Finance, 
from  1895  to  1899  ;  and  became  Director  of  the 
Central  Administration  of  Egyptian  Ports  and 
Lighthouses  in  June,  1899.  He  is  author  of 
Arabic-English  and  English-Arabic  dictionaries 
of  modern  Egyptian  Arabic  (published  in  1895 
and  1897)  ;  has  contributed  many  articles  and 
reviews  to  English  papers  on  modern  Arabic, 
as  well  as  many  articles  on  literary  subjects  to 
Arabic  periodicals.  He  is  fond  of  travel  and 
the  study  of  modern  Arabic.  He  married,  in 
1882,  Rose,  dau.  of  H.  G.  Tarpinian. 

SPONG,  Major  Charles  Stuart,  D.S.O., 
F.R.C.S.,  B.Sc,  late  R.A.M.C,  of  Cairo,  and  of 


the  Army  and  Navy  Club  ;  third  son  of  the  late 
Wm.  Nash  Spong,  F.R.C.S.,  was  born  June  12, 
1859  ;  was  educated  at  Epsom  Coll.  and  Guy's 
Hosp.,  and  entered  the  Army  in  1887.  He 
was  seconded  for  service  with  the  Egyptian 
Army  in  1890,  and  acted  as  S.M.O.  in  the 
Sudan  Campaign,  1896-98,  receiving  the  D.S.O. 
and  the  Order  of  the  Medjidieh.  Major  Spong 
retired  from  the  service  in  1899  to  take  the  post 
of  Medical  Adviser  to  the  Egyptian  State  Rail- 
ways. He  married,  Oct.  4,  1900,  Mary  Barnsley 
Pickering,  of  Newtown,  Pennsylvania,  U.S.A. 

SPRECKLEY,  Harry  Unwin,  after  serving 
as  Clerk  to  the  C.C.  and  R.M.  at  Mazoe  and 
SaUsbury  (1895-6),  entered  the  Mines  Dept. 
under  the  B.S.A.  Co.  in  1897. 

SPRIGG,  Rt.  Hon.  Sir  John  Gordon-, 
G.C.M.G.  (1902),  P.C.  (1897),  of  Wynberg,  near 
C.T.,  was  born  at  Ipswich,  Eng.,  in  1830 ; 
he  started  business  in  a  shipbuilder's  office, 
afterwards  joined  Gumey's  shorthand  staff, 
and  in  1858  went  to  S.A.  for  the  benefit 
of  his  health.  He  settled  in  the  Division  of 
East  London  (C.C),  and  entered  the  Cape 
ParUament  as  member  for  East  London  in 
1873.  He  was  appointed  Colonial  Secy,  and 
Premier  on  the  dismissal  of  Sir  J.  C.  INIolteno 
in  1878,  and  resigned  in  1881  on  the  Basuto 
question.  In  1884  he  became  Treas.-Gen. 
in  Sir  Tliomas  Upington's  Ministry,  and  suc- 
ceeded liim  as  Premier  in  1886.  In  the  follow- 
ing year  Mr.  Sprigg,  as  he  then  was,  was  made 
K.C.M.G.,  and  soon  after  was  appointed  P.C. 
Sir  Gordon  resigned  in  1890,  but  on  the  recon- 
struction of  the  Rhodes  Ministry  in  1893  he 
joined  it  as  Treas.,  and  was  practically  Acting 
Premier.  On  ]\Ir.  Rhodes'  retirement  in  Jan. 
1896,  he  became  actual  Premier  until  Oct. 
1898.  In  June  1900  he  succeeded  Mr.  W.  P. 
Schreiner  as  Premier,  also  combining  the  office 
of  Treas.  In  the  general  election  in  Feb. 
1904  Sir  Gordon  was  defeated  by  Dr.  Smartt 
at  East  London  (C.C.)  by  a  majority  of  954, 
and  the  Progressives  being  in  a  majority  in  the 
new  House  of  50  against  the  Bond  45,  he  ten- 
dered his  resignation  of  the  Premiership,  Dr. 
Jameson  bemg  caUed  upon  to  form  a  new 
Ministry. 

Formerly  the  political  chief  of  the  Progres- 
sives, he  was  tliroughout  the  difficult  times 
following  the  Boer  War  accused  of  pandering 
to  the  Bond  party,  whose  tolerance  only 
enabled  him  to  maintain  a  majority,  he  being 
repudiated   by  five-sixths   of  the  Progressives, 


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149 


who  seceded  on  the  Suspension  question.  It 
is  certainly  on  record  that  Sir  Gordon  and  his 
entire  Ministry  voted  with  the  Bond  on  more 
than  one  occasion.  This  alliance,  however, 
was  simply  a  makeshift,  and  although  it  suited 
the  Bond  party  to  keep  Sir  Gordon  in  power, 
it  did  not  deter  that  organization  from  assist- 
ing in  four  Govt,  defeats  on  divisions  during 
the  last  short  session  of  1902.  He  created  much 
dissatisfaction  amongst  his  earlier  followers 
by  his  refusal  to  sanction  a  fresh  regis- 
tration of  voters  in  view  of  the  fact  that 
in  many  districts  hundreds  of  disfranchised 
voters  were  still  on  the  register  as  late  as  Sept. 
1902.  On  the  occasion  of  Ms  defeat  (Nov. 
3,  1902)  on  the  question  of  increasing  the  Cape 
Colonial  Forces,  however.  Sir  Gordon  Sprigg's 
appeal  to  the  Bond  caused  their  withdrawal 
of  the  amendment  and  the  passing  of  the  vote 
as  originally  prmted,  and  eUcited  the  Premier's 
thanks  to  the  Bond  for  its  generosity.  Since 
than  Sir  Gordon  has  been  wavering  in  his 
allegiance  between  the  Bond  and  the  Pro- 
gressives, and  has  thus  not  been  a  sovu'ce  of 
strength  to  the  LoyaHsts  in  Cape  Colony, 
although  his  dogged  adhesion  to  office  in  the 
face  of  many  real  difficulties  may  have  saved 
them  from  stiU  greater  dangers. 

Sir  Gordon  is  a  practised  and  effective  Par- 
liamentary debater,  and  has  cultivated  a  less 
aggressive  manner  than  marked  the  parUa- 
mentary  methods  of  his  earlier  pohtical  days. 
Hjs  range  of  ideas  cannot  be  said  to  be  broad, 
but  his  devotion  to  the  business  of  the  Colony 
has  always  been  most  exemplaxy. 

He  was  created  G.C.M.G.  on  the  occasion 
of  the  King's  Coronation ;  he  is  D.C.L.  of 
Oxford,  and  Hon.  LL.D.  of  Edin.  Univ.  He 
is  a  widower,  having  married  a  dau.  of  Mr.  J. 
Fleischer.     Lady   Sprigg   died   in    1900. 

STANTON,  LiEUT.-CoL.  Edwakd  Alex- 
ander, Order  of  the  Medjidieh  (3rd  class) ;  of 
Khartoum,  and  of  the  Army  and  Navy,  the 
Sirdar  (Khaxtoum)  and  Turf  (Cairo)  Clubs,  was 
born  at  York,  Nov.  15,  1867.  He  is  eldest  son 
of  Gen.  Sir  Ed.  Stanton,  K.C.M.G.,  C.V.O., 
and  was  educated  at  Marlborough  and  Sand- 
hurst, passing  into  the  Oxfordsliire  L.I.  in 
Feb.,  1887.  He  received  his  Captaincy  in 
1894,  and  brevet  majority  in  1898.  Col. 
Stanton  has  seen  much  active  service  in  N. 
Africa,  beginning  with  the  Dongola  Expedition 
in  1896,  being  present  at  Firket  and  Hafir 
(despatches,  medal  with  two  clasps) ;  the  Nile 
Expedition    in    1897   (despatches    and    clasp) ; 


the  NUe  Expedition  in  1898,  taking  part  in  the 
battles  of  Atbara  and  Omdurman  (twice  men- 
tioned in  despatches,  bt. -majority,  two  clasps 
and  English  medal) ;  and  again  in  the  Nile 
Expedition  in  1899  (clasp  and  Medjidieh).  He 
was  employed  surveying  the  navigable  channels 
of  the  Bahr  el  Zuaf  and  Bahr  el  Ghazal  in  1898, 
and  was  at  Fashoda  during  the  Marchand 
affair.  He  joined  the  Sudan  Civil  Administra- 
tion in  1899,  and  received  his  present  appoint- 
ment as  Governor  of  Khartoum  in  1900.  In 
1901  he  was  given  the  local  rank  of  Lieut.-Col. 
Col.  Stanton  married  Isabel  Mary,  second  dau. 
of  Capt.  H.  C.  Willes,  late  Royal  Welsh  Fusiliers. 

STEAD,  Arthur,  M.L.A.,  is  one  of  the 
Progressive  representatives  of  I&nberley  in 
the  Cape  House  of  Assembly.  He  was  last 
elected  in  Feb.  1904. 

STEPHAN,  H.  R.,  of  Brighton  Castle, 
Monille  Point,  C.T.,  is  the  head  of  the 
house  of  Stephan  Bros.,  of  C.T.  and 
elsewhere  in  S.A.  Mr.  Stephan's  firm  has 
been  largely  instrumental  in  opening  up  Sal- 
danha  Bay  and  the  South-West  Territory.  They 
own  a  considerable  number  of  steam  and  sailing 
ships,  and  are  largely  engaged  in  the  grain 
trade. 

STERRY,  Wasey,  M.A.,  of  Khartoum; 
of  Chapel  Cleeve,  Washford,  Taunton,  and  of 
the  Savile  (Lond.),  Turf  (Cairo)  and  Sudan 
(Khartoum)  Clubs,  was  bom  in  Devonshire, 
July  26,  1866.  He  is  elder  son  of  the  Rev. 
Francis  Sterry  of  Chapel  Cleeve,  and  Augusta 
EmUy,  dau.  of  the  late  Hastings  N.  Middleton. 
He  was  educated  at  Eton  and  Merton  CoU., 
Oxon,  and  was  called  to  the  Bar  in  Nov.  1892. 
He  was  appointed  the  first  Civil  Judge  in  the 
Sudan  in  May  1901  and  Chief  Judge  in  1903. 
He  is  the  author  of  "  Annals  of  Eton."  Un- 
married. 

STEVENS,  John  Alfred,  of  C.T.,  went 
on  a  special  mission  to  Gazaland  in  1890, 
and  entered  the  Cape  Town  office  of  the  Char- 
tered Co.  as  head  of  the  correspondence  dept.  in 
March  1891.  He  acted  as  Secy,  from  Oct.  1894 
to  April  1895  ;  was  appointed  Acting  Secy,  at 
Cape  Town  in  Jan.  1896,  and  is  also  Secy,  to  the 
Bechuanaland  Railway  Co. 

STEWART,  Dudley  Warren,  after  serving 
in  the  North-West  Mounted  Police,  Canada, 
from  July  1,  1890,  joined  the  C.M.R.  May  10, 


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1894;  joined  the  Mashonaland  Mounted  Police 
Nov.  28,  1895,  and  transferred  into  the  Mashona- 
land Municipal  Pohce,  Nov.  18,  1896,  serving 
in  the  rebellion  of  that  year  (medal).  He 
was  appointed  sub-inspector  Aug.  21,  1898, 
and  afterwards  transferred  into  the  Mata- 
beleland  division. 

STEYN,  Martinus  Theunis,  was  born  in 
the  O.F.S.  in  1857,  three  years  after  the  RepubHc 
had  come  into  existence. 

He  received  little  systematic  education 
until,  at  the  age  of  twelve,  he  was  sent  to  Grey 
Coll.  at  Bloemfontein.  Later  on,  through  the 
influence  of  Judge  Buchanan,  he  went  to  Hol- 
land to  study  law,  afterwards  proceeding  to 
London,  where  he  was  called  to  the  Bar  of  the 
Inner  Temple.  Returning  to  S.A.,  he  prac- 
tised for  a  few  years  in  the  Free  State,  became 
Attorney-Gen.,  and  was  raised  to  the  Bench 
in  1889,  where  he  remained  until  1895  dis- 
charging his  judicial  functions  in  a  careful  and 
conscientious  manner,  and  holding  himself 
aloof  from  poUtics.  In  that  year  Mr.  Reitz 
resigned  the  Presidency,  and  Mr.  Steyn  offered 
liimself  as  a  candidate,  defeating  his  opponent, 
Mr.  J.  G.  Fraser  (at  that  tune  Chainnan  of 
the  Volksraad)  by  an  overwhelming  majority. 

STIGLINGH,  J.  H.,  M.L.A.,  was  elected 
as  Bond  Member  for  Picquetberg  at  the  general 
election  in  the  Cape  Colony,  Feb.   1904. 

STOCKENSTROM,  Hon.  Sir  Gysbert  H., 
Bart.,  M.L.C,  is  senior  member  of  the  Cape 
Legislative  Comicil  for  the  North-East  Province. 

STOKES,  Herbert  Leslie,  of  59,  Cadogan 
Square,  S.W.,  The  Grove,  Stalham,  and  the 
Junior  Carlton  Club,  was  born  in  London, 
Feb.  8,  1853 ;  was  educated  at  King's  Coll., 
and  after  a  special  training  as  engineer  spent 
ten  years  (1879-89)  on  the  West  Coast  of  S. 
America,  being  connected  with  various  engineer- 
ing works,  as  well  as  with  the  gold  and  silver 
mines  of  Peru  and  Bolivia,  in  wliich  countiies 
he  travelled  extensively.  In  1891  he  went 
out  as  Manager  in  charge  of  the  Mashonaland 
Agency  Expedition  to  Rhodesia,  and  since  then 
has  been  connected  with  that  eo.  and  its  sub- 
sidiaries. He  married  Miss  Marie  Carandini, 
Oct.  30,  1899. 

STRACHAN,  Dr.  William  Henry  Williams, 
M.L.C,  C.M.G.,  of  Lagos,  W.  Africa,  and  of 
the  Junior  Constitutional,  W.  Indian,  and  Corona 


Clubs,  was  born  in  1859.  He  is  eldest  son  of 
the  late  Col.  W.  H.  P.  Fitz  M.  Strachan,  and 
was  educated  privately  and  at  Guy's  Hos., 
graduating  L.R.C.P.  (Lond.),  M.R.C.S.  (Eng.). 
He  is  F.L.S.  and  M.S.A. 

Dr.  Strachan  is  P.M.O.  of  Lagos,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Legislative  Council  of  the  Colony. 
Unmarried. 


STRAKOSCH,  Henry,  of  9,  Iving  St.,  St. 
James',  was  born  at  Hohenau,  Austria,  May  10, 
1871.  He  is  the  son  of  Ed.  Strakosch,  of 
Hohenau,  a  pioneer  of  the  Austrian  beet  sugar 
industry.  After  a  Continental  banking  ex- 
perience he  went  to  S.A.  as  Manager  of  the 
African  Mining  and  Financial  Assoc.  He 
joined  the  firm  of  A.  Goerz  &  Co.  in  Aug. 
1896,  and  afterwards  (Apr.  1902)  became 
Managing  Director  of  A.  Goerz  &  Co.,  Ltd. 
He  is  also  a  director  of  many  other  important 
S.A.  Cos.,  mainly  gold  mining.  During  the 
war  he  was  a  member  of  the  Committee  ap- 
pointed by  the  Governor  to  advise  him  on 
matters  affecting  the  Uitlander  population  of 
the  Transvaal.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Central  Registration  Committee.  Mr.  Strakosch 
is  keen  on  polo,  an  inveterate  motorist,  and 
a  bachelor. 


STRANGE,  Laurence  ;  was  at  one  time 
Mayor  of  Waterford,  Ireland,  where  he  had 
an  extensive  practice  as  a  solicitor.  He  was 
appointed  Public  Prosecutor  at  I^erksdorp 
in  1902. 

STUTTAFORD,  Richard,  of  Lidcote,  Kenil- 
worth,  C.T.  ;  of  the  City  Club  (C.T.)  and 
the  Rand  Club  (Johannesburg)  ;  was  born  in 
C.T.  in  1870.  He  was  educated  at  Amers- 
ham  Sch.,  near  Reading.  He  is  Managing 
Director  of  Stuttaford  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  and  a 
Director  of  the  "  Cape  Times,"  Ltd.  He 
married  in  1903. 

SWANN,  Alfred  James,  F.R.G.S.,  was 
born  at  New  Shoreham,  Sussex,  Sept.  14,  1856. 
He  is  the  son  of  John  Swann,  and  was  educated 
at  a  Protestant  Gram.  Sch.,  and  after- 
wards in  London,  twice  taking  honom-s  at 
Board  of  Trade  examinations.  The  spirit  of 
the  traveller  was  aglow  in  him  in  early  life, 
and  there  are  few  districts  in  the  East  of  which 
lie  has  not  some  acquaintance.  He  first  visited 
Africa  in  1882,  when  he  was  specially  engaged 


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by  the  London  Missionary  Soc.  to  assist  in  the 
transport  from  Zanzibar  to  Tanganyika  of  the 
Morning  Star  lifeboat.  During  a  residence 
at  Ujiji  (the  meeting-place  of  Stanley  and 
Livingstone)  he  assisted  in  the  survey  of  Tan- 
ganyika, capturing  and  preserving  some  unique 
specimens  of  freshwater  Medusae.  During  the 
Arab  uprising  he  was  at  Ujiji,  and  succeeded 
in  maintaining  communications  by  the  extra- 
ordinary means  of  Pitman's  shorthand  written 
backwards  with  a  quill  pen.  The  claims  of 
Tippoo  Tib  and  Rumaliza  (who  caused  the 
Belgians  so  much  trouble  on  the  upper  reaches 
of  the  Congo)  against  Stanley  were  placed  by 
them  in  Mr.  Swann's  hands,  with  the  result 
that  they  were  considerably  reduced.  The 
first  correct  report  of  the  murder  of  Emin  Pacha 
was  brought  to  England  by  Mr.  Swann,  who, 
after  succeeding  in  establishing  marine  com- 
munication round  Tanganyika,  and  diverting 
a  large  portion  of  the  Eastern  trade  to  Zanzibar 
via  Blantyre,  visited  England,  conveying  en 
route  the  Ai-ab's  commmiications  to  Maj.  Von 
Weissmann,  his  consultation  with  whom  re- 
sulted in  peaceful  tactics  with  Ujiji,  and  conse- 
quent uninterruption  of  trade  through  German 
E.A.  He  later  became  Political  Officer  in 
Sir  H.  H.  Jolinston's  Administration ;  suc- 
ceeded in  stopping  the  Angoni  raids  in  the 
N.W.  District ;  discovered  a  rich  deposit  of 
carbonate  of  lime  ;  tinearthed  flint  (up  to  that 
time  unknown  in  Equatorial  Africa)  and  a 
collection  of  fossil  shells  in  excellent  condition. 
In  1895  Sir  H.  Johnston  appointed  hun  to  the 
liistoric  country  of  the  late  Sultan  Jumbe, 
whose  hordes  of  slavers  formerly  reigned 
supreme  towards  the  Luapola  River.  Having 
discovered  a  system  of  intrigue  which  was 
paralyzing  trade  through  Kota-Kota,  with  the 
aid  of  Major  Edwards,  he  utterly  routed  the 
forces  concentrated  against  him,  numbering 
20,000,  captured  the  long-wanted  Saide  Mwa- 
zunga,  and  opened  up  the  way  S.  and  W.  towards 
the  Zambesi. 


SWANZY,  Francis,  J.P.,  of  Heathfield, 
Sevenoaks,  Kent,  and  of  the  National  Liberal 
and  Gresham  Clubs,  was  born  at  Kennington, 
Surrey,  July  7,  1854;  was  educated  at  Rugby  ; 
is  J.P.  for  Kent,  and  a  Director  of  the  Wassan 
(Gold  Coast)  Mining  Co.,  the  Gold  Coast  Amal- 
gamated Mines,  Ltd.,  the  New  Gold  Coast  Agency 
and  the  United  Gold  Coast  Mining  Properties. 
He  married,  in  1879,  Mary  Nina,  eldest  dau. 
of  the  late  Robert  Stephen  Patry. 


SWEENEY,  George  William,  of  Pieter- 
maritzburg  and  of  the  Victoria  Club,  Pieter- 
maritzburg,  is  the  son  of  Robert  Sweeney, 
Prof,  of  Music  of  Pietermaritzbiirg.  He  was 
born  at  Dublin  Jan.  24,  1868,  and  was  educated 
at  the  College  of  the  Sacred  Heart,  Limerick, 
and  the  Pietermaritzburg  High  Sch.  He 
obtained  the  B.A.  and  LL.D.  at  the  Cape  of 
Good  Hope  Univ.  He  was  a  House  Master 
at  Maritzburg  Coll.  1888-1895,  and  Clerk  in 
the  Attorney-Gen.'s  Office  at  Natal,  1896- 
1900.  In  Feb.  1901  he  was  appointed  Clerk 
of  the  Legislative  Assembly  at  Natal.  During 
this  period  he  has  acted  as  Secretary  to  the 
Law  Dept.  and  Assistant  Under-Secy.,  Natal. 
In  1900  he  compiled  a  new  edition  of  the  Laws 
of  Natal,  after  the  manner  of  Chitty's  Statutes, 
in  conjunction  with  R.  L.  Hitchins.  Mr. 
Sweeney  is  a  keen  football,  tennis,  golf,  and 
cricket  player.  On  several  occasions  he  has 
represented  Natal  in  the  latter  game,  and  was 
Captain  of  the  Colonial  Team  against  W.  W. 
Read's  English  Eleven.  He  married  Miss  A. 
J.  Chapman,  dau.  of  J.  J.  Chapman,  J.P. 
(three  times  Mayor  of  Pietermaritzbiu-g),  in 
Sept.   1899. 

TAINTON,  Clifton  F.,  of  Johannesburg, 
is  well  known  on  the  Rand,  where  he  was  a 
member  of  the  original  Diggers'  Committee. 
He  was  for  many  years  editor  of  the  "  South 
African  Mining  Journal,"  and  from  that  paper  he 
was  appointed  editor  of  the  "  Comet "  which  rose 
from  the  ashes  of  the  suppressed  "  Star " 
(Johannesburg).  After  the  Raid  he  returned 
to  England  and  became  financial  editor  of 
the  "  African  Review,"  of  which  paper  he  was 
appointed  chief  editor  in  1899.  He  was  also 
the  representative  of  the  Argus  Printing  and 
Publishing  Co.  in  London.  He  resigned  these 
appointments  to  join  a  firm  of  Rand  financiers, 
whom  he  represents  on  the  Transvaal  Chamber 
of  Mines.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Commission 
appointed  to  inquire  into  the  Native  Labour 
question. 

TAUBMAN  -  GOLDIE,  Right  Hon.  Sir 
George  Dashwood,  K.C.M.G.,  P.C,  of  11, 
Queen's  Gate  Gardens,  S.W.,  and  of  the  Naval 
and  Military  and  Athenaeum  Clubs,  and  member 
of  the  Royal  Yacht  Squadron,  was  born  in  the 
Isle  of  Man  May  20,  1846,  his  father  having 
been  Col.  in  the  Scots  Guards  and  Speaker 
of  the  House  of  Keys.  He  was  educated  at 
the  R.M.A.,  Woolwich,  passing  into  the  Royal 
Engineers.     He  has  travelled  in  Egypt,  Sudan, 


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Morocco,  Algeria,  and  all  through  the  Niger 
country.  He  attended  the  Berlin  Conference 
in  1884^5,  but  is  best  known  as  the  founder 
of  Nigeria,  of  which  country  he  has  a  great 
fund  of  knowledge.  Sir  George  is  now  a 
Director  of  the  B.S.A.  Co.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Royal  Commission  to  inquu-e  into  the 
preparations  for  the  S.A.  War,  1902.  His 
recreations  are  yachting,  and  golf.  Sir  George 
married,  in  1870,  Matilda  (who  died  in  1898), 
dau.  of  John  Elliot,  of  Wakefield. 

TAYLOR,  J.  B.,  is  son  of  Isaac  Rowland 
Taylor,  who  was  well  known  in  the  Cape  Colony 
and  Transvaal,  was  born  in  Cape  Town  in  1860  ; 
was  educated  at  Hermannsburg,  in  Natal,  and 
at  an  early  age  commenced  his  commercial 
career  in  the  Kimberley  office  of  the  firm  of 
E.  W.  Tarry  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  After  a  time  he 
went  into  business  as  a  diamond  broker  with 
his  brother,  W.  P.  Taylor.  In  1882  the  two 
brothers  went  to  the  Lydenburg  District  to 
exploit  the  Morgenzon  Concession.  Here  Mr. 
J.  B.  Taylor  obtained  his  first  experience  of 
practical  mining.  Two  years  later  he  went  to 
the  Barberton  fields  as  a  broker  and  as  the 
representative  of  Wernher,  Beit  &  Co.,  and 
some  other  Kimberley  firms.  In  1886  Mr. 
Taylor  went  to  the  newly-discovered  Rand, 
and  became  a  foundation  member  of  the  firm 
of  H.  Eckstein  &  Co.,  from  which  he  has  now 
retired.  He  was  on  the  Executive  Conunittee 
of  the  Transvaal  Chamber  of  Mines,  and  diuring 
his  residence  in  Johannesburg  was  Vice-Pres. 
of  the  Wanderers'  Club,  the  leading  S.A.  athletic 
elub.  He  was  a  Steward  of  the  Johannesbiu'g 
Turf  Club,  a  crack  shot  with  either  gnn  or  rifle, 
and  he  served  through  the  Griqua  War  of  1876 
He  married,  in  1891,  Miss  Gordon,  of  Pieter- 
maritzburg,  Natal. 

TEMPLER,  LiETJT.-CoL.  J.  L.  B.,  late  7th 
Batt.  King's  Royal  Rifles  ;  served  for  many 
years  as  head  of  the  Balloon  Dept.  of  the  Army 
under  the  Duke  of  Connaught,  Sir  Evelyn 
Wood  and  Sir  Redvers  Buller.  He  took  part 
in  the  Egyptian  War  of  1882,  and  commanded 
the  balloon  detachment  in  the  Sudan  Campaign 
in  1885.  In  the  last  Boer  War  he  acted  as  Direc- 
tor of  Steam  Road  Transports.  He  retired  from 
the  Army  in  1892,  after  32  years  service. 

TENNANT,  Hebcuies,  of  Pretoria,  and  of 
the  Civil  Service  (C.T.),  Pretoria,  Rand,  and 
Athenaeum  (Johannesburg)  Clubs,  was  bom 
at    Cape    Town,    March    3,    1850.     He    is    the 


eldest  son  of  the  Hon.  Sir  David  Tennant, 
K.C.M.G.,  a  former  Speaker  of  the  Cape 
House  of  Assembly,  and  was  educated  at  St. 
George's  Gram.  Sch.,  Cape  Town,  and  the 
High  Sch.,  Edin.  He  is  a  Barrister-at-Law 
of  the  Inner  Temple,  and  Advocate  of  the 
Supreme  Courts  of  the  Cape  Colony  and  Trans- 
vaal. He  represented  the  division  of  Caledon 
in  the  Cape  House  of  Assembly,  1879-81  ;  was 
Extra  A.D.C.  to  H.E.  the  Governor  and  C.I.C. 
in  1879  ;  served  in  the  Basuto  War,  1880-81 
(medal)  with  rank  of  Capt.  in  the  Duke  of 
Edinburgh's  Own  Volunteer  Rifles  as  C.S.O. 
to  the  G.O.C.  ;  was  Secy,  to  the  Chief  Justice 
and  Librarian  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
Cape,  1882  ;  was  Asst.  Registrar  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  1884;  Taxing  Officer,  Cape  Supremo 
Court,  1884;  High  Sheriff  (Cape),  Registrar 
of  Deeds,  Acting  Master,  and  Registrar  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  Cape  Colony,  1889-1901  ; 
and  was  transferred  to  the  Transvaal  as  Secy, 
to  the  Law  Dept.  of  the  Govt.,  June  1,  1901. 
He  married,  Sept.  2,  1874,  Mary  Cathcart,  dau. 
of  Robert  Graham. 

TE  WATER,  Hon.  Dr.  Thomas  G.  N., 
M.L.A.,  M.D.,  of  Graaff-Reinet,  C.C.  ;  was 
born  in  1857.  He  is  son  of  F.  Te  Water,  for- 
merly M.L.A.  for  Graaff-Reinet  for  15  years, 
and  grandson  of  T.  Muller,  who  represented  that 
division  in  the  first  parUament  of  the  Colony. 
He  was  educated  at  Graaff-Reinet  Coll.  ; 
graduated  B.A.  in  1875  ;  studied  at  Cambridge 
Univ.,  and  afterwards  attended  the  medical 
classes  at  Edinburgh  LTniv.,  where  he  took 
the  degrees  of  CM.  in  1879  and  M.D  in  1881, 
spending  two  years  also  at  the  Universities 
of  BerUn,  Vienna  and  Strasburg,  and  in  walk- 
ing the  London  hospitals.  He  returned  to 
Graaff-Reinet  to  practise,  and  was  returned  to 
the  House  of  Assembly  by  a  large  majority 
as  a  member  of  the  Afrikander  party,  becoming 
one  of  the  party  "  whips."  He  joined  the 
Sprigg  Ministry  in  1896  as  Colonial  Secy.  It 
was  admitted  by  the  Attorney-General  for  Cape 
Colony  that  papers  were  in  the  possession 
of  the  Govt,  and  of  the  mihtary  authorities, 
impMcating  Dr.  Te  Water  in  treasonable  prac- 
tises in  connection  with  the  S.A.  War  {refer 
Graham,  Hon.  T.  K.).  Dr.  Te  Water  was 
seized  with  a  paralytic  stroke  in  the  House 
of  Assembly  in  Sept.,  1902. 

THEAL,  Dr.  George  McCall,  LL.D.,  of 
the  Queen's  Univ.,  Kingston,  Canada,  and 
Litt.  D.  of   the  S.A.  Univ.,    eldest   son    of  Dr. 


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William  Yoixng  Theal,  of  a  United  Empire  Loy- 
alist family,  originally  from  Rye,  in  Sussex, 
that  settled  in  Canada  after  the  American 
Revolution,  was  born  at  St.  John's,  New  Brims- 
wiek,  April  11,  1837,  and  was  educated  at  the 
Gram.  Seh.  in  St.  John's.  The  first  fifteen 
years  of  his  life  in  S.A.  were  spent  as  a  teacher 
in  public  schools  at  Knysna,  Dale  College,  in 
King  Williamstown,  and  Lovedale  Missionary 
Institution,  and  in  journalistic  work.  Having 
made  a  close  study  of  Bantu  customs,  traditions, 
folklore,  etc.,  v/hen  war  broke  out  in  1877  he 
was  requested  by  the  Govt,  to  undertake  a 
diplomatic  duty  which  Sir  Baxtle  Frere  and  his 
ministers  considered  of  great  importance. 
Having  succeeded  in  this,  he  was  invited  to 
enter  the  public  service  permanently,  and  did 
so.  But  his  inclination  was  towards  literary 
work,  in  which  the  Govt,  gratified  him  to  a 
large  extent,  though  until  1896  he  was  required 
also  to  fill  an  office  in  the  Native  Affairs  Dept. 
The  late  Mr.  Rhodes,  when  Prime  Minister, 
instructed  h-im  to  make  a  collection  of  Portu- 
guese records  and  printed  books  upon  S.A., 
which  he  continued  under  Sir  Gordon  Sprigg. 
Dr.  Theal  proceeded  to  Evu-ope  in  1896,  and 
has  been  engaged  in  this  duty  ever  since.  He  has 
written  a  "  History  of  South  Africa,"  of  which 
the  second  edition  is  now  being  pubhshed  in  seven 
volumes,  "  South  Africa,"  in  the  Story  of  the 
Nations  series,  "  South  Africa,"  in  the  Nine- 
teenth Century  series,  and  many  smaller  volumes. 
He  has  also  edited  nine  volumes  of  Portuguese 
records,  with  Enghsh  translations,  fifteen  volxomes 
of  Enghsh  records  of  the  Cape  Colony,  tlu-ee  vol- 
umes of  records  of  Basutoland,  and  three  volumes 
(in  Dutch)  of  genealogical  registers  of  old  Cape 
families.  These  volumes  have  all  been  printed 
for  the  Cape  Govt.,  and  have  been  so  minutely 
indexed  as  to  make  reference  easy.  Dr.  Theal 
is  married  to  Miss  Stewart,  of  Argyllshire, 
Scotland. 

.THERON,  Thomas  Philippus,  M.L.A.,  of 
Britstown,  Cape  Colony,  was  bom  at  Tulbagh 
in  1839;  was  educated  at  Wellington  (C.C), 
and  started  life  as  a  carpenter's  apprentice. 
From  1864  to  1869  he  was  a  teacher  in  Rich- 
mond (C.C.)  ;  then  became  a  sheep  farmer ;  was 
first  elected  member  of  the  House  of  Assembly 
for  Richmond  in  1884,  and  was  elected  Chair- 
man of  Committees  in  1894.  He  is  an  ardent 
member  of  the  Afrikander  Bond,  of  wliich  he 
is  now  chairman,  and  was  last  returned  to  the 
Cape  ParUament  by  the  Richmond  electors 
in  Feb.,  1904. 


THOMAS,  LiEXJT.-CoL.  Owen,  J.P.,  of  Hen- 
bias,  Rhosgoch,  Anglesey,  and  of  the  Imperial 
Service  Club,  Piccadilly,  is  the  son  of  Owen 
Thomas  and  Eleanor,  ne'e  Jones-Roberts,  of 
Henblas  and  Peibrou,  Anglesey.  He  was  born 
Dec.  7,  1858,  at  Henblas,  and  was  educated 
at  Liverpool  Coll.  He  was  appointed  Lieut. 
3rd  Batt.  Manchester  Regt.  in  1884,  and  Capt. 
3rd  Batt.  Royal  Welsh  Fusihers,  1887,  and 
Maj.  in  1897.  He  served  as  Maj.  of  the  Ist 
Regt.  of  Brabant's  Horse  in  S.A.  from  Nov. 
1899,  and  he  raised  and  commanded  as  Lieut. - 
Col.  the  Prince  of  Wales'  Light  Horse,  1900 
to  1902.  Col.  Thomas  was  Chief  Officer  of  the 
Government  Life-Saving  Apparatus  (Cimaes, 
Anglesey),  1871-1899.  He  is  J.P.  for  the 
County  of  Anglesey ;  was  High  Sheriff  of 
Anglesey,  1895-1896  ;  is  on  the  County  Council 
of  Anglesey  ;  was  member  of  the  late  Royal 
Commission  on  Agriculture  (Great  Britain), 
1895-1898  ;  President  of  Anglesey  Agriculture 
Show,  and  has  been  awarded  first  prize  for  the 
best  cultivated  farm,  and  also  for  the  best 
stocked  farm.  He  was  also  breeder  and  ex- 
hibitor of  the  heaviest  ox  at  the  Royal  Islington 
Show  in  1882.  He  reported  privately,  after 
the  declaration  of  war,  on  the  agricultural  and 
pastoral  prospects  of  the  Transvaal,  and  he  is 
at  present  writing  on  the  agricultm-al  and  pas- 
toral prospects  of  S.A.  Col.  Owen  Thomas 
unsuccessfully  contested  the  Oswestry  Division 
of  Shropshire  in  the  agricultirral  interest  at  the 
ParHamentary  election  in  1895.  He  married, 
Aug.  13,  1887,  Frederica  Wilhelmina  Skelton, 
only  dau.  of  Frederick  Pershouse  and  Mina 
Darby,  of  Pen  Hall,  Staffordsliire,  and  step- 
dau.  of  Robt.  Newton  Jackson,  of  Blackbrooke, 
Herefordshire. 

THOMAS,  W^iLLiAM,  M.L.A.,  is  one  of  the 
Progressive  representatives  of  the  electoral 
division  of  Albany  in  the  Cape  House  of  Assem- 
bly, to  which  he  was  returned  at  the  general 
election  in  1904. 

THOMPSON,  E.  G.,  was  formerly  editor  of 
the  "  Natal  Witness,"  and  joined  the  staff  of 
the  "  Rand  Daily  Mail  "  in  1902. 

THOMPSON,  Francis  R.,  is  son  of  a  former 
member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Council.  At 
the  age  of  13,  moved  by  the  spirit  of  adventure, 
he  went  up  to  the  diamond  fields,  working  for 
three  years  on  the  Klip-drift  diggings.  He 
then  started  farming  on  land  which  formed  the 
nucleus  of  his  Hart's  River  ranche.     In   1878, 


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when  the  war  broke  out  in  the  Northern  Terri- 
tories, his  father  was  brutally  murdered,  and 
young  Thompson,  after  receiving  a  wound 
which  cost  him  part  of  a  rib,  and  very  nearly 
his  life,  escaped  in  a  miraculous  manner  to  a 
neighbouring  farm,  which  he  and  the  owner 
defended  for  a  couple  of  days  and  nights,  until 
relieved  by  a  contingent  of  the  old  24th  Regt. 
A  few  weeks  later  he  joined  Sir  Chas.  Warren, 
and  remained  with  him  until  the  expedition 
of  1878  was  over,  when  he  became,  at  the  age 
of  20,  Inspector  of  Natives,  with  power  to 
settle  disputes  between  the  various  chiefs.  He 
served  as  Special  Commissioner  of  Bechuana- 
land  throughout  the  Stellaland  and  Goshen 
troubles  ;  again  with  Sir  Chas.  Warren  when  he 
tiu-ned  the  Boers  out  of  Rooigrond  ;  and  then 
on  the  Frontier  Commission  defining  the  Griqua- 
land  West  boundary.  Then  at  Mr.  Rhodes' 
request  he  undertoolc  the  organizing  of  the 
Compound  System  at  Kimberley,  which  proved 
a  wonderful  success  for  the  mines.  After  a 
short  stay  in  Johannesburg,  and  just  after  he 
was  appointed  Protector  of  Natives  and  Govt. 
Inspector  of  Compoiuids,  he  undertook  for 
Mr.  Rhodes  to  accomplish  the  first  step  towards 
opening  up  the  northern  route  by  obtaining 
the  concession  from  Lobengula  which  formed 
the  basis  of  the  charter.  Mr.  Thompson — or 
Matabele  Thompson,  as  he  came  to  be  called 
familiarly — -remained  in  Bulawayo  for  two 
years.  He  then  entered  at  Oxford,  and  gave 
three  years  to  study.  On  his  return  to  S.A. 
he  was  elected  to  the  Cape  Parliament  as 
member  for  Georgetown,  and  served  on  the 
Rinderpest  Commission.  Mr.  Thompson  was 
married,  in  1893,  his  father-in-law  ha\'ing  been 
one  of  the  British  Commissioners  in  the  Vene- 
zuelan Arbitration  in  the  forties. 

THOMPSON,  George  William,  of  56, 
Gloucester  Terrace,  Hyde  Park,  London,  W.  ; 
of  Mayfield,  Essex  ;  and  of  the  Savile  and  S.A. 
Clubs;  was  born  at  Aberdeen,  March  11,  1845, 
and  was  educated  at  the  Aberdeen  Gram.  Sch. 
and  Univ.  From  1870  until  1883  Mr.  Thomp- 
son was  in  the  service  of  the  Oriental  Bank 
in  China,  Japan  and  India.  He  founded  the 
first  European  bank  in  Persia  in  1887,  and 
also  in  1891  founded  the  African  Banking  Cor- 
poration, an  important  and  flourishing  institu- 
tion having  offices  in  London  and  branches  all 
over  S.A.  Mr.  Thompson  is  decorated  with 
the  Persian  Order  of  the  Lion  and  the  Sun. 
He  married  :  first,  in  1878.  Ellen  Augusta  (d. 
1879),  dau.  of  A.  W.  Gaderden,  of  Ewell  Castle, 


Surrey ;   second,   in   1888,   CiraUe   Louise,   dau. 
of  Ed.  WooUett,  of  Paris  and  Brussels. 

THORNE,  Sir  jW.,  M.L.A.,  of  Cape  Town,  is 
a  prominent  S.A.  merchant,  and  was  elected 
Mayor  of  Cape  Town  in  1902.  He  now  sits  in 
the  Cape  House  of  Assembly  as  one  of  the  Pro- 
gressive Members  for  tiie  capital. 

THORNEYCROFT,  Col.  Alexander  White- 
law,  C.B.,  of  the  Curragh  Camp,  Kildare,  and 
of  the  Naval  and  Military  and  Princes'  Clubs, 
was  born  at  Tettenhall,  Jan.  19,  1859.  He  is 
son  of  the  late  Lieut. -Col.  I.  Thorneycroft, 
of  Tettenhall  Towers,  Wolverhampton,  and 
Hadley  Park,  Salop  ;  was  educated  at  Welling- 
ton Coll.,  and  joined  the  2nd  Batt.  Royal  Scots 
Fusiliers,  Feb.  22,  1879,  becoming  Capt.  in 
1887,  Maj.  in  1899,  Lieut.-Gol.  in  1900,  and 
full  Col.  in  1902.  He  acted  as  D.A.A.G.  in 
Natal  from  Sept.  16,  1899,  to  Oct.  16,  1899, 
when  he  was  selected  for  special  service  until 
the  end  of  1901.  Col.  Thorneycroft  has  seen 
much  active  service  in  S.A.,  beginning  with  the 
operations  in  1879-81,  including  the  Zulu 
Campaign,  attack  and  capture  of  Sekukuni's 
kraal  (medal  with  clasp),  and  the  first  Trans- 
vaal campaign  and  siege  of  Pretoria.  In  the 
S.A.  War  of  1899-1902  he  raised  and  com- 
manded that  smart  body  of  men  known  as 
Thorneycroft's  Mounted  Infantry,  who  ren- 
dered such  a  good  account  of  themselves.  He 
took  part  in  the  relief  of  Ladysmith,  the  actions 
at  Colenzo,  Spion  Kop,  Vaal  Ivranz,  Tugela 
Heights,  Pieter's  Hill  and  Laing's  Nek.  In  the 
latter  half  of  1900  he  operated  in  the  Eastern 
Transvaal,  and  subsequently  commanded  a 
mobile  column  and  group  of  cokunns  in  the 
Transvaal,  O.R.C.  and  C.C.  (despatches,  medals 
and  clasps,  and  C.B.).  Col.  Thorneycroft  re- 
ceived his  present  appointment  as  A.A.G., 
7th  Div.  of  the  3rd  Army  Corps,  Nov.  12,  1902. 

He  is  fond  of  shooting  and  rackets,  and 
married,  on  June  20,  1903,  Mrs.  Burrard  Crozier, 
dau.  of  the  late  Major  J.  W.  Percy,  and  cousin 
of  Sir  Mavu-ice  FitzGerald,  Bart.,  Knt.  of  Kerry. 

TIDSWELL,  Major  Edward  Cecil,  D.S.O., 
of  the  Army  and  Navy  Club,  is  the  son  of  the 
late  Benjamin  Kaye  Tidswell.  He  was  born 
in  1862  at  Birkdale,  Lancashire,  and  was 
educated  at  Harrow.  Entering  the  2nd  Lan- 
cashire Fusiliers  in  1882  he  was  promoted 
Capt.  in  1891,  and  Maj.  1890.  He  served  with 
the  Nile  Expedition  in  1898,  being  present  at 
the  battle  of  Khartomn,  receiving  the  Queen's 


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and  Khedive's  medals  with  clasp.  On  the 
Boer  War  breaking  out  he  went  to  S.A.,  serving 
from  1899  to  1902,  receiving  the  Queen's  medal 
with  five  clasps,  and  the  King's  medal  with 
two  clasps.  He  was  also  mentioned  in  des- 
patches, and  obtained  his  D.S.O.  In  1903  he 
was  appointed  Commander  of  the  Lagos  Batt. 
West  African  Frontier  Force.  He  married,  in 
1902,  Miss  Ella  Pilcher,  dau.  of  the  late  Thomas 
Webb  Pilcher,  of  Harrow  and  Rome. 

TOD,  C.  E.,  M.L.A.,  represents  the  electoral 
division  of  Griqualand  East  in  the  Progressive 
interest  in  the  Cape  House  of  Assembly,  to 
which  he  was  returned  in  1904. 

TODD,  JoiENT  Spencer  Brydges,  C.M.G. 
(1878),  of  24,  Cathcart  Road,  S.  Kensington, 
100,  Victoria  Street,  Westminster,  and  the 
Royal  Societies'  Club,  was  born  at  Dresden, 
Aug.  28,  1840,  is  the  youngest  son  of  the  late 
Col.  Geo.  Todd  (3rd  Dragoon  Guards)  by 
daughter  of  the  late  Sir  Egerton  Brydges,  Bart., 
was  educated  at  Blochmann's  Gymnasium, 
Dresden,  and  at  the  Imperial  Lyceum,  W.  Omer. 
He  accompanied  the  late  Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Geo. 
Grey,  K.C.B.,  to  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  in 
1860,  and  entered  the  01%^!  service  there.  Served 
in  the  Colonial  Secy's  office,  C.T.,  and  in 
the  C.C.  and  R.M.'s  offices  at  Swellendam 
and  Robertson,  and  again  at  Swellendam  until 
1874,  when  he  returned  to  Cape  Town,  where 
he  successively  served  in  the  Colonial  Railway 
Engineer's  office,  the  G.P.O.,  and  the  Treasury, 
where  as  Secy,  to  a  Special  Commission 
he  detected  a  deficiency  of  over  £50,000.  On 
the  introduction  of  the  Appropriation  Audit 
he  became  Accountant  in  the  Prime  Minister's 
Dept.,  and  subsequently  acted  as  Accounting 
Officer  thei-eof.  In  1878  was  sent  as  the  Colony's 
Executive  Commissioner  to  the  Universal  Ex- 
hibition in  Paris,  and  there  served  on  the  Inter- 
national Jury.  On  his  return  to  the  Cape  he 
served  with  Sir  Henry  White,  and  Messrs. 
Gordon  and  Lawson  on  a  mixed  Committee 
to  determine  the  division  between  the  Imperial 
and  Colonial  Govts,  of  the  Transkei  War  ex- 
penditure of  1877-8. 

In  1881  he  proceeded  on  special  service  to  Ivim- 
berley,  to  adjust  the  accounts  of  the  then 
recently  annexed  province  of  Griqualand  West. 
This  accomplished,  he  was  there  detained  till 
the  end  of  the  year  to  act  as  C.C.  of  Kimberley 
and  Provincial  Registrar  of  Deeds,  and  to  report 
on  the  state  of  the  several  Public  Departments 
there.     On  his  return  to  Cape  To%vn  he  acted 


as  Asst.-Comr.  and  Permanent  Head  of  the 
Dept.  of  Crown  Lands  and  Public  Works  ;  and, 
on  the  return  of  the  incumbent  of  that  office, 
was  retained  in  the  Dept.  as  Financial  Secy. 
till  the  end  of  Aug.  1882,  when  he  was  selected 
to  fill  the  post  of  Secy,  to  the  newly  created 
Cape  of  Good  Hope  Agency  in  London. 

Mr.  Todd  is  by  Commission  authorized  to 
act  as  Agent-General  in  the  event  of  the  death, 
disabiUty  or  absence  of  the  incumbent  for  the 
time  being,  and  has  very  repeatedly  so  acted 
since  1886,  notably  during  the  late  Sir  Charles 
Mills'  absence  at  the  Ottawa  Conference  in 
1894,  and  after  his  death,  from  March  1895  to 
March  1896.  He  was  one  of  the  Cape  of  Good 
Hope  delegates  at  the  Universal  Postal  Con- 
ference, held  at  Washington  in  1897,  and  be- 
tween 1879  and  1882  was  French  Exa,miner 
to  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  Univ.  He  is 
author  of  "  The  Resident  Magistrate  at  the 
Cape  of  Good  Hope  "  (1882),  and  of  a  "  Handy 
Guide  to  Laws  and  Regulations  at  the  Cape 
of  Good  Hope,"  published  in  London  in  1887. 
Mr.  Todd  married,  March  13,  1865,  Susan 
Margaret,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Baron  Goert 
van-Reere-van-Oudtshoorn,  some  time  C.C. 
and  R.M.  of  Swellendam,  and  later  of  Stellen- 
bosch.  Cape  Colony. 

TREVITHICK,         Frederick  Harvey, 

M.I.C.E.,  of  Cairo,  and  of  the  Isthmian  (Lond.), 
Khedivial,  Sporting  and  Turf  (Cairo)  Clubs, 
was  born  Feb.  21,  1852.  He  is  son  of  Francis 
Trevithick  (Cliief  Slechanical  Engineer  of  the 
L.  and  N.W.  Railway)  and  of  Mary  Ewart,  and 
grandson  of  Richard  Trevithick,  the  inventor  ; 
was  educated  at  Cheltenham  Coll.  and  received 
his  early  training  on  the  G.W.  Railway.  In 
1883  he  was  appointed  Chief  Mechanical  En- 
gineer to  the  Egyptian  State  Railways,  and 
in  the  follo^vT^ng  year  was  sent  bj^  the  Govt, 
to  Russia  to  report  on  the  petroleiim  industry. 
In  1896  he  went  to  India  to  report  on  the  rail- 
way system  there,  and  in  1900  he  was  sent  to 
Canada  and  the  U.S.A.  for  the  same  purpose. 
His  reports  have  in  each  case  been  published. 
Mr.  Tre^^thick  has  been  decorated  %^-ith  the 
Orders  of  the  Osmanieh  (3rd  class)  and  the 
Medjidieh  (2nd  and  3rd  class).  He  married, 
Nov.  19,  1896,  Henrietta  Kate  Cornford,  M.D. 
Brus.,  L.R.C.P.  Edin.,  L.R.C.S.  Edin.,  L.F.P. 
and  S.  Glasgow,  A.A.  Oxford,  dau.  of  the 
Rev.  E.  Cornford,  M.A. 

TUCKER,  Charles,  of  Enquabeni,  near 
Harding,  Natal,   where  he   is   a  native  labour 


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agent,  was  well  known  as  a  sprinter  until  in 
1903  he  was  accidentally  shot  in  the  groin  so 
badly  as  to  preclude  his  continuing  to  run. 

TURNER,     Hon.     George,     M.L.C,     J.P., 

of  Fletching,  Sussex  ;  Arundel,  Sussex  ;  Warley, 
Common,  HigMands,  Natal ;  and  of  the  Royal 
Colonial  Institute,  and  Victoria  Club,  Maritz- 
biu-g  ;  was  born  at  Fletching,  July  29,  1 834  ; 
was  educated  at  Christ's  Hospital  and  at  Dr. 
Butler's  Sch.,  Brighton.  He  married,  Feb. 
15,  1866,  Harriette  Julia,  yovmger  dau.  of  Rev. 
Chas.  W.  Stocker,  D.D.,  of  Draycott  Rectory, 
near  Cheadle,  Staffs. 

TURNER,  Db.  Geobge  Albert,  is  the  son 
of  Dr.  G.  Turner,  Principal  Medical  Officer  of 
Health  for  the  Transvaal,  was  for  a  short  time 
acting  Medical  Officer  of  Health  at  Johannes- 
burg. He  was  appointed  Additional  District 
Surgeon  and  Additional  Port  Health  Officer 
for  Cape  Town  in  1902. 

TWEEDY,  Edward  Hebbebt,  L.R. C.P.I. , 
L.R.C.S.I.,  and  L.M.  Rotunda  Hospital ;  S.M.O. 
of  the  Gold  Coast  Colony ;  of  the  Rotunda 
Hospital,  Dublin ;  and  of  the  Friendly  Brothers 
and  Sports  Club,  was  born  at  Dublin  in  1 886  ; 
is  the  yoimgest  son  of  John  Johnston  Tweedy, 
soHcitor,  of  Dublin ;  was  educated  at  Wesley 
Coll.,  Dublin,  and  the  Carmichael  Sch.  of 
Medicine.  After  serving  from  1892  to  1896 
as  surgeon  ixnder  the  Cunard  SS.  Co.,  he  became 
House  Surgeon  at  St.  Mark's  Ophthalmic  Hos- 
pital in  1896  ;  joined  the  W.  African  Medical 
Service  in  1897,  and  served  with  Lieut.-Col. 
Northcott  in  the  Northern  Territories,  being 
mentioned  in  despatches  and  receiving  the 
medal  and  clasp.  He  was  also  present  dm'ing 
the  siege  of  Kmnasi  in  1901  (despatches,  medal 
and  clasp).     Unmarried. 

VALDEZ,  Joachim  Tbavassos  ;  has  had 
a  distinguished  record  as  a  diplomat,  especially 
as  Portuguese  Consul  at  Shanghai.  He  suc- 
ceeded Senhor  Cinatti  as  Consul-General  for 
Portugal  in  the  Transvaal  in  1902. 

''  VAN  CAMPEN,  C.u>t.,  joined  Bethune's 
Mounted  Infantry  as  a  trooper,  and  went  all 
through  the  Boer  War  with  that  regt,  having 
reached  the  rank  of  Capt.  on  its  disband- 
ment.  He  was  appointed  Supt.  of  the  Repa- 
triation Department  at  Middleburg  in  1902. 

VAN  DEN  HEEVER,  Hon.  D.  P.,  of  Karee- 


fontein,  Venterstad,  C.C,  was  born  in  1838. 
He  was  for  over  ten  years  member  of  the  Divi- 
sional Council,  was  until  recently  a  member  of 
the  Cape  Legislative  Council  for  the  North-East 
Circle,  and  was  leader  of  the  Anti-Scab  Act 
agitation  in  1895. 

VAN  DER  MERWE,  Fbanz  Johannes, 
M.L.A.,  represents  the  electoral  division  of 
Clanwilham  in  the  Cape  Parliament,  to  which 
he  was  last  re-elected  in  1904.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Afrikander  Bond. 

VAN  EEDEN,  Hon.  Frederick  Jacobus, 
was  bom  in  the  Swellendam  Division  in  1846, 
and  is  a  successful  agriculturist  and  stock- 
farmer,  owning  nearly  30,000  morgen.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly 
in  1887-8  for  Swellendam,  and  from  1891 
xintil  recently  sat  in  the  Legislative  Council 
as  member  for  the  South- West  Circle.  He  is 
an  elder  of  the  D.R.  Church,  and  member  of 
the  Divisional  Council. 

VANES,  Db.  Arthur  Bayley,  M.L.A.,  is 
member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for 
Uitenhage,  for  wliich  electoral  division  he 
was  last  returned  in  Feb.,  1904.  He  supports 
the  Progressive  party. 

VAN  HEERDEN,  Hebcules  Christian, 
M.L.A.,  of  Tarkastad,  C.C,  is  a  promi- 
nent and  progressive  farmer  in  the  Eastern 
Province.  He  has  been  for  many  years  a 
representative  for  Cradock  in  the  Cape  Legis- 
lative Assembly,  to  wMch  he  was  last  returned 
in  1904.  He  supports  the  Bond  party,  but 
preserves  a  moderate  and  concihatory  attitude. 

VAN  LAUN,  Henry  Theodore,  of  5, 
Ladbroke  Gardens,  W.,  and  1,  St.  Helen's 
Place,  London,  E.C.,  and  of  the  Hurlingham 
and  St.  Stephen's  Clubs,  Govt,  contractor, 
merchant,  and  financier,  is  son  of  the  famous 
grammarian,  and  was  himself  educated  at 
Cheltenham  and  Edinburgh,  and  is  a  scholar 
of  no  small  attainments.  He  is  considerably 
interested  in  S.  African  enterprises,  being  a 
Director  of  the  Beira  Railway,  Beira  Junction 
Railway,  the  Montrose  Diamond  Mining  Co. 
(Chairman),  the  Eurafrican  Co.,  Montrose 
G.M.  and  Exploration  Co.,  Sterkfontein  Gold 
Estates  (Chairman),  etc.  He  is  a  keen  Con- 
servative pohtician,  a  protectionist,  and  recently 
issued,  with  Mr.  W.  H.  Wills,  a  pamphlet  on  the 
S.A.  Labour  problem.     He  has  been  invited  to 


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contest  the  constituency  of  Saffron  Walden  at 
the  next  parliamentary  election. 

VAN  RHYN,  Hon.  P.  B.,  of  Van  Rhyns- 
dorp,  ClanwiUiam,  CO.,  was  born  in  1827  ; 
was  field-comet  in  1848  ;  was  elected  to  the  Cape 
House  of  Assembly  for  ClanwiUiam  in  1868, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Legislative  Council 
for  the  North-West  Circle  from  1884  until 
recently.     He  is  an  elder  of  the  D.R.  Church. 

VAN  ZYL,  C.  H.,  M.L.C.,  formerly  Law 
Lecturer  at  the  S.  African  Coll.,  is  the  com- 
piler of  a  standard  work  of  reference  to  the 
S.  African  legal  profession,  "  The  Theory  of  the 
Judicial  Practice  of  the  Colony  of  the  Cape  of 
Good  Hope  and  of  South  Africa  General^." 
At  the  election  in  1904  Mr.  Van  Zyl  was  elected 
to  the  Legislative  CoLincil  as  Bond  representa- 
tive of  the  South-Westem  Circle. 

VAN  ZYL,  DiBK  Jacobus  Albebtus,  M.L.A., 
is  member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for 
ClanwiUiam,  for  which  electorate  he  was  last 
returned  in  1904  in  the  Bond  interest. 

VAN  ZYL,  I.  J.,  M.L.C.,  is  one  of  the  Bond 
representatives  of  the  North- Western  Circle  in 
the  Cape  Legislative  Council,  to  which  he  was 
elected  at  the  general  election  in  1904. 

VENTER,  M.  M.,  M.L.A.,  represents  the 
electoral  division  of  Colesburg  in  the  Cape 
House  of  Assemby,  to  which  he  was  returned 
in  Feb.  1904  as  a  supporter  of  the  Bond. 

VILJOEN,  Db.  Anthony  Gysbkbt,  M.B., 
M.L.A.,  formerly  sat  in  the  Cape  Legislative 
Council  as  member  for  the  South-Western 
Circle.  At  the  general  election  in  1904  he  was 
returned  to  the  Lower  House  as  Bond  member 
for  Caledon. 

VTNTCENT,  Joseph,  B.A.,  LL.B.  (Camb.), 
Senior  Judge  of  the  High  Court  of  Southern 
Rhodesia  ;  of  Bulawayo,  and  of  the  Civil  Service 
(C.T.),  and  Bulawayo  Clubs,  is  the  eldest 
son  of  the  late  L.  A.  Vintcent,  M.L.A.  (C.C). 
He  was  born  Nov.  12,  1861,  at  Mossel  Bay, 
C.C,  and  was  educated  at  the  Diocesan  Coll., 
Rondebosch  (C.T.),  at  Charterhouse  (Eng- 
land), and  at  Cambridge  Univ.  Mr.  Vint- 
cent was  called  to  the  Bar,  Middle  Temple, 
Jan.  1885,  and  was  admitted  Advocate  of 
Supreme  Court  of  C.C.  in  March  in  the  same 
year      He    was    appointed    Crown    Prosecutor 


for  the  Crown  Colony  of  British  Bechuanaland 
March  1886,  and  held  that  office  till  Jime  1894. 
In  Jan.  1892  he  was  appointed  Crown  Prosecutor 
for  the  Bechuanaland  Protectorate,  which 
office  he  held  in  conjunction  with  the  Crown 
Prosecutorship  of  British  Bechuanaland.  In 
Jan.  1893  he  was  appointed  a  member  of  the 
Concession  Commission  for  the  Bechuanaland 
Protectorate.  In  1894  he  was  appointed  Judge 
of  the  High  Court  of  Matabeleland,  and  was 
President  of  the  Land  Commission  appointed 
imder  the  Matabeleland  Order  in  Coimcil,  1894  ; 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Coiincil  under  such 
Order.  He  acted  as  Administrator  to  Southern 
Rhodesia  from  Nov.  1895  to  Nov.  1896.  In 
Dec.  1898  he  was  appointed  Senior  Judge  of 
the  High  Court  of  Southern  Rhodesia.  He 
was  nominated  a  member  of  the  Legislative 
Council  of  Southern  Rhodesia  in  1899-1900. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Old  Carthusian  Foot- 
ball team  which  won  the  Association  Challenge 
Cup  in  the  season  of  1880-1881,  and  was  in  the 
Camb.  Univ.  Football  Assoc.  XL  in  the  season 
of  1882-3.  He  married,  Oct.  14,  1891,  Hester 
Elizabeth,  second  dau.  of  the  late  Henry  My- 
burgh,  of  Wynberg,  Cape  Town. 

VISSER,  A.  G.,  M.L.A.,  represents  the 
electoral  division  of  Victoria  West  in  the  Cape 
House  of  Assembly,  to  which  he  was  returned  at 
the  general  election  in  1904.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  S.A.  party. 

VLOK,  Rev.,  Pastor  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church  at  Picquetburg,  C.C.  He  tried  to  keep 
his  people  loyal  during  the  Boer  War  (1899-02), 
and  took  his  turn  in  the  trenches  when  his 
town  was  attacked.  His  loyalty  brought  upon 
him  the  displeasure  of  his  congregation.  H© 
was  boycotted  by  his  brethren  of  the  D.R.C., 
and  was  compelled  to  give  up  his  ministry, 
after  twenty-one  years'  service,  on  a  pension 
(Nov.  1902). 

VON  HESSERT,  Kabl  Fbiedbich,  of  64, 
Heerdweg,  Darmstadt,  Germany,  and  of  the 
Rand  and  Turf  Clubs  (Johannesburg)  ;  is  son  of 
Lieut. -Col.  von  Hessert  of  Darmstadt,  where  he 
was  bom  Oct.  26,  1855,  and  educated.  He 
went  to  S.A.  in  the  service  of  the  French  D.M. 
Co.,  late  in  1880,  and  took  over  the  management 
of  part  of  that  Co.'s  works  imtil  1889,  when  the 
property  was  absorbed  by  the  De  Beers  group. 
Mr.  von  Hessert  then  proceeded  to  Johannes- 
burg ;  took  an  active  part  in  the  development  of 
the  Witwatersrand    fields,   and  w«is  for  many 


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years  a  Director  of  the  Crown  Reef,  Champ 
d'Or,  Ferreira,  Geldenhuis  Estate,  Main  Reef, 
New  Modderfontein,  Wemmer,  Wolhiiter, 
Bantjes,  Driefontein,  and  Village  G.M.  Cos., 
and  of  the  Transvaal  Coal  Trust,  City  and 
Suburban  Trams,  the  Alexander  Estate,  and 
several  other  less  important  concerns.  He 
retired  from  active  business  in  1902,  and  has 
since  settled  in  Darmstadt.  During  a  visit  to 
Europe  Mr.  Von  Hessert  took  part  in  the 
Bulgarian-Servian  War,  and  received  for  his 
services  then  rendered  the  Order  of  St.  Alexan- 
der and  the  Bulgarian  war  medal.  He  married, 
Nov.  9,  1895,  Victoria,  dau.  of  Col.  Adolf  von 
Herff,  of  Darmstadt. 

VON  RICHTOFEN,  Baron,  LL.D.,  of  Berlin, 
was  born  at  Jassy,  Roumania,  in  1847,  and 
saw  a  good  deal  of  the  world  as  a  child,  his 
father  having  been  a  diplomatist.  He  served 
in  the  German-Austrian  and  Franco-German 
wars  ;  was  in  the  Imperial  Civil  Service  in 
Alsace-Lorraine  from  1871  to  1876  ;  went  into 
the  Foreign  Office  in  the  latter  year,  and  in 
1885  was  sent  to  Cairo  as  first  German  member 
of  the  Caisse  de  la  Dette,  assisting  not  a  little 
in  bringing  about  the  present  excellent  state  of 
Egyptian  finances.  In  1887  he  was  in  Con- 
stantinople while  Sir  H.  Drummond  Wolff  was 
carrying  on  his  negotiations  with  Ti.u"key.  In 
1889  he  and  Sir  E.  Vincent  made  the  necessary 
preparations  for  the  conversion  of  the  Egyptian 
Preference  Loan,  and  at  the  request  of  the 
Egyptian  Govt,  he  led  the  expedition  of  1891 
with  a  view  to  the  construction  of  a  railway 
from  the  Nile  to  the  Red  Sea.  During  his 
12  years'  stay  in  Egypt  he  greatly  assisted  his 
countrymen  in  the  fitting  out  of  their  exploring 
expedition.  In  1896  he  succeeded  Dr.  Kayser 
as  head  of  the  German  Colonial  Council  at 
Berlin,  and  was  Under  Secy,  of  State  for 
Foreign  Affairs  from  1897  to  1900. 

VOSLOO,  A.,  M.L.A.,  represents  the  electoral 
division  of  Somerset  East  in  the  Cape  House  of 
Assembly,  to  which  he  was  elected  in  the  Bond 
interest  in  1904. 

WALKER,  Major  William  George,  V.C, 
4th  Goorkha  Rifles,  of  the  East  India  United 
Service  Club,  is  the  son  of  Depy.- Surgeon  William 
Walker,  LL.D.  and  Hon.  Physician  to  the 
Queen.  He  was  born  at  Naini  Tal,  India, 
May  29,  1863,  and  was  educated  at  Haileybury, 
St.  John's  Coll.,  where  he  graduated  M.A.,  and 
at  Sandhm-st.     In   1885  he  joined   the   Suffolk 


Regt.  in  India,  and  in  May  1887  he  trans- 
ferred to  the  4th  Goorkhas.  He  was  in  1891 
with  the  Miramyai  Expedition,  receiving  the 
medal  with  clasp.  He  was  also  with  the  1895 
Waziristan  Expedition,  receiving  the  clasp. 

In  Aug.  1896  he  received  his  Captaincy.  In 
1898  to  1903  he  seconded  with  Imperial  Service 
Troop,  and  in  Jan.  of  the  later  year  joined  the 
Somaliland  Field  Force,  being  granted,  in  Aug. 
1903,  the  Victoria  Cross,  the  coveted  Cross  also 
going  to  Capt.  Rolland  (q.v.),  Indian  Army. 
The  story  of  their  heroism  is  told  as  follows  : — 

"  Dvu"ing  the  return  of  Major  Govigh's  column 
to  Danop  on  April  22,  1903,  after  the  action  at 
Daratoleh,  the  rear-guard  got  considerably  in 
rear  of  the  column,  owing  to  the  thick  bush, 
and  to  having  to  hold  their  groimd  while 
wounded  men  were  being  placed  on  camels. 
At  this  time  Captain  Bruce  was  shot  through 
the  body  from  a  distance  of  about  twenty 
yards,  and  fell  on  the  path  unable  to  move. 
Captains  Walker  and  Rolland,  two  men  of  the 
2nd  Batt.  King's  African  Rifles,  one  Sikh, 
and  one  Somali  of  the  Camel  Corps,  were  with 
him  when  he  fell.  In  the  meantime  the  column, 
being  rmaware  of  what  had  happened,  were 
getting  further  away.  Captain  Rolland  then 
ran  back  some  500  yards  and  returned  with 
assistance  to  bring  off  Captam  Bruce,  while 
Captain  Walker  and  the  men  remained  with  that 
officer,  endeavouring  to  keep  off  the  enemy, 
who  were  all  round  in  the  thick  bush.  This 
they  succeeded  in  doing,  though  not  before 
Captain  Bruce  was  hit  a  second  time,  and  the 
Sikh  wounded.  But  for  the  gallant  conduct 
displayed  by  these  officers  and  men.  Captain 
Bruce  must  have  fallen  into  the  hands  of  the 
enemy." 

WALLACE,  B.,  of  the  W^anderers'  Club, 
Johannesburg,  played  in  the  Cricket  XI.  for 
London  County  several  times  during  1903,  and 
is  generally  considered  to  be  nearly  the  equal 
of  E.  A.  Halliwell  (q.v.)  behind  the  wickets.  He 
accompanied  the  South  African  XL  to  Eng- 
land in  1904. 

WALTON,  Edgar  Harris,  M.L.A.,  of  Port 
Elizabeth,  C.C.,  is  son  of  the  Rev.  J.  M. 
Walton,  M.A.,  formerly  Pres.  of  the  Wesleyan 
Conference  for  Great  Britain  and  S.  Africa,  and 
is  brother  of  the  eminent  K.C.,  Mr.  Lawson 
Walton.  He  went  out  to  the  Cape  in  the  late 
seventies,  and  became  associated  with  the  firm 
of  Richards,  Glanville  &  Co.  He  has  been  long 
identified  with  Port  Elizabeth,  and  has  repre- 


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sented  that  constituency  in  the  House  of 
Assembly  since  1898,  having  been  re-elected  in 
Feb.  1904.  Originally  opposed  to  Mr.  Cecil 
Rhodes'  alliance  with  the  Bond,  he  became 
reconciled  with  him  after  the  rupture  following 
on  the  Jameson  raid.  He  became  Treasiu-er- 
Gen.  in  Dr.  Jameson's  first  Ministry  (Feb. 
1904).  Mr.  Walton  is  the  proprietor  and  editor 
of  the  "  Eastern  Province  Herald "  of  Port 
Elizabeth. 

WARD,  Rev.  Algernon,  M.A.,  of  33,  Rue 
Cherif  Pacha,  Alexandria,  Egypt,  and  The 
Limes,  Hagworthingham,  Lines.,  was  born  in 
1868.  He  is  only  son  of  Rev.  Rob.  Ward, 
B.A.  ;  was  educated  at  the  Clergy  Sch.,  Camb., 
and  Cambridge  Univ.  He  played  in  the  Uni- 
versity La  Crosse  team,  1888-1890  ;  and  was 
Scholar,  Sizar,  Divinity  Prizeman,  and  Sub- 
Librarian  of  Gorpiis  Christi  Coll.,  Camb.,  1887- 
1890.  Subsequently  he  was  Curate  of  St. 
Michael's,  Coventry  ;  Senior  Curate  of  St. 
Augustine's,  Edgbaston ;  Sub- Warden,  Tutor, 
and  Divinity  Lecturer  of  Queen's  Coll.,  Bir- 
mingham, and  Chaplain  of  St.  Mark's,  Alexan- 
dria. He  is  author  of  "  Guide  to  the  Study  of 
the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,"  "  Psalmi  Pceni- 
tentiales,"  and  has  contributed  various  articles 
in  theological  papers.  He  married,  Nov.  10, 
1896,  Ehzabeth  Mary,  eldest  dau.  of  David 
Waters,  merchant  and  artist,  of  Coventry. 

WARE,  Fabian  Arthur  Goulstone,  M.L.C, 
of  Pretoria,is  the  sixth  son  of  Charles  and  Amy 
Carew  Ware  (nee  Goulstone).  He  was  born  at 
Clifton,  Bristol,  1869,  and  after  being  edvicated 
privately,  proceeded  to  the  Univ.  of  Paris, 
where  he  graduated  Bachelier-des-Sciences 
(Paris).  From  1889-99  he  was  Asst.-Master 
in  Secondary  Schools  (Bradford  Gram.  Sch. 
1895-1899).  From  1900-1901  he  was  a  repre- 
sentative of  the  Education  Committee  of  the 
British  Royal  Commission  at  the  Paris  Exhibi- 
tion. He  has  been  Occasional  Inspector  of 
Secondary  Schools  to  the  Board  of  Education  in 
England,  and  Occasional  Examiner  to  the  Civil 
Service  Commission  in  England.  In  June  1901 
he  joined  the  staff  of  the  Transvaal  Educational 
Department ;  became  Asst.  Director  of  Edu- 
cation in  Sept.  1901,  and  from  Jan.  to  Jime 
1903  he  was  acting  Director  of  Education  for  the 
Transvaal  and  O.R.C.  In  May  1903  he  was 
appointed  Member  of  the  Transvaal  Legislative 
Council,  and  Director  of  Education,  Transvaal, 
in  July  1903.  Mr.  Ware  has  written  many 
works   on    education.     These   include    a   trans- 


lation of  "  The  New  Testament "  (Pere 
Hyacinthe),  1898  ;  "  Teaching  of  Modern 
Languages  in  Prussia,"  and  "  Training  of 
Modern  Language  Teachers  in  Prussia."  He 
has  also  written  a  number  of  special  reports  of 
the  Board  of  Education,  England  ;  a  work  on 
"  Educational  Reform  :  the  Past  of  the  Board 
of  Education  "  (Methuen  &  Co.,  1900).  He  is 
the  author  of  "  Educational  Foundations  of 
Trade  and  Industry"  (Harper  Bros.,  1901),  and 
during  1900  and  1901  wrote  a  nximber  of  leading 
articles  in  the  "  jMorning  Post."  In  1895  he 
married  Anna  Margaret,  elder  dau.  of  E.  W. 
Phibbs,  of  Clifton. 

WARREN,  Lieut.-Gen.  Sir  Charles,  R.E., 
G.C.M.G.,  K.C.B.,  Knight  of  Grace  of  the  Order 
of  the  Hospital  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem  ;  of 
the  Athenaeum  and  United  Service  Clubs  ;  is 
the  son  of  Major-Gen.  Sir  Charles  Warren, 
K.C.B.,  Col.  of  the  96th  Regiment.  He  was 
born  Feb.  7,  1840,  at  Bangor,  N.  "Wales  ;  was 
edixcated  at  Bridgnorth  Gram.  Sch.,  Chel- 
tenham Coll.,  Royal  Military  Coll.,  Sand- 
hurst, and  the  Royal  Military  Acad.,  Wool- 
wich, and  passed  into  the  Royal  Engineers  in 
1857.  He  conducted  excavations  at  Jerusalem 
and  reconnaissance  work  in  Palestine,  1867  to 
1870  ;  and  began  his  long  career  of  usefulness 
in  S.A.  as  Special  Commissioner  on  the 
Griqualand  West  and  O.F.S.  Boundary  Com- 
mission in  1876-7.  He  was  also  Special 
Commissioner  in  connection  with  the  land 
question  of  Griqualand  West  in  1877.  He 
commanded  the  Diamond  Fields  Horse  in  the 
Transkei  War  of  1878  (brevet  Lieut.-Col.)  ; 
was  Chief  of  Staff  during  the  Griqualand  West 
Rebellion  in  1878  ;  and  commanded  the  Field 
Force  against  the  Bechuanas  and  Korannas  in 
1878-79.  He  was  appointed  Administrator  of 
Griqualand  West  in  1879,  and  went  to  Chatham 
in  the  same  year  as  Instructor  in  Sm^veying, 
S.M.E.  In  1882  he  was  employed  under  the 
Admiralty  in  the  desert  of  Arabia  Petrtea  to 
secure  the  murderers  of  Professor  Palmer 
(K.C.M.G.),  and  he  commanded  the  Bechuana- 
land  Expedition  with  the  rank  of  Major-Gen. 
in  1884-5.  Sir  Chas.  Warren  unsuccessfully 
contested  a  Parliamentary  seat  in  the  Liberal 
interest  in  1885.  He  was  in  command  of  the 
troops  at  Suakin  with  rank  of  Major-Gen. 
and  Governor-Gen.  of  the  Red  Sea  Lit- 
toral in  1886  ;  was  Commissioner  of  Metropoh- 
tan  Police  from  1886-89  ;  commanded  the 
troops  in  the  Straits  Settlements  from  1889-96  ; 
and   had    command   of    the    Thames    District, 


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1895-8.  In  the  recent  S.A.  War  he  com- 
manded the  5th  Division,  taking  part  in  the 
ReUef  of  Ladysmith,  1899-1900,  and  in  the 
latter  year  he  once  more  went  to  Griqualand 
West  as  MiUtary  Governor. 

Sir  Charles  is  the  author  of  "  Orientation  of 
Ancient  Temples,"  "  The  Temple  and  the  Tomb," 
"  Underground  Jerusalem,"  "  On  the  Veldt  in 
the  Seventies,"  and  "  The  Ancient  Cubit  and 
Our  Weights  and  Measures."  He  married, 
Sept.  1,  1864,  Fanny  Margaretta,  dau.  of  Samuel 
Haydon,  of  Millmead,  Guildford. 

WATKEYS,  William  David  Eustace,  of 
Bloemfontein,  and  of  the  Bloemfontein  Club, 
was  bom  at  Brecon,  S.  Wales,  July  18,  1871  ; 
was  educated  at  St.  Andrew's  Coll.,  Grahams- 
town  and  at  Grey  CoU.,  Bloemfontein,  where  he 
follows  the  profession  of  law. 

WEARIN,  E.  M.,  of  the  Green  Point  and 
Sea  Point  Swimming  Clubs,  C.T.,  holds  the 
500  and  200  yards  South  African  Swimming 
Championship,  his  times  in  the  1903  contests 
being  7  min.  24^  sec.  for  the  former,  and  2  min. 
58f  sec.  for  the  latter.  He  also  held  the  champion- 
ship over  these  two  distances  in  1902. 

WEBB,  Clement  Davies,  of  Johannesburg, 
and  the  Rand  Club,  was  born  in  King  Williams- 
Town.  He  is  son  of  Frederick  C.  Webb,  a 
farmer,  who  settled  in  S.A.  in  1820.  He  v/as 
educated  at  the  Diocesan  Coll.  Rondeboseh,  and 
served  in  the  native  wars  of  1879  and  1880. 
Clem  Webb,  as  ho  is  popularly  called,  has  resided 
most  of  his  life  in  Queenstown,  C.C,  where 
he  was  linown  as  an  athlete,  gjTnnast  and  boxer. 
Between  the  years  1880-1885  he  won  a  number 
of  trophies  for  these  sports,  and  was  Capt.  of  the 
Swifts  Football  Club  (Queenstown)  for  two 
years — a  club  which  won  every  match  in  1885 
and  1887.  He  was  one  of  the  original  committee 
of  the  long  famous  Wanderers'  Sporting  Club 
in  Johannesburg,  and  for  two  years  he  won 
the  heavy-weight  amateur  boxing  competition, 
and  was  never  once  beaten.  Short  sight,  however, 
compelled  him  to  give  up  this  form  of  sport. 

Mr.  Webb  was  sent  by  the  Cape  Govt,  as  one 
of  the  representatives  of  the  Cape  Com-t  to  the 
Colonial  and  Indian  Exhibition  in  1886  (held 
in  London).  The  discovery  of  goldfields  at 
Johannesburg  so  attracted  him  that  he  returned 
to  S.A.,  and  shortly  afterwards  took  up  liis 
residence  in  Johannesburg.  After  the  Jameson 
Raid  and  during  the  imprisonment  of  the 
Reformers,  Mr.  Webb  and  a  few  others  formed  a 


secret  society,  which  afterwards  developed  itself 
into  a  branch  of  the  S.A.  League.  Mr.  Webb 
was  the  first  President,  and  became  a  marked 
man  in  the  Transvaal.  He  was  arrested  by  the 
Boers  early  in  1899,  with  the  late  Major  Tom 
Dodd,  for  having  organized  a  meeting  for  the 
purpose  of  presenting  a  petition  to  the  British 
Vice-Consul  on  the  subject  of  the  murder  of  Edgar 
by  a  Boer  policeman  ;  and  was  tried  for  high 
treason  against  the  S.A.R.  (see  Koch,  Advocate). 
Up  to  the  time  of  the  late  S.A.  War  he  took  a 
keen  interest  in  pohtical  affairs  ;  spoke  at  most 
of  the  League  meetings,  and  proved  himself  a 
good  organizer.  On  the  outbreak  of  the  S.A. 
War  he  joined  the  I.L.H.  as  Lieut,  in  "  F," 
squad,  and  was  amongst  the  besieged  in  Lady- 
smith.  He  was  then  promoted  to  the  conmiand 
of  "  B  "  squad,  and  went  with  the  regt.  to  the 
reUef  of  Mafeking  ;  was  taken  ill  with  typhoid 
and  pneiunonia,  and  afterwards  detached  by 
Lord  Roberts  for  special  duty  in  Johannesburg, 
where  he  was  for  some  time  senior  officer  of  the 
mounted  battn.  of  the  Rand  Rifles.  Mr.  Webb 
has  now  retired  from  taking  any  active  part  in 
poHtics  or  pubUc  affairs.  He  has  started  a  weekly 
paper,  called  "  South  African  Mines,"  which  is  a 
resurrection  of  the  old  "  South  African  Mining 
Journal,"  and  devotes  himself  entirely  to  the 
interests  of  this  paper  and  the  practice  of  his 
profession  of  Sohcitor  and  Notary  Public.  He 
married  a  Colonial  lady  in  May,  1890. 

WEBB,  Harry  Howard,  Ph.B.,  M.Inst.C.E., 
M.I.M.M.,  M.A.I.M.E.,  of  Johannesburg,  of 
the  Rand  and  New  Clubs,  Johannesburg,  and 
of  the  University  Club,  San  Francisco,  was 
born  at  'Frisco,  Cal.,  Aug.  15, 1853.  He  is  son  of 
Christopher  C.  Webb,  of  Cal.,  whose  ancestors 
settled  in  America  from  England  in  1702.  He 
was  educated  at  the  Univ.  of  California,  at 
the  Royal  Sch.  of  Mines,  London,  and  at  the 
Royal  Saxon  Sch.  of  Mines,  Vreiberg,  Saxony. 
He  went  to  S.A.  in  1895  as  Consulting  Mining 
Engineer  to  several  groups  of  Rhodesian  Cos. 
In  1896  he  succeeeded  John  Hays  Hammond 
(then  on  trial  in  Pretoria)  as  Consulting  Engi- 
neer to  the  Cos.  of  the  ConsoUdated  Gold  Fields. 
Mr.  Webb  Ls  Past  Pres.  of  the  S.A.  Association 
of  Engineers.  He  married,  Mch.  9  1887,  Miss 
Virginia  Martin. 

WEEBER,  Pieter  Jacobus,  M.L.A.,  is 
member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for 
Beaufort  West,  for  which  electoral  division  he 
was  last  re-elected  in  1904.  He  is  a  member  of 
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WEIL,  Samuel,  J.P.,  of  3,  Kensington 
Garden  Terrace,  Bayswater,  and  of  the  Imperial 
Service  Club,  was  born  in  London  in  1862  ;  was 
educated  privately,  and  went  out  to  S.A.  when 
quite  young.  He  settled  in  Beehuanaland 
after  the  close  of  the  Beehuanaland  Expedition, 
1885,  joined  the  firm  of  Julius  Weil,  and 
assisted  in  the  opening  up  of  the  trade  route  to  the 
North  by  the  establishment  of  stores  and  trans- 
port. He  was  appointed  J.P.  in  1896.  He  took 
part  in  the  Matabele  War  of  1 893,  and  organized 
the  transport ;  carried  despatches  from  Inkwesi, 
narrowly  escaping  capture  by  the  enemy,  and  was 
reported  killed.  On  the  outbreak  of  rinderpest 
in  1896,  which  put  an  end  to  the  transport 
machinery  upon  which  the  entire  country  north 
of  Mafeking  depended  for  their  food  supplies, 
with  his  firm  he  organized  mule  transport  service, 
thereby  saving  the  coimtry  from  famine.  He 
took  part  in  the  Matabele  Rebellion  in  1896,  and 
organized  the  transport  and  food  supplies  in 
the  face  of  great  difficulties;  organized  the 
whole  of  the  transport  service  outside  of  Natal 
in  the  late  Boer  War,  1899-1901  ;  given  the  rank 
of  Major  on  Col.  Mahon's  staff,  took  part  in 
the  relief  of  Mafeking,  and  was  mentioned  in 
Lord  Roberts'  despatches. 

WEINTHAL,  Leo,  F.R.G.S.,  of  the  Aspens, 
Stinbury-on-Thames,  and  34,  Copthall  Avenvie, 
E.C.,  Managing  Director  of  "  The  African  World 
and  Cape-Cairo  Express,"  and  London  Cable 
Correspondent  of  the  "  Rand  Daily  Mail," 
was  born  at  Graaff-Reinet,  C.C,  in  1865. 
He  was  educated  at  Hamburg,  and  started 
business  for  himself  in  1884  at  Port  Elizabeth. 
Proceeding  to  the  Transvaal  in  1887,  he  estab- 
lished a  State  lithographic  department  for  the 
Govt.,  and  was  for  years  General  Manager 
for  Mr.  J.  B.  Robinson's  Transvaal  newspapers 
and  representative  of  the  interests  of  his  group 
at  Pretoria.  He  was  Reuter's  agent  at  Pretoria 
from  1888  to  1897,  and  acted  at  various  times 
as  Special  Correspondent  for  the  "  Times  "  and 
"  Daily  Telegraph."  During  the  Anglo-Boer 
War  Mr.Weinthal  was  Special  War  Correspondent 
for  Laft'an's  News  Bureau,  the  "  New  York  Sim  " 
and  the  "  Chicago  Record."  After  the  British 
occupation  he  left  for  Europe  and  spent  some 
time  on  the  East  Coast  of  Africa,  in  order  to  write 
and  compile  a  popular  English  handbook  for  the 
German  Line,  entitled  "  Round  Africa  by  the 
D.  O.  A.  Line,"  which  had  a  good  reception.  On 
his  retiu*n  to  Europe  he  decided  to  remain  in 
England,  and  started  in  1902  "  The  African 
World,"  the  only  London  weekly  dealing  with 


contemporary  developments  in  all  parts  of  th© 
Dark  Continent.  He  is  a  member  of  the  African 
Society,  and  an  ardent  amateiu-  photographer. 

WELDON,  Horace,  M.L.C,  of  Oaklands, 
Johannesburg,  and  of  the  Rand  and  Pretoria 
Clubs,  was  born  at  Camb.,  Eng.,  July  1,  1867,  is 
son  of  the  late  Rev.  Geo.  W.  Weldon,  Vicar  of 
Bickley,  Kent.  He  was  edvicated  in  Switzerland, 
King's  Coll.,  London,  and  the  Royal  Sch.  of 
Mines,  London.  He  proceeded  to  the  Transvaal 
in  1893  ;  was  Manager  of  the  Consol.  Main  Reef, 
Van  Ryn,  and  George  Goch  Mines  ;  he  then 
managed  theRietfontein"  A."  and  theNewRiet- 
fontein  Estate  Cos.  until  his  appointment  as 
Transvaal  Govt.  Mining  Engineer,  Apr.  12,  1901, 
with  a  seat  in  the  Legislative  Council.  He 
served  throughoiit  the  Natal  Campaign  in  the 
Field  Force  Intelligence  under  Col.  Sandbach. 
Mr.  Weldon  is  unmarried. 

WENTZEL,  Charles  Augustus,  Chief  Magis- 
trate of  Johannesburg  and  the  Witwatersrand 
District ;  of  Charlton  Terrace,  Johannesbiu'g, 
and  the  Rand  and  Athenaeum  Clubs  (Johannes- 
burg), was  born  Jan.  29,  1866  and  was  educated 
at  the  S.A.  Coll.,  C.T.,  and  took  the  Advo- 
cates' Degree  (Law)  with  Honours  in  1903 
(Transvaal).  He  practised  as  Prof,  of  Law  first 
in  C.C.  and  subsequently  in  Johannesburg  from 
1889  to  the  outbreak  of  war.  On  the  occupation 
of  Johannesbin'g  by  Lord  Roberts  he  was  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  Judicial  Investigation 
Committee.  From  July  1900  to  March  1901  he 
was  Legal  Adviser  to  the  Military  Governor  of 
Pretoria  (Gen.  Sir  John  Grenfell  Maxwell)  and 
Acting  Legal  Adviser  to  the  Commander-in- 
Chief  during  part  of  that  time,  in  the  absence  of 
Mr.  (now  Justice)  Wessels.  In  April  1901,  upon 
the  abolition  of  Military  Courts,  he  was  appointed 
the  first  Resident  Magistrate  of  Johannesburg. 
He  was  senior  member  of  the  Special  Criminal 
Court,  which  sat  at  Johannesburg  from  April 
1901  to  March  1903,  when  trial  by  judge  and  jury 
was  resxmied.  This  coiu?t  had  plenary  powers 
over  all  offences  in  the  S.  E.  portion  of  the  Trans- 
vaal. He  married,  in  Feb.  13,  1895,  and  has  two 
cliildren.  His  recreations  are  goK  and  lawn 
tennis. 

WESSELS,  Johannes  Wilhelbius,  Second 
Puisne  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Covu-t  of  the  Trans- 
vaal ;  of  Pretoria,  and  of  the  Pretoria,  Rand,  and 
Civil  Service  Clubs  ;  is  son  of  J.  E.  Wessels,  of 
Green  Point,  C.T.  He  was  born  at  Cape  Town, 
Mch.  7, 1862,  and  was  educated  at  the  S.A.  Coll. ; 


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at  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  Univ.,  where  he 
took  B.A.  and  was  a  Jamieson  Scholar  ;  and  at 
Downing  Coll.,  Camb.,  where  he  gradviatedB.A., 
LL.B.  (Tripos  and  George  Long  Scholar).  He 
was  called  to  the  Bar  at  the  Middle  Temple  in 

1886,  and  returning  to  the  Cape,  practised  as  an 
Advocate  at  the  Cape  Bar,  and  afterwards,  in 

1887,  joined  the  Transvaal  Bar.  He  defended 
the  Reform  prisoners  (together  with  Sir  Richard 
Solomon  (q.v.)  in  1896.  In  1900  he  became 
Legal  Ad\'iser  to  Lord  Ivitchener,  and  he  received 
his  present  appointment  in  1902.  He  married 
Helen  Mary,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Duff,  I.S.O. 

WHITAKER,  George,  M.L.A.,  is  one  of  the 
new  members  for  King  Williamstown  in  the  Cape 
House  of  Assembly,  to  which  he  was  elected  in 
the  Progressive  interest  in  1904. 

WHITE,  Capt.  Hon.  Charles  James,  of  the 
Naval  and  Military  Club,  is  the  third  son  of  Lord 
Annaly,  K.P.  He  was  born  June  14,  1860,  at 
Rabeny,  co.  Dublin,  and  was  educated  at  Eton. 
He  joined  the  Royal  Fusiliers  1881,  and  served 
at  home  and  in  India  till  1 890,  when  he  proceeded 
to  S.A.,  and  was  appointed  to  the  B.S.A.  Co.'s 
Police  with  several  Extra  Service  Officers,  at  the 
time  when  Col.  Ferreira  and  a  commando  of 
Boers  attempted  to  cross  the  Limpopo  and  occupy 
Banjailand.  From  this  they  were  dissuaded  by 
Dr.  Jameson.  From  1891  to  Jan.,  1892,  he  was 
in  command  of  the  Depot  and  Remounts  at  Tuh, 
Mashonaland.  On  the  reduction  of  the  Police 
Force,  he  was  appointed  Asst.  Mining  Commis- 
sioner and  then  Mining  Commissioner  at  Hartley 
Hill.  He  also  served  as  Resident  Magistrate  and 
Chief  Commissioner  of  Pohce,  retaining  the  latter 
appointment  from  Nov.  1892  to  Sept.  1895. 
He  re-organized  the  police  from  their  former 
military  position  into  a  civil  body.  Capt.  White 
took  part  in  the  expedition  to  Matabeleland  in 
1893.  He  was  in  command  of  the  combined 
scouts  of  the  Victoria  and  Salisbviry  Columns, 
and  was  present  in  all  actions  until  the  occupa- 
tion of  Bulawayo  (medal  and  clasp).  He  retired 
from  the  regular  army  in  1894.  He  took  part 
in  the  suppression  of  the  Matabele  Rebellion 
first  as  Staff  Officer  to  Col.  Spreckley,  C.M.G., 
and  then  in  command  of  White's  Flying  Column 
at  the  reliefs  of  Salisbury,  Hartley  Hill,  and 
Enkeldoorn  (medal  and  clasp).  Since  1895  Capt. 
White  has  been  connected  with  several  business 
undertakings  in  Rhodesia.  He  married,  Dec.  11, 
1901,  Evelyn,  dau.  of  F.  B.  Bulkeley  Johnson. 

WHITE,  Major  Hon.  Robert,  of  16,  Stratton 


St.,  Piccadilly,  and  of  the  Turf,  Travellers',  Naval 
and  Mihtary,  Bachelors',  and  Pratt's  Clubs,  is 
the  son  of  Luke,  Baron  Annaly.  He  was  born 
Oct.  26,  1861,  at  Kirkmichael,  Dumfriesshire 
and  was  educated  at  Eton  and  Trinity  Coll., 
Camb.  In  1882  he  joined  the  Royal  Welsh 
Fusiliers,  and  served  in  the  Nile  Campaign,  re- 
ceiving the  Egyptian  medal  (1884-5)  and  the 
Khedive's  star.  He  was  on  the  Staff  of  the 
Cork  Dist.  1886-89  ;  on  the  Staff  of  the  York 
Dist.  1890-91,  and  attended  the  Staff  Coll. 
1891-92.  He  was  appointed  on  the  Staff  in 
Rhodesia  and  was  one  of  the  British  officers  who 
took  part  in  the  Jameson  Raid,  and  for  tins  he 
was  imprisoned  in  Hollo  way  for  seven  months 
in  1896-97.  He  served  with  the  6th  Div.  in  S.A. 
in  1900,  and  was  present  at  the  battles  of  Paarde- 
burg  and  Di'iefontein,  at  the  relief  of  Kimberley, 
and  at  Diamond  Hill.  He  was  promoted  Maj. 
by  Lord  Roberts  and  gazetted  in  1901.  Un- 
married. 

WIENER,  LuDWiG,  of  the  Retreat,  Newlands, 
near  Cape  Town  ;  of  the  City  Club  (C.T.)  and  of 
the  National  Liberal  Club,  comes  from  a  long- 
lived  stock  on  his  mother's  side,  she  having  hved 
to  the  age  of  ninety-four  years.  He  was  born 
in  Berlin  in  1838  and  emigrated  to  America  in 
1850.  He  was  educated  in  Berlin  and  New  York. 
He  left  America  for  S.A.  in  1855,  and  for  fifteen 
years  he  was  in  business  at  Tulbagh  and  Ceres. 
Proceeding  to  C.T.  in  1870,  he  became  a  partner 
of  Van  der  Byl  &  Co.,  and  retired  from  the  firm 
as  senior  partner  Dec.  31,  1895.  In  1899  he 
started  a  new  business  as  general  merchants  under 
the  style  andfii'mof  Wiener  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  of  which 
coy.  he  was  appointed  chairman  for  life.  For 
fifteen  years  he  represented  C.T.  in  the  House 
of  Assembly,  and  during  this  time  always  fought 
for  cheap  food  and  dear  brandy.  He  was 
Commissioner  for  the  C.C.  at  the  Chicago 
World's  Fair  in  1893.  For  many  years  he  has 
been  Chairman  of  the  Table  Bay  Harbour  Board, 
and  for  a  considerable  time  Pres.  of  the  Chanaber 
of  Commerce  at  C.T.  He  was  also  formerly 
Pres.  of  the  Associated  Chambers  of  Commerce 
of  S.A.  He  is  the  Chairman  of  the  Colonial 
Mutual  Life  Assin-ance  and  the  Manchester 
Assurance  Co.  Among  other  philanthropic 
works  he  has  been  Pres.  of  the  Somerset  Hospital. 
In  1858  he  married  Miss  Barker,  niece  of  M.  M. 
Tate,  of  Cape  Town. 

WILLIAMS,  George  Blackstone,  J. P.,  of 
Wynberg,  C.C,  was  born  in  Dorset  June  22.  1856  ; 
is  second  son  of  the  late  Rev.  H.  B.  Williams, 


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Rector  of  Bradford  Peverell,  Dorset  ;  Fellow 
of  Winchester  Coll.,  and  Hon.  Canon  of  Salisbury- 
Cathedral.  He  was  educated  at  Marlborough 
Coll.  He  entered  the  Cape  Civil  Service  in  1879  ; 
was  Asst.  R.M.  at  Kimberley,  1882  ;  at  C.T. 
1895,  and  was  appointed  R.M.   at  Wynberg  in 

1902.  He  married.  Mar.  10,  1885,  Elizabeth 
Mary,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Nathaniel  Cock,  of 
Kimberley,  and  grand-dau.  of  the  Hon.  Wm. 
Cock,  M.L.C. 

WILLIAMS,  H.  Sylvester,  is  a  native  of 
Bermuda,  and  a  member  of  Gray's  Inn.     In  Oct. , 

1903,  he  was  admitted  to  practise  at  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  Transvaal,  of  which  he  is  the  first 
and  only  eoloiired  member. 

WILLIAMS,  John  Richajid,  M.I.M.M., 
M.Am.  I.M.E.  ;  of  Park  Lane,  Parktown, 
Johannesburg  (Box  149),  and  of  the  New  Club, 
Johannesbiu-g  ;  was  born  at  Anglesea,  N.  Wales, 
Nov.  24,  18G2.  He  is  eldest  son  of  James 
Michell  Williams,  of  Gwenep,  Cornwall,  and  was 
educated  privately.  Himself  the  son  of  a  mining 
engineer  and  metallurgist,  he  was  trained  in  a 
metallurgical  works  at  Swansea,  S.  Wales,  and 
proceeded  to  S.A.  as  Chief  Chemist  and  Metal- 
lurgist to  the  Cape  Copper  Co.  at  Ooldep,  Nama- 
qualand.  For  the  past  13  years  he  has  been 
engaged  in  metallurgical  work  on  the  Rand,  and 
since  1895  has  acted  as  consulting  chemist  and 
metallurgist  to  the  Eckstein  and  other  mining 
groups.  During  this  period  he  has  been  largely 
instrumental  in  bringing  the  profitable  treatment 
of  "  slimes  "  to  a  successful  issue.  From  1899 
to  1903  he  was  Pres,  of  the  Chemical  and  Metal- 
liu'gical  Society  of  S.A.,  which  during  his  term 
of  office  enlarged  its  sphere  of  usefulness  by  in- 
cluding "  mining "  in  its  scope  and  title.  In 
1903  Mr.  W'illiams  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Council  of  the  Institution  of  Mining  and  Metal- 
lurgy, London.  He  was  appointed  by  Lord 
Milner  a  member  of  the  Commission  on  Miners' 
Phthisis,  and  served  on  the  Technical  Education 
Commission  nominated  by  the  Transvaal  Govt. 
He  takes  a  keen  interest  in  scientific  work  and 
education,  and  married,  Dec.  4,  1894,  Mary 
Annie,  eldest  dau.  of  H.  A.  Bradley,  engineer  and 
architect,  of  London. 

WILLIAMS,  Right  Rev.  Joseph  Watkin, 
D.D.,  Bishop  of  St.  John's,  Kaffraria,  of  Bishops- 
mead,  Umtata,  C.C.  ;  was  born  at  Birmingham, 
Oct.  15,  1857,  is  eldest  son  of  Thos.  Watkin 
Williams,  F.R.G.S.  ;  was  educated  at  Winchester, 
Oxford,  and  Cuddesdon  ;  was  ordained  in  1881 ; 


was  Domestic  Chaplain  to  the  Archbishop  of 
C.T.  from  1892  till  1901,  when  he  was  appointed 
to  the  Bishopric  of  St.  John's. 

WILLIAMS,  Ralph  Champneys,  C.M.G. 
(1901),  of  Head  Quarter  House,  Mafeking,  and  of 
the  St.  James'  Club,  is  the  son  of  the  Rev.  T.  M. 
Williams,  of  Treffos,  Anglesey,  and  was  educated 
at  Rossall.  He  explored  in  Patagonia  in 
1873-74,  and  was  in  Central  Africa  in  1883-84. 
He  was  head  of  the  Civil  Intelligence  of  the 
Bechuanaland  Expedition  in  1884-85.  He  was 
British  Consular  Officer  in  S.A.R.  1887  and 
was  appointed  first  British  Agent  in  S.A.R. , 
with  Letter  of  Credence,  1888.  He  was 
Colonial  Treas.  of  Gibraltar  1890,  and  also  Capt. 
of  the  Port  of  Gibraltar  1895.  He  received  the 
silver  medal  and  vellum  certificate  from  the 
Italian  Govt,  for  services  in  connection  with  the 
wreck  of  the  Utopia  in  1891.  After  the  Raid  he 
went  to  the  Barbados  as  Colonial  Secy,  in  1897, 
and  acted  twice  as  Governor  of  Barbados.  He 
is  the  author  of  "  The  British  Lion  in  Bechuana- 
land," and  was  Special  Correspondent  of  the 
"  Standard,"  1884-85.  He  married,  in  1875, 
Jessie,  dau.  of  Samuel  Dean. 

WILLIAMS,  Robert,  of  30  and  31,  Clement's 
Lane,  London,  E.G.  ;  and  of  69,  Albert  Hall 
Mansions,  Kensington  Gore,  London,  was  born 
at  Aberdeen,  Scotland,  and  was  formerly  En- 
gineer for  the  Bultfontein  Mine,  and  afterwards 
went  to  the  Transvaal  and  Rhodesia,  but  it 
was  as  a  financier  in  London  that  he  made 
his  chief  mark,  devoting  his  energies  mainly  to 
the  development  of  the  territories  about  and 
above  the  Zambesi.  He  is  Managing  Director 
of  the  Tanganyika  Concessions  Ltd. ,  the  Katanga 
Railway  Co.,  and  the  Zambesi  Exploring  Co., 
besides  exercising  considerable  influence  over 
other  large  concerns.  The  Tanganyika  Con- 
cessions Co.  is  an  immense  concern,  holding 
sway  over  large  tracts  of  N.  Rhodesia  and 
Katangaland.  It  holds  for  joint  account  wdth 
the  Katanga  Co.  the  prospecting  rights  over 
about  60,000  square  miles  in  the  Congo  district, 
with  the  right  to  work  all  mines  which  may  be 
discovered  for  89  years,  and  there  are  said  to 
be  tin  and  copper  deposits  exceeding  many 
millions  in  value,  besides  gold  reefs,  cobalt  and 
nickel.  The  Tanganyika  Co.  also  owns  a  half 
interest  in  the  Benguella  Concession,  with  the 
sole  right  to  prospect  over  about  120,000 
sq.  miles  for  ten  years  and  to  work  all  mines 
found  in  perpetuity.  But  one  of  the  greatest 
schemes  with  which  Sir.  WilHams  is  identified 


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is  the  construction  of  the  railway  from  Lobito 
Bay,  under  the  Benguella  Concession,  to  open 
up  the  mineral  areas  and  eventually  probably 
connect  with  the  Cape  to  Cairo  railway  system, 
and  if  he  succeeds  in  satisfactorily  financing 
this,  the  line  should  absorb  nine-tenths  of  the 
S.  African  passenger  traffic  to  and  from 
Evirope.  But  in  view  of  Mr.  Williams'  previous 
success  in  carrying  out  his  projects  it  is  not 
probable  that  this  scheme  will  fail  for  want  of 
support  in  the  proper  quarters.  Mr.  Robert 
Williams  is  a  man  of  enormous  enterprise,  who 
has  worked  wonders  with  the  aid  of  such  small 
opportunities  as  have  presented  themselves,  a 
small  syndicate  of  his  with  a  capital  of  but 
£5,000  having  been  gradually  developed  iuto 
the  Zambesia  Exploring  Co.,  from  which  ulti- 
mately sprang  the  Tanganyika  Concessions. 
A  protege  of  Cecil  Rhodes,  who  strongly  sup- 
ported his  daring  and  ambitious  schemes,  he 
has  also  received  great  assistance  from  the  King 
of  the  Belgians  and  the  King  of  Portugal.  He 
was  further  seconded  by  the  well-known  firm  of 
Hilder  &  Paul.  Given  a  sufficiency  of  financial 
support,  we  may  yet  see  Mr.  Robert  Williams  fig- 
uring as  theCecil  Rhodes  of  Northern  Zambesia. 
He  is  personally  very  popidar,  and  fond  of  shoot- 
ing and  yachting,  and  was  formerly  the  owner 
of  the  yacht  Rosahelle  He  drives  a  doiible 
tonneau  Panhard  motor,  and  still  plays  a  good 
game  of  cricket,  and  it  will  be  remembered  that 
he  captained  the  team  at  Bal-na-coil  which 
played  and  beat  the  S.  African  XI.  in  1901. 
He  married  Margaret,  dau.  of  Mr.  Bayne,  of 
Kimberley. 

WILLMORE,  John  Selden,  M.A.,  of  Zeitotm, 
Cairo,  and  of  the  Athenaeum  Club,  was  born  at 
Neuilly,  France,  in  1856  ;  is  younger  son  of  the 
late  Graham  Willmore,  Q.C.,  Judge  of  the 
Somersetshire  Covuity  Court  and  Recorder  of 
Bath  and  Wells,  by  his  wife  Josephine  Selden,  of 
Virginia.  He  was  educated  at  Icing's  Coll., 
Camb.,  where  he  graduated  M.A.  in  188G  ;  is  a 
Barrister  of  the  Inner  Temple,  and  was  appointed 
a  Student  Interpreter  at  Constantinople  in  1879. 
He  was  Acting  Consul-Gen.  at  Phihppopohs, 
1885  ;  Vice-Consul  at  Angora,  1885-87,  and  at 
Alexandria,  1887-89,  when  he  was  appointed  to 
his  present  position  as  a  Judge  of  the  Native 
Egyptian  Court  of  Appeal.  He  is  a  Lecturer  at 
the  Khedivial  School  of  Law  and  has  published 
"The  Spoken  Arabic  of  Egypt"  (1901)  and 
"  Handbook  of  Spoken  Egyptian  Arabic  "  (1903). 
In  his  earlier  days  he  won  prizes  for  running  and 
jvimping  ;    his  recreations  are  now  lawn  tennis 


and  swimming.  He  married,  in  1890,  Edith 
Mabel,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Alfred  Caillard, 
Director  of  Customs,  Egypt. 

WILLS,  John  Trenwith,  Order  of  the  Med- 
jidieh,  of  Formby,  Lancashire,  fifth  and  youngest 
son  of  John  Wills,  merchant,  of  Liverpool,  his 
grandfather  being  Francis  Wills,  Headmaster  of 
the  then  great  Quaker  Sch.  at  Newton-in-Bolland, 
Yorks.,  was  born  at  Chester  in  1844,  and  was 
educated  at  the  Merchant  Taylors'  Sch.,  and 
afterwards  in  Italy.  About  the  year  1861  he 
went  to  Alexandria,  Egypt,  and  joined  the  firm 
of  the  Egyptian  Commercial  and  Trading  Co., 
Ltd.,  and  later,  that  of  Messrs.  Robt.  Corkling 
&  Co.,  Ltd.,  of  Alexandria  and  Mansourah.  At 
the  latter  place  he  was  for  some  time  Acting 
British  Vice-Consul. 

In  1870  he  started  the  well-known  firm  of  Wills, 
Manche  &  Co.,  Steamship  Agents  at  Port  Said  and 
Suez,  now  called  Wills  &  Co.,  Ltd.  His  firm,  be- 
sides representing  many  of  the  principal  British 
and  foreign  steamship  cos.,  was  also  coal  con- 
tractors to  the  British  Govt,  for  some  seven  con- 
secutive years,  and  especially  during  the  eventful 
time  of  the  Arabi  Pasha  revolt.  During  this 
time  they  had  to  supply  the  coal  to  the  immense 
fleet  of  hired  transports  on  their  way  through  the 
Canal  with  the  troops,  etc.,  to  Ismailia  just  prior 
to  the  Battle  of  Tel-el-Kebir,  when  the  power  of 
Arabi  was  broken  once  for  all.  Later  on  they 
had  to  supply  all  the  coal  to  the  fleet  of  hired 
transports  taking  out  railvv-ay  material  for  the 
projected  Suakim-Berber  Railway  for  the  relief 
of  Gordon  Pasha  at  Khartoum,which  however  was 
abandoned,  and  the  ships  with  their  cargoes  re- 
turned to  England  by  order  of  the  Gladstone 
Govt. 

The  subject  of  our  sketch  was  for  about  twelve 
years  Hon.  Vice-Consul  at  Port  Said  to  H.M. 
King  Oscar  of  Sweden  and  Norway.  One  of  the 
interesting  events  during  his  term  of  office  was 
the  retiu-n  of  Prof.  Nordenskj old's  expedition  to 
the  Polar  regions.  Capt.  Pallander,  R.N.  (Nor- 
wegian), the  Commander  of  the  Expedition, 
dimng  a  visit  to  the  Vice-Consular  Office  gave  a 
very  graphic  viva  voce  outline  of  the  journey  in 
English,  from  the  time  the  expedition  left  home 
until  its  arrival  at  Port  Said.  This  the  subject 
of  our  sketch  translated  verbatim  into  French  as 
the  narrative  proceeded,  and  it  was  taken  down 
on  the  spot  by  the  representative  of  the  local 
French  paper  and  duly  appeared  in  extenso  in 
the  next  day's  issue.  This  was  the  first  authentic 
accovint  that  appeared  in  the  pubUc  press,  and  ife 
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During  the  years  1862-63,  when  the  great 
cholera  plague  raged  in  Egypt,  Mr.  Wills  was  one 
of  the  few  Englishmen  (another  notable  one 
being  Mr.  James  Finney,  of  Messrs.  Carver  Bros. ) 
who  remained  at  Alexandria  to  see  it  through, 
nearly  all  the  other  Europeans  having  sealed  up 
their  premises  and  fled.  In  about  1884  the  epi- 
demic raged  again,  but  not  so  fiercely,  and  Mr. 
Wills  was  one  of  the  committee  appointed  to 
ward  oS  the  encroaching  disease  at  Port 
Said,  and  their  combined  efforts  were  so  success- 
ful that  not  a  single  fatal  case  occurred.  For 
these  services  he  received  the  decoration  from  the 
ELhedive  of  the  Imperial  Order  of  the  Medjidieh. 

He  retired  from  the  firm  of  Wills  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  in 
1889.  He  occasionally  acted  during  the  Arabi 
Pasha  revolt  as  the  "  Times  "  correspondent  at 
Port  Said,  and  is  now  the  Liverpool  commercial 
representative  of  the  Press  Assoc,  Ltd.,  of 
Lond.,  and  is  also  connected  with  the  well- 
known  fu'm  of  Sun  &  Coventry,  of  Liverpool. 
He  married:  first,  in  1874,  Louisa  Jane,  dau.  of 
Richard  Clarke,  Solicitor  and  Clerk  of  the  Peace, 
of  Shrewsbury,  by  whom  he  had  one  dau.,  Mary 
Adelaide ;  and  second,  in  1890,  Floi-ence  Elizabeth, 
dau.  of  the  late  Geo.  Lovering,  of  West  Norwood, 
by  whom  he  has  two  sons,  Trenwith  Lovering 
and  Jolin  Godfrey. 

WILLSON,  Major-Gen.  Sir  IMildmay, 
K.C.B.,  is  the  eldest  son  of  the  late  Anthony 
Peacock,  of  Ranceby  Hall,  formerly  M.P.  for 
Lincoln,  who  assmned  the  name  of  Willson. 
He  was  born  in  the  year  1847,  and  entered  the 
Scots  Guards  in  1866.  He  took  part  in  the  Nile 
Expedition,  and  in  1901  joined  Lord  Kitchener 
for  special  service  in  the  Boer  War.  He  was  in 
command  of  the  troops  to  the  west  of  Johannes- 
bm-g,  and  was  generally  looked  upon  as  a  "safe" 
leader.     Gen.  Willson  is  unmarried. 

WILMOT,  Hon.  Alexander,  M.L.C, 
F.R.G.S.,  Knight  of  St.  Gregory,  and  Hon. 
Chamberlain  to  the  Pope  ;  of  Cape  Town  and 
Grahamstown,  C.C,  and  of  the  Civil  Ser- 
vice (G.T.)  and  Port  Elizabeth  Clubs,  was 
born  at  Edinburgh,  Apr.  9,  1836,  and  re- 
ceived his  education  at  the  Univs.  of  Glas- 
gow and  Edinbiirgh.  After  spending  some 
time  in  the  Cape  Colonial  Civil  Service,  Mr. 
Wilmot  entered  the  Cape  Parliament  in  1889, 
and  has  sat  ever  since  in  the  Legislative  Council 
(or  Upper  House),  and  has  during  his  Parlia- 
mentary career  been  sponsor  for  many  useful 
social  measures.  He  is  President  of  the  Tem- 
perance Alliance,  and  is  Whip  of  the  Progressive 


party  in  the  Legislative  Council,  under  the 
leadership  of  Dr.  Jameson.  His  constituency, 
the  South-Eastern  Electoral  Province,  com- 
prises Port  Elizabeth,  Grahamstown,  and  Uiten- 
hage.  Mr.  Wilmot  is  the  author  of  a  "  History 
of  South  Africa,"  "  History  of  the  Zulu  War," 
"  History  of  Our  Own  Time  in  South  Africa," 
etc.  He  married,  Jan.  17,  1860,  Miss  Alice 
Mary  Slater,  belonging  to  one  of  the  British 
settler  famihes  of  1820. 

WINDHAM,  William,  of  Parktown,  Johan- 
nesbiu'g,  and  of  the  AthenEeum  Club,  Johannes- 
burg ;  son  of  Ashe  Windham,  of  Waurne  Hall, 
Yorks.  ;  was  born  at  GreytowTi,  Nov.  12,  1864, 
and  was  educated  at  the  Diocesan  Coll.,  C.T. 
He  was  appointed  Clerk  to  the  Resident  Com- 
missioner, Zululand,  in  1 882 ;  Student-Inter- 
preter, Native  Affairs  Dept.,  Natal,  1884 ; 
Registrar  to  H.E.  the  Special  Commissioner  for 
Zulu  Affairs,  Oct.  1885  ;  Clerk  and  Interpreter 
to  Resident  Commissioner  and  Chief  Magistrate, 
Zululand,  June  1887  ;  Secy,  to  the  same  in  Jan. 
1 889  ;  Clerk  to  the  Executive  Coimcil,  Natal, 
Sept.  1889 ;  Priv.  Secy,  to  the  Governor  of 
Natal,  Oct.  1889 ;  Secy,  for  Zululand,  Dec. 
1889;  Govt.  Secy,  for  Zululand,  Feb.  1894; 
Asst.  Under  Secy,  for  Zululand  Affairs,  Natal, 
Jan.  1897  ;  Registrar  of  Deeds  and  Registrar- 
Gen.,  Natal,  Mar.  1898  ;  Asst.  Secy.  Mines  Dept. 
of  the  Transvaal,  July  1,  1901,;  and  he  received 
his  present  appointment  as  Secy,  for  Native 
Affairs  of  the  Transvaal,  Sept.  23,  1901.  He  mar- 
ried, July  10,  1894,  Blanche,  dau.  of  A.  E. 
Titren,  of  Durban. 

WINGATE,  Maj.-Gen.  Sir  Francis  Regi- 
nald, K.C.B.,  K.C.M.G.,  C.B.  (Civil),  D.S.O., 
F.R.G.S.  (late  A.D.C.  to  the  King)  ;  Grand 
Cordon  of  the  Medjidieh,  2nd  Class  Osmanieh, 
2nd  Class  Iron  Crowm  of  Austria,  2nd  Class 
Star  of  Ethiopia;  of  the  Palace,  Khartoum  ; 
War  Office,  Cairo  ;  Stafford  House,  Dvuibar, 
N.B.  ;  and  of  the  Army  and  Nav}%  Beefsteak, 
Turf  (Cairo),  and  Sudan  (Khartoum)  Clubs  ;  is 
the  son  of  Andrew  Wingate,  of  Glasgow.  He  was 
born  June  25,  1861,  at  Broadfield,  Port  Glas- 
gow, Renfrewshire,  and  was  educated  at  Dr. 
Thompson's  Sch.,  Jersey,  and  the  Royal 
Military  Acad.,  Woolwich.  Gen.  Wingate 
entered  the  R.A.  in  1880,  and  has  been 
employed  with  the  Egyptian  Army  since  1882. 
He  acted  as  A.D.C.  and  Military  Sec.  to  Sir 
Evelyn  Wood  in  the  Sudan  Expedition  of 
1884-5  (despatches,  medal  with  clasp,  bronze 
star,  brev.  of  Maj.).     He   again   served  in   the 


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Sudan  in  1889-91,  being  present  at  the  action 
of  Toski  (despatches,  D.S.O.,  clasp)  and  at  the 
capture  of  Tokar  (3rd  Class  Medjidieh,  and 
clasp  and  bronze  star).  In  1895  he  was  ap- 
pointed Director  of  Military  Intelligence  in  the 
Egyptian  Army,  and  served  in  this  capacity 
through  the  Dongola  Expedition  in  1896  (des- 
patches, brev.  of  Lieut. -Col.,  Egyptian  niedal, 
two  clasps),  and  in  the  Nile  Expedition  of  the 
following  year  (appointed  A.D.C.  to  the  Queen, 
brev.  of  Col.,  clasp  and  Egyptian  medal).  He 
also  took  part  in  the  Nile  Expedition  of  1898, 
being  present  at  the  battles  of  Atbara,  and 
Khartoum,  being  mentioned  in  despatches, 
receiving  the  K.C.M.G.  and  the  thanks  of  both 
Houses  of  Parliament  (two  clasps  and  Egyptian 
medal).  In  the  Nile  Expedition  of  1899  Sir 
Reginald  commanded  the  Infantry  Division 
in  the  first  advance  against  the  Khalifa,  and 
took  command  in  the  subsequent  operations, 
which  resulted  in  the  final  defeat  of  the  Khalifa, 
being  present  at  the  actions  of  Abu  Aaclel  and 
Om  Dubreikat  (despatches,  K.C.B.,  2nd  Class 
Osmanieh,  two  clasps  and  Egyptian  medal). 
Gen.  Wingate  succeeded  Lord  Kitchener  as 
Sirdar  of  the  Egyptian  Army  and  Governor- 
Gen,  of  the  Sudan.  He  married,  June  18, 
1888,  Catherine  Leslie,  dau.  of  Capt.  Joseph 
Sparkhall  Bundle,  R.N.,  of  Newton  Abbott, 
Devon. 

WOLFAARDT,  Geoege  Sebastian,  M.L.A., 
is  member  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assembly  for 
Swellendam,  for  which  electoral  division  he  was 
re-elected  in  Feb.,  1904.  He  supports  the  Bond 
party. 

WOLFF,  Lieut.  Cecil  Harry,  of  the  Sports 
Club,  London,  was  born  at  Port  Elizabeth,  Jan. 
1882 ;  is  second  son  of  Victor  Wolff,  whose 
father  was  Mayor  of  Port  Ehzabeth.  Lieut. 
Wolff  was  educated  at  St.  Paul's  Sch.,  and  Univ. 
Coll.,  London.  He  won  the  PubHc  Schools  Box- 
ing Championship  in  1898  and  1899.  Entered 
the  4th  Batt.  Bedford  Regt.  Oct.  16,  1901  : 
served  in  S.A.  Dec.  1901-Oct.  1902  (medal  and 
fotir  clasps). 

WOLMARANS,  J.  M.  A.,  was  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Council  under  the  Kxiiger  regime 
He  was  accused  by  the  Dutch  paper  "  Land  en 
Volk  "  of  receiving  a  commission  of  one  shiling 
per  case  of  dynamite  sold  (equal  to  aboiit  £10,000 
per  annum)  as  a  bribe  to  secure  his  support  in  the 
Executive  Council  on  the  vote  as  to  the  renewal 
of  the  Dynamite  Concession.  Mr.  Wolmarans 
always  declined  to  notice  the  allegation. 


WOOD,  Field-Marshal  Sir  Evelyn,  V.C, 
G.C.B.,  G.C.M.G.,  Grand  Cross  of  the  Legion  of 
Honoiu"  ;  of  Salisbury,  and  of  the  United  Service 
Club,  is  the  youngest  son  of  the  late  Rev.  Sir 
John  Page  Wood,  Bart.,  and  Emma,  dau.  of 
Admiral  Mitchell.  He  was  born  Feb.  9,  1838,  at 
Cressing,  Essex,  and  was  educated  at  Marl- 
borough. Sir  Evelyn  Wood  has  had  a  long  and 
brilliant  career  extending  over  half  a  century. 
He  entered  the  Royal  Navy  in  1852,  and  was 
severely  wounded  while  ser\dng  with  the  Naval 
Brigade  in  the  Crimean  War.  It  was  certainly 
not  an  unfortunate  decision  which  induced  him 
to  resign  the  service  in  which,  young  as  he  was, 
Ms  personal  gallantry  had  made  him  conspicuous, 
and  to  enter  the  army  in  which  he  has  done  such 
splendid  work.  After  serving  in  a  Light  Dragoon 
Regt.  he  joined  the  17th  Lancers  in  the  Indian 
Mutiny  Campaign,  where  he  gained  the  V.C.  for 
having  on  Oct.  19,  1858,  during  an  action  at 
Sindwayo,  when  in  command  of  a  troop  of  the 
3rd  Light  Cavahy,  attacked  with  much  gallantry, 
almost  single-handed,  a  body  of  rebels,  and  also 
for  subsequently  rescuing  an  Indian  from  a  band 
of  robbers.  At  this  time  he  was  serving  as 
Brigade-Maj.  -wdth  Beatson's  Horse.  He  also 
raised  and  commanded  Mayne's  Horse,  and  was 
present  in  five  actions.  He  served  with  great 
distinction  in  the  Ashanti,  Kafir,  Zulu  and  first 
Transvaal  Wars  ;  commanded  the  Second  Bri- 
gade (2nd  Div.)  in  the  Expedition  to  Egypt  in 
1882  ;  raised  the  Egyptian  Army  in  1883,  and 
took  part  in  the  Nile  Expedition  in  1894-95.  He 
has,  at  various  times,  been  in  command  of  the 
Chatham  and  Eastern  Dists.  of  the  Aldershot 
Div.  He  has  also  been  Adjutant-Gen.  and 
Quartermaster-Gen.  to  the  Forces,  and  lately 
commanded  the  2nd  Army  Corps.  Sir  Evelyn 
Wood  was  called  to  the  Bar  at  the  Middle  Temple 
in  1874.  He  is  a  well  known  writer  on  military 
subjects,  his  book  on  the  Crimea  being  regarded 
as  a  standard  work  of  those  stirring  tinaes.  He 
married,  Sept.  19,  1867,  the  Hon.  Pauline  South- 
well, who  died  in  1891. 

WOOD,  Henry,  M.L.A.,  was  returned  vmop- 
posed  as  Progressive  member  for  Grahamstown 
in  the  Cape  House  of  Assembly  in  Nov.  1902,  and 
was  re-elected  in  1904.  He  is  a  supporter  of  the 
Progressives. 

WOOLLAN,  Benjamin  Minors,  of  Sherwood 
Park,  Tunbridge  Wells,  was  born  in  1857.  He 
went  to  S.A.  in  1882,  and  after  five  years  spent  on 
the  Kimberley  Diamond  Fields  he  was  attracted 
by  the  budding  promise  of  the  Transvaal  Gold- 


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fields,  and  the  year  1887  saw  him  established  in 
Johannesburg.  With  great  energy  and  ability 
he  soon  built  up  a  large  and  prosperous  business, 
and  amongst  other  joint-stock  ventures  founded 
the  Johannesburg  Stock  Exchange,  of  which 
Committee  he  was  the  fu'st  Chairman.  He  was 
also  a  member  of  the  Transvaal  National  Union. 
He  returned  to  England  in  1895,  and  retired  from 
business  a  few  years  later.  He  is  very  fond  of 
shooting,  and  has  been  twice  married. 

WOOLLS-SAMPSON,  Col.  Sir  Aubrey, 
K.C.B.,  of  Johannesburg.  In  the  early  seventies 
at  the  age  of  fifteen,  he  shouldered  a  rifle  in  the 
Diamond  Fields  Revolt,  led  by  the  Fenian,  Ayl- 
ward,  who  singled  out  yotmg  Sampson  as  one 
who  did  not  know  what  fear  meant.  In  1896  he 
was  one  of  the  two  Reform  prisoners  {vide  W. 
D.  Davies)  who,  rather  than  join  in  the  petition 
to  the  Executive,  elected  to  complete  their  terms 
of  imprisonment  in  Pretoria  gaol.  He  founded 
the  Imperial  Light  Horse  at  the  beginning  of  the 
S.A.  War,  through  which  he  served  from  1899  to 
1902,  doing  excellent  service,  especially  on  the 
Intelligence  Staff.  He  was  severely  wounded  at 
Elandslaagte,  and  was  several  times  mentioned 
in  despatches.  He  is  now  Hon.  Col.  of  the  Right 
Wing  of  the  I.L.H.,  with  hon.  rank  in  the  British 
Army  ;  was  made  C.B.  Nov.  29,  1900,  and  K.C.B. 
June  26,  1902.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  war  he 
joined  Major  Mullins,  V.C.,  in  a  partnership  as 
financial  and  estate  agents  in  Johannesburg. 

WREY,  Philip  "  Bourchier  Sherard,  of 
Bulawayo,  and  the  Union  Club,  London,  was 
born  June  28,  1858.  He  is  son  of  Sir  Henry 
Bourchier  Wrey,  Bart.,  and  of  the  Hon.  Lady 
Wrey,  dau.  of  Baron  Sherard.  He  was  educated 
privately,  and  served  his  articles  as  Civil  and 
Mining  Engineer  with  Jas.  Henderson,  M.I.C.E., 
of  Truro,  Cornwall,  1876-79.  In  the  latter  year 
he  went  to  S.A.,  practising  in  Ivimberley  as  a 
mining  engineer,  1880-81.  He  was  employed  as 
Cape  Govt.  Siirveyor,  1883-85,  during  which 
time  he  surveyed  and  reported  upon  the  Walfisch 
Bay  territory.  From  1886  to  1891  he  was  occu- 
pied as  Mining  Engineer  in  Johannesbiu'g.  From 
then  until  1899  he  was  Consulting  Engineer  to  the 
Mashonaland  Agency  and  its  subsidiaries,  and  he 
then  became  Gen.  Manager  of  that  group.  He 
was  Pres.  of  the  Rhodesian  Chamber  of  Mines 
for  1901-2.  Mr.  Wrey  married,  Aug.  14,  1889, 
Alice  Mary,  dau.  of  the  late  Col.  Borton,  R.H.A. 

WRIGHT,  CiPT.  Wallace  Duffield,  V.C, 
of  the  2nd  Qtieen's  Regt.,  was  born  at  Gibraltar 
in  1875  ;  was  educated  at  Cranbrook  Sch.,  Kent, 


and  joined  the  Militia  in  1893.  Transferring  to 
the  regular  army  in  1896,  he  proceeded  to  India, 
taliing  part  in  the  N.W.  Frontier  Campaign  of 
1897-98,  in  which  he  was  severely  wounded.  He 
went  to  N.  Nigeria  in  1901,  and  served  with  the 
M.I.  in  the  Kano  and  Sokoto  affairs  of  1903  with 
distinction,  being  mentioned  in  despatches  and 
receiving  the  coveted  V.C.  He  was  also  slightly 
wotmded.  His  captaincy  dates  from  1903. 
Unmarried. 

WYNNE,  James,  M.L.A.,  is  one  of  the  Pro- 
gressive members  of  the  Cape  Legislative  Assem- 
bly for  Port  Ehzabeth,  for  which  constituency 
he  was  re-elected  at  the  general  election  in  1904. 

YOUNGHUSBAND,  Major  (Temp.  Col.) 
Francis  Edward,  CLE.,  of  the  Army  and  Navy 
Club  ;  second  son  of  Major-Gen.  J.  W.  Young- 
husband,  C.S.I.,  began  his  military  career  in  the 
1st  Dragoon  Guards  in  1882,  subsequently  trans- 
ferring to  the  Indian  Staff  Corps.  He  has 
travelled  considerably  in  Cliina,  Chinese  Turkes- 
tan and  India,  and  has  on  various  occasions 
served  as  Political  Officer.  Perhaps  no  man  in 
the  service  of  the  Indian  Govt,  is  regarded  with 
so  much  fear  by  Russia,  whose  agents  have  per- 
sistently shadowed  his  movements  during  his 
journeys  in  the  Far  East.  Col.  Younghusband 
acted  as  special  correspondent  of  the  "  Times  " 
during  the  campaign  in  Chitral,  and  also  during 
the  Rhodesian  Rebellion  in  1896.  He  is  now 
acting  as  Commissioner  on  a  mission  to  Thibet 
for  negotiating  a  settlement  of  the  relations  be- 
tween India  and  that  country.  The  expedition, 
after  being  delayed  on  the  frontier,  arrived  at 
Khambajong,  in  the  Thibetan  territory,  in  July, 
1903,  and  remained  there  on  account  of  the  hos- 
tility of  the  Thibetans  until  Nov.  of  that  year, 
when  an  advance  of  a  further  ninety  miles  to 
Gyangtse,  an  important  centre  some  150  miles 
from  Lhassa,  was  ordered.  Gyangtse  was 
reached,  after  some  fighting  in  which  the  Thibet- 
ans lost  heavily,  in  April,  1904. 

Col.  Younghusband  was  decorated  in  1901,  and 
holds  two  gold  medals,  one  the  Kaiser-i-Hind  for 
Public  Service  in  India,  and  the  other  that  of 
the  Royal  Geographical  Society  for  general 
exploration  work.  He  is  the  author  of  "  South 
Africa  of  To-Day,"  published  in  1898,  and  of 
other  works.  He  married,  in  1897,  a  daughter  of 
the  late  Chas.  Magniac,  M.P. 

ZIETSMAN,  Loins  Frederick,  M.L.A.,  re- 
presents Griqualand  East  in  the  Cape  Legislative 
Assembly,  to  which  he  was  again  returned  by 
the  Progressive  vote  in  1904. 


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ADDENDA 


ADAMS,  Dr.  Percy  T.,  L.R.C.S.,  formerly 
Surgeon  attached  to  the  Union  SS.  Co.,  was 
appomted  Deputy  Medical  Officer  of  Health 
of  the  O.R.C.  in  1903. 

ANSON,  Hon.  F.  C.  M.,  of  Lagos,  W.  Africa, 
was  formerly  for  twenty  years  in  the  Civil  Ser- 
vice of  British  Guiana  ;  then  served  for  a  short 
while  as  Treas.  of  St.  Lucia,  prior  to  his  pre- 
sent appointment  as  Colonial  Treas.  of  Lagos. 

BADEN-POWELL,  Major-Gen.  Robert 
Stephenson  Smyth,  C.B.,  F.R.G.S.,  of  32, 
Prince's  Gate,  London,  and  of  the  Cavalry, 
Naval  and  Military,  and  Beefsteak  Clubs,  is  son 
of  Prof.  Baden-Powell,  his  mother  being  dau. 
of  Admiral  Smyth.  Gen.  R.  S.  S.  Baden-Powell 
was  born  in  London,  Feb.  22,  1857  ;  was  edu- 
cated at  Charterhouse,  and  joined  the  13th 
Hussars  in  1876,  serving  with  distinction  in  the 
Afghanistan,  Boer,  Zululand,  Ashanti,  Mata- 
beleland,  and  S.  African  campaigns.  He 
was  Mil.  Secy,  at  the  Cape,  1887-00;  and  at 
Malta,  1890-93.  In  the  second  Matabele  War 
he  rendered  invaluable  services  as  C.S.O.  to 
Col.  Plumer  during  the  operations  in  the  Matop- 
pos.  He  commanded  the  advanced  force  during 
its  attacks  on  Babyaan's  stronghold,  July  20, 
1896  ;  performed  excellent  service  in  risky 
scouting  work  by  night  and  day  in  the  Matop- 
pos,  and  commanded  successful  patrols  in  clear- 
ing the  Shangani,  Wedzas,  and  Belingwe  dis- 
tricts. In  the  last  Boer  War  he  gained  great 
popularity  by  his  gallant  defence  of  Mafeking, 
and  later  he  raised  and  commanded  the  S.A.C., 
a  corps  which  at  that  time  numbered  10,000 
strong.  Relinquishing  this  command  in  1903, 
he  was  appointed  Inspector-Gen.  of  Cavalry, 
Gen.  Baden-Powell  takes  his  profession  seriously 
and  enthusiastically.  He  has  written  a  viseful 
text-book  on  scouting,  which  is  also  regarded 
as  a  text-book  by  the  German  Army  ;  he  is  a 
clever  sketcher,  and  has  considerable  theatrical 


talent.  In  1884  he  won  the  Kadir  Cup  for  pig- 
sticking in  India,  and  he  plays  polo  and  golf. 
Unmarried. 

BALDWIN,  Capt.,  succeeded  Capt.  Fitz- 
Crowe  as  British  Consul-Gen.  at  Delagoa  Bay 
in  1902. 

BANNERMAN,  Capt.  Sir  Alexander,  R.E., 
11th  Bart.,  of  Brackley,  Northants,  where  he 
was  born  Dec.  16,  1870,  was  educated  at  Wel- 
lington Coll.,  and  succeeded  to  the  Baronetcy 
Dec.  3,  1901.  He  served  for  3|  years  in  Hong 
Kong  and  through  the  whole  of  the  S.A.  War, 
being  mentioned  in  Lord  Roberts'  despatches. 
He  left  England  in  1903  on  a  special  mission 
for  the  War  Office  to  Japan. 

BRAKHAN,  Amandxjs,  of  Johannesburg,  is 
the  chief  representative  in  S.A.  of  the  Adolf 
Goerz  group  of  Cos. 

BREWSTER,  Alfred,  Bey,  of  Cairo,  Egypt, 
belongs  to  an  old  Essex  family,  and  is  brother 
to  T.  A.  Brewster,  proprietor  of  the  "  Port 
Elizabeth  Advertiser."  He  entered  the  ser- 
vice of  the  Egyptian  Govt,  in  1870,  in  the 
Customs  Administration  and  Coastguard  Ser- 
vice. In  1879  he  was  appointed  Director  of 
Customs  at  Sttakin  by  the  late  Gen.  Gordon. 
This  post  he  held  till  1882,  when  he  served  in 
the  Egyptian  campaign  on  the  Commissariat 
staff  (medal  and  bronze  star).  He  returned  to 
Suakin  in  1883,  and  served  under  Baker  Pasha 
in  the  Intelligence  and  Commissariat  Depart- 
ments, and  was  subsequently  appointed  by  the 
late  Admiral  Sir  W.  Hewitt  as  Sub-Governor, 
in  addition  to  his  duties  at  the  Customs.  In 
1884  he  was  appointed  Commander  of  the 
Imperial  Order  of  the  Medjidieh,  and  in  the 
following  year  he  was  lent  to  the  Intelligence 
Department  by  the  Egyptian  Govt.,  and  was 
attached    to    Gen.   Graham's    force.      He    was 


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several  actions  and  at  the  taking  of 
present  at  fj^g  mentioned  in  despatches.  He 
Tamai,  beijj  guakin  as  Director  of  Customs 
remained  i  -when  he  was  transferred  to  the 
until  1890,  Service  at  Alexandria  as  Secretary 
Coastguard  ,uer.  In  1891  he  was  selected  by 
and  Contrce  Mohamed  Tewfik  as  his  Private 
the  KhediVg^g^g  j^q^  jjj  ^j-^q  same  capacity  to 
Secy.,  and  Khedive,  Abbas  II.  He  holds  the 
the  presentr  of  ^j^g  first  class,  and  is  Commander 
rank  of  Bej:,^^^^^}  Ottoman  Orders  of  Osmanieh 
of  the  Iniiq^Qh^  and  Chevalier  of  the  Fran9ois 
and  Medjiclgj._ 
Joseph  Ord 

L  E  Y-D  A  V  E  N  PO  R  T,  Lieut.  -Col. 

BROMb.S.O.,  M.P.,  J.P.,  D.L.,  of  1,  Bel- 
WiLLiAM,  .3^  London,  S.W.,  is  eldest  son  of  the 
grave  Place  .Col.  W.  Bromley-Davenport,  was 
late  Lieut^63,  and  was  educated  at  Eton  and 
born  m  IS.th  of  which  he  represented  in  the 
Oxford,  bci[j  football  teams.  He  has  repre- 
cricket  am  Macclesfield  Div.  of  Cheshire  as  a 
sented  the^-g  since  1886,  and  took  a  prominent 
Conservati\j,gggj^^^j^g  Lord  Penrhyn's  case  when 
part  m  repg^jg  qviarries  dispute  was  brought 
the  Bethe  House.  He  also  championed  the 
before  thejol.  Ivinloch  (whose  brother-in-law 
cause  ^  01  Vnection  with  the  "  ragging  incident  " 
he  isjincor^adier  Guards.  For  a  couple  of  years 
in  the  Grer  Parhamentary  Secy,  to  Sir  Matthew 
he  acted  afi,gy  -vvhen  he  was  Home  Secy.,  and  he 
White  RidlLord  Stanley  as  Financial  Secy,  to 
succeeded  gjgg, 
the  War  0,he  s.A.  War  Mr.  Bromley-Davenport 

Duruig  t^   the    4th   Batt.    Imp.    Yeo.,    being 
commandei  ^    despatches,    and    receiving    the 
mentioned  the  D.S.O. 
medal  and 

.,Majoe-Gen.,  of  Cape  Town,  served 
BKOOI\e  Zulu  War  in  1879  ;  the  Boer  War 
through  tl|  .  commanded  the  2nd  Brigade  of 
of  1880-8:piei^  Force  in  India  in  1897-8,  and 
the  Tochi  jygd  on  special  service  during  the 
was  emplc^  War.  In  1904  Gen.  Brook  suc- 
S.  African^jor-Gen.  Miles  in  the  command  of 
ceeded  Mfjolony  district, 
the  Cape  C 

J,  Right  Hon.  Sir  Ernest,  K.C.M.G., 
CASSEIp.c.,  of  48,  Grosvenor  Sq.,  London, 
K.C.V.O.,  orn  in  1852  at  Cologne,  where  he  was 
W.,  was  btg(j,  jje  is  an  engineer  by  profession, 
also  educag  constructor  of  the  wonderful  dam 
and  IS  th^^  which  cost  two  and  a  half  millions 
at  As£Ouai,^-jt  the  storing  of  the  Nile  water  will, 
to  build,  Ijated,  increase  the  wealth  of  Egypt 
it  IS  estin  millions  sterhng. 
by  eighty 


CRICHTON  (Henry  William),  Viscount, 
D.S.O. ,  of  Crom  Castle,  Newtown  Butler,  Ire- 
land, and  of  the  Turf,  Marlborough,  and  Army 
and  Navy  Clubs,  is  the  eldest  son  of  John  Henry, 
4th  Earl  of  Erne,  K.P.,  P.C,  and  of  Florence, 
Countess  of  Erne.  He  was  born  Sept.  30, 
1872,  and  was  educated  at  Eton  and  the  Royal 
Naval  Col.  Lord  Crichton  was  Adjt.  of 
the  Royal  Horse  Guards,  iDec.  1896  to  Oct. 
1899  ;  was  A.D.C.  to  Major-Gen.  Brocklehurst, 
C.B.,  commanding  2nd  Natal  Cavalry  Brigade 
in  the  S.  African  War  ;  and  was  present  during 
the  siege  of  Ladysmith,  and  was  with  General 
Sir  R.  Buller  during  the  operations  from  Lady- 
smith  to  Lydenburg,  May  to  Oct.  1900,  being 
mentioned  in  despatches.  He  did  excellent 
work  during  this  war;  obtained  the  D.S.O., 
and  was  promoted  capt.  in  Feb.  1900.  He 
accompanied  their  Royal  Highnesses  the  Duke 
and  Duchess  of  Cornwall  and  York  during  their 
Colonial  tour  in  H.M.S.  Ophir  as  A.D.C, 
and  was  appointed  Equerry-in-Waiting  to 
H.R.H.  Prince  of  Wales  in  Nov.  1901.  He 
married,  Jime  10,  1903,  Lady  Mary  Cavendish 
Grosvenor,  eldest  dau.  of  the  1st  Duke  of  West- 
minster and  Katherine,  Duchess  of  Westminster. 

CURRIE,  Oswald  James,  M.B.,  M.R.C.S. 
(Eng. ),  of  24,  Longmarket  Street,  Maritzburg, 
and  of  tlie  Victoria  Club,  Maritzburg,  is  son  of 
Alexander  Currie,  of  the  firm  of  Roxburgh, 
Currie  &  Co.,  London.  He  was  born  Mar.  13, 
1860,  at  Greenwich,  and  was  educated  at  the 
University  Coll.  Sch.  and  Guy's  Hosp.,  and 
graduated  M.B.  with  1st  class  honours  at  Lon- 
don Univ.  Dr.  Currie  was  Sen.  House  Physician 
at  Guy's  Hospital,  1882  ;  Sen.  House-Surgeon, 
Huddersfield  Hospital,  1883-5  ;  Surgeon  at 
the  Yeatman  Hospital,  Sherborne,  and  Med. 
Officer  at  Sherborne  School,  1886-9  ;  Surgeon 
under  the  P.  and  O.S.N.  Co.,  1889-91,  and  was 
Surgeon  to  the  Natal  Carabineers,  1894-1902, 
receiving  the  King's  and  Queen's  Boer  Vv^ar 
medals  (five  clasps).  He  was  in  medical  charge 
of  the  Natal  First  Field  Hospital  (Volunteers) 
during  the  siege  of  Ladysmith,  and  is  at  present 
Capt.  commanding  the  Artillery,  Natal  Royal 
Regiment ;  Surgeon  of  Guy's  Hospital,  Maritz- 
burg, and  Medical  Officer  of  Health,  Maritzburg. 
Dr.  Currie  has  written  various  papers  for  medical 
journals.  His  recreations  are  travelling  and 
natural  history.  He  married,  1896,  Sara,  dau. 
of  Geo.  Gubbins,  of  Limerick. 

DORMER,  Francis  J.,  of  London,  is  one  of 
the  many  Anglo-Africans  who  have  made  journal- 


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ism  a  stepping-stone  to  a  prominent  position 
in  S.  African  financial  circles.  He  was  an 
early  and  strenuous  assailant  of  Kriigerism,  and 
is  familiar  with  the  varied  conditions  and  diffi- 
cult questions  affecting  S.A.  and  its  chief 
industry.  He  is  a  Director  of  the  Transvaal 
Estates  and  Development  and  some  other  Cos. 

DUNNING,  Sir  E.  H.,  was  one  of  the  earliest 
miners  on  the  Witwatersrand,  working  pro- 
perties on  tribute,  until  he  made  a  considerable 
fortune  out  of  the  flotation  of  the  Rietfontein 
mine,  whose  shares  went  to  a  large  premium, 
at  which  Sir  Edwin  Dunning  was  wise  enough  to 
sell  out  and  retire.  He  owns  large  estates  in 
Devonshire,  where  he  interests  himself  in  horse 
and  cattle  breeding.  He  was  knighted  on  the 
King's  birthday  (1904). 

EGERTON,  Maj.-Gen.  Sir  Charles  Comyn, 
G.C.B.,  D.S.O.,  A.D.C.  to  the  King,  was  born 
in  1848  ;  entered  the  Army  as  second  lieut.  in 
June  1867,  and  obtained  his  step  first  in  Oct. 
1869,  and  his  captaincy  in  1879.  He  took  part 
in  the  Afghan  War  in  1879-80,  accompanied 
Lord  (then  Sir  F.)  Roberts  in  his  march  to 
Kandahar,  and  was  present  at  the  battle  of 
Kandahar,  for  his  services  in  which  he  was 
mentioned  in  despatches  and  received  the  medal 
with  clasp  and  the  bronze  star.  He  was  gazetted 
Maj.  on  June  8,  1887,  and  served  with  the 
Hazara  Expedition  in  1888  as  A.A.G.(despatches, 
medal  with  clasp).  In  1891  he  took  part  in  the 
two  Miranzai  Expeditions  under  Sir  William 
Lockhart  as  A.A.G.,  was  severely  wounded, 
and  received  the  brevet  of  lieut. -col.  and  the 
D.S.O.  His  war  services  also  include  the  Waziri 
campaign  of  1894-5,  when  he  conxmanded  the 
Bannu  column,  and  received  the  C.B.  ;  the 
Sudan  operations,  1896,  when  he  commanded 
the  Suakin  force  ;  the  operations  in  the  Tochi 
Valley,  when  he  commanded  the  brigade  ;  and 
the  operations  against  the  Darwesh  Kheyl 
Waziris  in  1902,  when  he  was  in  command  of 
the  troops.  The  order  of  K.C.B.  was  conferred 
on  Gen.  Egerton  on  Jan.  1,  1903,  and  he  was 
invested  with  the  insignia  by  the  Duke  of  Con- 
naught  at  Delhi.  Gen.  Egerton  superseded 
Gen.  Manning  in  the  command  of  the  Somali- 
land  Expeditionary  Force  in  1903,  and  inflicted 
severe  punishment  on  the  Dervishes  at  Jidballi 
on  Jan.  10,  1904,  and  by  April  following  the 
operations  were  considered  practically  at  an 
end,  the  Mullah  having  practically  disappeared. 

ELLIOTT,  Arthur  A.,  B.A.    (Cape),  M.A. 


(Oxford),  is  fourth  son  of  Sir  Charles  Elliott,  ex- 
Gen.  Manager  of  the  Cape  Railways,  and  now 
fills  the  office  of  Assistant-Registrar  of  the  Cape 
University,  in  place  of  Mr.  C.  S.  Edgar,  M.A., 
recently  appointed  to  the  professorship  of  Greek 
in  the  Victoria  College,  Stellenbosch. 

ELLIOTT,  Sir  Henry,  of  Durban,  was  for 
many  years  Chief  Magistrate  of  Tembuland, 
Transkei,  and  Pondoland,  from  which  he  re- 
cently retired  through  ill-health,  and  settled 
down  in  Natal. 

FERREIRA,  Capt.  Sir  Cornelius  do  Costa, 
K.C.M.G.,  was  formerly  Governor-Gen.  of  the 
Province  of  Mozambique,  and  was  created  a 
K.C.M.G.  on  the  King's  birthday  (1902). 

FORBES,  Major  Patrick  William,  of 
Salisbijry,  Rhodesia,  is  son  of  the  late  A.  C. 
Forbes,  of  Whitchixrch,  Oxon.  He  was  formerly 
Capt.  in  the  6th  (Inniskilling)  Dragoons,  and 
served  in  the  operations  in  Zululand  in  1888. 
He  was  the  first  officer  to  command  the  Mash- 
onaland  Volunteer  Regt.,  and  took  part  in  the 
Matabele  War  of  1893  in  command  of  the  Salis- 
bury column,  contributing  a  long  account  of 
the  operations  to  "  The  Downfall  of  Lobengula," 
by  W.  A.  Wills  and  L.  T.  CoUingridge.  He 
married,  Jan.  21,  1903,  Beatrice,  dau.  of  Robert 
Grey,  Treasurer  of  the  Foundling  Hospital. 

FORD,  Lewis  Peter,  of  Biu-ton  Tower, 
Gresford,  N.  Wales,  was  born  Jan.  26,  1846. 
He  studied  law  under  Advocate  Brand,  who 
afterwards  became  Pres.  of  the  O.F.S., 
and  was  admitted  to  practise  in  S.A,  in 
1865,  before  degrees  were  necessary  for  quali- 
fication. He  was  Deputy-Sheriff  of  Richmond 
(C.C.)  and  Murraysburg  from  1886  to  1871  ;  was 
the  first  Attorney-Gen.  appointed  under  British 
rule  in  the  Transvaal  in  1877  mider  Sir  Theo- 
philus  Shepstone  ;  Legal  Adviser  in  the  Trans- 
vaal to  the  Imperial  Govt.,  1878-88  ;  and 
Chancellor  of  the  Diocese  of  Pretoria,  1879-89. 
Since  then  Mr.  Ford  has  resided  in  England, 
and  has  gradually  liquidated  his  S.  African 
interests,  and  taken  up  other  enterprises  H© 
is  Chairman  of  the  Limni  Copper  Mining  Synd., 
and  has  devoted  much  time  to  the  development 
of  the  Silicate-of  Lime  Stone,  Ltd  ,  of  which 
company  he  is  also  Chau-man.  He  married 
twice  :  first,  in  1866,  Miss  E.  Utting,  dau.  of  a 
former  editor  of  the  "Cape  Argus";  and 
secondly.  Miss  E.  Tanner,  dau.  of  the  Chief 
Surveyor  in  H.M.  Office  of  Works. 


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FOWLE,  Col.  J.,  21st  Lancers,  served  in  the 
Nile  Expedition  in  1884  with  the  Light  Camel 
Regiment.  He  was  in  the  Soudan  with  Lord 
Kitchener  in  1898,  and  took  part  in  the  battle 
of  Khartoum,  and  in  that  gallant  but  useless 
charge  of  the  21st  Lancers,  which  was  said  to 
have  freshened  up  the  reputation  of  a  regiment 
with  a  rather  poor  record. 

GAUL,  Right  Rev.  William  Thomas,  Lord 
Bishop  of  Mashonaland,  D.D.,  of  Bishop's 
Rooms,  Salisbvu-y,  Mashonaland,  was  educated 
at  Trinity  Coll.,  Dublin,  and  went  to  S.A. 
in  1875  as  Vicar  of  Bloemfontein,  O.F.S.  Subse- 
quently Rector  of  All  Saints',  Dutoitspan,  and 
Rector  of  Kimberley ;  he  was  consecrated  Bishop 
of  Mashonaland  in  1895. 

GIFFORD,  Hon.  Maurice,  C.M.G.,  is  a 
yovmger  brother  of  Lord  GifTord  (q.v.),  and 
took  part  in  the  second Matabele  War  in  1896, 
starting  with  captain's  rank.  He  was  shot  in 
the  shoulder  at  an  engagement  at  Shiloh,  which 
necessitated  his  arm  being  amputated  on  reach- 
ing Bulawayo.  He  is  associated  with  several 
S.  African  Cos.,  and  is  married. 

GOLDRING,  A.  R.,  of  Salisbury  House, 
London  Wall,  E.C.,  was  born  in  London  in  the 
late  fifties,  and  was  little  more  than  a  youth 
when,  in  1876,  he  left  England  for  Cape  Colony. 
On  arriving  at  Kimberley  he  devoted  himself 
to  the  mining  industry.  In  1882  he  took  to 
journalism,  and  became  associated  with  the 
old  "  Daily  Independent,"  then  the  leading 
organ  of  the  diamond  fields,  and  remained  on 
that  journal  until  1889,  when  he  went  up  to 
Johannesburg,  where  he  again  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  mining.  Three  years  later  he  was  ap- 
pointed Secy,  of  the  Transvaal  Chamber  of 
of  Mines,  a  position  which  he  retained  until  very 
recently,  when  he  was  transferred  to  London  as 
Secy,  to  the  London  Committee  of  the  Chamber. 

GORRINGE,  Brev.  Lieut. -Col.  George 
Frederick,  R.E.,  C.M.G.,  D.S.O.,  was  born  at 
Southwick,  Sussex,  Feb.  10,  1868  ;  is  second  son 
of  Hugh  Gorringe,  of  Kingston-by-Sea,  and  was 
educated  at  Lee's  Sch.,  Brighton,  and  Welling- 
ton Coll.,  passing  in  to  the  Royal  Engineers  at 
Chatham  in  1888.  He  transferred  to  the 
Egyptian  Army  in  1893,  and  became  D.A.A.G., 
Headquarters  Staff,  two  years  later.  He 
served  in  the  Dongola  Expedition  in  1896,  re- 
ceiving the  D.S.O.,  and  medal  and  clasps  for 
Firket  and  Hafir.     In  1897  he  was  on  the  staff 


of  the  G.O.C.,  commanding  at  the  actions  of  Abu 
Hamed  and  Atbara,  gaining  a  brevet  majority 
and  clasps  "  1897,"  Abu  Hamed  and  Atbara. 
He  was  again  D.A.A.G.  on  the  Headquarters 
Staff  of  the  Khartoum  Expeditionary  Force  in 
1898  (clasp,  fourth  class  Medjidieh,  and  British 
medal),  and  later  in  that  j^ear  advanced  with 
the  Gedaref  Relief  Column  (clasp).  Col.  Gor- 
ringe commanded  Irregulars  at  the  actions  of 
Abu  Adel  and  Om  Debriket — death  of  the 
Khalifa — (2  clasps,  brev.  Lieut.-Col.),  after 
which  he  was  specially  employed  in  charge  of 
the  reconstruction  of  Kliartoum  (1899). 
During  the  S.  African  War  (1900)  he  was  first 
!  of  all  A.D.C.  to  Lord  Kitchener,  and  D.A.A.G. 
I  on  the  Headquarters  Staff,  taking  part  in  the 
i  relief  of  Kimberley,  and  the  capture  at  Paarde- 
berg,  and  afterwards  commanded  a  flying 
column  in  Cape  Colony,  Jan.  to  Oct.,  1901 
(despatches.  Queen's  medal  and  5  clasps).  L^n- 
married. 

GRAHAIVI  (James),  Marquis  of,  D.L.,  of 
Buchanan  Castle,  Drymen,  Glasgow,  and  of 
the  Carlton  (London)  and  the  Western  (Glasgow) 
Clubs,  and  of  the  Royal  Institution  of  Naval 
Architects  and  the  Royal  United  Service  Insti- 
tution, is  the  son  of  the  5th  Duke  of  Montrose, 
K.T.,  A.D.C,  Lord  Clerk  Registrar  of  Scotland, 
his  mother  being  the  second  dau.  of  Sir  Frederick 
Graham,  Bart.,  of  Netherby  Hall,  Cumberland. 
He  was  born  May  1,  1878,  and  was  educated 
at  Eton  Coll.  The  marquis  take  a  great  in- 
terest in  all  Imperial  and  maritime  affairs  ; 
served  in  the  Mercantile  Marine,  and  possesses 
a  Board  of  Trade  master's  certificate.  He  saw 
service  in  S.A.  as  Lietat.  attached  to  the  Army 
Service  Corps,  and  also  with  the  Doris  Naval 
Brigade,  and  was  Assis.  Press  Censor  at  Cape 
Town  (S.A.  medal,  three  bars).  He  visited  Cape 
Town  a  second  time  on  a  wireless  telegraphy 
Mission  for  the  Corporation  of  Lloyds',  London, 
and  again  in  Dec,  1902,  to  study  questions 
affecting  the  resettlement  of  the  land.  Lord 
Graham  assisted  Lord  Brassey  in  the  navigation 
of  the  Sunbeam  to  Montreal  in  1903,  and  has 
travelled  all  over  the  world,  visiting  foiu"teen 
countries,  and  all  the  British  Colonies  excepting 
Canada  and  New  Zealand.  He  is  fond  of  all 
sports,  particularly  yachting,  fishing  and  shoot- 
ing.    He  is  unmarried. 

GREY,  Col.  Raleigh,  of  Salisbm-y,  Rho- 
desia, was  formerly  in  the  6th  Inniskillen  Dra- 
goons, from  which  he  was  seconded  for  service 
with  the  B.B.P.     He  took  part  in  the  Raid  as 


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Maj.  in  command  of  the  Mafeking  colixmn 
which  combined  with  Dr.  Jameson's  forces. 
He  was  wounded  in  the  foot,  but  gallantly- 
insisted  on  carrying  on  his  duties  until  the  close 
of  the  action.  As  an  Imperial  officer,  Col.  Grey 
was  handed  over  to  the  British  Govt,  for 
trial,  and  was  sentenced  to  five  months'  im- 
prisonment for  taking  part  in  the  Raid. 

HARRIS,  Dr.  F.  Rutherford,  M.D.  Edm., 
M.P.,  is  a  great-grandson  of  a  former  Com- 
mander-in-Chief of  the  Madras  Presidency  (who 
received  a  peerage)  ;  is  a  kinsman  of  Lord 
Harris  (q.v.),  and  son  of  the  late  G.  A.  Harris. 
He  was  born  in  1856  ;  was  edvicated  at  Leather- 
head  Gram.  Sch.,  matriculated  at  Edinburgh, 
and  graduated  at  the  Royal  Col.  of  Surgeons. 
He  proceeded  to  S.A.  in  1882,  and  became 
associated  with  the  late  Cecil  Rhodes,  becoming 
his  confidential  agent,  and  also  the  first  Secy. 
in  S.A.  of  the  B.S.A.  Co.  He  entered  the  Cape 
Parliament  as  member  for  Kimberley,  and  be- 
came one  of  the  whips  of  the  Progressive  party. 
He  then  came  to  England  ;  was  associated 
with  some  few  finance  Cos.,  including  the 
Rand-Rhodesia  Exploration  Co.,  and  entered 
the  arena  of  British  politics  in  1900  as  Con- 
servative M.P.  for  the  Monmouth  Burghs,  but 
he  lost  his  seat  on  a  technical  point  He  sub- 
sequently entered  Parliament  as  member  for 
Dulwich,  defeating  Mr.  C.  F.  G.  Masterman  by 
1,437  votes.  Dr.  Harris  is  a  keen  dog  fancier, 
and  is  very  popular  in  South  Wales,  where  he 
spends  most  of  his  time. 

HELY-HUTCHINSON,  The  Hon.  Sir 
Walter  Francis,  G.C.M.G.,  B.A.,  of  Govern- 
ment House,  Cape  Town,  is  son  of  the  4th  Earl 
of  Donoughmore,  and  was  born  in  the  Irish 
capital,  Aug.  22,  1849.  Commencing  his  educa- 
tion at  Cheam  Sch.,  he  afterwards  went  to 
Harrow  and  Trinity  Coll.,  Camb.,  where  he 
graduated  B.A.  He  is  also  a  Barrister  of  the 
Inner  Temple.  At  the  age  of  25  he  went  to 
Fiji  as  attache  on  Lord  Rosmead's  (then  Sir 
Hercules  Robinson's)  staff,  becoming  Priv.  Secy, 
for  Fiji  Affairs,  and  the  following  year  Priv. 
Secy,  for  New  South  Wales  Affairs.  After  act- 
ing in  this  capacity  for  a  couple  of  years  he  went 
to  Barbados  as  Colonial  Secy.,  leaving  the  West 
Indies  in  1883  to  take  up  an  appointment  as 
Chief  Secy,  at  Malta.  In  1884  he  became  Lieut.- 
Governor  of  the  island,  remaining  there  until 
1889,  when  he  was  appointed  Governor  of  the 
Windward  Islands.  Sir  Walter  Hely-Hutchin- 
son's   connection   with    S.A.    dates   from   1893, 


when  he  represented  the  Crown  in  handing 
over  responsible  government  to  Natal,  of  which 
Colony  he  was  Governor  from  1893-1901,  his 
public  services  being  meanwhile  recognized  by 
the  Grand  Cross  of  St.  Michael  and  St.  George, 
conferred  upon  him  in  1897.  Since  1901  Sir 
Walter  has  been  Governor  and  C.I.C.  of  the 
C.C.  He  married,  in  1881,  a  dau.  of  Major- 
Gen.  Wm.  Clive  Justice,  C.M.G. 

HERBERT,  Sir  Robert,  G.C.B.,  was  Per- 
manent Under-Secy.  of  State  for  the  Colonies 
from  1871  to  1892.  He  is  a  Director  of  the 
Eastern  and  S.  African  Telegraph  Co.,  a 
member  of  the  Council  of  the  Union-Castle  Mail 
Steamship  Co.,  and  Chairman  of  Mr.  Chamber- 
lain's Tariff  Commission. 

HOOD,  Samuel  J.,  of  Lagos,  W.  Africa, 
started  his  career  in  the  Gov.  service  at 
British  Honduras  ;  was  transferred  to  the  Gold 
Coast  as  Supervisor  of  Customs  in  1894  ;  was 
Asst.  Collector  at  Sierra  Leone  in  1901 ;  became 
Asst.  Comptroller  of  Customs  of  the  Gold  Coast 
Colony  later  in  1901,  and  in  1904  was  appointed 
Collector  of  Customs  at  Lagos. 

JOHNSON,  Edward  Odlum,  of  Freetown, 
Sierra  Leone,  W.  Africa,  and  of  the  Colonial  and 
West  Indian  Clubs,  was  born  at  Montserrat, 
West  Indies,  Sept.  8,  1867,  and  is  younger  son 
of  the  late  Dr.  Burdett  Johnson,  of  Montserrat. 
He  educated  at  Harrison  Coll.,  Barbados,  and 
Epsom  Coll.,  Eng.,  and  entered  the  Colonial 
Service  as  2nd  Clerk  in  the  Montserrat  Treasury 
Dept.  in  1884  ;  promoted  1st  Clerk,  1886  ;  1st 
Clerk,  St.  Kitts  Treasm-y,  1891  ;  1st  Revenue 
Officer,  St.Kitts,  1895;  Acting-Treasurer,  St.Kitts, 
Nevis,  1897  ;  Asst.  Treasurer,  Sierra  Leone, 
1897  ;  and  Colonial  Treasurer  for  that  colony, 
Mar.  1899.  Mr.  Johnson  is  ex-officio  Member 
of  the  Executive  and  Legislative  Councils,  and 
Member  of  the  Education  Board.  He  married, 
Mch.  31,  1902,  Ida  Mabel,  dau.  of  late  Fredk. 
S.  Johnston,  of  Malo  les  Bains,  France. 

LAMBTON,  Rear- Admiral,  C.B.,  entered 
the  Royal  Navy  in  1870,  and  took  part  in  the 
bombardment  of  Alexandria  and  the  Egyptian 
War  of  1882,  receiving  the  medal  and  two  clasps. 
In  the  early  days  of  the  late  S.  African  War, 
Capt.  Lambton  (as  his  rank  then  was)  landed  a 
naval  brigade  of  280  men  from  the  Pmverful 
at  Durban,  and  proceeded  to  Ladysmith,  where 
he  arrived  on  Oct.  30,  1899,  with  two  Maxims, 
four    long    naval     12-pounders,    and    two    45- 


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pounders,  the  popular  conviction  being  that  the 
timely  arrival  of  these  guns  and  the  fine  marks- 
manship displayed  by  his  men  saved  Ladysmith 
from  falling  into  the  hands  of  the  Boer  forces. 
Admiral  Lambton  arrived  back  in  England  in 
May,  1900,  and  since  1901  has  commanded  the 
King's  yacht. 

LAWLEY,  Capt.Hon.  Sib  Aethub,  K.C.M.G., 
of  Pretoria,  Transvaal ;  Lieut. -Governor  of 
the  Transvaal  Colony,  was  born  in  1860,  and 
was  at  one  time  in  the  10th  Hussars,  and  after- 
wards Priv.  Secy,  to  the  Duke  of  Westminster. 
From  1898  to  1901  he  was  Administrator  of 
Matabeleland,  and  during  his  administration 
he  earned  golden  opinions  by  the  happy  tact 
which  he  exercised  between  the  Chartered  Co. 
on  the  one  part  and  the  settlers  on  the  other. 
The  difficult  questions  of  land  tenure,  native 
labotir  and  othe'*  matters  which  were  the  subject 
of  local  agitation  owed  much  to  the  attention 
which  he  gave  to  them,  and  to  the  care  with 
which  he  endeavoured  to  reconcile  conflicting 
differences  of  interest.  In  1901-2  Sir  Arthur 
Lawley  acted  as  Governor  of  Western  Australia, 
tind  he  was  then  appointed  Lieut. -Governor 
of  the  Transvaal,  where  he  arrived  in  Aug., 
1902.  He  married,  in  1885,  a  dau.  of  Sir  Ed. 
Cunard,  Bart. 

LEWIS,  Babnet,  of  Threadneedle  House, 
Bishopsgate  Street  Within,  London,  was  born 
at  Neustadt,  and  is  a  younger  brother  of  Mr. 
Isaac  Lewis  (q.v.),  and  a  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Lewis  &  Marks,  whose  market  interests  it  is 
his  especial  role  to  supervise.  He  is  also  a 
Director  of  the  African  and  European  Agency, 
East  Rand  Mining  Estates,  the  Transvaal  Farms 
and  Finance  Co.,  the  Grootvlei  Prospecting 
Synd.,  and  the  Vereeniging  Estates,  Ltd.  He 
has  an  artistic  temperament,  and  a  fine  collec- 
tion of  pictiires. 

LEWIS,  Isaac,  of  Befbm-y  Park,  Kent,  and 
of  Threadneedle  House,  Bishopsgate  Street 
Within,  E.C.'  was  born  in  Nevistadt  in  1849, 
and  went  to  S.A.  in  1870,  being  one  of 
the  first  to  exploit  the  Kimberley  diamond 
fields.  He  is  head  of  the  firm  of  Lewis  &  Marks 
(of  London  and  Pretoria),  which  also  includes 
in  the  partnership  Samuel  Marks  and  Barnet 
Lewis,  brother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
In  1881  the  firm  began  to  acquire  interests  in 
the  Transvaal,  exploiting  the  mineral,  indus- 
trial, and  agricultural  resources  of  that  country, 
to   the   great   material   advantage   of   his   firm 


and  the  shareholders  whose  interests  they  pro- 
tect. Mr.  Lewis  himself  is  Chairman  in 
Johannesburg  of  the  Vereeniging  Estates,  and 
is  on  the  Boards  of  the  East  Rand  Mining 
Estates,  Grootvlei  Prospecting  Synd.,  Johan- 
nesburg Consolidated  Investment  Co.,  Johan- 
nesburg Waterworks,  South  Rand  Exploration, 
Sheba  G.M.,  Swaziland  Corporation,  Trans- 
vaal Estates  and  Development,  Transvaal 
Farms  and  Finance  Cos.  He  is  also  on  the 
London  Committees  of  the  Great  Eastern  Col- 
lieries, SchuUer  Diamond  Mines,  and  the  Trans- 
vaal Consolidated  Coal  Mines.  Mr.  Lewis  likes 
to  stand  aloof  from  politics,  but  he  and  Mr. 
Marks  have  always  stood  well  with  Mr.  Kriiger, 
who  had  a  genuine  partiality  for  them. 

LOIR,  Db.  a.,  of  the  Pasteur  Institute,  Paris, 
is  a  nephew  of  the  late  M.  Pasteur,  and  in  1902 
established  a  laboratory  at  Bulawayo  for  the 
treatment  of  hydrophobia. 

LYNCH,  "Colonel"  Abthtjr  Alpbed,  is 
of  Irish  descent,  and  was  born  in  Australia. 
After  the  S.  African  War  broke  out  he 
swore  allegiance  to  the  S.A.R.,  and  became 
a  burgher  of  that  State.  ^He  was  appointed 
to  the  command  of  the  Irish  Brigade,  fight- 
ing on  the  Boer  side.  He  was  elected  M.P. 
for  Galway  in  Jan.  1900.  He  subsequently 
took  up  his  residence  m  Paris,  describing  him- 
self as  a  journalist.  In  connection  with  Col. 
Lynch's  fighting  in  the  Boer  ranks,  he  came 
over  to  England  voluntarily  to  answer  to  the 
charge  of  high  treason,  for  which  crime  he  was 
sentenced  to  death  by  Mr.  Justice  Wills  on  Jan. 
23,  1903.  The  sentence  was  immediately  com- 
muted to  penal  servitude  for  life,  but  he  was 
released  after  twelve  months'  imprisonment 
in  Lewes  Gaol.     He  is  married. 

MARAIS,  Petexjs  Johajsostes,  was  born  in 
the  Cape  Colony,  and  accumulated  a  consider- 
able fortmie  by  judicious  investments  in  house 
property  in  Pretoria.  He  was  the  victim  of  a 
vitriol  outrage  in  Mar.  1904,  by  his  daughter- 
in-law,  Mrs.  Bellfield  Marais,  and  her  yotmg 
daughter,  aged  fifteen,  by  which  Mr.  Marais 
lost  the  sight  of  an  eye.  He  is  famiUarly  known 
as  "  Long  Piet,"  on  account  of  his  six  feet  five 
inches  of  stature. 

MOUNTMORRES,  Viscount,  was  nominated 
by  the  "  Globe  "  newspaper  in  1904  to  proceed 
to  the  Conge  Free  State  to  make  a  thoroughly 
independent   inquiry   into    the   alleged   mal-ad- 


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ministration  of  the  country.     He  will  also  act 
as  correspondent  of  the  "  Globe." 

MOFFAT,  Dr.  Robert  M.,  C.M.G.,  has  been 
connected  with  East  Africa  and  Uganda  since 
1891,  and  accompanied  the  late  Sir  Gerald 
Portal's  mission  to  Uganda  in  1893.  He  sub- 
sequently entered  the  Medical  Dept.  in  Uganda, 
and  is  now  P.M.O.  of  the  E.  Africa  and 
Uganda  Protectorates. 

MOSELY,  Sib  Alfred,  is  a  native  of  Bristol, 
and  spent  several  years  on  the  Kimberley  dia- 
mond fields,  where  he  amassed  a  considerable 
fortune.  He  received  the  C.M.G.  for  services 
in  connection  with  the  S.A.  War,  and  was  after- 
wards knighted  in  consideration  of  his  patriotic 
endeavours  to  educate  the  British  trader  and 
worltman,  to  which  end  he  sent  out  a  commis- 
sion on  an  extensive  tour  to  study  American 
methods  entirely  at  his  own  expense.  He  is 
strong  advocate  of  free  labour,  and  trade  union- 
ism if  properly  directed,  but  opposes  boycott  and 
the  restriction  of  output. 

PRICE,  Robert  John,  M.P.,  has  sat  in 
Parliament  since  1892,  and  is  Liberal  member 
for  the  East  Norfolk  Division.  He  is  a  barrister- 
at-law,  a  doctor  (M.R.C.S.),  and  takes  an  active 
interest  in  many  Rhodesian  and  Egyptian  enter- 
prises. 

REITZ,  F.  W.  was  formerly  Pres.  of  the 
O.F.S.,  but  succeeded  Dr.  Leyds  (q.v. )  as  State 
Attorney  of  the  S.A.R.  He  was  regarded  in  the 
Transvaal  as  having  progressive  tendencies,  but 
was  not  sufficiently  strong  to  influence  the  Presi- 
dent. After  the  S.  African  War  Mr.  Reitz  joined 
the  irreconcilables,  and  undertook  a  lecturing 
tour  through  America  to  raise  fimds  for  the 
Boers.  He  denounced  the  British  conduct  of 
the  war,  and  accused  Mr.  Chamberlain  of  bad 
faith  in  his  interpretations  of  the  peace  terms, 
and  his  denunciations  of  England  were  so  violent 
as  to  call  forth  remonstrances  in  the  Continental 
pro-Boer  Press. 

RODGER,  John  Pickersgill,  C.M.G. , 
Governor  and  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Gold 
Coast  Colony,  was  previously  for  over  twenty 
years  in  the  Malay  Native  States,  and  served 
successively  as  British  Resident  of  Sengalor, 
Pahang,  and  Perak.  He  received  his  present 
appointment  in  Oct.  1903. 

SALMON,  Charles  ;  one  of  the  early  "  deep 


level  kings,"  went  up  to  the  Witwatersrand 
in  the  early  days,  where  he  engaged  in  business 
as  a  tailor.  He,  however,  distinguished  him- 
self by  his  belief  in  the  deep  levels  long  before 
their  value  was  understood  even  by  the  leading 
mining  magnates  of  the  day.  Holding  on  to 
his  claims  with  a  tenacity  which  neither  the 
ridicule  of  experts  nor  the  depression  of  the 
times  affected,  their  immense  worth  was  at  last 
appreciated,  and  Mr.  Salmon  realized  a  large 
fortxine,  which  he  now  enjoys  in  retirement. 

SEYMOUR,  Lord  Henry,  of  Ragley  HaU, 
near  Alcester,  is  second  son  of  the  Marquis  of 
Hertford,  and  served  for  3|-  years  in  S.  A.  in- 
cluding the  S.  African  War. 

SOPER,  William  Garland,  J.P.,  B.A., 
of  Caterham,  Surrey,  and  of  54,  St.  Mary  Axe, 
London,  E.C.,  was  educated  at  St.  Austell, 
Cornwall,  and  Cheshunt  Coll.,  afterwards  gra- 
duating B.A.  with  a  first  class  at  the  Univ. 
of  London.  In  1859  he  became  a  partner  with 
his  father-in-law,  Mr.  Davis,  a  S.  African  mer- 
chant. In  1865  Mr.  Soper  became  sole  member 
of  the  firm,  whose  interests  he  continued  to 
direct  for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century,  when 
his  son  joined  him  in  partnership,  but  the  style 
of  Davis  &  Soper  is  still  retained.  Mr.  Garland 
Soper  has  been  associated  with  some  public 
enterprises  of  considerable  importance,  particu- 
larly the  introduction  of  tramways  into  S.  A., 
the  city  of  Cape  Town,  and  the  Green  Point  line 
being  the  work  of  his  firm,  who  are  also  the 
agents  of  the  Cape  Town  municipality.  Mr. 
Garland  Soper  is  Chairman  of  the  London 
Board  of  the  Johannesburg  Waterworks,  Estate 
and  Exploration  Co.,  and  a  London  Director 
of  the  Johannesburg  Estate  Co.  He  is  an 
alderman  of  the  Surrey  County  Council,  and 
is  J. P.  for  Surrey  and  also  for  the  county  of 
London.  He  is  the  oldest  member  of  the 
Fruiterers' Co.,  and  was  for  over  eighteen  years 
Chairman  of  the  Caterham  School  Board.  He 
is  a  Liberal-Unionist  in  politics,  but  although 
frequently  asked  to  stand  for  Parliament  he  has 
invariably  refused. 

STEWART,  Sir  Donald  William,  K.C.M.G., 
of  Government  House,  Mombasa,  was  born  in 
1860  ;  is  son  of  the  late  Field-Marshal  Sir  Donald 
Stewart,  Bart.,  Governor  of  Chelsea  Hospital, 
and  younger  brother  of  the  present  bart.  Sir 
Donald  was  formerly  capt.  in  the  2nd  Batt.  of 
the  Gordon  Highlanders,  and  fought  in  the 
Afghan  War,  receiving  the  star  for  the  march 


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to  Kandahar.  He  took  part  in  the  first  Boer 
War  ;  was  A.D.C.  to  his  father  when  he  was 
Commander-in-Chief  in  India,  and  served  in 
the  Egyptian  Campaign  in  1885  (medal,  clasp, 
and  star).  He  was  political  officer  with  the 
Ashanti  Expedition  in  1895-6  ;  served  with  the 
Gold  Coast  Police  ;  became  British  Resident  at 
Kumasi  ;  and  in  1904  succeeded  Sir  Chas.  Eliot 
as  Commissioner  and  Commander-in-Chief  in 
the  E.  African  Protectorate. 

STRANGE,  Hakold,  of  Johannesburg,  is  the 
chief  Transvaal  representative  of  the  firm  of 
Barnato  Bros,  and  their  Cos.  He  is  Chair- 
man of  the  Transvaal  Chamber  of  Mines,  and 
sits  on  the  Boards  of  numerous  S.  African 
mining  and  financial  Cos. 

THOMSON,  William,  M.A.,  Registrar  of  the 
Univ.  of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  was 
appointed  a  Member  of  the  Civil  Service  Com- 
mission of  the  Cape  Colony  in  1902. 

VILJOEN,  Gen.  Ben.  J.,  is  of  French 
Huguenot  extraction,  and  was  born  in  1860. 
He  served  through  the  early  part  of  the 
S.  African  War,  and  was  present  at  Elandslaagte, 
where  two-thirds  of  the  Boers  were  killed, 
wounded,  or  captured,  he  himself  narrowly 
escaping.  He  also  took  part  in  the  operations 
against  Ladysixiith,  and  was  present  at  Spion 
Kop.  He  was  captured  eventually,  and  sent 
to  St.  Helena.  Ex-Gen.  Viljoen  is  a  genial 
character,  a  loyal  friend,  and  a  frank  opponent. 
He  was  careful  not  to  associate  himself  with  the 
tour  undertaken  by  the  three  Boer  generals  on 
the  Continent  after  the  termination  of  the  war, 
but  he  came  to  England  and  lectured  at  Queen's 
Hall,  and  afterwards  in  the  States.  His  book, 
"  My  Reminiscences  of  the  Anglo-Boer  War," 
is  full  of  good  reading,  and  throws  a  strong  and 
unprejudiced  light  vipon  the  stirring  events  of 
the  war  period.  In  1904  he  took  part  in  the 
St.  Louis  Exhibition,  in  connection  with  a  dis- 
play reminiscent  of  episodes  in  the  S.  African 
War. 

VINCENT,  Sir  Edgab,  M.P.,  of  Esher  Place, 
Esher,  was  originally  in  the  Coldstream  Guards, 
and  afterwards  went  to  Turkey  to  assist  in  the 
reorganization  of  the  Ottoman  Public  Debt. 
He  subsequently  became  Financial  Adviser  to 
the  Egyptian  Govt.,  and  for  seventeen  years  he 
worked  hard  with  Lord  Cromer  (q.v.)  to  put 
the  financial  affairs  of  Egypt  on  a  sound  basis. 


WATHERSTON,  Major  A.  E.  G.,  formerly 
of  the  Survey  Dept.  of  the  Gold  Coast  Colony, 
where  he  was  Chief  Boundary  Commissioner, 
was  transferred  to  Egypt  in  1904  for  duty  in  the 
Survey  Dept.   there. 

WERNHER,  Julius,  of  Bath  House,  Picca- 
dilly, London,  was  born  in  Darmstadt  in  1850. 
Proceeding  to  S.  A.  he  spent  ten  years  in 
Kimberley,  and  became  chxef  partner  of  the 
great  mining  and  financial  firm  of  Wernher, 
Beit  &  Co.  Mr.  Wernher  is  in  appearance  and 
temperament  the  very  antithesis  of  his  partner, 
Mr.  Alfred  Beit  (q.v.).  He  is  physically  strong 
and  exceptionally  tall,  reflecting  in  his  repose- 
ful look  an  apparent  freedom  from  "nerves" 
and  worries  which  few  men  with  huge  responsi- 
bilities enjoy,  though  he  has  rather  felt  the 
strain  of  the  last  few  years.  He  is  extremely 
level-headed,  and  is  said  to  be  the  best  judge  of 
diamonds  in  London.  He  takes  no  active  in- 
terest in  politics,  and  may  be  shortly  described 
as  a  plain  merchant  prince,  sound  in  views, 
liberal  in  charities,  and  a  popular  host. 

WESTMINSTER,  Duke  of,  acted  as  A.D.C. 
to  Lord  Milner  (then  Sir  Alfred)  at  the  age  of 
twenty,  taking  part  in  the  Bloemfontein  Con- 
ference. He  subsequently  joined  Lord  Roberts' 
staff,  and  hoisted  the  British  flag  at  Pretoria. 
The  greater  part  of  Belgravia  is  built  upon  the 
Duke's  land,  and  about  the  year  1935,  when 
many  leases  terminate,  he  will  be  one  of  the 
richest  men  in  the  country.  He  married  in 
1900  Miss  Cornwallis  West — the  result  of  a  boy 
and  girl  betrothal. 

WILLOUGHBY,  Sir  John  C,  Bart.,  entered 
the  Royal  Horse  Guards  in  1890.  He  served 
through  the  first  Matabele  War  as  Military 
Adviser  to  the  Administrator,  and  was  seconded 
for  service  in  the  B.B.P.  in  May,  1895.  He 
took  command,  with  rank  of  Lieut.-Col.,  of  Dr. 
Jameson's  forces  at  the  time  of  the  Raid,  for 
his  connection  with  which  he  was  sentenced  to 
ten  months'  imprisonment,  and  allowed  to  re- 
tire from  the  Army.  For  several  years  he  has 
been  connected  with  the  Partridge  &  Jarvis 
group  of  Rhodesian  Cos.,  of  many  of  w^hich 
he  is  a  Director. 

YOUNG,  James,  of  Krugersdorp,  Transvaal ; 
formerly  Acting  Asst.  R.M.  at  Johannesburg, 
was  appointed  Asst.  R.M.  for  the  Witwaters- 
rand  District  at  Krugersdorp  in  1904.  j     l/£ 


OBITUARIES 


OBITUARIES 


ABADIE,  Captain  George  Howard  Fan- 
SHAWE,  C.M.G.  (1902),  formerly  member  of 
the  Army  and  Navy  and  Bath  Clubs,  was  second 
son  of  Major-Gen.  H.  R.  Abadie,  C.B.,  Lieut.- 
Govemor  of  Jersey,  and  was  born  in  Aug. 
1873.  He  entered  the  16th  Lancers  as  a  Second 
Lieut,  in  Mar.  1893,  but  resigned  his  com- 
mission in  July  1897  Subsequently  he  ob- 
tained a  commission  in  the  African  Frontier 
Force  (Nov.  1897),  serving  during  the  opera- 
tions in  Northern  Nigeria  from  1899-1902, 
and  being  several  times  mentioned  in  despatches. 
He  became  Capt.  in  June  1902,  being  specially 
promoted  into  the  Manchester  Regt.  for  his  ser- 
vices in  W.  Africa.  In  1901  he  became  second- 
class  Resident  at  Zaria,  in  Northern  Nigeria,  an 
appointment  which  he  held  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  from  malignant  fever,  at  Rano,  on 
Feb.  11,  1904. 

AIVIYATT-BURNEY,  Lieut.  Cyril  Amyatt 
Wise  ;  only  son  of  the  Rev.  E.  A.  Amyatt-Bumey, 
of  Babcary  Rectory,  Somerton  was  born  in  1878  ; 
was  educated  at  the  Acad.,  Gosport,  and  served 
with  the  I.Y.  in  the  late  S.A.  War,  and  later 
was  attached  to  the  S.A.C.  He  was  invaUded 
home  after  two  attacks  of  dysentery,  and  in 
the  latter  part  of  1903  was  appointed  District 
Supt.  of  Police  for  the  Bassa  Province.  He 
was  killed  while  on  active  service  in  Northern 
Nigeria  in  1904. 

BARTER,  Charles,  late  of  The  Finish, 
Pietermaritzburg,  Natal,  where  he  died  on 
June  7,  1904,  was  the  eldest  son  of  the  Rev. 
Charles  Barter,  of  Sarsden,  Oxon,  was  edu- 
cated at  Westminster,  and  was  a  Fellow  of 
New  Coll.,  Oxford.  He  first  went  to  the  Garden 
Colony  on  a  flying  visit  in  1850.  Two  years 
later,  however,  he  settled  there  permanently. 
In  1865  he  became  a  member  of  the  Natal 
Legislative  Council,  and  for  years  sturdily  sup- 
ported the  movement  for  responsible  govern- 


ment in  the  face  of  considerable  opposition. 
In  1873  he  received  the  command  of  the  Natal 
Carbineers,  and  with  over  a  hundred  men 
accompanied  Sir  Theophilus  Shepstone  on  his 
coronation  visit  to  the  Zulu  chief,  Cetywayo. 
Mr.  Barter  edited  the  "Natal  Times"  for 
some  years,  and  afterwards  became  Magistrate 
at  Inanda  and  at  Pietermaritzburg  (1880). 
He  was  an  experienced  farmer,  a  thorough 
sportsman,  and  died  at  the  ripe  age  of  S3. 

BOTHA,  Commandant  Christian,  who  died 
at  Kokstad,  S.A.,  Oct.  28,  1902,  was  a 
younger  brother  of  Gen.  Loms  Botha,  and  it 
was  he  who  during  the  late  S.A.  War  met  Gen. 
Buller,  after  the  Transvaal  forces  had  been 
driven  from  Natal,  with  a  view  to  negotiations 
for  sxirrender. 

BOWDEN-SMITH,  Lieut.  Charles  Henry, 
late  of  the  Hampshire  Regt.,  entered  the  Army 
Feb.  20,  1897,  and  received  his  first  step  Mar. 
8,  1899.  He  served  in  the  Somah  Field  Force 
in  1903-4,  and  was  killed  in  action  against  the 
dervishes  in  Jan.   1904. 

COHEN,  Harry  Freeman,  late  of  Johannes- 
bm-g,  formerly  hved  at  Newcastle-on-Tyne, 
and  afterwards  at  Cardiff,  where  he  was  in- 
terested in  the  coal  and  shipping  business,  and 
in  1888  went  to  S.A.,  proceeding  in  the 
early  days  to  Johaimesburg  where  he  became 
Chairman  and  Managing  Director  of  Freeman 
Cohen's  Consolidated,  Chairman  in  Johannes- 
burg of  the  Bantjes  Deep,  Geldenhuis  Main 
Reef,  Potchefstroom  Exploration,  Rand  Col- 
lieries, and  South  Village  Deep  Cos.,  and  a 
Director  of  the  Anglian  Mining  and  Finance, 
Durban  Roodepoort  Deep,  Langlaagte  Block 
B.  Deep,  Roodepoort  Central  Deep,  South 
Randfontein  Deep,  and  the  Treasury  Gold 
Mines.  Mr.  Cohen's  Co.,  the  Freeman  Cohen's 
Consolidated,  guaranteed  a  quarter  of  a  million 


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of  the  Transvaal  Contribution  Loan.  He  had 
an  immense  faith  in  the  deep  levels,  and  was 
one  of  the  first  to  acquire  large  blocks  of  these. 
Although  not  mixing  in  politics  he  founded  the 
"  Rand  Daily  Mail,"  but  soon  abandoned 
journalism.  He  died  on  Jan.  24,  1904,  at  the 
age  of  49,  leaving  a  widow  and  four  children. 

COILLARD,  M.,  the  oldest  missionary  in 
Rhodesia,  has  died  during  the  year.  The 
news  of  his  death  there  was  received  with 
regret — not  only  by  those  who  had  the  privilege 
of  his  acquaintance,  but  also  by  those  who 
knew  him  by  the  good  deeds  he  wrought  and 
the  kindly  sympathy  he  showed  to  the  wanderer 
irrespective  of  creed.  In  M.  Alfred  Bertrand's 
work,  "  The  Kingdom  of  the  Barotsi,"  the 
author  points  out  that  he  adopted  therein  the 
rules  proposed  by  M.  Coillard  "  a  high 
authority  on  the  matter  " — concerning  the  ortho- 
graphy of  the  names  of  the  various  territories  and 
tribes  found  in  the  kingdom  of  ba-Rotsi.  He 
also  speaks  of  his  arrival  at  the  missionary 
station  of  Sefula,  which  is  built  on  the  summit 
of  a  hillock.  "  It  was  founded  by  M.  Coillard 
in  1886,  and  here  is  the  tomb  of  Madame  Coil- 
lard, the  faitliful  and  intrepid  companion  of 
this  heroic  missionary."  M.  Coillard,  he  adds, 
exerted  a  great  influence  over  Lewanika,  the 
Barotsi  chief,  and  was  mainly  instrumental  in 
putting  down  the  "  terrible  ordeal  by  boiling 
water  "  which  those  had  to  imdergo  who  were 
accused  of  casting  evil  spells  over  their  fellows. 

DEGACHER,  Major-Gen.  Henry  James, 
C.B.,  was  born  in  1835,  and  entered  the  Army 
at  the  age  of  20.  He  served  in  the  Kafir  War 
of  1877-78,  and  took  part  in  the  operations 
against  the  Galekas  and  in  the  attack  on  the 
Taba  ka  Udoda,  being  twice  mentioned  in 
despatches.  He  also  served  in  the  Zulu  War  of 
1879,  and  received  the  C.B.  for  his  services. 
He  became  Col.  of  the  South  Wales  Borderers 
in  1900,  and  was  appointed  Major-Gen.  in  1901. 
He  died  on  Nov.  26,  1902. 

DE  JONG,  Frank,  who  died  recently  at 
Teneriffe,  was  a  son  of  Edward  de  Jong,  of 
Manchester,  who  is  still  one  of  the  world's 
greatest  flautists.  The  late  Mr.  Frank  de  Jong 
was  in  his  42nd  year,  and  although  he  had 
only  been  associated  with  S.A.  for  a  dozen 
years  or  so,  he  had  earned  a  world-wide  reputa- 
tion as  a  theatrical  manager  and  lessee  who 
was  responsible  for  some  of  the  best  companies 


that  ever  visited  S.A.     He  had  been  for  many 
years  lessee  of  the  Opera  House,  Cape  Town. 

DOOMS,  AuGUSTE,  fii-st  non-commissioned 
officer  of  the  Force  Publique  and  chief  of  the 
Bongo  (Upper  Congo)  Station,  died  at  M'Bale 
under  tragic  circumstances.  On  May  2,  1904, 
Mr.  Dooms  left  M'Bale,  whither  he  had  gone 
on  a  mission,  in  order  to  regain  his  post  at 
Bongo,  in  a  canoe  on  the  river  Olongo-Lule. 
On  the  way  he  was  attacked  by  a  tornado,  which 
forced  him  to  take  refuge  on  the  bank,  and 
when  he  went  on  again  it  was  akeady  late. 
Night  began  to  fall  as  he  approached  the  mouth 
of  the  river  Olongo-Lule.  He  saw  some  hippo- 
potami and  gave  chase  to  them.  He  killed 
one,  but  a  second  hippo  grew  enraged,  rushed 
at  the  canoe,  overturned  it,  and  smashed  it  to 
pieces.  Everyone  in  the  canoe  was  saved  with 
the  exception  of  Mr.  Dooms,  who  did  not  come 
to  the  surface  again,  and  was  drowned  in  spite 
of  the  efforts  of  the  others,  who  were  all  good 
swimmers  and  divers. 

DORFFEL,  D.,  late  of  Johamiesbm'g,  where 
he  died  in  May  1904,  was  born  in  Saxony  in 
1857,  and  devoted  the  whole  of  liis  too  short 
career  to  scientific  and  technical  pursuits.  He 
went  to  S.A.  in  1895,  and  joined  the  staff  of 
Henderson's  Transvaal  Estates,  with  which 
Company  he  remained  up  to  his  death.  He 
occupied  a  prominent  position  amongst  local 
scientists,  and  was  on  the  Council  of  the  Geolo- 
gical Society. 

DUCHESNE-FOURNET,  Charles,  son  of 
the  Senator  of  the  Calvados,  died  Jan.,  1904,  in 
Abyssinia  at  the  age  of  29.  He  was  Knight  of 
the  Legion  of  Honour,  and  at  the  early  age 
of  twenty-seven  had  made  several  scientific 
expeditions  into  Abyssinia,  where  he  had  ren- 
dered signal  services  in  the  construction  of  the 
Harrar  railroad. 

GILL,  Professor  James,  who  died  in  the 
Cape  Colony  in  1904,  aged  71,  was  educated  at 
Christ's  Hospital  and  at  Pembroke  Coll.,  Cam- 
bridge. For  many  years  he  was  engaged  in 
educational  work,  and  taught  on  the  classical 
side  of  the  Graaff  Reinet,  Diocesan,  and  South 
African  Colls.  He  retired  into  private  life 
several  years  ago,  acquiring  a  large  piece  of 
land  on  the  mountain  side  at  Muizenberg,  in 
the  affairs  of  which  he  always  took  a  keen  inter- 
est, whilst  any  movement  having  for  its  aim  the 


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advance  of  education  invariably  found  in  him 
a  staunch  supporter. 

GORDON,  Fredeeick,  was  the  well-laiown 
Chairman  of  the  Gordon  Hotels,  Limited,  and 
Director  of  other  important  Cos.  Mr. 
Frederick  Gordon's  death  removed  a  notable 
man  from  commercial  and  financial  circles. 
The  enterprise  with  which  his  name  is  most 
naturally  identified  is  the  huge  combine  known 
as  the  Gordon  Hotels,  of  which  he  was  Chairman. 
Closely  allied,  although  the  imdertakings  are 
distinct,  is  the  Frederick  Hotels,  Ltd.,  from 
the  equipment  of  which  the  firm  of  Maple  & 
Co.,  Ltd.,  has  drawn  so  much  business.  Mr. 
Gordon,  besides  being  a  Director  of  Maple's, 
was  a  great  personal  friend  and  financial  asso- 
ciate of  the  late  Sir  John  Blundell  Maple,  and 
together  they  represented  the  original  monetary 
strength  behind  the  group  of  West  African 
mining  Cos.  of  which  the  Ashanti  Gold- 
fields  Corporation  is  the  chief.  Holborn  & 
Frascati,  Ltd.,  of  which  Mr.  Gordon  was  Chair- 
man, was  a  promotion  of  his,  quite  apart  from 
his  other  hotel  interests.  He  was  on  the  board 
of  such  important  industrial  Cos.  as  Bovril, 
Ltd.,  A.  &  F.  Pears,  Ltd.,  and  Apollinaris  & 
Johannis,  Ltd.  Recently  he  became  a  Director 
of  the  big  English  steel  combine  of  Guest,  Keen 
&  Nettlefolds,  Ltd. 

GOXJGH,  CoL.  Bloomfield,  late  of  the  9th 
Lancers,  who  was  killed  in  a  carriage  accident 
in  July,  1904,  had  a  notable  military  career. 
He  fought  in  the  Afghan  War  of  1878-80, 
taking  part  in  Lord  Roberts'  famous  march  to 
Kandahar,  and  in  the  first  part  of  the  last 
S.A.  War,  in  which  the  incident  occurred 
which  resvilted  in  his  retirenfient  from  the 
service.  During  Lord  Methuen's  advance,  just 
before  the  action  at  Graspan,  he  refused  to  go 
forward  on  the  grounds  that  his  men  and  horses 
were  too  exhausted  for  further  duty.  As  a 
result  of  his  protest  he  was  recalled  to  England, 
was  refused  a  court-martial,  although  his  per- 
sonal courage  was  never  disputed,  and  his  re- 
tirement followed. 

HAMILTON,  Francis  Joseph  Carroll, 
took  up  a  commission  in  the  Cape  Colonial 
Forces  in  1874.  He  served  as  a  Capt.  in  the 
Gaika-Galeka  War,  and  was  the  chief  colonial 
Staff  Oificer  sent  to  King  Williamstown  to  meet 
Gen.  Clark,  at  the  commencement  of  the  Basuto 
War,  through  which  he  served  in  command  of  a 
troop  of  Lonsdale's  Horse,  receiving  a  medal  and 


clasp.  While  in  King  Williamstown  he  was 
largely  instrumental  in  re-forming  the  local 
veterans  into  what  are  now  the  Kaffrarian 
Rifles.  He  died  at  Maritzburg  in  1902,  after  a 
long  and  painful  illness,  at  the  age  of  70. 

HARPER,  Capt,  E.  Moore,  served  in  the 
Ashanti  Expedition  of  1873-74,  and  in  the  Perak 
Expedition.  He  also  took  part  in  the  Basuto, 
Zulu,  and  Boer  campaigns.  While  employed 
in  the  Congo  Free  State  from  1883  to  1888,  he 
received  the  Orders  of  the  Congo  Star  and  the 
Leopold.  He  entered  the  service  of  the  Niger 
Company  in  1886,  organized  the  civil  police, 
and  acted  for  a  time  as  chief  magistrate.  He 
consequently  held  several  Consular  positions  in 
W.  Africa,  and  died  at  Plymouth,  Sept.  20, 
1902. 

HARRISON,  Major  Esme  Stuart  Erskine, 
D.S.O.,  son  of  the  late  Gen.  Broadley  Harrison, 
of  Kynaston,  Ross,  Herefordshire,  was  bom  in 
Sept.  1864,  and  entered  the  Army  as  a  Lieut, 
in  the  11th  Hussars  in  1885.  He  served  in  the 
last  Boer  War,  being  twice  mentioned  in  des- 
patches by  Sir  Redvers  Buller,  and  received 
the  D.S.O.  for  his  services.  He  died  suddenly 
dvu-ing  a  polo  game  at  Cairo  on  Nov.  1,  1902. 

KRiJGER,  Stephanus  Johannes  Paulus, 
ex-Pres.  of  the  S.A.  Republic,  a  summary  of 
whose  career  appears  on  pp.  96-100,  had  been 
in  bad  health  for  several  months,  when  on 
July  14,  1904,  he  expired  at  his  villa  at  Clarens, 
Switzerland,  death  being  due  to  senile  decay, 
hastened  by  an  attack  of  pneumonia.  For 
three  months  the  ex-Pres.  had  been  only  kept 
alive  by  continuous  massage.  But  at  last  he 
felt  the  end  coming.  Five  days  before  his 
death,  he  took  to  his  bed  and  Bible,  and  sur- 
rounded by  relatives  and  friends  he  bade  them 
all  farewell,  a  Dutch  pastor  administering 
the  sacrament.  Two  days  later  he  breathed 
his  last.  He  had  previously  made  a  piteous 
but  ineffectual  appeal  to  the  British  Govt, 
to  be  allowed  to  end  his  days  in  the  Transvaal. 
But  his  desire  to  be  bui'ied  in  Pretoria  by  the 
side  of  his  wife  met  with  a  ready  acquiescence 
from  the  Govt.  It  is  curious  that  the  British 
Minister  through  whom  his  last  appeal  was 
made  was  Sir  W.  Conyngham  Greene  (q.v.), 
who  received  from  Mr.  Kriiger,  under  far 
different  circimastances,  the  ultimatiun  of  the 
Transvaal   Govt,   before   the   great  Boer  War. 

LAURENT,     the     well-known     savant     and 


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botanist,  died  at  sea  on  board  the  Albert- 
ville  from  malaria.  When  the  news  of  the 
death  became  known  the  passengers  were  filled 
with  consternation.  Mr.  Fuchs,  the  Vice- 
Governor  of  the  Congo,  and  M.  Sparrow,  the 
capt.  of  the  Alhertinlle,  established  the  fact 
of  the  death  and  transacted  the  legal  formalities. 

LISTER,  Capt.  Hon.  T.,  D.S.O.,  late  of  the 
10th  Hussars,  was  the  heir  of  Lord  Ribblesdale, 
and  entered  the  Army  in  1879,  and  served  in 
the  S.A.  War,  taking  part  in  the  relief  of  Kim- 
berley  and  actions  on  the  march  to  Bloemfon- 
tein,  receiving  the  D.S.O.,  and  the  Queen's 
medal  with  six  clasps.  I-n  1903-4  Capt.  Lister 
served  under  Gen.  Egerton  in  the  Somali  Field 
Force  as  special  service  officer,  and  was  killed 
at  Jidballi  in  Jan.,  1904,  in  his  26th  year. 

LOVEJOY,  Capt.,  who  was  one  of  the 
youngest  captains  in  command  of  the  Congo 
steamers,  died  from  fever  early  last  May.  He 
was  28  years  of  age,  and  his  death  was  greatly 
regretted  in  the  Belgian   Colonial  service. 

LUCAS,  William  Tyitdall,  who  died  at 
Albany,  C.C,  in  1902,  aged  70,  was  the  son  of  an 
English  settler  of  1820.  At  the  age  of  seventeen 
the  deceased  gentleman  fought  with  the 
Grahamstown  Volunteers  in  the  Kafir  War  of 
1848,  and  in  the  campaign  of  1856-58  he 
served  as  an  officer  in  Sir  W^ alter  Currie's  police, 
being  severely  wounded.  He  married  a  dau. 
of  Gen.  Bissett. 

O'RIORDAN,  Capt.  Daniel  Patrick  O' Con- 
NELL,  of  the  Antrim  Artillery,  who  was  killed 
in  1904  in  the  operations  against  the  Aga- 
popo  tribes  at  Lakoja,  in  Northern  Nigeria,  was 
in  his  35th  year,  and  was  the  eldest  son  of 
Daniel  O'Connell  O'Riordan,  an  eminent  Q.C. 
of  the  Irish  Bar.  The  deceased  officer  was  a 
Gold  Medallist  of  Trinity  Coll.,  Dublin,  and 
had  served  for  five  years  in  Southern  Nigeria 
under  Sir  Ralph  Moore  before  being  transferred 
in  Oct.  1903,  to  perform  f duties  under  Sir 
Frederick  Lugard  which  have  brought  such  a 
tragic  close  to  a  promising  career. 

PAULING,  Harold,  Assoc.  M.  Inst,  C.E., 
late  of  Rondebosch,  C.C,  died  last  June 
from  peritonitis.  The  deceased  gentleman 
was  a  son  of  Mr.  Henry  Pauling,  late  chief 
engineer  of  the  Cape  Govt.  Railways,  and  a 
cousin  of  Mr.  Geo.  Pauling,  of  Victoria  Street,S.  W. 
He  was  born  at  the  Cape  some  thirty-nine  years 


ago  ;  commenced  his  professional  career  as  a 
Govt,  civil  engineer,  and  then  devoted  his 
abilities  to  railway  construction  and  contract- 
ing. He  was  practically  the  principal  of  Pauling 
&  Co.  in  S.A.,  and  imder  his  direction  some 
2,000  miles  of  railway  have  been  constructed 
in  Cape  Colony  and  Rhodesia.  Mr.  Pauling 
was  to  have  left  Cape  Town  for  the  north  for 
the  purpose  of  formally  handing  over  the 
line  to  the  Rhodesian  Railway  Co.  Few 
men  had  more  friends,  or  have  been  more 
generally  respected. 

PEACH,  Major  Edmund  (Indian  Staff 
Corps)  ;  served  with  the  Burmese  Expedition 
from  1885  to  1887,  and  was  wounded  in  the 
course  of  the  operations.  In  1897-8  he  took 
part  in  the  Tirah  Expedition.  He  was  selected 
for  special  service  with  the  Rhodesian  Field 
Force  in  March,  1900,  and  took  part  in  the 
operations  in  Rhodesia  in  Maj--,  and  in  the 
Western  Transvaal  from  July  to  Nov.,  including 
the  actions  at  Eland's  River  in  Aug.  He  also 
served  in  the  O.R.C.,and  the  northern  part  of 
Cape  Colony.  He  was  mentioned  in  despatches 
and  obtained  brevet  of  Major  dated  Nov.  29, 1900, 
receiving  the  medal  with  three  clasps.  In  Feb., 
1902,  he  resumed  the  position  of  Deputy -Asst. 
Quartermaster-Gen.  at  the  Headquarters  of  the 
Army  in  India.  Maj.  Peach  was  a  qualified 
interpreter  in  Russian,  and  was  also  acquainted 
with  French,  Hindustani,  and  Persian.  He 
wrote  the  history  of  the  Burmah  War  for  the 
"  Encyclopsedia  Britannica,"  and  published  a 
work  on  "  Tactics :  Savage  Warfare."  He  died 
in  London,  Dec.  17,  1902,  at  the  age  of  37. 

PRINSLOO,  Gen.,  was  a  native  of  the 
O.F.S.,  and  his  name  will  live  in  S.A.  history 
as  the  only  Boer  General  besides  Cronje  who 
surrendered  with  a  large  force  to  the  British. 
With  Comdt.  Olivier  he  had  about  5,500  mounted 
men  and  eight  guns,  and  in  July  1901  was 
in  the  neighboiu-hood  of  Bethlehem.  Gen. 
Hunter  had  charge  of  the  operations  against 
this  force,  and  with  the  aid  of  columns  under 
Gens.  Rundie,  Clements,  Paget,  MacDonald, 
and  Bruce  Hamilton,  he  nursed  the  Boers 
to  the  south  of  Bethlehem,  and  eventually 
rounded  them  up  in  the  Brandwater  Basin, 
where  Gen.  Prinsloo  siirrendered  on  July  30 
vinconditionally,  but  Olivier  declijied  to  be 
bound  by  the  action  of  his  superior,  and  broke 
away  with  1,500  men  'and  five  guns.  There 
had  been  considerable  friction  in  the  Boer 
camp,   and   in   Gen.    De   Wet's   book,   "  Three 


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Years'  War,"  a  strong  attack  is  made  upon 
Prinsloo,  whose  right  to  command  the  force  was 
disputed,  because  of  irregularities  in  his  election 
in  the  field,  and  whose  stxrrender  was  attributed 
to  treachery.  Gen.  Prinsloo  was  the  most 
important  of  the  "  hands-uppers."  and  his 
conduct  in  making  the  surrender — though 
the  circumstances  were,  in  a  military  sense,  such 
as  afforded  him  no  reasonable  alternative — 
drew  down  upon  him  the  detestation  of  the 
extreme  section  of  his  countrymen. 

RHODES,  Right  Hon.   Cecil  John,  P.C, 
late  of  Groot  Schuur,  near  Capt  Town,   came 
from  a  stock  which  records  sonae  two  hundred 
years  old  state  to  have  belonged  to  the  yeoman 
class.       The  first  of  Mr.  Rhodes'  ancestors  who 
can   be  traced  with   any  certainty  was  a  man 
of  some  substance   flourisliing  at  the  beginning 
of    the    eighteenth    century.     He    acquired    an 
estate  in  Bloomsbury,  where  he  had  consider- 
able flocks.     By  the  time  the  late  Cecil  Rhodes' 
grandfather  appeared  on  the  scene  the  family 
had  already  attained  to  a  prosperous  position. 
Samuel  Rhodes,  great-grandfather  of  the  great 
Englishman    whose   death   has   left   so   serious 
a   void,    founded   two   county   families    in    the 
persons    of    his    sons    Thomas    and    William. 
William  Rhodes  was  succeeded  in  his  estate  by 
his    son,    the    Rev.    Francis    William    Rhodes, 
Vicar  of  Bishop's  Stortford,  Herts,   and    Cecil 
John   Rhodes   was   born   at   the    Vicarage    on 
July  5,   1853,  within  a  couple  of  years  of  the 
time  when  the  Transvaal  State  was  accorded 
its    full    independence    under    the    Sand    River 
Convention,  and  a  few  months  after  the  British 
Govt,   decided  to   abandon  the  sovereignty  of 
the    O.F.S.     For    eight    years   he  attended  the 
Bishop's  Stortford   Grammar    School,  pursuing 
his  studies  with  that  diligence  and  dogged  deter- 
mination which  was  one  of    his   most  striking 
characteristics,   and,   in  spite  of  some   physical 
weakness,  taking  part  in   field   sports.     He  left 
school  at  the  end  of  1869,  and  shortly  afterwards 
developed    a   serious   lung  affection,  which  was 
responsible  for  Mr.  Rhodes  taking  a  long  sea  trip 
to   S.A.     On  Sept.  1,  1870,  three  years  after  the 
discovery  of  the  first  diamond,  which  led  to  the 
opening  up  of  the  Diamond  Fields,  in  the  subse- 
quent exploitation  of  which  he  was  destined  to 
play  such  an  important  part,  he  landed  at  Durban, 
Natal,   and  joined  his  eldest  brother  Herbert, 
who  was  a  cotton-planter  in  the  southern   part 
of  the  Colony.     Here,  thanks  to  the  favourable 
climatic   influences,    before   many   months   had 
passed  he  was  restored  to  health  and  vigour. 


Having  tired  of  the  prosaic  life  of  cotton- 
planting,  the  elder  brother  in  1871  went  to 
the  Diamond  Fields,  where  he  engaged  in 
the  more  exciting  occupation  of  diamond - 
digging,  and  a  few  months  later  Cecil  Rhodes 
journeyed  to  Kimberley  for  the  purpose  of  seek- 
ing his  fortmie  in  the  same  industry.  The 
brothers  worked  a  claim  between  them  for  a 
time,  when,  in  1874,  Herbert  left  the  Diamond 
Fields  on  a  hunting  and  exploring  expedition 
in  the  interior,  in  the  course  of  which  he  met 
with  an  untimely  and  terrible  death,  near  the 
Shire  River,  through  the  burning  of  his  hut 
during  the  night. 

Between  the  years  1873  and  1881  Mr.  Rhodes 
was  very  successful  on  the  diamond  diggings, 
and  it  was  during  that  period  that  he  laid  the 
foimdation  of  the  great  wealth  he  subsequently 
acquired  and  so  liberally  spent  for  the  purpose 
of  promoting  and  carrying  out  those  schemes 
of  Imperial  expansion  which  have  made  bis 
name  a  household  word  even  to  the  most 
distant  parts  of  the  Empire.  But  Mr.  Rhodes 
was  more  than  a  diamond  digger.  With  one 
eye  on  his  work  and  the  other  on  his  books  he 
managed  to  complete  that  education  which  had 
been  begun  at  Bishop's  Stortford,  and  from 
1873  to  1881  he  put  in  a  portion  of  each  year 
at  Oriel  Coll.,  Oxon,  where  he  graduated  B.A. 
and  M.A.,  and  where  he  became  acquainted 
with  Mr.  Rochfort  Maguire,  who  subsequently 
became  associated  with  his  political  and  com- 
mercial enterprises.  At  the  same  tim.e  he 
stored  up  that  intimate  knowledge  of  Colonial 
politics  and  questions  affecting  British  interests 
in  S.A.,  which  in  later  years  proved  to  be  of 
such  immense  practical  value  to  him. 

When  he  first  began  to  take  an  interest  in 
S.A.  polities  Mr.  Rhodes  recognized  the  im- 
portance of  British  expansion  northwards,  and 
of  the  eventual  federation  of  the  various 
Colonies  and  States  in  S.A.,  and  he  determined 
to  devote  his  powers  and  his  energies  to  the 
attainment  of  those  objects.  Influences  were 
at  work,  the  aim  of  which  was  practically  to 
confine  Great  Britain  in  S.A.  to  Cape  Colony 
and  Natal ;  and  it  was  in  the  hope  of  being 
able  to  circumvent  the  enemies  of  his  country, 
and  to  secure  the  lion's  share  of  Africa  for  the 
British,  that  Mr.  Rhodes  resolved  to  attain  such 
a  position  as  would  enable  him  to  carry  out  his 
aims.  For  this  not  only  parliamentary  power 
was  necessary  but,  what  was  even  more 
important,  great  wealth.  Fortune,  in  the  early 
days  in  Kimberley,  had  smiled  somewhat 
liberally  upon  him,  and  he  was  making  money 


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and  building  up  a  reputation  as  a  young  man 
possessed  of  more  than  ordinary  foresight  and 
ability,  when,  in  the  latter  part  of  1880,  he 
was  elected  to  represent  the  district  of  Barkly 
West  in  the  House  of  Assembly.  He  con- 
tinued to  represent  Barkly  West  to  the  day 
of  his  death,  the  large  majority  of  the  electors, 
in  spite  of  strenuous  opposition  and  misrepre- 
sentation at  election  times,  loyally  supporting 
their  distingviished  member,  in  whom  they 
took  more  than  an  ordinary  interest.  After 
the  death  of  his  brother  in  1877  Mr.  Rhodes 
entered  into  partnership  with  Mr.  C.  D.  Rudd 
(q.v.),  who,  like  himself,  had  gone  out  to  S.A. 
in  search  of  health  as  well  as  fortune.  In 
addition  to  working  hard  in  their  diamond  claims 
and  carrying  on  their  business  as  diamond 
merchants,  the  partners  engaged  in  a  variety 
of  schemes,  nothing  coming  amiss  which  pro- 
mised a  profit.  About  the  same  time  Mr. 
Rhodes  formed  that  friendship  with  Dr.  Jame- 
son which  was  destined  to  have  such  remarkable 
consequences.  In  those  earlier  years  of  schem- 
ing and  money  getting  Mr.  Rhodes  never  lost 
sight  of  the  idea  of  northern  expansion,  and 
his  friends  Icnew  how  intensely  he  longed  to 
see  the  British  flag  carried  forward  to  the 
Zambesi.  His  principal  confidant  in  politics 
seems  to  have  been  Dr.  Jameson  (q.v.),  and 
while  these  two  were  discussing  this  question 
of  British  Expansion  in  Africa,  the  late  Mr. 
Kriiger  was  dreaming  dreams  of  an  equally 
ambitious  nature.  There  were  thus  two  pro- 
minent expansionists  in  S.A.  in  those  early 
days — the  one  aiming  at  seciaring  the  hinterland 
for  Great  Britain,  and  the  other  seeking  to 
extend  the  Boer  flag  as  far  as  the  Zambesi. 
Very  early  in  his  political  career,  therefore, 
Mr.  Rhodes  realized  that  he  was  confronted 
with  considerable  difficulties,  as  the  Cape 
Dutch  strongly  sympathized  wath  the  aspirations 
of  the  Boers  of  the  north,  and  he  recognized 
that  extreme  caution  was  necessary,  and  that 
particularly  he  would  have  to  show  the  Cape 
Dutch  that  their  self-interest  was  being  served 
by  supporting  his  efforts  at  expansion. 

Mr.  Rhodes  took  his  seat  in  the  Cape  Legisla- 
tive Assembly  in  1881,  and  he  was  soon  re- 
cognized as  a  man  of  extraordinary  promise 
who  was  destined  to  attain  a  high  place  amongst 
S.A.  politicians.  His  maiden  speech  was  against 
the  proposal  to  disarm  the  Basutos,  and  it 
was  while  serving  as  a  member  of  a  commission 
to  compensate  the  natives  of  that  country 
who  had  not  taken  up  arms  against  the  Cape 
of    Good    Hope    that  Mr.  Rhodes  formed  that 


friendship  with  Gen.  Gordon  which  endured 
until  the  latter' s  death.  One  of  the  first  im- 
portant occasions  in  which  Mr.  Rhodes  pitted 
himself  against  the  ex-Pres.  of  the  S.A.R.  was 
in  connection  with  the  Stellaland  Commission 
of  which  he  (Mr.  Rhodes)  was  a  member.  A 
number  of  Transvaal  adventurers  had  set  vip 
some  small  republics  in  parts  of  Bechuanaland, 
more  or  less  with  the  connivance  of  Mr.  Kriiger, 
with  the  intention  of  barring  British  progress 
northwards,  and  expanding  the  border  of 
the  Transvaal  in  a  westerly  direction.  This 
was  the  interpretation  which  Mr.  Rhodes 
placed  upon  the  presence  of  the  freebooting 
Boers  in  Stellaland,  and  Goshen,  and  subsequent 
events  showed  that  he  was  right.  After  much 
negotiation,  the  freebooters  were  cleared  out 
by  a  bloodless  expedition  under  Sir  Charles 
Warren,  and  the  first  step  in  the  direction  of 
northern  expansion  was  gained.  This  helped 
to  bring  the  question  of  a  Protectorate  over 
Bechuanaland  to  an  acute  stage,  Mr.  Rhodes 
being  assisted  in  this  by  precipitate  action  on 
the  part  of  Germany.  The  ambition  of  that 
Power  to  obtain  a  foothold  in  S.A. — an  ambi- 
tion foreshadowing  a  possible  German-Boer 
alliance — stirred  the  Colonial  Office  into  activity. 
The  Protectorate  was  authorized  at  the  time 
when  the  London  Convention  of  1884  had 
been  granted  to  the  Transvaal,  and  mainly  at 
the  instance  of  Mr.  Rhodes  ;  but  it  was  almost 
too  late.  Mr.  Kriiger  boldly  annexed  Montsoia's 
country.  The  Imperial  Government,  however, 
refused  to  recognize  this  action,  the  boundaries 
of  the  Republic  having  been  fixed  by  the  new 
Convention,  and  demanded  the  withdrawal 
of  the  proclamation.  To  strengthen  the  demand 
Sir  Charles  Warren's  troops  were  moved  north- 
wards, and  Mr.  Kriiger  was  immediately  brought 
to  his  bearings.  He  came  to  Fourteen  Streams 
to  discuss  matters  with  Sir  Charles  Warren  and 
Mr.  Rhodes. 

Mr.  Rhodes'  share  in  clearing  the  Boers  out 
of  Bechuanaland  directed  attention  to  his 
expansion  scheme,  and  the  ideas  which  in- 
fluenced his  conduct  in  this  affair  were  set  forth 
in  one  of  his  speeches  at  the  time.  He  said  : 
"  Do  you  think  that  if  the  Transvaal  had 
Bechuanaland  it  would  be  allowed  to  keep  it  ? 
Would  not  Bismarck  have  some  quarrel  with  the 
Transvaal,  and  without  resources  (financial 
collapse  in  Pretoria  was  then  imminent), 
without  men,  what  could  they  do  ?  Germany 
would  come  across  from  her  settlement  at  Angra 
Pequena.  There  would  be  some  excuse  to  pick 
a  quarrel — some  question  of  brandy,  or  guns. 


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or  something — and  then  Gerixia,ny  would  stretch 
from    Angra     Pequeiia     to     Delagoa     Bay.     1 
was  never  more  satisfied  with  my  own  views 
than    when    I    saw    the    recent  development  of 
the    policy    of    Germany,     What    was    the    bar 
in     Germany's     way  ?     Bechuanaland.     What 
was  the  use  to  her  of  a  few  sand  heaps  at  Angra 
Pequena  ?     And  what  was  the  use  of  the  arid 
deserts  between  Angra  Pequeiia  and  the  interior 
with    this    English    and    Colonial    bar    between 
her  and  the  Transvaal  ?     If  we  were  to  stop 
at    Griqualand    West,    the    ambitious    objects 
of  Germany  would  be  attained."     Bechuanaland 
was,  in  fact,  the  key  to  the  question  of  British 
supremacy  in  S.A.,  and,  Mr.  Kriiger  having  been 
defeated  in  his  endeavours  to  extend  the  borders 
of  his  Repubhc,   and  Germany's  ambition  for 
empire  in  Africa  having  been  curtailed,  the  road 
was  opened  for  the   northern  expansion,  which 
had   for   years   been   Mr.    Rhodes'    high   ideal. 
In  pursuing  his  policy   he   did  not  lose   sight 
of  the   fact   that   he   could   only   be   successful 
by   having   the   co-operation   of   the   Dutch   in 
Cape  Colony,  and  by  cultivating  good  political 
relations   with    the    Transvaal ;     but     although 
the   Bond   was    all  powerful,    he    resolutely   re- 
fused to  work  in  subservience  to  it.     He  never 
for   a  moment   turned   aside  from  his  plan  of 
extending   the   Empire   to   the    north,    and    of 
establishing   a   United   South  Africa  under   the 
British   flag  ;    but  this  could  only  be   done   by 
welding  the   two   white  races  together,  by  sink- 
ing all  differences,   so   that  the  native  question 
might  be  dealt  with  independently  of  the  friction 
between   Dutch   and   British,    and   on   vmiform 
principles  throughout  the  States  of  S.A.     The 
part  Mr.  Rhodes  played  in  checkmating  Kriiger' s 
designs    in    Bechuanaland    was    his    first    con- 
spicuous  service   to   the   Empire  ;     it   was   the 
first  of  a  long  series  of  splendid  siiccesses  in  a 
direction  which  continued  without  intermission 
down  to  that  date  at  the  end  of  1895,  when  his 
direct    power    for    usefulness    was    checked    by 
the   fact   that   he   associated  himself   with   the 
movement  for  the  relief  of  the  Uitlanders  which 
resulted  in  failure. 

Mr.  Rhodes  first  attained  Cabinet  rank  on 
March  20,  1884,  when  he  joined  Sir  Thomas 
Scanlan's  Ministry  as  Treasxarer  of  the  Cape 
Colony.  Tliis  Cabinet,  however  only  lasted 
until  May  12  of  the  same  year.  On  July  17, 
1890,  he  became  Premier  and  Commissioner  of 
Crown  Lands  and  Public  W^orks.  He  relin- 
quished that  portfolio  on  Sept.  23,  1890,  but 
retained  the  premiership  until  May  3,  1893, 
when  he  formed  his  second  Ministry  without 


portfolio.     This  lasted  until  Jan.  12,  189G,  when 
the  raid  made  his  resignation  necessary. 

The  success  which  attended  Mr.  Rhodes' 
efforts  to  bar  the  ambition  of  Mr.  Kxiiger 
to  draw  a  cordon  across  the  British  advance  to 
the  northwards  spurred  him  to  continue  in 
the  path  he  had  marked  out  for  himself,  and 
strengthened  his  resolve  to  keep  open  the  road 
for  the  Empire.  It  was  not  only  the  Dutch 
he  had  to  fear ;  Germany  had  shown  that, 
given  a  favourable  opportiuiity,  she  would 
swoop  down  upon  Mashonaland  and  Matabeleland. 
At  that  time  the  mineral  resources  of  these 
countries  were  not  suspected.  The  desire 
of  the  ultra-Colonial  party  at  Berlin  to  possess 
themselves  of  this  territory  was  largely  due  to 
those  ulterior  motives  Mr.  Rhodes  so  clearly 
foreshadowed  in  the  speech  already  quoted. 
All  the  time  he  was  bending  his  energies  to 
acquire  money  he  was  thinking  of  the  main 
purposes  for  which  he  desired  it,  and  maturing 
his  schemes  for  bringing  those  purposes  to 
matiirity.  It  would  occupy  too  much  space  to 
attempt  to  give  here  the  history  of  aU  the 
movements  which  led  up  to  the  occupation  of 
Lobengula's  territory.  Suffice  it  to  say  he 
succeeded  in  checkmating  the  designs  both 
of  Mr.  Kriiger  and  his  satellites  and  of  the 
powerful  Berlin  Syndicate,  secretly  backed 
by  a  great  firm  of  German  bankers.  He  de 
cided  upon  applying  British  red  to  that  portion 
of  the  S.A.  map  lying  between  the  Limpopo 
on  the  south,  Lake  Tanganyika  on  the  north, 
and  the  Portuguese  possessions  on  the  east  and 
west. 

Meantime,  however,  a  similar  idea  had  oc- 
curred to  Mr.  George  Cawston  (q.v.).  A  few 
months  later,  Mr.  Rhodes  induced  Mr.  C.  D. 
Rudd  (q.v.)  to  make  a  jottrney  to  Bulawayo, 
with  the  object  of  obtaining  a  concession  over 
those  regions  ruled  by  Lobengula.  In  this  he 
was  successful,  and  obtained  from  the  Matabele 
chief  a  concession  embracing  the  whole  of 
Matabeleland  and  Mashonaland.  Subsequent 
treaties  with  other  native  chieftains,  and 
absorption  of  other  concessions,  increased  this 
area  to  about  750,000  square  miles.  The 
romantic  story  of  the  occupation  of  Mashona- 
land by  Major  Johnson's  Pioneer  Force,  guided 
by  Mr.  Selous  (q.v.),  is  too  famiUar  to  need 
repetition  here.  The  terrible  privations  en- 
dured by  the  settlers  in  the  new  country  have 
been  referred  to  in  the  lives  of  Dr.  Jameson 
(q.v.)  and  Major  Frank  Johnson  (q.v.).  But 
the  "African  Review"  has  recorded  how,  in 
the   face   of   much   discouragement   and   great 


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difficulties,  the  gold  districts  were  opened  up, 
townships  were  built,  agriculture  was  initiated, 
and  law  and  order  established  in  a  land  which 
had  been  made  hideous  during  the  preceding 
half  century  by  scenes  of  Matabele  rapine  and 
bloodshed.  In  the  settlement  of  Rhodesia, 
Mr.  Rhodes  carried  the  Cape  Dutch  with  him, 
at  all  events  in  a  large  measure.  He  had  pre- 
viously conciliated  them.  He  had  shown  him- 
self in  the  Cape  Parliament  extremely  mindful 
of  the  interests  of  the  Dutch  farmers.  It  took 
him  a  considerable  time  to  bring  the  Dutch  to 
his  side,  but  he  succeeded  in  the  end. 

Having  gained  the  concession  from  Loben- 
gula,  the  next  step — procuring  a  charter  from 
the  Imperial  Govt. — was  fraught  with 
considerable  difficulties ;  but  twenty  months 
after  the  original  concession  was  granted,  the 
cliarter  of  the  British  S.A.  Co.  came  into  exist- 
ence. Then  followed  a  period  of  active 
pioneering  ;  the  settlers,  when  the  pioneer  force 
was  disbanded,  spread  themselves  all  over  the 
land.  However,  the  greater  difficulties  were 
still  to  come.  The  Matabele  War  of  1893  was 
a  small  matter  compared  with  the  rebellion  of 
1896.  But  the  way  in  which  Mr.  Rhodes 
grasped  the  fact  that  the  game  of  war  was  not 
worth  the  candle,  and,  recognising  this,  the 
readiness  with  which  he  completely  changed 
his  plan  from  fighting  to  "  dealing"  are  telling 
examples  of  his  resoiu'cefulness  and  judgment. 
The  plucky  way  in  which  he  went  unarmed  into 
the  Matoppo  Hills  to  treat  with  the  indunas  will 
ever  be  a  subject  of  admiration  to  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  race.  Mr.  Rhodes'  next  move  was  the 
acquisition  of  Barotseland,  which  was  another 
step  in  the  direction  of  hemming  in  the  Trans- 
vaal with  British  territory,  and  keeping  open 
the  northern  rovxte  for  the  great  Cape  to  Cairo 
Railway,  which,  it  was  his  aim,  should  run 
through  all  British  country.  The  Afrikander 
Bond  tried  to  make  a  condition  of  their  sup- 
port the  stipulation  that  any  further  extension 
northwards  should  be  by  the  way  of  the  railway 
from  the  Cape  through  the  Boer  Republics. 
But  it  was  not  in  Rhodes'  scheme  of  things  to 
give  these  Republics  the  control  of  the  interior 
trade.  Presently  he  got  the  line  extended  as 
far  as  Mafeking.  The  Bechuanaland  Railway 
Co.  was  formed,  and,  notwithstanding  all  the 
obstacles  presented  by  the  Matabele  Rebellion 
and  the  rinderpest,  Bulawayo  was  reached  in 
due  season.  Concurrently  telegraphic  com- 
munication was  pushed  on,  going  in  front  as 
the  harbinger  of  the  railway.  AH  manner  of 
evil  predictions  were  adventured,  but  none  of 


these  prophecies  have  been  fulfilled.  In  con- 
structing the  telegraph  line  Mr.  Rhodes'  chief 
concern  was  to  make  it  the  advance  guard  of 
the  railway,  that  great  linking  agency  between 
man  and  man  of  modern  civilization  ;  but  he 
also  had  an  eye  to  the  fact  that  as  a  commercial 
enterprise  it  would  prove  an  extremely  re- 
munerative affair.  In  the  prosecution  of  this 
work,  Sir  Charles  Metcalfe  rendered  Mr.  Rhodes 
effective  service.  It  may  be  said  here  paren- 
thetically that  Mr.  Rhodes  had  to  the  full  that 
peculiar  instinct  which  enabled  him  to  choose 
his  friends  and  co-workers  with  unerring  judg- 
ment, and  that  his  magnificent  successes  are 
as  much  due  to  this  faculty  as  to  any  other 
cause.  He  was  not  destined  to  see  the  accom- 
plishment of  this  great  scheme,  the  Cape  to 
Cairo  Railway  ;  biit  he  lived  long  enough  to  be 
assured  that  he  left  it  in  hands  which  might  be 
counted  \ipon  to  bring  it  to  a  successful  issue. 
The  greatest  difficulty  Mr.  Rhodes  had  to  con- 
tend with  in  the  prosecution  of  this  great  design 
confronted  him  when  he  foimd  that  in  the 
various  international  arrangements  made  with 
Belgium  and  Germany  the  British  Govt, 
failed  to  make  provision — at  whatever  cost,  it 
should  have  been  made — for  the  retention  or 
acquisition  by  Great  Britain  of  a  strip  of  terri- 
tory, however  slender,  which  would  connect 
her  possessions  in  Central  Africa  with  the 
territory  under  her  protection  in  North  Africa. 
In  order  to  get  over  this  obstacle,  Mr.  Rhodes 
came  to  an  arrangement  with  the  authorities 
of  the  Congo  Free  State  ;  but,  to  make  assur- 
ance doubly  sure,  he  sought  and  was  accorded 
an  interview  with  the  Kaiser,  and  so  impressed 
the  German  Emperor  with  the  soundness  of 
his  case  that,  while  guarding  to  the  full  all 
German  interests  and  rights,  he  gave  Mr. 
Rhodes  permission  to  carry  his  line  through 
German  territory. 

There  are  innumerable  aspects  of  the  varied 
and  complex  personality  of  the  subject  of  this 
memoir  which  it  is  impossible  to  deal  with  at 
length.  It  would,  in  fact,  be  interesting  to 
follow  Mr.  Rhodes'  career  as  a  Cape  Colonial, 
in  contradistinction  to  an  Imperial,  politician ; 
but  obviously  the  only  part  of  his  career  which 
has  any  particular  general  interest  outside 
narrow  limits,  seeing  that  such  details  are  quite 
luiinteresting  as  concerning  the  giants  of  the 
Imperial  Parliament,  is  that  part  of  it  which 
has  to  do  with  those  great  Imperial  problems 
which  temporarily  were  localized  in  Cape 
Colony.  It  may  be  noted,  however,  that  his 
policy  was  to  disarm    effective    opposition,    by 


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splitting  his  opponents  into  groups  when  he 
could  not  convert  them  to  his  views.  By  hook 
or  by  crook  he  eliminated  his  political  enemies. 
Indeed,  he  achieved  some  success,  employing 
similar  tactics,  in  regard  to  the  statesmen  and 
politicians  of  the  Old  Country.  Eminently 
practical  in  all  that  he  did,  he  bent  himself  to 
the  task  of  conciliating  the  Dutch,  and 
endeavouring  to  bring  them  to  a  sound  ap- 
preciation of  their  own  interests.  Witness  the 
Scab  Act,  which  afterwards,  vitiated  by  per- 
missive clauses,  has  failed  to  exercise  the 
beneficent  influence  it  would  have  exercised 
but  for  those  later  amendments.  The  pro- 
visions of  the  Scab  Act  in  its  purity  would  have 
saved  the  Dutch  and  English  farmers — and  as 
the  farmers  are  mostly  Dutch,  this  was  a 
measure  especially  concerning  the  Afrikanders 
— from  the  cruel  loss  which  the  prevalence  of 
disease  among  the  sheep  of  the  country  inflicted 
upon  them.  Then,  as  regards  the  natives,  Mr. 
Rhodes  approached  them  with  sympathy  shorn 
of  sentimentality.  The  Glen  Grey  Act,  a 
masterpiece  of  constructive  statesmanship, 
though  primarily  designed — that  is  to  say,  on 
the  face  of  it — in  the  interests  of  the  white 
settlers,  and  especially  the  employers  of  labour, 
w^as  really  a  measure  pregnant  with  happy 
auguries  for  the  natives  themselves.  If  the 
natives  continue  to  increase  and  multiply  in 
idleness  in  their  kraals,  discontent  must  in- 
evitably result,  and  discontent  must  breed  the 
poison  of  sedition  and  rebellion.  In  the  rup- 
ture between  whites  and  blacks  which  would 
inevitably  follow,  the  blacks  would  be  the 
greater  and  the  final  sufferers.  The  Glen 
Grey  Act,  and  indeed  all  Mr.  Rhodes'  legislative 
and  philanthropic  actions  in  regard  to  the 
natives,  were  based  on  sound  common  sense, 
infused  with  sympathy  and  sustained  by  know- 
ledge. Like  all  Mr.  Rhodes'  public  and  private 
acts,  his  attitude  toward  the  native  question 
was  tinctured  with  imagination.  Mr.  Rhodes 
in  this,  as  in  all  things,  looked  not  merely  to 
the  reqiiirements  of  the  immediate  moment  ; 
he  was  never  content  to  patch  up  a  convenient 
modus  Vivendi  which  left  out  of  account  the 
futiire.  On  the  contrary,  he  discounted  that 
future,  and  his  policy  was  always  conceived 
and  carried  out  with  a  view  to  its  ultimate 
effect. 

As  we  understand  political  parties  in  Eng- 
land, Mr.  Rhodes  was  a  Liberal.  He  believed 
in  the  policy  of  according  the  various  com- 
ponent sections  of  the  British  race  the  fullest 
measure   of   local   self-government   possible,   so 


long  as  this  liberty  did  not  in  any  way  impinge 
upon  the  Imperial  unity  he  desired  so  fervently 
to  further,  and  did  so  much  to  conserve.  He 
had,  of  course,  an  ulterior  political  motive  in 
giving  those  much-debated  cheques  to  Mr. 
Parnell  and  Mr.  Schnadhorst.  But  he  was 
primarily  influenced  by  his  prepossession  in 
favour  of  the  idea  of  local  decentralization  plus 
Imperial  centralization.  In  this,  as  in  one  or 
two  other  matters,  Mr.  Rhodes  allowed  the 
proleptic  quality  he  possessed  of  projecting 
himself  into  the  future  to  carry  him  away. 
Home  Rvile  for  Ireland  in  conjunction  with  a 
general  scheme  for  the  readjustment  of  the 
local  and  Imperial  government  of  the  Empire 
is  an  exceedingly  sound  proposition.  As  de- 
tached therefrom  it  is  a  political  impossibility. 
This  Mr.  Rhodes  would  have  been  the  first  to 
allow.  Unfortunately,  he  permitted  his  san- 
guine spirit  to  make  him  for  the  moment  too 
"  previous." 

It  will  always  be  a  difficult  matter  to  under- 
stand Mr.  Rhodes'  true  connexion  with  the 
Reform  Movement  in  the  Transvaal.  As 
Managing  Director  of  the  Consolidated  Gold- 
fields  Co.  his  interference  was  as  justifiable  as 
that  of  any  other  member  of  the  Committee, 
but  in  his  capacity  as  Premier  of  the  Cape 
Colony  and  Managing  Director  of  the  Chartered 
Co.  his  position  was  extremely  difficult.  Mr. 
Rhodes,  who  was  represented  on  the  Reform 
Committee  by  his  brother.  Col.  Frank  Rhodes, 
avowed  that  his  intentions  were  merely  to 
obtain  such  amelioration  of  the  conditions  as 
he  was  entitled  to  claim  as  representing  an 
enormous  amount  of  capital  invested  in  the 
Transvaal.  He  also  aimed  at  Free  Trade  in 
S.A.  products.  Other  matters  there  were — 
Customs  Union,  Railway  Convention,  etc., 
but  they,  he  said,  would  follow  in  time.  He 
stated  that  if  these  objects  were  obtained  the 
expense  of  keeping  Jameson's  men  on  the 
border  would  be  amply  repaid.  Some  people 
averred  that  it  was  Mr.  Rhodes'  intention  to 
seize  and  annex  the  Transvaal  to  Rhodesia, 
but  it  was  never  seriously  credited.  How- 
ever there  was  evidently  considerable  suspicion, 
even  amongst  the  Reform  leaders,  that  Mr. 
Rhodes  was  utilizing  the  Reform  Committee 
and  the  Rhodesian  troops  to  ultimately  plant 
the  Union  Jack  in  Pretoria  in  the  place  of  the 
Transvaal  flag.  This,  however,  was  the  one 
point  upon  which  Johannesbui'g  was  united. 
The  Republic  must  be  maintained,  but  under 
wider  constitutional  powers  which  should  give 
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subjects.  So  strong  was  this  feeling  on  the 
question  of  the  flag  that  special  emissaries 
were  sent  to  Cape  Town  to  obtain  assurances 
from  Mr.  Rhodes  on  the  point.  These  assur- 
ances were  given,  and  Mr.  Rhodes  telegraphed 
to  Dr.  Jameson  to  restrain  him  from  taking 
that  independent  action  which  his  impatience 
had  threatened  (see  Dr.  Jameson's  Life).  But 
little  is  to  be  gained  now  by  dwelling  at  length 
on  that  unhappy  business.  The  provocation 
must  not  be  forgotten.  To  a  man  of  Mr. 
Rhodes'  temperament  and  power  of  looking 
into  the  future  it  was  well-nigh  impossible  to 
sit  down  quietly,  while  successive  Imperial 
Governments  and  Cape  Ministers  paltered  with 
the  situation  in  S.A.  Mr.  Kriiger  and  his 
friends  and  myrmidons  were  leaving  no  stone 
unturned  to  make  the  position  of  the  British, 
and,  indeed,  of  all  aliens  other  than  their  own 
allies,  impossible  in  the  Transvaal,  and  to 
eliininate  the  Imperial  factor  in  S.A.  gene- 
rally. All  efforts  at  redress  in  the  S.A.R. 
proving  abortive  ;  the  Uitlanders  repeatedly 
told  from  this  side  that  if  they  wanted  relief 
they  must  take  steps  to  secure  it  from  within, 
Mr.  Rhodes  ultimately  determined  to  lend 
them  a  helping  hand.  Arms  were  smuggled 
into  Johannesbvu'g,  and  Dr.  Jameson's  armed 
force  was  stationed  on  the  border.  It  is  im- 
possible to  say  whether,  given  fair  luck  instead 
of  "  rank  bad  luck,"  given  discreet  subor- 
dinates, this  ill-judged  attempt,  would  or  could 
have  proved  successful.  In  any  case,  it  re- 
sulted in  dire  failure,  and  it  is  not  too  much 
to  say  the  event  itself,  and  what  grew  out  of 
it,  must  have  had  the  effect  of  shortening  by 
many  years  the  most  useful  life  in  S.A.  In 
dismissing  it,  it  is  sufficient  to  quote  and  en- 
dorse Mr.  Chamberlain's  famous  statement  in 
the  House  of  Commons,  which,  while  recog- 
nizmg  the  political  fault,  asserted  that  nothing 
existed  "  which  affected  Mr.  Rhodes'  personal 
character  as  a  man  of  honour." 

A  man  of  honour  Mr.  Rhodes  undoubtedly 
was.  The  "  African  Review,"  in  an  excellent 
appreciative  memoir  of  this  great  man,  has 
recorded  in  words  which  we  cannot  attempt 
to  improve  upon  how  loyal  he  was  to  his  friends, 
and  just  to  his  enemies.  He  always  set  before 
him  a  high  standard  of  conduct,  the  standard 
set  up  by  Aristotle,  which  he  was  so  fond  of 
quoting.  He  aimed  for  himself,  and,  so  far 
as  lay  in  his  power,  set  the  ideal  before  his 
fellow  men,  to  achieve  that  realization  of  the 
highest  spiritual  good  that  was  in  him  through 
the  systematic   and  strenuous  training  of  the 


best    qualities    of    his    manhood.     His    states- 
manship   was    conceived    on    these    lines.     He 
desired  to   see   the   British   Empire   great   and 
prosperous,  not  in  a  merely  material  and  sordid 
way,   but   great   and  prosperous   by  reason  of 
the  aggregated  greatness  and  well-being  of  its 
individual     citizens.     He     worked     xinceasingly 
to    this   end,    sparing   himself   nothing,    and   to 
this  noble  ambition  he  sacrificed  his  life.   Almost 
his  last  public  service  to  the  country  he  loved 
so  dearly  was  rendered  during  the   recent    war. 
Those    who    were    with   him    during   the    Kim- 
berley    siege    laiow    with    what    singleness    of 
purpose  he  threw  himself  into  the  defence  of 
the  town.     There,  as  on  so  many  other  occa- 
sions, he  displayed  the  true  nobility  and  altruism 
of  his  nature.     For,  strongly  individual  as  Mr. 
Rhodes  was,  he  was  in  no  sense,  save  the  purely 
superficial   one,    an   egotist.     He   lived   for   his 
race.     He  knew  that  his  race  needed  him,  and 
this  nerved  him  to   make   a  splendid  struggle 
with   death  when  he   became   conscious   of   its 
near    approach.     "  There    is    so    much    to    be 
done,"    were    almost    his    last    words.     Never- 
theless,   he    met    the    spectre    with    resignation 
and  with  the  fortitude  of  a  pagan  hero.    "  WTien 
I  am  dead,"  he  once  said,  "  let  there  be  no  fuss  ! 
Lay  me  in  my  grave.     Tread  down  the  earth 
and  pass  on  ;   I  shall  have  done  my  work  1  " 
Though  not  a  brilliant  orator,  he  was  a  most 
convincing  speaker  ;  excelled  in  knowing  what 
to  say,  and  when  to  say  it,  and  always  carried 
his    audience    with    him.     He    won    the    con- 
fidence of  the  Cape  Dutch  under  the  leadership 
of  Mr.   Hofmeyr,   and  did  not  despair  of  ulti- 
mately   winning    over    the    Transvaalers,    until 
the     unfortunate     raid     made     his     temporary 
withdrawal  from  S.A.  politics  necessary.     Few 
Englishmen  have  had  a  larger  following  of  hero- 
worshippers,    and  it   is   fortunate   for   our  pre- 
dominance  in   the   Cape   that   he   had   not   to 
encounter  such  opposition  from  British  Minis- 
ters   as    niight    seriously    have    impeded    the 
fruition  of  his  schemes.     This  was  largely  due 
to  his  almost  hypnotic  power  of  impressing  his 
ideas  upon  all  with  whoin  he  came  in  contact. 

We  have  previously  referred  to  that  earlier 
period  in  Mr.  Rhodes'  career  when  he  was  first 
building  up  a  place  amongst  the  mining  and 
financial  magnates.  The  small  claims  were 
becoming  unworkable  owing  to  thousands  of 
tons  of  debris  falling  from  the  walls,  and  Mr. 
Rhodes  quickly  perceived  that  the  only  pos- 
sible way  to  continvie  working  was  by  ainal- 
gamating  the  holdings  into  one  workable  con- 
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Kimberley  claims  were  controlled  by  four 
companies,  and  eventually  in  1888  the  great 
De  Beers  Consolidated  Co.  was  formed  to 
absorb  even  these.  It  was  not  without  en- 
countering exceeding  difficulties  that  Mr. 
Rhodes  carried  through  this  great  scheme, 
meeting  with  much  opposition  from  the  late 
Mr.  B.  I.  Barnato,  who,  however,  ultimately 
came  to  terms  with  the  colossus,  Messrs.  Rhodes 
and  Barnato  each  being  one  of  the  fovir  life 
governors  of  the  Co.  In  addition  to  the  extra- 
ordinary financial  energy  displayed  by  so  young 
a  man  in  building  up  this  gigantic  diamond 
corporation,  his  ability  must  also  be  recognized 
in  such  details  as  the  compound  system 
diminishing  thefts  by  nigger  workers,  and  the 
syndicate   controlling  the   price   of  diamonds. 

During  the  final  years  in  which  Mr.  Rhodes 
was  working  on  this,  his  great  and  initial  scheme, 
his  attention  was  also  attracted  by  the  opening 
of  the  goldfields  in  the  Transvaal.  There  is  no 
doubt  that,  immersed  as  he  was  in  his  De  Beers 
and  northern  ideas,  he  did  not  devote  so  much 
attention  to  the  Rand  as  his  financial  genius, 
with  so  stupendous  an  opportunity,  would  have 
desired.  But,  in  conjunction  with  C.  D.  Rudd, 
he  formed  the  great  Consolidated  Goldfields 
of  S.A.,  in  1887,  with  a  capital  of  £250,000. 
Mr.  Rhodes'  personal  supervision  was,  of 
course,  not  prominent,  and  the  properties  at 
first  acquired  were,  from  subsequent  Trans- 
vaal mining  experience,  not  first-rate.  But 
the  Co.  quickly  found  its  true  footing,  and  the 
Consolidated  Goldfields  of  to-day  ranks  with 
the  Rand  Mines  as  having  for  years  held  the 
pick  of  the  coming  mining  areas  on  the  Rand. 
As  evidence  of  the  manner  in  which,  in  all  Mr. 
Rhodes'  schemes,  the  success  of  one  was  made 
to  hasten  the  success  of  another,  all  on  the  road 
to  the  acquisition  of  Rhodesia,  one  may  mention 
the  well-known  financial  share  which  the  De 
Beers  Co.  has  had  in  the  backing  up  of  the 
Chartered  Co.  ;  while  the  Consolidated  Gold- 
fields  of  S.A.  gave  similar  assistance.  In  1889 
it  acquired  a  half-interest  in  the  Rudd  Con- 
cessions, presently  represented  by  eight  and 
a-half  units  out  of  thirty  in  a  consolidated  com- 
pany, merged  once  more  into  a  company  with 
a  very  large  share  capital,  and  to  be  absorbed  by 
the  Chartered  Co.  Under  this  arrangement  the 
Goldfields  were  to  receive  more  than  a  quarter 
of  a  milUon  shares.  In  addition,  the  Goldfields 
took  102,500  shares  in  the  Chartered  Co.  Then 
the  capital  was  increased  by  130,000  shares  to 
acquire  the  Johnson,  Heany,  &  Borrow  rights 
in  Mazoe,  Hartley,  etc.,  in  Mashonaland.      It 


was  in  this  way  that  the  astute  genius  of  Mr. 
Rhodes,  working  its  way  stubbornly  through 
a  maze  of  financial  intrigues,  used  the  un- 
rivalled financial  power  of  his  earlier  companies 
in  a  country  where  financial  opposition  was  not 
to  be  feared — for  those  men  who  had  already 
attained  financial  importance  in  the  earliest 
gold  and  diamond  days  he  had  arrayed  beside 
himself — in  carrying  through  the  vast  schemes 
which,  had  he  stood  alone,  would  have  been 
too  weighty  even  for  himself,  while  his  political 
power  also  played  an  important  part  in  the 
matter. 

So  far,  however,  as  the  personal  finance  of 
Mr.  Rhodes  is  concerned,  in  1892,  on  an  amal- 
gamation with  other  companies,  and  on  the 
raising  of  the  capital  of  the  Goldfields  to 
£1,250,000,  the  foimders  (Messrs.  Rudd  and 
Rhodes)  received  80,000  shares,  while  in  1894 
their  rights  to  two -fifteenths  of  the  net  profits 
were  extinguished,  by  the  payment  to  them 
of  100,000  shares.  From  this  point  onward 
it  may  be  said  that  the  career  of  Mr.  Rhodes, 
so  far  as  the  building  of  his  personal  fortune 
was  concerned,  was  finished.  Thenceforward 
his  schemes  concern  the  provision  of  ways  and 
means  for  the  great  Northern  undertaking. 
His  hand  was  ever  in  his  pocket,  and  it  will 
probably  never  be  known  how  much,  from  his 
private  means,  he  has  contributed  towards  the 
exigencies  of  the  infant  territories.  Especially 
was  this  the  case  in  regard  to  the  northern 
extension  of  the  railway  towards  Rhodesia, 
and  on  its  way  to  Cairo,  and  on  the  preliminary 
telegraph  line  which  is  already  so  far  advanced. 

In  October  1901,  Mr.  Rhodes'  health,  which 
had  been  in  a  precarious  state  for  a  year  pro- 
viousl5'-,  began  to  show  a  serious  turn  for  the 
worse.  Acting  on  medical  advice,  he  started 
for  a  trip  in  the  Mediterranean,  accompanied 
by  Mr.  Beit  and  Dr.  Jameson.  He  then  visited 
the  land  of  the  Pharaohs  ;  returned  to  England, 
still  an  invalid,  and  soon  left  the  English  winter 
for  Muizenberg,  a  favourite  watering  place  near 
Cape  Town.  Here  Mr.  Rhodes  developed  heart 
trouble,  and  eventually  he  had  to  lay  aside  all 
business,  although  no  serious  result  was  antici- 
pated, the  medical  attendants  hoping  that  the 
patient's  vitality  would  prevail  sufficiently  to 
enable  him  to  undertake  a  voyage  to  England, 
arrangements  for  which  were  actually  made  in 
one  of  the  mail  steamers  sailing  from  Cape 
Town.  Mr.  Rhodes,  too,  was  anxious  to  pro- 
ceed to  England,  but  his  condition  was  such 
that  travelling  under  the  circumstances  was 
absolutely  out  of  the  question.     During  the  last 


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few  days  of  his  illness  it  was  patent  that  he  was 
growing  weaker  and  weaker,  and  although 
there  was  a  slight  improvement  occasionally, 
Mr.  Rhodes'  friends  prepared  themselves  for 
the  worst.  From  the  Sunday  before  his  death 
he  took  little  or  no  interest  in  matters  which 
before  then  he  freely  discussed  ;  but  he  was 
constanth'  dozing,  and  the  continually  increasing 
dropsy  working  upwards  showed  only  too 
plainly  that  the  end  was  not  far  off.  On  Tues- 
day, March  25,  1902,  the  first  serious  crisis  was 
surmounted  ;  but  it  left  the  patient  so  weak 
that,  when  he  had  another  severe  attack  on  the 
following  day,  it  was  evident  the  struggle  was 
almost  over.  Death,  which  was  perfectly  pain- 
less, occurred  at  three  minutes  to  six,  conscious- 
ness being  retained  till  within  three  minutes  of 
the  end.  A  few  minutes  previous  to  passing 
away  Mr.  Rhodes  faintly  muttered  the  names 
of  his  brother  and  some  of  the  others  around 
him,  evidently  meaning  to  say  good-bye.  Dr. 
Jameson,  Dr.  Smartt  (Commissioner  of  Public 
Works),  Sir  Charles  Metcalfe,  Colonel  Elmhurst 
Rhodes,  and  Mr.  J.  Walton  (member  of  the 
House  of  Assembly  for  Port  Elizabeth)  were 
by  his  bedside,  while  all  his  attendants  and 
"  boys"  were  also  present.  Of  all  those  who 
attended  Mr.  Rhodes  during  his  illness  Dr. 
Stevenson  was  the  only  one  absent  at  the  end. 
Among  Mr.  Rhodes'  last  utterances  were  the 
words,  "  So  little  done.  So  nnich  to  do."  A 
post-mortem  examination  of  the  body  revealed 
an  extensive  aneurism  of  the  heart.  The  place 
of  Mr.  Rhodes'  burial  was  not  ill-chosen.  In 
a  solid  tomb  in  the  Matoppo  Hills,  known  now 
as  the  World's  View,  the  remains  of  the  founder 
of  Rhodesia  lie  at  rest. 

Mr.  Rhodes'  will  and  codicils  were  character- 
istic of  the  man.  He  made  large  provision  for 
scholarships  for  the  advantage  of  American, 
German,  S.A.  and  other  students,  and  set  aside 
a,mple  sums  for  experimental  farming,  irriga- 
tion, forestrj?,  etc.,  and  for  the  endowment  of 
an  agricultural  college.  His  executors  are  Lord 
Milner,  Lord  Rosebery,  Sir  Lewis  Mitchell,  Lord 
Grey,  Mr.  Beit,  Mr.  B.  F.  Hawksley  and  Dr. 
Jameson,  the  latter  name  having  been  added 
in  the  last  codicil.  Mr.  W.  T.  Stead  had  been 
named  previously  as  an  executor,  but  that 
gentleman's  "extraordinary  eccentricities"  led 
to  his  being  removed  from  such  a  responsible  post. 

ROBINSON,  Hon.  Sir  John,  K.C.M.G., 
F.R.G.S.,  late  of  The  Gables,  Durban,  Natal, 
and  of  the  Durban  and  Grosvenor  (Lond.) 
Clubs,  was  born  in  Hull,  Eng.,  Mar.   17,  1839. 


He  was  son  of  Geo.  Robinson,  of  Hull,  and 
grandson  of  Geo.  Cookman,  J. P.,  of  Stepney 
Lodge,  near  Hull,  and  was  educated  privately. 
Sir  John  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Natal 
Legislative  Council  in  1863,  and  sat  in  the 
Council  or,  after  responsible  govt,  was  intro- 
duced, in  the  Assembly,  with  occasional  inter- 
vals iintil  1901.  He  was  first  Premier  of  Natal 
in  1893,  and  acted  as  Colonial  Secy,  and  Minis- 
ter of  Education  in  the  first  Responsible  Ad- 
ministration in  the  Colony.  Ill-health  caused 
his  retirement  in  1897.  He  attended  con- 
ferences in  London  and  Cape  Town,  and  was 
the  author  of  "  A  Natal  Guide  Book,"  "  George 
Linton,  or  the  Early  Years  of  a  British  Colony," 
"  A  Lifetime  in  South  Africa,"  etc.,  etc.  Sir 
John  married,  Dec.  28,  1865,  Agnes,  dau.  of  Dr. 
Blaine,  R.M. ,  Natal.  He^died  at  Durban  on  Nov. 
5,  1903,  from  the  results  of  a  paralytic  seizure. 

ROSS,  Sir  David  Palmer,  K.C.M.G.,  M.D., 
who  died  early  in  June,  was  the  son  of  a  well- 
known  siu-geon,  his  death  occurring  only  a  short 
time  before  his  intended  retirement  from  his 
arduous  labours  in  Georgetown.  Sir  David, 
when  he  had  qualified  in  Edinburgh,  joined  the 
Army  Medical  Service,  and  soon  afterwards  he 
went  to  Janaaica,  where  he  spent  about  twenty 
years  in  various  positions.  His  duties  fell 
chiefly  among  the  coolie  depots  and  the  small- 
pox hospitals,  and  in  1885  he  was  specially 
selected  for  Sierra  Leone.  There  he  did  much 
good  work  in  investigating  and  combating 
tropical  diseases  of  all  kinds  ;  and  what  he  has 
accomplished  in  this  important  branch  of 
medical  science  has  proved  of  the  highest  value. 
On  leaving  Sierra  Leone,  Sir  David  was  pro- 
moted to  the  important  office  of  Surgeon- 
Gen,  in  British  Guiana,  where  his  presence 
and  experience  have  enabled  the  Govt,  to 
practically  convert  what  many  regarded  as  a 
"  plague  spot"  into  a  tolerably  safe  place  of 
living  for  both  white  and  coloured  people.  Sir 
David,  who  was  62  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
married,  in  1867,  a  dau.  of  the  then  Attorney- 
Gen,  of  Jamaica,  and  one  of  his  daughters 
is  now  the  wife  of  Lucie-Smith,  the  senior 
Puisne  Judge  in  British  Guiana,  and  for  the 
moment  acting  as  Chief  Justice  in  the  absence 
on  leave  of  his  chief. 

SCHERMBRUCKER,  Col.  the  Hon.  Fre- 
deric, M.L.A.,  of  Friedrichs  Ruh,  Wynberg, 
C.C,  who  died  in  April,  1904,  was  born  at 
Schweinfurth,  Bavaria,  in  1832,  and  was  son 
of   the   Hon.    Christopher   Schermbrucker,   one 


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of  the  Judges  of  the  Appellate  Court  of  the 
Province  of  the  Palatinate.  He  was  educated 
at  the  Jesuit  Institute  of  Neuburg,  on  the 
Danube,  was  a  Latin  prizeman  at  that  academy, 
and  entered  the  ranks  of  the  Bavarian  army  as 
a  private,  but  with  the  privileges  of  a  gentleman 
cadet.  He  fought  on  the  Royal  side  in  the  dis- 
turbances of  1 850-2,  and  was  made  a  Sub-Lieut. 
in  recognition  of  services  in  the  field  ;  he  volun- 
teered to  serve  in  the  Crimea  with  the  German 
Legion.  He  went  to  the  Cape  in  1857  with  the 
rank  of  Ensign  ;  was  for  some  time  a  teacher 
of  German  before  being  appointed  German 
Interpreter  in  the  office  of  the  R.M.  at  King 
Williamstown.  Later  he  started  as  an 
auctioneer,  and  from  1859  to  1866  took  an 
active  part  in  opposmg  the  annexation  of 
Kaffraria  to  the  Cape  Colony.  He  was  one  of 
the  accused  in  the  famous  Calabash  case,  and 
was  fined  £100  for  shooting  a  Kafir  sheep- 
stealer.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Cape 
Assembly  in  1868.  In  1872  he  failed  in  business 
and  went  to  the  diamond  fields,  to  Lydenburg, 
the  Limpopo  and  Matabeleland,  eventually  be- 
coming editor  of  the  Bloemfontein  "  Express." 
He  left  Bloemfontein  (having  been  burned  in 
effigy  there),  and  returned  to  King  Williams- 
town  ;  vohmteered  for  service  in  the  Frontier 
War  ;  was  appointed  Comdt.  of  the  Amatola 
Division  ;  volunteered  for  service  in  the  Zulu 
War,  and  commanded  at  Luneberg,  being 
present  at  the  engagements  of  Zlobane  and 
Kambula,  and  distinguishing  himself  at  the 
Pemvani  River.  In  1880  he  accompanied  Sir 
Gordon  Sprigg  to  Basutoland  to  raise  a  police 
force,  but  retired  when  the  Sprigg  Ministry  was 
overturned.  In  1882  he  was  elected  M.L.C.  for 
the  Eastern  Circle  ;  was  re-elected  two  years 
later,  and  in  the  same  year  joined  Sir  Thomas 
Uppington's  cabinet  as  Commissioner  of  Crown 
Lands  and  Public  Works,  and  continued  this 
office  in  the  second  Sprigg  Ministry.  He 
successfully  contested  King  Williamstown  at 
the  General  Elections  for  the  Cape  House  of 
Assembly  in  1888,  1894,  and  1904,  and  was 
also  a  life  member  of  the  Executive  Council 
of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope.  Col.  Schermbrucker 
was  a  keen  Imperialist,  a  clever  speaker,  a  great 
admirer  of  Cecil  Rhodes,  a  loyal  supporter  of 
Dr.  Jameson,  and  a  tower  of  strength  to  the 
Progressive  party.  He  was  decorated  with  the 
Pope's  Order,  "Pro  Pontifice  et  Ecclesia,"  and 
wore  the  medals  for  the  Gaika  War,  the  Basuto- 
land Rebellion,  and  the  Zulu  War.  He  married 
Lucy,  second  dau.  of  the  late  Patrick  Egan,  and 
has  had  a  large  family  of  children. 


SHEFFIELD,  Thomas,  late  of  Johannes- 
burg, started  business  in  Grahamstown,  C.C, 
in  conjunction  with  his  brother,  as  printer 
and  stationer,  and  also  brought  into  exist- 
ence the  "  Eastern  Star,"  which  he  edited. 
The  paper  was  transferred  to  Johannesburg, 
where  it  was  eventually  taken  over  by  the 
Argus  Printing  and  Publishing  Co.  With 
the  change  of  proprietorship  the  word  "  East- 
ern "  in  the  title  of  the  journal  was  dropped, 
and  the  newspaper  was  carried  on  as  the  ' '  Star,' ' 
under  which  name  it  is  still  published,  though, 
of  course,  on  a  much  larger  and  improved  basis. 
Some  years  ago  Mr.  Sheffield  succeeded  Mr. 
F.  J.  Dormer  as  managing  director  of  the  Argus 
Co.,  to  which  he  devoted  the  greater  part  of 
his  time  and  abilities.  Though  of  a  literary 
bent  of  mind,  Mr.  Sheffield  did  not  find  the 
time  to  devote  attention  to  literatiu'e.  His 
one  production,  entitled  "  My  Impressions  of 
England,"  however,  revealed  his  merits  as  a 
capable  writer.  After  a  long  illness  Mr.  Sheffield 
died  at  Johannesburg  on  Feb.  6,  1904,  leaving 
a  wife  and  a  large  family  of  daughters. 

SHIELS,  Thomas,  who  died  on  March  10, 
1904,  was  for  many  years  a  Director  of  De  Beers 
Consolidated  Mines,  and  a  strong  supporter  of 
the  late  Mr.  Rhodes.  Owing  to  failing  health, 
Mr.  Shiels  resigned  his  seat  at  the  De  Beers 
Board  in  1903,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  his 
holding  in  the  company  had  for  some  time 
been  c^uite  a  snaall  one.  When  he  died  at  Edin- 
burgh, Mr.  Shiels  was  within  a  day  or  two  of 
completing  his  70th  year.  Mr.  Shiels  was  one 
of  the  pioneers  of  the  S.A.  Diamond  Fields,  and 
at  Kimberley,  where  he  resided  for  a  long  period 
of  years,  he  was  greatly  respected  for  his  many 
good  qualities. 

SHIPPARD,  Sir  Sidney  Godolphin  Alex- 
ander. K.C.M.G.,  who  died  at  his  residence  in 
West  Halkin  Street,  London,  on  March  29,  1902, 
from  the  effects  of  influenza,  was  well  known  in 
S.  A.,  where  for  many  years  he  filled  responsible 
positions.  He  was  educated  at  King's  Coll. 
Sch.  and  Oriel  and  Hertford  Colls.,  Oxford,  and 
was  called  to  the  Bar  at  the  Inner  Temple 
in  1867.  From  1873  to  1884  he  held  various 
judicial  appointments  in  Cape  Colony,  and  in 
the  last-named  year  was  appointed  Adminis- 
trator of  British  Bechuanaland.  The  next  year 
he  became  Resident  Commissioner  for  Bechuana- 
land, holding  that  post  until  1895.  On  the 
resignation  of  ]Mr.  Rhodes  and  Mr.  Beit  from 
the   Chartered  Co.    after  the    raid.   Sir    Sidney 

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was  appointed  a  Director,  a  post  which  he  held 
up  to  his  death.  Sir  Sidney  was  a  distingmshed 
jiirist,  and  many  of  his  judgments  are  regarded 
as  masterpieces  of  their  kind.  He  was  the 
British  Commissioner  in  the  Angra  Pequeua 
dispxite  with  Germany,  and  was  created  a 
K.C.M.G.  in  1887.  Few  men  enjoyed  a  better 
deserved  popularity  throughout  the  Cape 
Colony,  for  Sir  Sidney  Shippard  was  a  man  of 
culture  and  refinement,  who  made  his  influence 
felt  in  whatever  position  he  was  called  upon 
to  fill. 

SKINNER,  Db.  W.  A.,  who  died  at  Pieter- 
maritzburg,  Natal,  in  the  summer  of  1904,  was 
born  in  Scotland,  graduated  at  Edinburgh  Univ., 
and  took  honours  in  London.  He  went  to 
Natal  in  1900,  and  obtained  the  post  of 
Asst.  Medical  Officer  at  the  Natal  Govt.  Asylum. 
Dr.  Skinner  held  this  appointment  ixntil  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  his  31st  year. 

SMITH,  Nigel  Mabtin,  who  died  in  1904, 
was  well  known  in  financial  circles  as  a  Director 
of  the  Standard  Bank  of  South  Africa,  and  upon 
the  amalgamation  of  Smith's  Bank  with  the 
Union  Bank  of  London  he  was  elected  on  the 
board  of  the  joint  concern.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  committee  of  the  Victoria  Hospital  for 
Cliildren,  and  closely  identified  with  other 
similar  institutions.  He  took  a  deep  interest 
in  the  young  men  employed  in  the  banks,  and 
in  their  sports  and  recreations. 

STANLEY,  Sm  Henry  Morton,  G.C.B., 
D.C.L.  of  Oxford,  Camb.  and  Durham,  LL.D. 
of  Edin.,  Ph.D.  of  Halle;  late  of  2,  Richmond 
Terrace,  Whitehall,  London,  and  of  Fiu-ze  Hill, 
Pirbright,  was  bom  about  the  year  1841  in 
Denbighshire,  so  far  as  is  known,  for  his  early 
years  are  clouded  by  much  obscurity.  But  it 
is  understood  that  he  spent  many  years  of  his 
childhood  in  the  workhouse,  and  at  the  age 
of  fourteen  shipped  as  a  cabin  boy  for  New 
Orleans,  where  he  found  a  generous  patron  in 
the  person  of  a  Mr.  Stanley,  whose  name  he 
adopted.  On  the  outbreak  of  the  American 
War  in  1861  Henry  Morton  Stanley  joined  the 
Confederate  forces,  but  afterwards  fought  on 
the  Federal  side.  In  1867  young  Stanley  went 
as  correspondent  of  the  "  New  York  Herald" 
with  the  British  troops  in  Abyssinia,  and  after 
the  fall  of  Magdala  he  represented  that  jotirnal 
in  Spain.  It  was  while  he  was  there  that  a 
telegram  summoned  him  to  Paris  in  October, 
1869,  and  he  was  commissioned  to  go  and  find 


Dr.  Livingstone.  He  started  on  this  vague 
enterprise  immediately,  attending,  en  route, 
the  opening  of  the  Suez  Canal,  visiting  Sir 
Samuel  Baker  in  Upper  Egypt,  rimning  over 
to  see  Capt.  Warren  in  Jerusalem,  visiting 
Stamboul,  going  over  the  old  Crimean  battle- 
fields, visiting  Trebizond,  Tiflis  and  other  places, 
and  eventually  journeying  through  Persia,  and 
finding  his  way  overland  to  Bombay,  where  he 
embarked  in  Oct.,  1870,  for  Mauritius.  Thence 
he  procured  a  passage  to  Zanzibar,  and  began 
in  Jan.,  1871,  his  inland  journey  in  search  of 
the  great  missionary.  In  the  following  Novem- 
ber the  intrepid  party  found  themselves  on  the 
eastern  shores  of  Tanganyika,  and  here,  at  a 
village  called  Ujiji,  they  encountered  Dr.  Living- 
stone. Upon  his  return  to  England,  the  bearer 
of  Livingstone's  diary,  Mr.  Stanley  (not  yet 
knighted)  was  universally  lionized.  The  Queen 
presented  him  with  a  gold  snufi  box  with  the 
V.R.  in  brilliants.  The  King  (then  Prince  of 
Wales)  gave  Mm  an  audience  ;  King  Hvimbert 
of  Italy  presented  a  portrait  of  himself,  while 
from  Victor  Emmanuel  he  received  a  gold 
medal.  Learned  societies  and  illustrious  per- 
sonages showered  addresses,  gifts  and  invita- 
tions upon  liim,  and  Stanley  realized  to  the  full 
the  meaning  of  fame,  and  enjoyed  the  nation's 
reward  for  long  months  of  danger,  fever,  toil 
and  privations  endured  for  the  succour  of  a 
fellow  man. 

A  year  or  two  later  he  returned  to  Africa  to 
represent  the  "  New  York  Herald "  in  the 
Ashantee  War,  and  on  his  return  the  ever- 
enterprising  "Daily  Telegraph"  joined  with 
the  "New  York  Herald"  in  sending  Stanley 
back  to  complete  the  discoveries  of  Speke,  Sir 
R.  Biirton  and  Livingstone  (who  was  now 
dead).  As  a  result  of  the  liberal  means  sup- 
plied by  Mr.  J.  M.  Levy  and  Mr.  Edward  L. 
Lawson  of  the  "  Telegraph,"  and  Mr.  James 
Gordon  Bennett  of  the  "  Herald,"  Mr.  Stanley's 
expedition  resulted  in  the  accomplishment  of 
three  great  achievements,  each  one  of  which 
would  have  made  the  lifelong  reputation  of 
any  ordinary  explorer.  The  Victoria  Nyanza 
was  for  the  first  time  circumnavigated  and  its 
shores  acciu'ately  mapped  out.  The  Tanganyika 
was  also  circumnavigated,  and  the  result  of 
the  expedition  showed,  what  before  had  been 
unknown,  that  these  two  great  inland  seas  were 
not  in  any  way  connected  with  each  other. 
But  the  greatest  of  his  African  exploits  remains 
to  be  chronicled.  Striking  due  west,  Stanley 
met  the  River  Lualaba,  followed  the  mys- 
terious stream  northward  along  its  banks,  and 


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ultimately  embarked  on  its  waters,  finally 
emerging  by  it  on  the  Atlantic  Ocean  at  the 
mouth  of  the  Congo.  No  more  raomentous 
geographical  discovery  has  ever  been  made  in 
modem  days  than  the  proof  thus  given  that 
the  Lualaba  and  the  Congo  were  the  same  river, 
and  that  the  latter  was  almost  continuously 
navigable,  and  certainly  capable  of  being 
utilized  as  a  high  road  for  future  African  com- 
merce. During  a  great  part  of  the  journey 
through  Central  Africa  Stanley  was  accom- 
panied by  the  great  slave  trader,  Tippoo  Tib, 
and  many  conflicts  with  natives  took  place  ; 
but,  although  they  met  with  censure  in  some 
quarters,  they  could  only  be  regarded  as  part 
of  the  price  of  the  advantages  to  science,  civili- 
zation, religion  and  empire  which  ultimately 
accrued. 

In  1879  Mr.  Stanley  (as  he  still  was)  was 
deputed  by  the  newly  formed  African  Inter- 
national Association,  of  which  King  Leo- 
pold II  was  the  founder,  to  establish  trading 
stations  and  open  up  the  land  bordering  on  the 
Congo,  with  the  main  object  of  promoting 
commerce.  In  1884  was  foiuided  the  Congo 
Free  State,  referred  to  in  Mr.  Stanley's  "  The 
Congo,  and  the  Founding  of  the  Free  State" 
(1885),  and  the  first  Governorship  of  this  terri- 
tory was  offered  to,  but  declined  by,  the  ex- 
plorer and  pioneer  of  commerce  in  West  Africa. 

In  Jan.,  1887,  the  Egyptian  Treasury  placed 
£10,000  at  Stanley's  disposal  for  the  relief  of 
Emin  Pasha,  upon  which  he  set  out  from  the 
Congo  with  many  able  lieutenants,  pushing  on 
to  the  Aruwhimi  River,  where  he  established 
a  base.  Stanley  then  took  the  greater  part  of 
his  force  northwards,  and  after  seemingly  end- 
less obstacles — death,  disease,  hunger,  desperate 
conflicts  with  natives,  struggles  through  virgin 
forests,  etc.,  he  at  length  met  Emin,  and 
brought  him  back  in  triumph. 

But  many  and  fatiguing  journeys  through 
the  worst  parts  of  Africa,  punctuated  with  over 
a  hundred  attacks  of  fever,  were  telling  upon 
the  explorer's  health.  Many  tempting  offers 
of  profitable  employment  were  made,  but  he 
resolved  to  settle  down  in  England.  He  mar- 
ried Dorothy,  a  dau.  of  Mr.  C.  Tennant,  of 
Cadoxton  Lodge,  Vale  of  Neath,  Glamorgan- 
shire, in  1880,  and  after  one  unsuccessful 
attempt  to  enter  Parliament,  was  elected  in 
the  Liberal  Unionist  interest  as  member  for 
North  Lambeth  at  the  general  election  in  1895, 
retiring  in  1900,  a  year  after  receiving  the 
honour  of  knighthood.  In  1898  he  paid  one 
more   visit   to   Africa   on   the   occasion   of   the 


opening  of  the  railway  to  Bulawayo.  Sir  Henry 
died  on  May  10,  1904,  and  was  buried  at  Pir- 
bright,  lamented  by  numberless  friends,  and 
honoured  by  all.  Beside  the  book  already 
referred  to,  he  was  the  author  of  "  Coomassie 
and  Magdala,"  "  How  I  found  Livingstone," 
"  In  Darkest  Africa,"  "  Through  the  Dark 
Continent,"  and  "  Through  South  Africa." 

STOKES,  General  Sir  John,  K.C.B.,  the 
gallant  soldier  who  so  distinguished  himself  in 
the  Kafir  War  of  1846,  and  who  did  such  fine 
service  for  Lord  Beaconsfield  in  connexion  with 
the  Suez  Canal  in  1875,  was  born  when  George  IV 
was  King,  and  was  in  his  77th  year  when  he  died. 

STRAKOSCH,  Rudolph,  of  Johaimesburg, 
was  a  junior  member  of  the  Johannesburg  staff 
of  Messrs.  A.  Goerz  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  He  was  an 
engineer  of  considerable  promise,  and  came  by 
his  death  on  June  7,  1904. 

TARBUTT,  Percy,  late  of  23,  St.  Swithin's 
Lane,  London,  E.C.  who  died  early  in  1904,  was 
originally  in  partnership  with  Mr.  Cecil  Quenton. 
The  latter  some  years  ago  retired  from  the  firm, 
and,  devoting  his  leisure  to  his  favourite  hobby, 
has  since  become  famous  in  the  yachting  world. 
Mr.  Tarbutt,  on  the  other  hand,  has  died  m 
harness.  On  his  own  account  he  devoted  him- 
self more  assiduously  than  ever  to  business, 
and  his  directorship  of  the  Consolidated  Gold 
Fields  of  South  Africa,  which  he  held  till  the 
day  of  his  death,  was  the  first  of  a  long  series. 
His  capacity  for  work,  his  mastery  of  detail, 
and  what  may  be  called  his  generalship,  were  so 
remarkable  that  he  held  simultaneously  director- 
ships of  no  fewer  than  twenty  four  muiing 
development,  and  investment  cos.,  not  all  of 
which  were  African.  He  was  chairman  of 
three  of  those  cos. — namely,  the  British 
Gold  Coast  Co.,  Limited ;  the  Mashonaland 
Agency,  Limited  ;  and  the  Village  Reef  Gold 
Muiing  Co.  As  a  director  he  was  able  in 
administration,  with  the  advantage  of  practical 
skill  in  mining  matters,  and  he  was  not  the 
sort  of  man  to  be  easily  influenced  by  timid 
counsels  or  peevish  protests  when  he  had  made 
up  his  mind  for  what  he  considered  the  best. 

With  W.  African  enterprises,  however,  he 
had  been  pre-eminently  associated.  He  was 
a  pioneer  of  the  movement  for  the  development 
of  W.  Africa's  gold  resources — a  movement 
which,  though  xmeventful  for  the  time  being, 
is  still  fraught  with  great  potentialities.  Those 
potentialities  were  foreseen  by  him  before  the 


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big  boom  in  W.  Africans,  and,  being  early  in 
the  field,  with  his  friend  and  colleague,  Mr. 
Edmund  Davis,  he  had  become  a  Jungle  mag- 
nate, with  large  and  widely  ramifying  interests. 
Professionally,  the  late  Mr.  Tarbutt  was  most 
intimately  associated  with  Mr.  Edward  Janson, 
his  partner  in  the  firm  of  Tarbutt,  Son  & 
Janson,  civil  engineers. 

THOMPSON,  W.  J.,  J.P.,  late  of  Kippington 
Green,  Sevenoaks,  Kent,  foimder  of  the  firm 
of  William  James  &  Henry  Thompson,  Colonial 
brokers,  was  Chairman  of  the  London  Com- 
mercial Sale  Rooms,  Ltd.,  and  of  the  National 
Discount  Co.  He  was  also  a  Director  of  the 
African  Banking  Corporation,  the  Phoenix 
Assiu-ance  Co.,  and  the  British  and  Foreign 
Marine  Insurance  Co.  He  built  the  church  at 
Kippington,  of  which  his  son,  the  Rev.  H. 
Percy  Thompson,  is  vicar. 

TUDHOPE,  Hon.  John,  late  of  Dulwich 
Wood  Park,  Upper  Norwood,  was  of  Scottish 
birth  and  parentage,  and  went  to  S.A.  with  his 
father  and  family  in  1840.  Mr.  F.  Tudhope 
was  one  of  a  band  of  teachers  selected  from  the 
Scottish  Universities  to  introduce  the  Herschell 
system  of  higher  education,  and  was  for  twenty- 
five  years  the  principal  of  the  Public  Sch.  at 
Grahamstown,  where  his  son  was  educated. 
Mr.  John  Tudhope  began  his  business  career 
in  King  Williamstown,  then  the  capital  of  the 
Crown  Colony  of  British  Kaffraria,  and  took 
an  active  part  with  Col.  Schermbrucker,  Mr. 
Joseph  Walker  and  others  in  its  public  affairs. 
He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  British 
Kaffrarian  Bank,  the  Public  Library,  and  other 
local  institutions.  He  afterwards  resided  in 
Port  Elizabeth,  Aliwal  North  and  Uitenhage, 
representing  the  latter  division  in  the  Cape 
Parliament  for  six  years,  and  becoming  a  mem- 
ber of  Sir  Thomas  LTppington's  Ministry  as 
Colonial  Secy,  in  1885.  This  post  he  occupied 
for  four  and  a-half  years,  and  during  that  time 
identified  himself  with  educational  and  agricvil- 
tural  measures  of  great  benefit  to  the  country. 
Amongst  other  things,  he  introduced,  not  with- 
out considerable  opposition,  the  first  Scab  Act  ; 
the  Agricultural  Coll.  at  Groot  Constantia  was 
begun  vmder  his  Ministerial  control ;  and  he  was 
instrumental  in  introducing  farm  schools  and 
other  useful  and  progressive  measures  in  the 
Education   Dept.    over   which   he   presided. 

In  1889  he  resigned  his  position  to  take  up 
the  important  post  of  General  Manager  of  the 
newly   formed   Johannesburg   Consolidated  In- 


vestment Co.,  a  concern  which  has  gi'own  from 
modest  beginnings  to  a  financial  institution  of 
the  first  importance  during  Mr.  Tudhope' s  con- 
nexion with  it.  During  his  residence  m  Johan- 
nesburg he  soon  became  identified  with  the 
political  movements  then  begiiming  to  agitate 
the  Transvaal  vmder  the  old  regime.  He  was 
the  first  Pres.  of  the  now  celebrated  Transvaal 
National  Union,  and  occupied  that  position 
during  two  and  a-half  exciting  years,  when  he 
retired  in  favour  of  Charles  Leonard.  He 
thoroughly  identified  himself  with  the  public 
life  of  Johannesburg,  taking  part  in  many  useful 
movements.  He  was  Chairman  of  the  Public 
Library  for'^four  years;  on  the  Managing  Com- 
mittee of  the  fine  Hospital  for  a  similar  period  ; 
chief  of  the  Caledonian  Society  for  several  years, 
and  belonged  to  many  other  bodies  of  a  useful 
and  pliilanthropic  character.  He  subsequently 
returned  to  England  to  take  up  the  manage- 
ment of  the  Johannesburg  Consolidated  Invest- 
ment Co.  He  contributed  articles  to  the  Press, 
was  a  Member  of  the  Council  of  the  Royal 
Colonial  Institute,  and  freqviently  figured  on 
its  platform  as  a  speaker  on  S.A.  subjects.  He 
died  at  his  residence  on  Dec.  22,  1903. 

UNSWORTH,  Dr.  Noel,  late  of  the  Egj^ptian 
Medical  Service,  was  an  English  doctor  who  was 
formerly  a  medical  officer  in  the  diseases  of  the 
skin  department  of  St.  Thomas'  Hospital,  and 
was  also  Asst.  Medical  Officer  at  Paddington 
Infirjnary.  He  received  his  recent  appoint- 
ment as  Resident  Asst.  Surgeon  at  the  Kasr-el- 
Aini  Hospital  at  Cairo  in  1902,  and  died  of 
plague  at  Zagazig  July  10,  1904. 

VERNON,  Brevet  Major  Hubert,  D.S.O., 
was  born  in  1867,  and  was  second  son  of  Sir 
Harry  Foley  Vernon,  Bart.,  and  Lady  Georgina 
Vernon,  of  Hanbmy  Hall,  near  Droitwich. 
He  joined  the  Rifle  Brigade  as  Second  Lieut, 
in  1888,  and  was  promoted  Lievit.  in  1891, 
obtaining  his  company  in  1896,  and  his  brevet 
majority  in  1900.  He  served  with  Sir  Frederick 
Carrington's  force  in  S.A.  in  1896,  and  re- 
ceived the  D.S.O.  Dm-ing  the  late  Boer  War 
he  was  Aide-de-Camp  to  Major-Gen.  F.  Howard, 
and  Deputy  Asst.  Adjutant -Gen.  He  met  his 
death  as  the  result  of  a  polo  accident  at  Pre- 
toria in  1902. 

WELDON,  Capt.  Thomas  Hamilton,  R.E., 
late  of  Pretoria,  Transvaal,  was  born  in  1864, 
was  second  son  of  the  late  Sir  Anthony  Crosdili 
Weldon,  Bart.,  of  Rahinderry  and  Kilmorony, 


Anglo-African  Who's  Who 


197 


CO.  Kildare,  Ireland,  and  was  formerly  attached 
to  the  Portsmouth  Division  of  the  Submarine 
Miners.  During  the  Greco-Tui'kish  War  of 
1897  and  the  Sudan  campaign,  Capt.  Weldon 
represented  the  "Morning  Post"  as  one  of 
their  Special  Correspondents,  contributing  a 
series  of  graphic  accounts  of  the  scenes  of  which 
he  had  been  a  witness.  He  took  part  in 
the  S.A.  War,  afterwards  settling  in  Pretoria, 
where  he  died. 

WARD,  Capt.  Hon.  Reginald,  D.S.O.,  was 
a  brother  of  Earl  Dudley,  Lord-Lieutenant  of 
Ireland  ;  joined  the  Royal  Horse  Guards,  and 
saw  service  in  the  S.A.  War,  being  twice  men- 
tioned in  despatches  and  receiving  the  D.S.O. 
He  was  an  enthusiastic  amateur  rider,  and  on 
one  occasion  in  1898  at  the  Grand  Military 
Meeting  at  Sandown  Park  he  steered  six  horses 
to  victory  out  of  nine  mounts.  In  the  same 
year  he  came  in  second  on  his  own  horse, 
Cathal,  in  the  Grand  National  at  Aintree. 


WEBLEY,  Thomas  W.,  late  of  Birmingham, 
was  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of  the  Webley 
&  Scott  Revolver  and  Arms  Co.,  Ltd.,  of  that 
town.  He  was  the  son  of  Philip  Webley,  by 
whom  he  was  thoroughly  groimded  in  the 
technical  knowledge  required  in  his  business. 
He  visited  S.A.  on  two  or  tln-ee  occasions,  and 
was  especially  well  known  in  Pretoria,  where 
he  encouraged  revolver  practice,  and  foimded, 
or  helped  to  foimd,  a  ladies'  shooting  club.  In 
Natal  also  Mr.  Webley  was  well  known.  In  his 
later  years  he  devoted  considerable  attention 
to  gardening,  and  it  was  one  of  his  greatest 
delights  to  show  to  what  perfection  floriculture 
could  be  brought  even  in  Birmingham.  He 
died  on  Feb.  13,  1904. 

WELLAND,  Lieut.  Joseph  Raboteau, 
R.A.M.C.,M.B.,  entered  the  Army  Medical  Ser- 
vice June  29,  1901,  and  was  killed  in  action 
while  serving  with  the  Somaliland  Field  Force 
against  the  dervishes  in  Jan.,  1904. 


APPENDIX 


COLONIAL   OFFICE. 

Downing  Steeet,  London,  S.W. 

RECENT  SECRETARIES  OF  STATE  FOR  THE  COLONIES. 

Right  Hon.  Sir  G.  Grey,  Bart. 

Ri^ht  Hon.  Sydney  Herbert,  afterwards  Lord  Heroert  of  Lea. 

Lord  John  Russell,  afterwards  Earl  Russell,  K.G.,  G.C.M.G. 

Right  Hon.  Sir  William  Molesworth,  Bart. 

Right  Hon.  Henry  Labouehere,  afterwards  Lord  Taunton. 

Lord  Stanley,  afterwards  Earl  of  Derby. 

Right  Hon.  Sir  Edward  Bulwer  Lytton,  Bart.,  G.C.M.G. 

Duke  of  Newcastle,  K.G. 

Right  Hon.  Edward  Cardwell,  afterwards  Viscount  Cardwe 

Earl  of  Carnarvon. 

Duke  of  Buckingham  and  Chandos. 

Earl  Granvile,  K.G. 

Earl  of  Ivimberley,  K.G. 

Earl  of  Carnarvon. 

Right  Hon.  Sir  Michael  E.  Hicks-Beach,  Bart. 

Earl  of  Kimberley,  K.G. 

Earl  of  Derby,  K.G. 

Colonel  the  Right  Hon.  F.  A.  Stanley,  now  Earl  of  Derby. 

Earl  Granville,  K.G. 

Right  Hon.  Edward  Stanhope. 

Right  Hon.  Sir  Henry  Thurston  Holland,  Bart.,  G.C.M.G., 

afterwards  Viscount  Knutsford. 
The  Marquess  of  Ripon,  K.G. 
The  Right  Hon.  Joseph  Chamberlain,  M.P. 

PRESENT  OFFICIALS. 

Secbetaby  of  State,  since  Oct.  9,  1903  : — The  Right  Hon.  Alfbed  Lyttelton,  K.C,  M.P. 
Private  Secbetaby  : — Beenaed  H.  Holland. 

Assistant  Pbivate  Secbetaeies  : — E.  H.  Marsh,  Conrad  Russell  and  J.  Reginald  Rankin. 
Parliamentary  Undeb  Secbetaby  : — The  Duke  of  Maelbobough,  K.G. 
Pbivate  Secbetaby  : — T.  C.  Macnaghten. 

Permanent  Undeb  Secbetaby: — Sir  M.  F.  Ommanney,  K.C.M.G. 
Private  Secbetaby  : — C.  T.  Davis. 

Assistant  Undeb  Secbetaeies  : — F.  Graham,  C.B.  {for  South  African  Affairs),  C.  P.  Lucas,  C.B., 
H.  B.  Cox,  C.B.  (legal),  R.  L.  Anteobus,  C.B. 
Department  foe  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  Natal,  etc.,  etc.  : — 
Officers  ;— H.  W.  Just,  C.B..  C.M.G.,  G.  V.  Fipdes,  C.B.,  H.  C.  M.  Lambebt,  G.  E.  A.  Gbindle, 
W.    A.  Robinson,  D.  O.  Malcolm,  R.  H.  Gbiffin. 


1854. 

June 

10. 

1855. 

Feb. 

1855. 

May 

15. 

July 

21. 

Nov. 

17. 

1S58. 

Feb. 

26. 

1858. 

May 

31. 

1859. 

June 

18. 

JS64. 

April 

4. 

1866. 

July 

6. 

1867. 

Mar. 

8. 

1868. 

Dec. 

10. 

1870. 

July 

6. 

1874. 

Feb. 

21. 

1878. 

Feb. 

4. 

1880. 

April 

28. 

1882. 

Dec. 

16. 

J  885. 

June 

24. 

1886. 

Fob. 

6. 

1886. 

Aug. 

3. 

1887. 

Jan. 

12. 

1892. 

Aug. 

18. 

1895. 

June 

28. 

202  Anglo-African  Who's  Who 

CAPE     OF    GOOD    HOPE. 

FORMER    GOVERNORS. 

The  following  is  the  list  of  the  Governors  of  the  Colony  since  its  first  acquisition  b}'  Great 
Britain  in  1795  : — 

Whiisi  in  possession  of  Great  Britain. 
1795.     J.  H.  Craig. 

1797.  Earl  Macartney. 

1798.  Sir  Francis  Dundas  (Lieut. -Governor). 

1799.  Sir  George  Young. 

1801.     Sir  Francis  Dundas  (Lieut.-Governor). 

Under  the  Batavian  Government. 
1803.     Jan  Willem  Janssens. 

British  Government. 

1806.  Sir  David  Baird. 

1807.  Hon.  H.  G.  Grev  (Lieut. -Governor). 
1807.     Earl  of  Caledon.' 

1811.     Hon.  H.  G.  Grey  (Lieut. -Governor). 
1811.     Sir  John  Francis  Cradock. 

1813.  Hon.  Robert  Meade  (Lieut. -Governor). 

1814.  Lord  Charles  Henry  Somerset. 

1820.  Sir  Rufane  Shaw  Donkin  {acting  during  the  absence  of  Lord  Charles  Henry 

Somerset). 

1821.  Lord  Charles  Henry  Somerset,  returned. 
1826.     Richard  Bourke  (Lieut. -Governor). 
1828.     Hon.  Sir  Galbraith  Lowry  Cole. 

1834.     Lieut. -Colonel  T.  F.  Wade  (acting  Governor). 

1834.     Sir  Benjamin  D'Urban. 

1836.     Sir  Andiies  Stockenstrom,  Bart.  (Lieut. -Governor  of  the  Eastern  Pro\dnce). 

1838.  Sir  George  Thomas  Napier,  K.C.B. 

1839.  Colonel  John  Hare  (Lieut. -Governor  of  the  Eastern  Province). 
1843.     Sir  Peregrine  Maitland. 

1847.     Major-General  the  Right  Plon.  Sir  Henry  Pottinger,  Bart. 

1847.     Sir  H.  F.  Young,  Kt.   (Lieut. -Governor  of  the  Eastern  Province). 

1847.     Lieut. -General  Sir  Henry  G.   W.  Smith,  Bart. 

1852.     Lieut. -General  the  Hon.  G.  Cathcart. 

1852.     Ch.  H.  Darling  (Lieut.-Governor). 

1854.     Sir  George  Grey,  K.C.B. 

1859.     Lieut. -General  R.  H.  WjTiyard,  C.B.  (Lieut.-Governor). 

1861.     Sir  PhiUp  Edmond  Wodehouse,  K.C.B. 

1870.     Sir  Henry  Barkly,  K.C.B. 

1877.     Sir  H.  Bartle  E.  Frere,  Bart.,  G.C.B.,  G.C.S.I. 

1881.     Sir  Hercules  G.  R.  Robinson.  G.C.M.G. 

1889.     Sir  H.  B.  Loch,  G.C.M.G.,  K.C.B. 

1895.     The  Right  Hon.  Sir  Hercules  G.  R.  Robinson,  Bart.,  G.C.M.G.  (created 

Lord  Rosmead,   1896). 
1897.     Sir  Alfred  Milner,  G.C.B.,  G.C.M.G.  (created  Viscount  Milner,  1902). 

Administrators  [in  the  ab.'>ence  of  the  Governor). 
1880.     Major-General  Sir  H.  H.  Clifford.  V.C,  K.C.M.G. 
1880.     Major  Sir  G.  C.  Strahan,  K.C.M.G. 
1883.     Lieut. -Gen.  Hon.  Sir  Leicester  Smyth,  K.C.M.G.,  C.B. 
1886.     Lieut.-Gen.  H.  D'Oyley  Torrens,  C.B. 
1889.     Lieut.-Gen.    H.    A.    Smyth,    C.M.G. 
1891  and  1892.     Lieut.-Gen.  W.  G.  Cameron,  C.B. 
1894.     General  Sir  William  G.  Cameron,  K.C.B. 


The  Cape  Colonial  Government  203 

1895  and  1896.     Lieut. -Gen.  W.  H.  Goodenough,  C.B. 

1897.  Lieut.-Gon.  Sir  W.  H.  Goodenough,  K.C.B. 

1898.  Major-Gen.  George  Cox. 

1898-99.     Lieut.-Gen.  Sir  W.  F.  Butler,  K.C.B. 

THE  PRESENT  HIGH  COMMISSIONER  :— 

His  Excellency  Viscount  Milneb,  P.O.,  G.C.B.,  G.C.M.G. 

Imperial  Secretary  ano  Accountant: — J.  F.  Perry. 

Military  Secretary  : — Lieut.-Col.  the  Hon.  W.  Lambton,  D.S.O.,  Coldstream  Guards. 

Private  Secretary  (acting) : — G.  G.  Robinson. 

Aide-de-Camp  : — Lieut.  Lord  Henry  Seymour,  Grenadier  Guards. 

THE  EXECUTIVE  COUNCIL. 

Note. — Members  of  the  Executive  Council  are  entitled   to   be   styled  "  Honourable  "  for  all 
time. 

Governor  : — 
His  Excellency  the  Hon.  Sir  Walter  Francis  Hely-Hutchinson,  G.C.M.G. 
Sir  Walter  Hely-Hutcliinson  assumed  office  on  March  6,  1901,  by  virtue  of  a  Commission  dated 
February  9  of  that  year. 

MEMBERS  OF  THE  CABINET. 
(Formed  February  22,   1904). 
Premier,  without  Portfolio  : — Dr.  Hon.  L.  S.  Jameson. 

Commissioner  for  Crown  Lands  and  Public  Works  : — Dr.  Hon.  T.  W.  Smartt. 
Colonial  Secretary  : — Colonel  Hon.  C.  P.  Crewe. 
Treasurer  : — Hon.  E.  H.  Walton. 
Attorney-General  : — Hon.  Victor  Sampson. 
Secretary  for  Agriculture  : — Hon.  A.  J.  Fuller. 
Minister,  v/ithout  Portfolio  : — Hon.  Sir  Lewis  Michell. 

MEMBERS  WHO  ARE  NOT  IN  THE  CABINET. 

William  Downes  Griffith,   1866  (March  24). 

The  Right  Honourable  Sir  John  Henry  de  Villiers,  P.C,  K.C.M.G..  1872  (December  2), 

Chief  Justice. 
Charles  Abercrombie  Smith,  M..\.,   1872  (December  2). 
John  Xavier  Merriman,  M.L.A.,  1875  (July  14). 
William  Ayhff,   1878  (February  8). 
Jolm  Laing,  M.L.A.,   1878  (February  21). 
James  Weston  Leonard,  K.C.,   1881  (January  28). 
Sir  Thomas  Charles  Scanlen,  K.C.M.G.,   1881   (May  9), 
Charles  WilKam  Hutton,  M.L.A.,   1S81   (May  9). 
Jacobus  Wilhelmus  Sauer,  M.L.A.,   1881   (May  9). 
John  Hendrik  Hofmeyr,   1881  (May  9). 
Sir  Jacobus  Albertus  "de  Wet,  K.C.M.G.,  1884  (May  13). 
Sir  James  Rose  Innes,  K.C.M.G.,  K.C.,  M.L.A.,   1890  (July  17). 
Sir  James  Sivewright,  K.C.M.G.,  M.A.,   1890  (July  17). 
Wilham  Phihp  Schreiner,  C.iM.G.,  K.C.,  1893  (May  4). 
Sir  Henry  Hubert  Juta,  Kt.,  K.C.,  M.L.A.,   1893  (December  28). 
Dr.  Thomas  Nicolas  German  Te  Water,  M.L.A.,   1896  (January  17). 
Albertus  Johannes  Herholdt,  M.L.C.,   189S  (October  14). 
Dr.  Thomas  William  Smartt,  M.L.A.,   1898  (May  19). 
Sir  Richard  Solomon,  K.C.M.G.,  K.C.,  M.L.A.,   1898  (October  14). 
Clerk  to  the  Council  : — Charles  Henry  Pennell,   1882  (Colonial  Service,  1868). 


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Anglo-African  Who's  Who 


FORMER  MINISTRIES. 

Showing  the  different  Ministries  since  the  estabHshnient  of  Responsible  Government,  also  dates 
of  appointment  to  and  retirement  froin  office. 

I.  MOLTENO  MINISTRY. 
{Duration,  5  years  2  months.) 


Premier  and  Colonial  Secretary 
Treasm-er  of  the  Colony  . 
Attorneys- General 


Commissioners  of  Crown  Lands 

and  Public  Works 
Secretary  for  Natiye  Affairs 


J.  C.  Molteno,  M.L.A.     . 

H.  White,  M.L.C.      .      . 

J.  H.  de  Vilhers,  M.L.A.  * 

S.  Jacobs,  M.L.A.      .      . 

A.  Stockenstrom,  M.L.A. 

C.  Abere.  Smith,  M.L.A.f 

J.  X.  Merriman,  M.L.A. 

C.  Brownlee,  M.L.A.+     . 
*  Appointed  Chief  Justice,  December  18,   1873. 
t  Appointed  Controller  and  Auditor-General,  July  20,   1875. 
%  AppointedChiefMagistrate,Griqua]and  East,  December  25, 1878. 

II.  SPRIGG  MINISTRY  (FIRST). 
{Duration,  3  years  3  months.) 


1st  Dec, 

1872 

5th  Feb., 

1878 

1st  Dec. 

1872 

5th  Feb., 

1878 

1st  Dec, 

1872 

17th  Dec, 

1873 

24th  Dec, 

1873 

21st  Aug., 

1877 

22nd  Aug., 

1877 

5th  Feb., 

1878 

1st  Dec, 

1872 

19th  July 

1875 

20th  July, 

1875 

6th  Feb., 

1878 

1st  Dec, 

1872 

5th  Feb., 

1878 

Retired  November  3, 1884. 


Premier  and  Colonial  Secretary  . 
Treasurers  of  the  Colony 

Attorneys-General      .... 

Commissioner  of   Crown   Lands 
and  Public  Works  .... 
Secretary  for  Native  Affairs 
Minister  without  portfoho 


J.  Gordon  Sprigg,  M.L.A. 
J.  Miller,  M.L.C.        .      . 
H.  W.  Pearson,  M.L.A. 
Thos.  Upington,  M.L.A. . 
J.  W.  Leonard,  M.L.A.   . 


J.  Lains,  M.L.A. 

W.  Ayhff,  M.L.A. 

J.  Miller,  M.L.C.§ 


6th  Feb., 

1S7S 

8th  May, 

1881 

6th  Feb., 

1878 

8th  Sept., 

1880 

9th  Sept. 

1880 

8th  May, 

1881 

6th  Feb., 

1878 

27th  Jan., 

1881 

28th  Jan., 

1881 

8th  May, 

1881 

6th  Feb., 

1878 

8th  May, 

1881 

6th  Feb., 

1878 

8th  May, 

1881 

9th  Sept. 

1880 

8th  May, 

1881 

Premier  ||  .      .      .      . 

Colonial  Secretaries    . 

Treasurers  of  the  Colony 


§  Continued  to  attend  Executive  Councils  until  resignation  of  this  Ministry. 

III.  SCANLEN  MINISTRY 
{Duration,  3  years.) 

.      T.  C.  Scanlen,  M.L.A. 
.      J.  C.  Molteno,  M.L.A. 
T.  C.  Scanlen,  M.L.A. 
.      C.  W.  Hiitton,  M.L.C. 
C.  J.  Rhodes,  M.L.A. 
Attorneys-General      .      .      .      .     T.  C.  Scanlen,  M.L.A. 

J.  W.  Leonard,  M.L  A. 
Commissioner   of   Crown   Lands 

and  Pubhc  Works  .      .      .      .      J.  X.  Merriman,  M.L.A 
Secretary  for  Native  Affairs         .      J.  W.  Sauer,  M.L.A. 
Minister  without  portfolio      .      .      J.  H.  Hofmeyr,  M.L.A. 

Ij  On  taking  office  assumed  the  portfolio  of  Attorney-General,  but  upon  the 
J.  C.  Molteno  became  Colonial  Secretary. 

IV.  UPINGTON  MINISTRY. 

{Duration,  2  years  6  months.) 
Premier  and  Attorney-General  .      Thos.  Upington,  M.L.A.       .      13th  May,   1884 
Colonial  Secretaries    ....     J.  Ayhff,  M.L.A.        .      .      .      13th  May,   1884 

J.  Tudhope,  M.L.A.  .  .  4th  Mch„  1885 
Treasurer  of  the  Colony  .  .  J.  Gordon  Sprigg,  M.L.A.  .  13th  May,  1884 
Commissioner  of   Crown   Lands 

and  Public  Works  ....     F.  Schermbrucker,  M.L.C 
Secretary  for  Native  Affairs        .     J.  A.  de  Wet,  M.L.A. 


9th  May, 

1881 

12th  May, 

1884 

9th  May, 

1881 

30th  June, 

1882 

1st  July, 

1882 

12th  May, 

1884 

9th  May, 

1881 

19th  Mch., 

1884 

.  20th  Mch., 

1884 

12th  May, 

1884 

9th  May, 

1881 

30th  June, 

1882 

1st  July, 

1882 

12th  May, 

1884 

9th  May, 

1881 

12th  May, 

1884 

9th  May, 

1881 

12th  May, 

1884 

9th  May, 

1881 

30th  Nov., 

1881 

13th  May,   1884 
13th  May,   1884 


retirement  of  Sir 


24th  Nov.,  1886 

3rd  Mch.,  1885 

24th  Nov.,  1886 

24th  Nov.,  1886 

24th  Nov.,  1886 
24th  Nov.,  1886 


Cape  Ministries 


205 


V.  SPRIGG  MINISTRY  (SECOND). 
{Duration,  3  years  8  months.) 


FROM 


Premier  and  Treas.  of  the  Colony     J.  Gordon  Sprigg,  M.L.A 
Colonial  Secretaries    ....     J.  Tudhope,  M.L.A. 

H.  W.  Pearson,  M.L.A 
Attornej^-General        .... 
Commissioner   of   Crown   Lands 
and  Public  Works  *      .      .      . 
Secretary  for  Native  Affairs  f 


Thos.  Upington,  M.L.A. 


25th  Nov.,  1886 
25th  Nov.,  1886 
23rd  Sept.,  1889 
25th  Nov.,  1886 


F.  Schermbrueker,  M.L.A.  .      25th  Nov.,  1886 
J.  A.  de  Wet,  M.L.A.      .      .      25t.h  Nov.,  1886 
*  A  niflmber  of  the  Legislative  Council  from  1883  to  1888,  when  he  resigned 
member  of  the  House  of  Assembly. 

t  Appointed  H.M.'s  Agent  in  the  South  African  Republic  (Transvaal). 


16th  July,  1890 
22nd  Sept.,  1889 
16th  July,  1890 
16th  July,   1890 

16th  July,  1890 
31st  May,  1890 
and  was  elected 


VI.  RHODES  MINISTRY  (FIRST). 

{Duration,  2  years  10  months.) 

Premier Cecil  J.  Rhodes,  M.L.A. 

Colonial  Secretarv       .      .      .      .      J.  W.  Sauer,  M.L.A. 


Treasurer  of  the  Colony   . 
Attorney-General        .... 
Commissioners  of  Crown  Lands 
and  Public  Works  J      .      .      . 
Secretary  for  Native  Affairs 


J.  X.  Merriman,  M.L.A. 
J.  Rose  Innes,  M.L.A.  . 
Cecil  J.  Rhodes,  M.L.A. 
J.  Sivewright,  M.L.A.  . 
P.  H.  Faure,  M.L.A. 


17th  July, 

1890 

3rd  Mav, 

1893 

17th  July, 

1890 

3rd  May, 

1893 

17th  July, 

1890 

3rd  May, 

1893 

17th  July, 

1890 

3rd  Mav, 

1893 

17th  July, 

1890 

23rd  Sept., 

1890 

24th  Sept., 

1890 

3rd  May, 

1893 

17th  July, 

1890 

3rd  May, 

189.3 

J  Sir  James  Sivewright  took  office  on  July  17,  1890,  as  a  IMinister  without  a  portfolio. 

VII.  RHODES  MINISTRY  (SECOND). 
{Duration,  2  years  8  m,onths.) 

Premier Cecil  J.  Rhodes,  M.L.A. . 

Colonial  Secretary       .      .      .      .      P.  H.  Faure,  M.L.A. 
Treasurer  § J.  Gordon  Sprigg,  M.L.A. 

W.  P.  Schreiner,  M.L.A. 
Attorneys-General      .      .      .      .     H.  H.  Juta,  M.L.A. 

W.  P.  Schreiner,  M.L.A. 

J.  Laing,  M.L.A. 

J.  Frost,  M.L.A.         .      . 

J.  Frost,  M.L.A.        .      . 

14  of  1893. 
By  Act  No.  14  of  1893,  the  office  of  Secretary  for  N 
being  discharged  by  the  Prime  Minister,  or  another  Minister 


Commissioner  of  Public  Works 
Secretary  for  Native  Affairs  |i 
Secretary  for  Agriculture 

§  Title  altered  by  Act  No. 


4th  May, 

1893 

12th  Jan., 

1896 

5th  May, 

1893 

12th  Jan., 

1896 

4th  May, 

1893 

12th  Jan., 

1896 

4th  May, 

1893 

27th  Dec. 

1893 

.  28th  Dec, 

1893 

9th  Sept. 

,  1894 

.   10th  Sept. 

1894 

12th  Jan., 

1896 

8th  May, 

1893 

12th  Jan., 

1896 

8th  Mav, 

1893 

11th  Sept. 

,  1893 

.   12th  Sept. 

,1893 

12th  Jan. 

1896 

tive  Affairs  w 

as  abohshed,  the 

duties 

VIII.  SPRIGG  MINISTRY  (THIRD). 
{Duration,  2  years  9  Tnonths.) 


Premier  and  Treasurer 


Colonial  Secretaries 


.      J.  Gordon  Sprigg,  M.L.A 
T.  Te  Water,  M.L.A. 
.      .     T.  W.  Smartt,  M.    .A. 
T.  Upington,  M.L.A. 
Attorneys-General      .      .      .      .      T.  L.  Graham,  M.L.C. 
Commissioner  of  Public  Works  .      J.  Sivewright,  M.L.A. 
Secretary  for  Agriculture       .      .     P.  H.  Faure,  M.L.A. 


13th 

Jan., 

1896 

13th 

Oct., 

1898 

17th 

Jan., 

1896 

18th 

May, 

1898 

19th 

May, 

1898 

13th 

Oct., 

189S 

17th 

Jan. , 

1896 

12th 

INIay, 

1898 

13th 

May, 

1898 

13th 

Oct., 

1898 

17th 

Jan., 

1896 

13th 

Oct., 

1898 

17th 

Jan., 

1896 

13th 

Oct., 

1898 

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IX.  SCHRETNER  MINISTRY. 
(Duration,  1  year  8  months.) 


Premier  and  Colonial  Secretary .     W.    P.    Schreiner,    M.L.A. 


Treasurer  

Attorney-General        .      .      .      . 
Commissioner  of  Public  Works. 
Secretary  for  Agriculture 
Minister  without  portfolio     . 


Premier  and  Treasm'er 
Colonial  Secretaries    . 


Attorney-Generals 
Commissioners  of  Public  Works 
Secretaries  for  Agriculture     . 
Minister  without  portfolio      . 


J.  X.  Merriman,  M.L.A. 
R.  Solomon,  M.L.A. 
J.  W.  Sauer,  M.L.A. 
A.  J.  Herholdt,  M.L.C.. 
T.  Te  Water,  M.L.A.       . 


14th  Oct.,   1898     17th  June,  1900 


14th  Oct.,  1898 

14th  Oct.,  1898 

14th  Oct.,  1898 

14th  Oct.,  1898 

14th  Oct.,  1898 


17th  Juno,  1900 
17th  June,  1900 
17th  June,  1900 
17th  June,  1900 
17th  June,  1900 


X.  SPRIGG  MINISTRY  (FOURTH). 

J.  Gordon  Sprigg,  M.L.A 
T.  L.  Graham,  M.L.C. 
A.  Douglass,  M.L.A. 
P.  H.  Faure,  M.LA. 
J.  Rose  Innes,  M.L.A 
T.  L.  Graham,  M.L.C. 
T.  W.  Sniartt,  M.L.A. 
A.  Douglas,  M.L.A.  . 
P.  H.  Faure,  M.L.A. 
J.  Frost,  M.L.A. 
J.  Frost,  M.L.A. 


A. 

18th  June, 

1900 

ISth  June, 

1900 

18th  Feb., 

1902 

19th  Feb., 

1902 

29th  May, 

1902 

30th  May, 

1902 

18th  June, 

1900 

18th  Feb., 

1902 

19th  Feb., 

1902 

18th  June, 

1900 

29th  May, 

1902 

30th  May, 

1902 

ISfch  June. 

1900 

29th  May, 

1902 

30th  May, 

1902 

18th  June, 

1900 

29th  May, 

1902 

LEGISLATIVE  COUNCIL. 

Note. — All  members  of  the  Legislative  Council  are  entitled  to  the  prefix  "  '. 
long  as  they  remain  members. 

President  : — Right  Hon.  Sik  J.  H.  de  Villiees,  P.C,  K.C.M.G. 

Chairman  of  Committees  : — (Vacant). 

Clerk  oe  the  Council  : — H.  P.  B.  Clajrke. 

Clerk  of  Papers  and  Committee  Clerk  : — M.  J.  Green. 

Usher  of  the  Black  Rod  : — Hon.  R.  P.  Botha. 


-lonourable  "  as 


MEMBERS. 


Note. — In  the  following  alphabetical  lists  of 
party,  B  Bond,  and  I  Independent. 

Representing. 
Eastern  Circle  P 
Eastern  Circle  P 
South-Eastern  Circle  ' 
Midland  Circle  B 
South-Westem  Circle 
South-Western  Circle 
Midland  Circle  P 
Midland  Circle  B 
North-Western  Circle 
South  Eastern  Circle  P 
Western  Circle  P 
Western  Circle  P 
North-Western  Circle  P 


M.L.C.'s  and  M.L.A.'s,   P  denotes  Progressive 


Barrable,  D.  S. 
Bayly,  Colonel,  Z 
BelUngan,  P.  S. 
Claassens,  H.  J.  H 
Dempers,  H.  J. 
De  Smidt,  A.  G. 
De  Villiers,  P.  D. 
Du  Toit,  J.  F 
Graaff,  J.  A.  C. 
Hurndall,  R.  F, 
Kohler,  C.  W.  H. 
Graham,  T.  L. 
Lewis,  C.  A.  Owen 


6 


Logan,  J.  D.    . 
Michau,  P.  W.        .      . 
Petersen,  A.  H.,  Dr. . 
Pyott,  John     . 
Proton  us,  M.  J.     . 
Rodgers,  W.    . 

Ross,  W 

Smith,  G.  D.    .      .      . 
Stockenstrom,  Sir  G.  H. 
Strachan,  Donald 
Van  Zyl,  H.  C.       .      . 
Van  Zyl,  I.  J.         .      . 
Wilmot,  A.       ... 


Representing 
Western  Circle  P 
North-Eastern  Circle  B 
Western  Circle  I 
South-Eastern  Circle  P 
North-Eastern  Circle  B 
Eastern  Circlo  B 
Griqualand  West  P 
British  Bechuanaland  P 
North-Eastern  Circle  P 
Eastern  Circle  P 
South-Westerxa  Circle  B 
North-Western  Circle  B 
South-Eastern  Circle  P 


Cape  Legislative  Assembly 


207 


HOUSE  OF  ASSEMBLY. 

Speaker  : — Hon.  Sir  W.  B.  Berry,  Kt. 
Clerk  of  the  House  and  Taxing  Officer  :- 
Clerk- Assistant  : — G.  R.  Hofmeyr. 
Serge ANT-AT- Arms  : — J.  D.  Ensor. 
Shorthand  Writer  and  Committee  Clerk  :- 


-E.  F.  KiLPiN.  C.M.G. 


A.  G.  D'Argy. 


MEMBERS. 


Abrahamson,  L.    . 
Adendorff,  A.  R. 
Anderson,        Thomas 

Johnson 
Badenhorst,  F. 
Badenhorst,  J.  F. 
Bailey,  Abe 
Bailey,  Amos 
Bam,  Capt.  P.  C.  van  B. 
Bock,    Di'.    Johannes 

Hendricus  Meiring. 
Berry,    Hon.    Sir   W. 

Bisset     .... 
Blaine,  George 
Btirton,  Henry 
Cartwright,  John  Dean 
Cillie,Petrns  Johannes 
Cloete,  Hendrick, 

C.M.G 

Crewe,  Colonel  Charles 

Preston,  C.B.  .  . 
Cronvvright-Schreiner 
Crosbie,  W.  .  .  . 
Currej',  H.  L.  .  . 
Dave],  F.  R.  .  .  . 
De  Beer,  M.  J.  .  . 
DeKok,  J.  W.  .  . 
De     Waal,     Nicolaas 

Frederick 
Dugmore,  G.  E.     . 
Du     Plessis,     Andrus 

Stephanus   . 
Du      Plessis,      David 

Jacobus 
Du   Plessis,   Matthew 

Jacobus 
Fain?e,  Hon.  Sir  Pieter 

Hendrik,   K.C.M.G. 

Foster,  J 

Frost,     Hon.     John, 

C.M.G.  .      .      . 

Fuller,  Arthur  John  . 
Garlick,  George     . 
Graaf,  Johannes  Jac- 
obus Arnoldus  . 
Haarhoff,  D.  J.     .      . 


Representing 
Cape  Town  P 
Fort  Beaufort  B 

Capo  Town  P 
Swellendam  B 
Riversdale  E 
BarklyWest  P 
Woodstock  P 
Gape  Town  P 

Worcester  B 

Queenstown  P 
Cathcart  P 
Albert  B 
Cape  Town  P 
Paarl  B 

Wynbvirg  P 

AKwal  North  P 
Beavifort  West  B 
Vryburg  ? 
George  B 
Graaff-Reinet  B 
Picquetberg  B 
Mafeking  ? 

Colesberg  B 
Wodehovise  P 

Albert  B 

Middelburg  E 

Cradock  B 

Namaqualand  P 
Oudtshoorn  B 

Queenstown  P 
Tembuland  P 
Cape  Town  P 

Worcester  B 
Kimberley  P 


Harris,  Colonel  D. 

Hellier,  J 

Hewat,  Dr.  John  . 

Hoffmann,  Dr.  Jonas 
Matthias 

Jagger,  J.  N.  Wm.    . 

Jameson,  Dr.  Leander 
Starr       .... 

Juta,  Hon.  Sir  Henry 
Hubert,  Kt.,  K.C.. 

I^ing,  Thos.  Bumham 

Krige,  —  ... 

Krige,  Gideon  Johan- 
nes     

Kuhn,  Peter  Gysbert . 

Lawrence,   James 

Lee,  Charles    . 

Lotter,Caspar  Jacobus 

Maasdorp  G.  H.    . 

Malan,  Francois    Ste- 
phanus  .... 

Marais,  Johannes  Hen- 
ock  .... 

Michell,  Sir  Lewis 

Michau,  J.  J.   . 

Molteno,  James  Ten- 
nant        .... 

Niland,  B         ... 

Gats,  Francis 

OUver,  H.  A.   .      .      . 

Oosthuizen,     Okkert 
Almero  .... 

Orsmond,  ]\L  C.     . 

Orpen,  Redmond 

Powrie,  F.        ... 

Rabidge,  W.    . 

Rabie,  Dirk  de  Vos   . 

Raubenheimer,  H.  J. 

Redemeyer,     Jacobus 
Michael 

Runciman,  William    . 

Sampson,  Victor,  K.C. 

Schoeman,     Johannes 
Hendrick 

Schreiner,  Theophilus 

Searle,  Charles 


Representing 
BarklyWest  ? 
East  London  ? 
Woodstock  P 

Paarl  B 
Cape  Town  P 

Grahamstown  P 

Port  Elizabeth  P 
Victoria  East  P 
Caledon  B 

Stellenbosch  B 
Victoria  West  B 
Kimberley  P 
Uitenhage  P 
Jansenville  B 
Graaff-Reinet  1. 

Malmesbury  S 

Stellenbosch  B 
Wynberg  P 
Riversdale  B 

Somerset  East  B 
Fort  Beaufort  P 
Namaqualand  P 
Kimberley  P 

Jansenville  B 
Aliwal  North  P 
Prieska  P 
Wodehouse  P 
Vryburg  P 
Worcester  B 
George  B 

Humansdorp  B 
Simon' s  Town  P 
Albany  P 

Oudtshoorn  B 
Tembuland  P 
George  B 


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Soarle,  James 

Silberbauer.  W.     . 

Slater,  J.    .'     .      .      . 

Smartt,  Dr.  T.  H.     . 

Smuts,  Jacobus  Abra- 
ham       .... 

Stead,  Arthur 

StigUngli,  J.  H.     . 

Theron,  Thomas  Phi- 
lippus      .... 

Thomas,  William 

Thome,  W.      .      .      . 

Tod,  C.  E.        ... 

Van  der  Merwe,  Franz 
Johannes 

Van  Heerden,  Hercu- 
les Christian 


Representing 
Port    Elizabeth    I 
Richmond  3 
Victoria  East  P 
East  London  P 

Malmesbury  B 
Kimberley  P 
Picqiietberg  B 

Richmond  B 
Albany  P 
Cape  Town  P 
Griqualand  East 

Clanwilliam  B 

Cradock  B 


Van  Zyl,  Dirk  Jacobus 
Albertus 

Vanes,     Dr.     Arthur 
Bayley    . 

Venter,  M.  M. 

Viljoen,  Dr. 

Visser,  A..  G.    . 

Vosloo,  A. 

Walton,  Edgar  Harris 

Weebcr,Pieter.Jacobus 

Whi  taker,  George 

Wolfardt,  George 

Sebastian     . 

Wood,    Henry 

Wynne,  James 

Zietsman,  Loms  Fred- 
erick   


Representing 

Clanwilliam  B 

Uitenhage  P 
Colesberg  B 
Caledon  B 
Victoria  West  B 
Somerset  East  B 
Port  Elizabeth  P 
Beaufort  West  B 
KingwilUamstown  P 

Swellendam  B 
Grahamstown  P 
Port  Elizabeth  P 

Griqualand  East  P 


JOINT  PARLIAMENTARY  ESTABLISHMENT. 

Paeliamentaky  Draughtsmatst  : — J.  A.  Joubert. 
LiBRAEiAN  : — William  Flint,  D.D. 

CAPE  COLONIAL  CIVIL  ESTABLISHMENT. 

GovEBNOR  OF  Cape  Colony  : — His  Excellency  the  Hon.  Sir  Walter  Francis 

Hely-Hutchinson,  G.C.M.G. 
Private  Secretary  : — H.  W.  B.  Robinson. 
Colonial  A.D.C.  and  Military  Secretary  : — Major     Jas.     Deane,     C.M.G.     (Royal 

Highlanders). 
Extra  A.D.C.  : — Capt.  W.  A.  Gordon  (Worcester  Regiment). 
Clerks  : — J.  F.  Smuts  ;  H.  G.  Watson. 

PRIME  MINISTER'S  OFFICE. 


Prime  Minister,  Dr.  Hon.  L.  S.  Jameson,  C.B. 
Secretary,   S.    Cowper,   C.M.G. 


Assistant  Secretary,  T.  B.  Stenhouse 
Clerks,  R.  S.  Holland  ;  C.  T.  Coldswain. 


NATIVE  AFFAIRS  DEPARTMENT. 


Secretary   to   the   Native   Affairs   Department, 

W.  G.  Cumming. 
Chief  Clerk,  E.  E.  Dower. 
Clerks,  R.   D.   H.   Barry,   S.   ds  la  C.   Snooke, 

F.  S.  Heaton,  J.  S.  le  Roux. 
Accoiuiting  Officer,  W.  G.  Cumming. 
Accountant  and  Accounting  Officer  for  Revenue, 

W.  B.  Gordon. 
Assistant  Accoixntant,  P.  S.  Laney. 
Chief  Examiner  of  Accounts,  W.  G.  Morris. 

Inspectors  of  Native  Locations. 
Chief  Inspector,  S.  H.  Roberts. 
Albany,  G.  E.  Nightingale. 
Albert,  W.  T.  Dell. 
Alexandria,  J.  F.  F.  Bowker. 
Barkly  West,  W.  H.  Hall. 
Bathurst,  J.  N.  Cock. 


Bedford,  J.  A.  Stratford. 

Cape  (Ndabeni),  C.  C.  Stubbs,  E.  C.  AUman  and 

J.  H.  M.  Sweeney. 
East   London,    W.    R.    EUis,    C.    B.    Bousfield, 

and  O.  H.  R.  Nicholls. 
Fort  Beaufort,  R.  D.  Henry. 
Glen  Grey,  W.  P.  Jones,  B.  D.  Musgrave. 
Hav,  J.  A.  Louw. 
Herbert,  C.  E.  H.  Orpen. 
Herschel,  C.  J.  Dovey,  A.  G.  Austen. 
Humansdorp,  H.  F.  W.  Maynier. 
Eamberley — Chief    Registrar    of    Servants,    E. 

W.  H.  Morris. 
Protector  of  Natives,  G.  W.  Barnes. 
King  WilUamstown — Special  Magistrate,  R.  J. 

Dick. 
Middledrift,  J.  S.  Cumming. 


Cape  Colony,  Native  Affairs 


209 


Keiskama  Hoek,  L.  G.  H.  Tainton. 
Komgha,  Jesse  Hill. 
Kuruman,  J.  P.  McCarthy. 
Mafekinac,  C.  S.  Pringle. 
Middelburg,  C.  M.  G.  Clough. 
Peddie — Location  A.,  J.  B.  Hartloy. 

Location  B.,  J.  T.  Bront. 
Port  Elizabeth,  Thomas  Dent  and  W.  H.  Quirk. 
Queenstown — Wliittlesea,  F.  J.  Evens. 

Kamastone,  H.  B.  B.  Roberts. 
Somerset  East,  J.  P.  Cumming. 
Stutterheim,  J.  P.  Cochrane. 
Taung,  Godfrey  Shepherd. 
Uitenhage,  H.  S.  Fynn. 
Victoria  East,  J.  B.  Liefeldt. 
Vryburg,  C.  St.  Qnintin. 
Wodehouso,  H.  M.  Nieholls. 

Johannesburg,    Interpreter    to    Labour    Agent, 
G.  Nongalazo. 

Transkeian  Territories. 
Chief   Magistrate,    W.    E.    M.    Stanford,    C.B., 

C.M.G. 
A-ssistant  Magistrate,  A.  H.  B.  Stanford. 
Chief  Clerk.  H.  P.  Tillard. 
Accountant,  Liu  Dillon. 
Assist.  Accountant,  E.  J.  Hargreaves. 
Res.  Magistrate,  Buttei' worth,  W.  T.  Brownlee. 
Clerk  and  Asst.  Res.  Magistrate,  O.  M.  Blakeway. 
Res.  Magistrate,  Ngamakwe,  C.  J.  Warner. 
Clerk  and  Asst.  Res.  Magistrate,  R.  J.  Macleod. 
Res.  Magistrate,  Tsomo,  W.  J.  G.  Thomson. 
Clerk  and  Asst.  Res.  Magistrate,  H.  D.  Lloyd. 
Res.  Magistrate,  Idutywa,  J.  P.  Crunming. 
Clerk  and  Asst.  Res.  Magistrate,  F.  W.  B.  Gil- 

fiUan. 
Res.  Magistrate,  Kentani,  N.  O.  Thompson. 
Clerk  and  Asst.  Res.  Magistrate,  W.  J.  Vlok. 
Res.  Magistrate,   Willowvale,  M.  W.  Liefeldt. 
Clerk  and  Asst.  Res.  Magistrate,  F.  N.  Doran. 
Ros.  Magistrate.  Umtata,  A.  H.  B.  Stanford. 
Clerk  and  Asst.  Res.  Magistrate,  A.  E.  Gilfillan. 
Res.  Magistrate,  Engcobo,  C.  A.  Iving. 
Clerk  and  Asst.  Res.  Magistrate,  C.  E.  Warner. 
Res.  Magistrate,  Xalanga,  F.  E.  C.  Bell. 
Clerk,  G.  E.  L.  Pahner. 


Res.  Magistrate,  Elliot,  H.  H.  Bunn. 

Clerk,  H.  G.  Eedes. 

Res.  Magistrate,  St.  Mark's,  Capt.  E.  J.  Whindus. 

First  Clerk  and  Asst.  Res.  Magis.,  E.  J.  Russell. 

Res.  Magistrate,  Mqanduli,  L.  F.  E.  Farrant. 

Clerk  and  D.S.,  G.  C.  C.  M.  Gladwin. 

Res.  Magistrate,  Elliotdale,  W.  T.  Hargreaves. 

Res.  Magistrate,  Port  St.  John's,  W.  J.  St.  J. 

Turner. 
Clerk  and  D.S.,  H.  H.  Catherine. 
Res.  Magistrate,  Lusikisiki,  J.  S.   Simpson. 
Clerk  and  Asst.  Res.  Magistrate,  G.  Jeffery. 
Res.  Magistrate,  Flagstaff,  J.  H.  Roose. 
Clerk  and  Asst.  Res.  Magistrate,  R.  G.  Heathcote. 
Res.  Magistrate,  Tabankulu,  T.  W.  C.  Norton. 
Clerk,  R.  H.  Wilson. 

Res.  Magistrate,  Bizana,  Major  H.  Sprigg. 
Clerk  and  D.S.,  B.  E.  Cotterell. 
Res.  Magistrate,  Libode,  J.  C.  Garner. 
Clerk    and    Asst.    Res.    Magistrate,    W.    F.    C. 

Trollip. 
Res.  Magistrate,  Nqqeleni,  J.  W.  Morris. 
Clerk  and  Asst.  Res.  Magis., W.  H.  P.  Freemantle. 

East  Griqualand. 

A.C.M.,  East  Griqualand  and  Pondoland  East, 

and  R.M.,  Mount  Cm-rie,  R.  W.  Stanford. 
Asst.  Res.  Magistrate,  J.  M.  Young. 
Res.  Magistrate,  Mount  Ayliff,  A.  S.  Leary. 
Clerk  and  Asst.  Res.  Magis.  and  D.S.,  E.  Barrett. 
Res.  Magistrate,  XJmzimkulxL,  F.  E.  H.  Guthrie. 
Asst.  Res.  Magis.  and  D.S.,  H.  E.  F.  White. 
Res.  Magistrate,  Qumbu,  T.  C.  A.  Rein. 
Clerk    and    Asst.    Res.    Magistrate,    G.    M.    B. 

WTiitfield. 
Res.   Magistrate,   Tsolo,   A.   Gladwin. 
Clerk,  WrM.  Carlisle. 

Res.  Magistrate,  Mount  Frere,  W.  P.  Leary. 
Asst.  Res.  Magis.  and  D.S.,  W.  C.  H.  B.  Gamer. 
Res.  Magistrate,  Matatiele,  J.  F.  C.  Rein, 

,,  ,,  Maclear,  R.  L.  Shaw. 

Asst.  Res.  Magis.  and  D.S.,  L.  C.  Pinkerton. 
Res.    Magistrate,    Mount   Fletcher,    J.    C.    Har- 
greaves. 
Clerk  and  Asst.  Res.  Ma;Tis.,  H.  C.  S.  Garner. 


MINISTERIAL  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE  COLONIAL  SECRETARY. 


Colonial  SECBETARy's  Office. 
Colonial    Secretarv,    Hon.     Sir    P.    H.     Faure, 

K.C.M.G. 
Und.  Col.  Secretary,  Noel  Janisch. 
Asst.  Und.  Col.  Sec,  H,  B.  Shawe. 

Administrative  and  Convict  Branch. 
Chief  Clerk,  H.  Tucker. 
Principal  Clerk,  N.  H.  M.  Cole. 


Accounting  Officer,  E.  G.  RendeU. 
Accountant,  A.  A.  Beck. 

Local  Government  and  Health  Branch. 
Med.  Officer  of  Health  for  the  Colony,  Dr.  A.  J. 

Gregory. 
Assistant     do.     do..  Dr.  J.  A.  Mitchell. 
Bacteriological  Asst.,  Dr.  G.  W.  Robertson. 
Medical  Inspector,  Dr.  D.  C.  Rees. 

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Anglo-African  Who's  Who 


Chief  Clerk,  L.  Dale. 

Principal  Clerk,  W.  G.  R.  Murray. 

Stat'lstical  Branch. 
Registrar-General  of  Statistics,  A.  C.  Dale,  I.S.O. 
Principal  Clerk,  A.  J.  Brinton. 
Chief  Examiner,  A.  F.  F.  Scharffenorth. 
Claief     Tabulator     of     Births     and     Marriages, 

C.  W.  Smit. 
Chief  Tabulator  of  Diseases,  W.  C.  Titterton. 
Tabulator  of  Diseases,  W.  Johnstone. 
Deputy-Registrar    of    Births    and    Deaths,    W. 

Morgan. 
Assistant  Deputy  Registrar,  W.  T.  Birch. 

Analytical  Branch. 
Senior  Analyst,  C.  F.  Jm-itz,  M.A. 
Analysts,  J.  Lewis,  M.A.,  J.  G.  Rose,  St.  C.  O. 

Smclair,  A.  J.  J.  B.  Simons,  B.A. 
Analyst,  Graham's  Town,  J.  Muller,  B.A. 

General  and  Inspectorate. 
Inspector  of  Prisons.  H.  B.  Roper,  I.S.O. 
Deputy  do.,  C.  W.  Cousins. 

Inspector  of  Books  and  Accovmts,  P.  J.  Truter. 
Stationery  and  Printing  Expert,  C.  J.  Fawcett. 
Inspector    of    Police    and    Gaol    Stores,    L.    A. 

Hardy. 
Insoector"^  of    Magazines    and    Permit    Officer, 
^  A.  J.  Fuller. 

Miscellaneous. 
Col.  Historiographer,  G.  M.  Theal,  LL.D. 
Keeper  of  Archives,  H.  C.  V.  Leibbrandt. 
Chief     Government     Inspector     of     Explosives, 
J.  E.  Foakes. 

Stationery   and   Printing   and   Depot   for   Police 
and  Gaol  Stores. 
(Administrative  Branch). 
Controller,  Noel  Janisch. 
Assistant  Controller,  C.  R.  W.  Farmar. 

{Executive  Branch). 
Superintendent,  H.  L.  Creed. 
Assistant  Superintendent,  T.  M.  Hogan. 

Hospitals  and  Asylums. 

Valkenberg  Asylum. 

Insp.  of  Asylums  and  Medical  Supt.,  Dr.  W.  J. 

Dodds.' 
Asst.  Medical  Officer,  Dr.  E.  W.  D.  Swift. 
Chaplain,  C.E.,  Rev.  A.  Daintree. 

„        D.R.C.,  Rev.  J.  P.  do  Villiers. 
R.C.,  Rev.  J.  Kelly. 


Old  Somerset  Hospital. 
Surgeon-in-Charge,  Dr.  J.  H.  Cox. 
Visiting  Chaplain,  C.E.,  Rev.  T.  Browning. 

„      D.R.C.,  Rev.  J.  B.  C.  Knobel. 
Superintendent,  S.  Needham. 

Lock  Hospital,  Cape  Town. 
Medical  Officer-in-Charge,  J.  F.  Dixon. 

Eobben  Island  (Administrative). 
Commissioner,  George  Piers. 
Chief  Clerk  and  Accountant  (absent  on  special 

duty),  E.  M.  Jackson. 
Acting    Chief    Clerk    and    Accountant,    F.    A. 

Smithers. 
Clerk  of  Asylums,  J.  T.  Taylor. 

(General). 
Chaplains,  C.E.,  C.  Engleheart. 
„  D.R.C.,  Louis  Hugo. 

„  R.C.,  W.  Leeson. 

(Male  Asylwm). 
Medical  Supt.,  R.  S.  Black. 

(Male  Leper   Wards). 
Asst.  Medical  Officer,  J.  K.  K.  Benjamin. 

(Works  Department). 
Clerk  of  Works,  R.  Dannatt. 

Grey  Hospital,  King  Williamstown. 
Superintendent,  B.  Blaine,  M.B. 
Clerk  and  Dispenser,  A.  O.  Taylor. 

Graham's  Town  Asylum. 
Medical  Superintendent,  Dr.  T.   D.  Greenlees. 
Asst.  Medical  Officer,  Dr.  W.  L.  A.  Leslie. 
Chaplain,  Rev.  Canon  Turpin. 

(Chronic  Sick  Hospital,  Graham's  Town). 
Medical  Superintendent,  Dr.  G.  E.  Fitzgerald. 
Superintendent,  C.  S.  Webb. 
Chaplain,  R.C.,  Right  Rev.  Bishop  McSherry. 

,,  Wesieyan,  J.  W.  Thompson. 

Port  Alfred  Asylum. 
Medical  Superintendent,  W.  H.  Atherstone. 
Visiting  Chaplain,  Rev.  H.  Allen. 

Fort  Beaufort  Asylum. 
Medical  Superintendent,  Dr.  J.  Conry. 
Clerk  and  Storekeeper,  F.  C.  L.  Vogts. 

Emjanyana  Leper  Asylum. 
Officer-in-Charge.  A.  C.  Bain. 
Resident  Medical  Officer,  C.  G.  Cassidy. 


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Bacteriological  Institute. 
Director,  Dr.  A.  Edington. 
Secretary,  T.  Hedley,  B.A.,  LL.B. 
Director's  Assistant,  C.  A.  le  Doux. 
Senior  Assistant,  Dr.  J.  M.  Coutts. 

Convict  Stations. 
Breakwater. 
Superintendent,  G.  C  S.  Foster. 
Asst.  do.  and  Acct.,  A.  van  der  H.  de  Villiers. 
Deputy    Asst.    do.    and    Officer    in    Charge    of 

Industries,  E.  Brande. 
Visiting  Magistrate,  C.  W.  Broers. 

,,  „       Bleakhouse,  R.  R.  B.  Howe. 

Med.  Officer,  Dr.  H.  A.  Engelbach,  M.B. 

„  ,,  Bleak  House,   Outstation, 

Dr.   W.  Hewat. 
,,        Chaplain,  C.E.,  Rev.  T.  Browning. 
D.R.C.,  Rev.  T.  F.  Dreyer. 
R.C.,  Rev.  M.  Colgan,  D.D. 

East  London. 
Superintendent,  Frank  Dreyer. 
Chief  Clerk  and  Accoixntant,  Vacant. 
Visiting  Magistrate,  A.  H.  Garcia. 

Med.  Officer,  J.  B.  Anderson. 
,,      Chaplain,  Rev.  A.  L.  Wright. 

SharJc's  River. 
Acting  Superintendent,  H.  A.  van  Bart. 
Visiting  Magis.  (Acting),  J.  Vti"ylde. 

„    "  Medical  Officer,  J.  G.  Uppleby. 
Chaplain,  Rev.  P.  R.  MoUett. 

Kluitjes  Kraal. 
Superintendent,  J.  C.  van  der  Byl. 


Visiting  Magistrate,  W.  Hare. 

Medical  Officer,  H.  P.  Payno. 
„       Chaplain,  E.C.,  Rev.  A.  Jeffary. 

Tokai. 
Superintendent,  H.  M.  E.  Orpen. 
Asst.  Superintendent,  E.  C.  Dyason. 

Elsenburg. 
Superintendent,  H.  M.  Dreyer. 
Visiting  Ma.gistrate,  R.  R.  B.  Howe. 

„       Medical  Officer,  Dr.  J.  H.  Neethling. 

„       Chaplain,  Rev.  J.  A.  Campbell. 

Education. 

Supt.  Gen.  of  Education,  T.  Muir,  C.M.G., 
LL.D.,  M.A.,  F.R.S. 

Secrotarv,  C.  Murray,  M.A. 

Clerks,  J.  D.  Coley,  B.A.  ;  G.  W.  Casse,  B.A.  ; 
J.  Rodger,  M.A.  ;  F.  H.  Long,  P.  A.  Millard, 
etc. 

Accounting  Officer,  A.  J.  Kuys. 

Accountant,  J.  Spyker. 

Examiner  of  Accounts,  P.  E.  Scholtz. 

Deputy  Inspectors  of  Schools,  F.  Howe-Ely, 
M.A.  ;  E.  Noakes,  M.A.  ;  W.  Milne,  M.A., 
B.Sc,  F.R.S.E.  ;  J.  Mitchell  ;  G.  P.  Theron, 
B.A.  ;  C.  E.  Z.  Watermeyer,  B.A.,  LL.B.  ; 
Rev.  J.  McLaren,  M.A.  :  J.  H.  Hofmeyr, 
M.A.  ;  G.  Hagen,  B.A.  ;  T.  Rein,  B.A., 
Ph.D.  ;  J.  Pressly,  M.A.  ;  T.  S.  Golightly, 
B.A.  ;  W.  G.  Bennie,  B.A.  .;  G.  J.  R.  Rein  ; 
J.  G.  Tooke  ;  D.  Craib,  M.A.  ;  Dr.  T.  Logie  ; 
A.  G.  Macleod ;  A.  B.  Bartmaim,  M.A. 
(Relieving  Inspector);  E.  Holden ;  O.  J. 
S.  Satchell,  M.A. 


MINISTERIAL  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE    TREASURER. 


Treasury. 

Treasurer,  Hon.  E.  H.  Walton. 

Asst.    Treas.,    Accountant-Gen.,    Receiver-Gen., 

and  Paymaster-Gen.  of  the  Colony,  W.  A. 

Collard. 
Deputy  Asst.  Treasurer  and  Accounting  Officer, 

B.  E.  Shepperson. 
Senior  Principal  Clerk,  L.  B.  Smuts. 
Principal  Clerks,  A.  H.  Day,  H.  T.  Piers. 
Asst.    Accountants,    P.    Davidson,    P.    Rainier, 

G.  J.  Beyers,  W.  H.  L.  Friedrichs. 
First  Class  Clerks,  G.  C.  J.  L.  F.  Haussmann, 

P.  G.  van  Breda,  A.  E.  du  Toit,  F.  J.  G. 

Brand. 
Inspector  of  Chests  and  Accoimts,  T.  F.  W.  de 

Villiers. 
Deputy     do.,   F.    S.    Staploton. 
Supt.  of  Licences  and  Stamps,  G.  W.  A.  Cloete. 


Assistant   Supt.  of    Licenses   and    Stamps,   W. 

Ledlie,  M.A. 
Chief  Distributor  of  Stamps,  A.  H.  Stubbs. 
Chief  Clerk  and  Inspector,  E.  A.  Thomas. 
Government  Actuary  and  Registrar  of  Friend! j'' 

Soc,     J.  McGowan,  B.A.,  F.I  A. 
Agent-General  in  Lonbon. 
Agent-General,  T.  E.  Fuller,  C.M.G. 
Private  Secretary,  B.  A.  Baggs. 
Secretary,  J.   S.  B.  Todd,  C.M.G. 
Assistant  Secretary,  T.  S.  Nightingale. 

Finance  Branch. 
Accountant,  J.  W.  Tricker. 
Assistant  Accountant,  S.  J.  T.  Platts. 
Shorthand  and  Record  Clerk,  J.  Stephens. 

Stores  and  Shipping  Branch. 
Superintendent,  E.  G.  Rendell. 
Assist.   Superintendent,   W.   D.   Tidd. 


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Emigration  Branch. 
Emigration  Agent,  H.  H,  Erskine. 

City  Branch. 
Inspector  at  Stamp  Factory,  T.  A.  Gates. 

Control  and  Audit  Office. 
Controller  and  Auditor-General,  W.  E.  Gurney. 
Asst.  do.  and  Accounting  Officer,  J.  P.  Hopkins. 
Inspectors    of    Accounts,    C.    B.    Fair,    W.    E. 

Goodman. 
Inspectors,  W.  F.  L.  Beck,  P.  E.  F.  Broers,  and 

W.  F.  L.  Beck. 
Chief  Examiner  of  Accounts,  J.  S.  Stephenson. 
TravelUng  Inspector,  J.  M.  Corderoy. 
Accountant,  G.  F.  W.  Batho. 
First  Class  Examiners,  W.  H.  Scott  and  W.  H. 

CaJderwood. 

Customs. 
Controller  of  Customs  and  Principal  Registrar 

of  Shipping  and  Accounting  Officer,  A.  H. 

Wilshere. 

Administrative  Section. 
Chief  Clerk,  A.  P.  Murray. 
Customs  Union  Clerk,  P.  A.  Myburgh. 
Inspector  and  Departl.  Auditor  of  Revenue  and 

Expenditure,  A.  J.  S.  Lewis. 
Accomitant  and  Book-keeper,  H.  M.  Tritton. 
Prin.  Statistical  Clerk,  J.  de  V.  Heckroodt. 
Inspector   of    Bonded   Warehouses,    F.    W.    M. 

Nicholson. 
First  Class  Clerks,    G.  O.  Smith,    J.  H.  G.  V. 

Hoets,  F.  W.  Watermeyer,  J.  G.  Bam. 
Exam,  of  Ships'  Papers,  W.  Thompson. 
Executive  Section. 
Port  of  Cape  Town. 
Collector  of  Customs  and  Registrar  of  Shipping, 

H.  le  Sueur. 
Chief  Clerk  and  Warehouse-keeper,  J.  C.  Hoets. 

(Waterside  Branch). 
Surveyor  of  Customs,  P.  G.  M.  Borcherds. 
Assistant     do.,  I.  A.  Sampson. 
First  Class  Examining  Officers,  E.  G.  Orpen  and 

T.  D.  Acheson. 
Inspector  of  Baggage  and  Exam.  Officer,  P.  H. 

Berrange. 

Port  Elizabeth. 
Collector  of  Customs  and  Registrar  of  Shipping, 

C.  W.  Pearson,  I.S.O. 
Chief    Clerk    a,nd    Warehouse    Keeper,    W.    F. 

Wright. 
Second  Clerk  and  Assistant  Warohovise  Keeper, 

A.  Butler. 
Surveyor  of  Customs,  G.  C.  Chase. 
Assistant     do.     do.,  R.  J.  de  Korte. 


Port  Alfred. 
Sub-Collector    and    Examining    Officer,    F.    C. 
Garstin. 

East  London. 
Collector  of  Customs  and  Registrar  of  Shipping, 

G.  Hawkins. 
Chief  Clerk  and  Warehouse  Keeper,  H.  C.  Kolbe. 

( Waterside  Branch ) . 

Surveyor  of  Customs,  F.  K.  Chase. 

Inland  Customs. 

Kimberley. 

Principal    Officer   of   Customs,    F.    J.    Percival 

(acting). 

Mafehing. 

Principal  Officer  of  Customs,  F.  G.  W.  Crossman. 

Ports  and  Harbours. 

Table  Bay. 

Nautical  Adviser,  Capt.  W.  Stephen  (acting). 

{Shipping  Office.) 
Shipping  Master,  A.  T.  V.  Bridge. 

Port  Nolloth. 
Port  Officer,  F.  Howe-Browne. 

Simon's  Toivn. 
Port  Officer  and  Shipping  Master,  T.  Bynon. 

Mossel  Bay. 
Harbour  Master,  Capt.  J.  L.  Dryden. 

Knysna. 
Port  Officer  and  Shipping  Master,  W.  L.  Philpott. 

Port  Elizabeth. 
Shipping  Master,  W.  L.  Dymott. 

Port  Alfred. 
Port  Officer,  F.  C.  Garstin. 

East  London. 
Shipping  Master,  W.  Hildyard. 
Port  St.  John's. 
Port  Officer,  W.  J.  St.  J.  Turner. 

Post  Office  Establishment. 
Postmaster-General,  Sir  S.  R.  French,  K.C.M.G. 
Secretary,  B.  M.  Duff,  I.S.O. 
Asst.  Secretarv,  W.  T.  Hoal. 
Chief  Clerk,  J.  Wilson. 

{Appointments  Branch). 
Principal  Clerk,  E.  A.  Stvirman. 

{General  Correspondence  Branch). 
Principal  Clerk,  W.  H.  Tiffany. 

{Provincial  Post  Office  Branch). 
Principal  Clerk,  J.  Inch. 


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(Accounting  Branch). 
Accountant,  R.  Henderson. 
Asst.        do.,  D.  Stephen. 

(Audit  Branch). 
Departmental   Auditor    and   Examiner   of   Ac- 
counts, J.  Fair. 

(Savings  Bank  Branch). 
Controller,  F.  J.  Hohne. 
Acting  Asst.  Controller,  H.  E.  H.  Perkins. 

(Money  Order  Office). 

Controller,  J.  Naylor. 

(Stores  Branch). 

Controller  of  Stores,  W.  P.  Herring. 
Chief  Technical  Officer,  B.  Bayly. 

(Engineering  Branch.) 
Chief  Engineer,  J.  P.  Edwards. 
Assistant  Engineer  (acting),  J.  M.  Forbes. 
Acting  Inspector  of  Lines,  R.  Horton. 

(Telephone  Branch.) 
Assistant  Engineer,  W.   Standford. 


Circulation  Branch  (Postal  Service). 
Controller,  J.  C.  Carstens. 
Assistant  Controller,  J.  Powell. 
Chief  Clerk  in  Charge  of  Accounts,  W.  E.  Thomas. 

(Central  Telegraph  Office). 
Controller,  J.  Tasker. 
Assistant   Controller,    A.    Tregarthen. 
Superintendents,    F.    W.    Hampson,    J.    H.    W. 

Williams. 

(Surveying  and  Engineering). 
Western  District — Headquarters,  Cape  Town. 
Acting  Surveyor  and  District  Engineer,  E.  Price. 
Midland   District — Headquarters,   Port  Eliza- 
beth. 
Surveyor  and  District  Engineer,  D.  Mackintosh. 
Eastern  District — Headquarters,  East  London 
Surveyor  and  District  Engineer,  J.  F.  Smith. 
Northern    District — Headquarters,    De    Aar. 
Acting    Surveyor    and    District    Engineer,    W. 

Hopkins. 

Transkei    District — Headquarters,     Umtata. 
Acting      Surveyor      and      District      Engineer, 
I.  B.  Hadaway. 


MINISTERIAL  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE  ATTORNEY-GENERAL. 


Attorney-General's  Office. 

Attorney-General,  Hon.  Victor  Sampson,  K.C. 
Sec.  to  the  Law  Dept.,  J.  J.  Graham,  C.M.G. 
Asst.   Sec.   to  the  Law  Dept.   and  Accounting 
Officer,  E.  F.  Lonsdale. 

Administrative  Branch. 

Chief  Clerk,  J.  D.  Cormack. 

Divisional  Courts  Branch. 

Principal  Clerk,  M.  Garrett. 

Criminal  and  Legal  Branch. 
Acting  Assistant  Law  Adviser,  Howel  Jones. 
Additional   Legal   Advisers,   L.    G.   Nightingale 

and  M.  O.  Evans. 
Chief  Clerk,  C.  W.  H.  Lansdown. 
Acting  Chief  Clerk,  P.  K.  A.  de  Vos,  B.A. 
Clerk,  E.  H.  Bisset,  B.A.,  LL.B. 
Ciiief  Clerk,  Police  Branch,  D.  C.  Giddy. 

Accounting  Branch. 
Accountant,  F.  H.  Joubert. 
Assistant   Accountant   and   Bookkeeper,    C.    T. 

EZnoblauch. 
Chief  Exam.  Officer,  A.  J.  R.  Wilmot. 
Inspector  of  District  Police,  W.  S.  Bellew. 
Divisional  Inspector,  F.  Witham. 


Supreme  Court. 

Registrar'' s  Department. 

Cliief  Justice,  Right  Hon.  Sir  J.  H.  de  VilUers, 

P.C,  K.C.M.G. 
Puisne  Judges,  Hon.  Sir  E.  J.   Buchanan,  Kt., 

and  Hon.  C.  G.  Maasdorp. 
Registrar  and  Taxing  Officer,  H.  R.  Dale. 
Assistant  Registrar,  J.  H.  Gately. 
Interpreter,  F.  G.  Watermeyer. 

High  Sheriff'' s  Department. 
Acting  High  Sheriff,  G.  A.  Reynolds. 
Acting  Chief  Clerk,  J.  C.  Plinsbeeck. 

Masters  Department. 
Master,  G.  A.  Reynolds. 

(Orphan  Chamber  Branch). 
Acting  Chief  Clerk,  A.  I.  G.  MuUer. 
Accountant,  F.  J.  Jansen. 
Acting  Accoimtant,  M.  L.  NeethUng. 

(Insolvency  and  Law  Branch). 
Chief  Clerk,  G.  J.  A.  Reid. 

Eastern  Districts  Court. 
Judge  President,  Hon.  S.  T.  Jones,  LL.D. 
Puisne  Judges,  Hon.  J.  D.  Shiel  and  Hon.  J.  G. 

Kotze. 
Registrar,  C.  Kenealy. 
Interpreter  (Dutch),  W.  M.  Collier. 


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High  Coitrt  of  Geiqualand. 
Judge  President,  Hon.  P.  M.  Laurence. 
Puisne  Judges,  Hon.  W.  M.  Hopley  and  Hon. 

J.  H.  Lange. 
Registrar  and  Master,  H.  F.  Ford. 
Assistant  Registrar,  C.  Currie. 
Acting  Clerk,  H.  N.  van  Aardt. 
Interpreter  (Dutch),  J.  H.  van  Rooyen. 

Special  Coukt. 
Members  of  Special  Court  in  addition  to  Judges, 
J.  J.  Christie  and  W.  R.  Piers. 

Solicitob-Geneeal'  s  Department. 
Solicitor-General,  H.  L.  Burke,  K.C. 
Chief  Clerk,   C.   J.    Schermbrucker. 

Ckown  Peosecutoe's  Department. 
Crown  Prosecutor,  H.  T.  Tamplin,  K.C. 
Acting  Chief  Clerk,  A.  J.  Waters,  B.A. 

Depaetment  op  Registeae  of  Deeds. — Cape 

Town. 
Registrar  of  Deeds  and  Accounting  Officer  of 

Transfer  Duty,  W.  de  N.  Lucas. 
Chief  Clerk  and  Asst.  Registrar,  W.  F.  Leffler. 
First  Examiner,  C.  G.  van  Renen. 
Examiner,  R.  L.  Black. 
Registry  Surveyor,  W.  P.  Miu-ray. 
Assistant     do.     do.,  F.   F.   Elliott. 

Divisional  Cottets  and  Offices. 
Aberdeen. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  W.  B.  Magennis. 
First  Clerk,  F.   A.   Eksteen. 
Albany. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  F.  G.  C.  Graham. 
First  Clerk,  R.  G.  Russouw. 

Albert. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  P.  Drej^er. 
First    Clerk,    J.    Foster. 

( V  enter  stad. ) 
Assistant  R.M.,  H.  M.  D.  Hutchinson. 

Alexandria. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  F.  E.  Allman. 
Aliwal  North. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  F.  E.  WoUaston. 
First  Clerk,  J.  G.  Freislich. 

{Lady  Grey). 
Assistant  R.M.,  F.  J.  Lawrence. 

Barkly  East. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  R.  C.  Lolyd. 
First  Clerk,   I.   A.   Rees. 


Barkly  West, 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  G.  D.  Rainier. 
First  Clerk,  J.  Drysdale. 

KUpdam. 
Assist.  R.M.,  P.  A.  Garcia. 

Bath^irst. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  C.  B.  Scholtz. 
Beaufort   West. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  E.  J.   Philpott. 
First  Clerk,  A.  A.  van  Breda. 

Bedford. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  H.  F.  O.  Hewett. 
First  Clerk,  J.  G.  T.  Joubert. 

Bredasdorp. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  W.  C.  Scully. 

Briistoion. 
C.C.  and  R.M.  (Acting),  H.  C.  Becker. 

(De  Aar). 
Assistant  R.M.,   J.   W.    Kuys. 

Cnledon. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  H.  J.  de  W.  v.  Breda. 
First  Clerk,  P.  E.  Kuys. 

Calvinia. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  C.  W.  Chabaud. 
First  Clerk,  H.  H.  R.  Piers. 
Cape  CO. 
Civil  Commissioner,  H.  R.  Home. 
First  Clerk,  C.  M.  Stevens. 
Clerk  and  D.S.,  W.  ¥.  Bergh. 
Gape  R.M. 
Resident  Magistrate,  W.  M.  Fleischer,  I.S.O. 
Acting  Res.  Magistrate,  J.  W.  H.  Russouw. 
Assistant  R.M.,  C.  W.  Broers. 
Actmg  Asst.  R.M.,  H.  O.  Badnall. 

W.  D.  S.  Lotter. 
First  Clerk  (Acting),  W.  J.  L.  McDonald. 

(D'  Urbanville). 
Assistant  R.M.,  J.  A.  Smellekamp. 

Uitvlugi  Native  Location). 
Assistant  R.M.,  W.  G.  W.  Wright. 

Carnarvon. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  C.  J.  Bam. 
First  Clerk,  F.  E.  G.  Munschied. 

Cathcart. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  C.  C.  Campbell. 
Acting     do.,  J.  Shand. 

Ceres. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  C.  A.  Home. 


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ClanwiUiam. 

C.C.  and  R.M.,  P.  F.  Aling. 

First  Clerk  (Acting),  E.  B.  Walton. 

Colesherg. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  G.  H.  B.  Shaw. 
First  Clerk,  W.  Harmer. 

Gradock. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  L.  M.  Harison. 
First  Clerk,  E.  C.  Becker. 

(Maraishurg). 
Acting  Asst.  R.M.,  I.  J.  B.  Scotland. 

East  London. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  A.  H.  Garcia. 
Acting  First  Clerk,  J.  R.  Quinn. 
Fort  Beaufort. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  R.  Tillard. 
Acting     do.,    C.    R.    Vaughan. 

{Adelaide). 
Acting  Asst.  R.M.,  H.  W.  Hermans. 

Fraserhurg. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  F.  Shaw. 

(Williston). 
Acting  Asst.  R.M.,  L.  R.  Rawstome. 

George. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  C.  R.  Haw. 
Acting     do.,    J.    C.    Stapleton. 
First  Clerk,  A.  G.  de  Smidt. 

Glen,  Oreij. 
Acting  C.C.  and  R.M.,  F.  C.  Garstin. 
First  Cierk,  D.  N.   During. 
Gordonia. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  D.  Eadie. 
First  Clerk,   W.   P.   Rousseau. 
Graaff-Reinet. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  J.  A.  S.  Hoole. 
Acting  First  Clerk,  E.  C.  Middlewick. 

Hanover. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  C.  H.  Hilliard. 
First  Clerk,  J.  W.  White. 
Hay. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  C.  R.  Chalmers. 
Acting  First  Clerk,  L.  R.  P.  I'ennell. 

Herbert. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  D.  D.  Leslie. 
Fir.st  Clerk,  C.  E.  Sfcidolph. 
Herschel. 
Acting  C.C.  and  R.M.,  E.  G.  Lonsdale. 
First  Clerk,  C.  D.  Campbell. 


Hope  Town. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  E.  R.  W.  Giddy. 
First   Clerk,   D.   H.   Visser. 

Humansdorp. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  E.  T.  Anderson. 
First  Clerk,  J.  H.  Veale. 
Acting  First  Clerk,  P.  J.  Solomon. 

Jansenville. 
Acting  C.C.  andR.M.,  J.  G.  de  la  Bat  van  Alphen. 
Acting  First  Clerk,  K.  R.  Thomas. 

Kenhardt. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  H.  T.  L.  Maclear. 
First  Clerk,  C.  A.  Pentz. 

Kimberley  C.C. 
C.C.  and  Reg.  of  Deeds,  J.  J.  Christie. 
First  Clerk,  T.  W.  Harker. 
Clerks,  A.  O.  Hill,  A.  R.  Brand,  L.  J.  Taylor, 

R.  C.  Linton,  B.A.,  G.  H.  Milles,  B.A. 
Clerk  (Deeds  Registry),  B.  Shaw. 

Kimberley  R.M. 
Resident  Magistrate,  W.  R.  Piers. 
Clerk  and  A.R.M.,  J.  B.  Eraser. 
Acting  First  Clerk,  D.  G.  Tennant. 

{Beaconsfteld). 
Additional  R.M.,  S.  Tilney. 

King  Williamstown. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  and  Registrar  of  Deeds,  W.  B.  G. 

Blenkins. 
Acting  First  Clerk,  W.  T.  Welsh. 
Clerk  in  Charge  Deeds  Office,  G.  W.  E.  Rein. 

(Keiskama  Hoek.) 
Assistant  R.M.,  F.   B.   Gedye. 
{Middledrift. ) 
Assistant  R.M.,  J.  G.  Verity. 
Knysna. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  W.  L.  Philpott. 
First  Clerk,  F.  Kuys. 

Komgha. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  J.  H.  O'Connell. 
First  Clerk,  D.  G.  E.  Bergh. 
Kuruman. 
Resident  Magistrate,  M.  J.  Lyne. 

Ladysmith. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  L.  Neethling. 
Acting  First  Clerk,  M.  H.  Gio. 

Mafeking. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  E.  G.  Green. 
First  Clerks,  E.  N.  Grayson,  M.A.,  and  R.  J. 
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Malmeshury. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  C.  J.   Sweeney. 
First  Clerk,  E.  F.  B.  Schier. 
(Hopefield). 
Assistant  R.M.,  J.  M.  Richards. 

Middelburg. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  J.  B.  Moffat  (absent  on  special 

duty). 
C.C.  and  R.M.  (acting),  G.  D.  Rainier. 
First  Clerk,  D.  A.  Stewart. 
Molteno. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  J.  C.  P.  du  Toit. 
Acting     do.,  il.  E.  Corser. 

Montagu. 
Resident  Magistrate,  J.  I.  Herbert. 
Acting     do.,   T.   H.    Roux. 

Mossel  Bay. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  R.  C.  Ferris. 
First  Clerk,  H.  M.  Borcherds. 

Murrayshurg. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  A.  B.  Hofmeyr. 
ISI  amaqualand. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  W.  M.  Eustace. 
First  Clerk,  H.  W.  Drew. 

Oudtslioo7'n. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  F.  Wrensch. 
Acting  First  Clerk,  E.  J.  le  Roux. 

{Galitzdorp). 
Assistant  R.M.,  P.  M.  van  der  Spuy. 

Paarl. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  C.  S.  Nicholson. 
First  Clerk,   P.   Wither. 

{Wellington). 
Assistant  R.M.,  L.  J.  W.  v.  d.  Poel. 

Peddie. 
Acting  C.C.  and  P.M.,  A.  W.  H.  R.  Preston. 
First   Clerk,   J.    Dorrington. 

Philip's  Town. 
Acting  C.C.  and  R.M.,  T.  B.  N.  Miles,  B.A. 
First  Clerk,  P.  J.  Hugo. 

Piquetberg. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  G.  J.  Boyes. 
First  Clerk,  K.  R.   Stewart. 
Porterville. 
Acting  Assistant  R.M.,  P.  G.  Fischer. 

Port  Elizabeth, 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  J.  T.  Wylde. 
Acting  First  Clerk,  H.  A.  van  Bart. 


{New  Brighton). 
Asst.  R.M.,  J.  T.  A.  Verschuur. 

Port  Nolloth. 
R.M.,  F.  Howe-Browne. 
Acting  R.M.,  J.  H.  Neethling. 

Prieska. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  H.  E.  Gadd. 
First  Clerk,  J.  R.  Cellarius. 
Chief  Constable,  E.  Mansfield. 

Prince  Albert. 

C.C.  and  R.M.,  J.  Ford. 
First  Clerk,  W.  A.  B.  Rowan. 

Laingsburg. 
Acting  R.M.,  H.  F.  J.  Borcherds. 

Queenstown. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  E.  B.  Chalmers. 
First   Clerk,   W.    N.    Kuys. 

{Sterkstroom. ) 
Assistant  R.M.,  A.  C.  van  Renen. 

Richmond. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  J.  A.  Gibbs. 
Acting  First  Clerk,  N.  Lacey. 

Biversdale. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  C.  J.  Roux. 
First  Clerk,  J.  S.  de  Wet. 

Robertson. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  J.  C.  Gie. 
First  Clerk,  F.  Russouw. 

Simon^s  Toiun. 
Resident  Magistrate,  M.  J.  Jackson. 
First  Clerk,  J.  Tudor. 

Somerset  East. 
Acting  C.C.  and  R.M.,  G.  E.  Syme. 
First  Clerk,   P.   B.    Borcherds. 

{Pearston). 
Assistant  R.M.,  A.  C.  Harmsworth. 

Stellenbosch. 
Acting  C.C.  and  R.M.,  R.  R.  B.  Howe. 
First  Clerk,  A.  P.  G.  B.  Legg. 

{Somerset  West). 
Acting  Assistant  R.M.,  J.  A.  van  S.  D'OIiveira. 

Steynshurg. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  W.  G.  Bellairs. 
First  Clerk,  C.  R.  Norton. 

Steytlerville. 
Resident  Magistrate,  S.  D.  Cloete. 

Stockenstrom. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  H.  E.  Marshall. 


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Stutterheim. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  F.  E.  Philpott. 
First  Clerk,  M.  W.  R.  Rushton. 

Sutherland. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  G.  van  R.  Philpott. 

Sioellendam. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  A.  F.  Robertson. 
First  Clerk,  C.  G.  B.  Borcherds. 

Tarka. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  H.  M.  Blakeway. 
First  Clerk,  T.  H.  Bain. 

Taung. 
Resident  Magistrate,  V.  E.  P.  Bradshaw. 

Tulbagh. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  W.  Hare. 
First  Clerk,  S.  C.  Chase. 

Uitenhage. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  C.  G.  H.  Bell,  C.M.G. 
First  Clerk,  J.  F.  de  Wet. 

Uniondale. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  J.  F.  Joubert. 

Van  Rhyn's  Dorp. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  M.  H.  Woodifield. 

Victoria  East. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  J.  B.  van  Renen. 
First  Clerk,  E.  H.  Samuels. 

Victoria   West. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  E.  C.  A.  Welsh. 
First  Clerk,  J.  G.  Rose-Innes. 

Vryburg. 
C.C.  and  R.j\I.  and  Registrar  of  Deeds,  F.  M.  W. 

Roberts. 
First  Clerk,  H.  H.  Hudson. 

Willoiumore. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  J.  D.  Hugo. 
First  Clerk,  S.  P.  Court. 

Wodehouse. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  R.  J.  Crozier. 
First  Clerk,  J.  W.  INIitcheli. 
(Indwe). 
Assist.  R.M.  (prov.),  H.  H.  Roberts. 

Worcester. 
C.C.  and  R.M.,  G.  G.  Rainier. 
First  Clerk,  R.   C.  Norton. 

Wynberg. 
Resident  Magistrate,   G.   B.   Williams. 
First  Clerk,  C.  P.  de  VilHers. 

Relieving  Staff. 
Relieving  C.C.  and  R.M.,  A.  B.  van  Reyneveld. 


Relieving  Officers,  D.  Mav,  W.  D.  S.  Letter, 
E.  H.  van  Noorden,  J.  F.  Herbs,  W.  J.  L. 
McDonald. 

Detective  Department,  Kimbebley. 
Chief  of  Department,  Capt.  H.  A.  Jenner. 
Chief  Clerk,  E.  H.  Damant. 
Cape  Police. 
District  No.   1. 
Commissioner,  H.  L.  Davies. 

Administrative  Branch. 
Paymaster,  A.  E.  Catherine. 
Acting  Paymaster,  S.  H.  Hoal. 

Executive  Branch. 
District  Inspector,  A.  E.  F.  Kropf. 
Inspectors,  J.  N.  Nevian,  D.S.O.,  A.  P.  Tainton, 
W.  M.  Schenk,C.  T.  Rayner,  C.  S.  Marsh, 

C.  C.  Wooler,  A.  C.  Wilson,  C.  W.  Halse, 
W.  R.  Bovey,  F.  W.  H.  Gillwald,  W.  S. 
Bridge,  F.  W.  Harvey  and  W.  C.  van 
Ryneveld. 

Medical    Officer,    B.    Blaine. 
Educational  Instructor,  G.  Hawke. 

District  No.  2. 
Commissioner,   M.    B.   Robinson,    C.M.G. 
Acting  Commissioner,  F.  A.  H.  Eliott. 

Administrative  Branch. 
Paymaster,  P.  M.  Wright. 
Chief  Clerk,  C.  E.  Kdger. 

Executive  Branch. 

District  Inspector,  J.  W.  Brovsme,  D.S.O. 

Acting  District  Inspector,  C.  A.  L.  Berrangt^, 
C.M.G. 

Inspectors,  W.  E.  Ayliff.  R.  F.  Noale-Shutte, 
A.  D.  Murray,  A.  S.  Lesg,  W.  W.  Rush, 
J.  T.   White,  W.  H.  Davis,  E.  M.  Fisher, 

D.  Cowieson,  T.  M.  Da\'idson. 
Acting  Medical  Officer,  J.  Mathias. 
Veterinary  Surgeon,  J.  McNiel. 
Medical  Officer  (temp),  J.  H.  Elnies. 

District  No.   3. 
Acting  Commissioner,  M.  B.  Robinson,  C  M.G. 
{Commi.=;sioner  Cape  Police,  District  2). 
Administrative  Branch. 
Paymaster,  F.  W.  Metelerkamp. 
Chief  Clerk,  R.  R.  Swan. 

Executive  Branch. 
District  Inspector,  R.  M.  Crawford. 
Inspectors,  G.  Easton,  A.  Bates,  E.  W.  Woon, 

C.  E.  W.  Spencer  and  P.  Stuart  (Prov.). 
Medical  Officer  (Acting),  H.  A   Engelbach. 
Acting  Vet.  Surgeon,  J.  A,  Pickwell. 


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MINISTERIAL  DEPARTMENT  OF  COMMISSIONER  OF  PUBLIC  WORKS. 


Commissioner's  Office. 

Commissioner,  Dr.   Hon.   T.  W.   Sinartt. 

Sec.  for  Public  Works,  C.  L.  W.  Mansergh. 

Asst.  Sec.  for  Public  Works,  C.  W.  T.  Duminy. 

Chief  Clerk,  C.  G.  Reynolds. 

Principal  Clerks,  A.  Gracie  and  W.  Morkel. 

Clerks,  R.  A.  Hemmens,  D.  W.  Manning,  J.  W. 
Duminv,  F.  E.  Caufield,  J.  S.  Blackhouse, 
B.A.,  T.  J.  A.  Risler,  and  others. 

Accounting  Branch. 

Asst.  to  Accounting  Officer,  C.  T.  Simpson. 

Accoimtant,  A.  Bell. 

Special  Enquiry  Officer,  J.  Easton. 

Public  Works  Department. 

Chief     Inspector,     J.     Newey,     M.I.C.E.,     F.I. 

Institute. 

Administrative  and  Correspondence  Branch. 

Chief  Clerk,  A.  C.  Tottle. 
Principal  Clerk,  A.   S.  Weisbecker. 

Accounting  Branch. 

Asst.  Accountant  and  Depth  Auditor  of  Revenue, 

P.  Janisch. 
Second  Asst.  Accountant,  K.  N.  de  Kock. 
Examiners  of  Accounts,  A  I.  Smuts,  H.  A.  Spain 

Architectural  Branch. 

Architectural  Assistant,  A.  G.  Howard,  M.S. A" 

Architectural  Assistants  and  Draughtsmen, 
W.  R.  Jaggard,  A.R.I.B.A.,  W.  J.  Shaw- 
Rouse,  D.  W.  Ci-awford  and  E.  Sohaufel- 
berg. 

Principal  Clerical  Asst..  J.  H.  Easton. 

Clerks  of  Works,  C.  F.  V.  Hougham,  H.  G.  B. 
Ridges. 

Draughtsmen,  F.  Quv,  M.S. A.,  M.  N.  C.  Boult 
and  E.  H.  Woodcock,  A.M.S.A. 

Engineering  Branch. 

Engineer,  W.  Westhofen,  M.I.C.E. 
Assistant  Engineer,  W.  Craig,  A.M.I. C.E. 

Stores  Branch. 
Storekeeper,  V.  Fox. 

Official  Visitors  to  Lighthouses. 

PkOman  Rock,  Cape  Point,  Capt.  T.  Bynon. 
Hood  Point,  Capt.  L.  A.  Munn. 
Cape  St.  Blaize,  Capt.  J.  L.  Dryden. 
P.  E.,  Cape  Receifl'e,   and  Bird  Island,  E.   B 
Beck. 


Field  Establishment. 
Assistant  Engineers,  P.  Ashenden,  A.M.I.C.E., 

T.  W.  W.  Perry,  F.  C.  O'Brien  and  R.   W. 

Johnson. 
P».esident  Engineer  (Mossel  Bay),  F.  W.Waldrc  n, 

A.M.I.C.E. 
Resident  Engineer  (Breede  River),  T.  E.  Scaife. 

District  No.   1,  Cape  Town. 
Inspector  of  Roads,  R.  Bromley. 

District  No.  2,  King  Williamstotim. 
Inspector  of  Roads,  W.  L.  TroUip. 
Asst.  Inspector  of  Roads,  H.  A.  Fuhr,  A.M.I.C.E. 
Accountant,  A.  Millard. 
Clerk  of  Works  (Barkly  East),  W.  Birnie,  sen. 

„       (Great  Rei  Road),  T.  Ball. 
Assistant  Engineers,  G.  O.  Newey  and  J.  T.  B. 

Gellatly. 
Architectural    Assistants,    P.    J.    Hanson    and 

A.  Corin. 
Officer  in  charge  of  Buildings,  Graham's  Town, 
A.  J.  Foster. 
District  No.   3,  Port  Elizabeth. 
Acting   Inspector  of  Roads,    W.    C.     Richards, 

A.M.I.C.E.,  F.G.S.,  M.LMech.E. 
Clerk  and  Accountant,  J.  F.  Hawtayne. 
Assistant  Engineer,  W.  R.  H.  Chipperfield. 

District  No.  4,   Umtata. 
Acting    Inspector    of    Roads,    G.    E.    Jar\ds, 

A.M.I.C.E. 
Assistant  Inspector  of  Roads,  W.  von  Meyer. 
Clerk  and  Accountant,  J.  N.  Kemp. 
Engineer,   H.    Rix-Trott. 

District  No.  5,  Oudtshoorn. 
Acting  Inspector  of  Roads,  W.  Dicldnson. 
Clerk  and  Accountant,  J.  B.  Morgenrood. 

District  No.   6,  Kimherley. 
Inspector  of  Roads,  H.  C.  Litchfield,  A.M.I.C.E. 
Clerk  and  Accountant,  H.  U.  Smith. 

Water  Boring  Branch. 
Inspector   of   Boring,   B.    W.    Ritso,   M.I.C.E., 

F.G.S. 
Asst.  Insp.  of  Boring,  A.  MelUsh. 

Railways. 

General  Manager,  T.  S.  McEwen. 
Asst.  Gen.  Manager,  A.  J,  Robb. 
Chief  Clerk,  H.  Aspinall. 
First  Clerk,  P.  E.  Potter, 

Expropriation  Branch. 
Departmental  Solicitor,  C.  H.  Maasdorp. 


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Engineer' s  Department. 

Engineer-in-Chief,    John   Brown,    C.M.G. 
Asst.  Engineer-in-Cliief,  A.  Grant-Dalton. 
Chief  Clerk,  J.  F.  Davis. 
First  Clerk,  C.  J.  Thompson. 

Western  System. 
Resident  Engineer,  F.   L.  Dwyer. 
Senior  Clerk,  W.  R.  B.  Preston. 

District  Office,  Salt  River. 
District  Engineer,  J.   D.   Shannon. 
„         Clerk,  J.   T.   Jurgens. 

District  Office,  Touws  River. 

District  Engineer,   F.   L.   Rubidge. 
,,        Clerk,  J.  Barrett. 

District  Office,  De  Aar. 
District  Engineer,  F.  H.  Rees. 

District  Office,  Kimberley. 
District  Engineer,  W.   B.   Brown. 
Clerk,  W.  H.  Wright. 

Midland  System. 
Resident  Engineer,  E.   R.   Carohn. 
Senior  Clerk,  W.  J.   Womack. 

District  Office,  Port  Elizabeth. 
District  Engineer,  A.  D.  Chapman. 

District  Office,  Cradock. 
District  Engineer,  W.  J.  Rose. 
,,        Clerk,  W.  C.  Feather. 

District  Office,  Naauwpoort. 
District  Engineer,  L.  H.  Cochrane. 
Clerk,  W.  P.  H.  Andrew. 

District  Office,   Graaff  Reinet. 
District  Engineer,  G.  G.  Mann. 
, ,        Clerk,  H.  v.  Laun,  junr. 

Eastern  System. 
Resident  Engineer,  J.  Craig. 

District  Office,  East  London. 
District  Engineer,  G.  R.  "Whitaker. 
Works  Inspector,   A.   K.  McLachlan. 
P.W.  Inspectors,  T.  AUcock,  A.  Milledge. 

District  Office,  Queenstown. 
District  Engineer,   A.   Hearhe. 
Clerk,    G.    R.    Butler. 

Rhodesia  System. 
Acting  Resident  Engineer,  J.  R.  More. 

District  Office,  Bulawayo. 
District  Engineer,  A.  H.  WalUs. 


Reduction  of  Gradients. 
District  Engineer,  P.   J.   Pauling. 

Port  Elizabeth,  Avontuur  Line. 
District  Engineer,  J.   C.   Andrew. 

Am,abele-Butterworth  Line. 
Res.  Engineer,  H.  H.   Elliott. 

Knysna  Sleeper  Factory. 
Superintendent,  F.   W.   Dunn. 

Locomotive  Department. 
Chief  Loco.  Supt.,  H.  M.  Beatty,  C.M.G. 
ReMeving  Loco.  Supt.,  W.  S.  Sim. 
Chief  Clerk,  C.  W.  Utting. 
Electrical   Engineer,    J.  Denham. 
Draughtsman,  S.  Waymouth. 

Western  System. 
Locomotive  Supt.,  G.  McGrath. 
Asst.  do.,  F.  Reid. 
District  do.,  A.  McNay. 
Chief  Clerk,  F.  Charnock. 

Rhodesia  System. 
Locomotive  Supt.,  H.  B.  Gemmell. 
Dist.  Loco.  Supt.,  R.  J.  Hall. 
Works  Manager,   E.   Pickford. 

Midland  System. 
Locomotive  Supt.,  J.  M.  Thornton. 
Assistant  Loco.  Supt.,  H.  S.  Child. 
Dist.    Loco.    Supts.,    W.    Duncan    and    W.    G. 

Bishop. 
Chief  Clerk,  W.  G.  Back. 

Eastern  System. 
Locomotive  Supt.,  J.  D.  Tilney. 
Dist.  Loco.  Supt.,  T.  P.  Scott. 
Chief  Clerk,  J.  Lodge. 

Traffic  Department. 

Chief  Traffic  Manager,  G.  C.  S.  Clark,  C.M.G. 

Clerk,  H.   W.   Cavill. 
Cape     Gov.     Railway     Agent,     Johannesburg, 
E.  F.  V.  Hands. 

Western  System. 
Traffic  Manager,        C.T.,  G.  T.  Dowling. 
Asst.  ,,  C.T.,  J.  Paterson. 

B.W.,  G.  F.  Bedggood. 
Chief  Clerk  to  T.M.,  H.  D.  Robertson. 
Cape  Town  Goods  Supt.,  H.  S.  Ball. 

Midland  System. 
Traffic  Manager,  J.  O.  Paterson. 
Asst.  ,,  Port  Elizabeth,  John  Clark. 

,,  ,,    Naauwpoort,    W.    Jenvey. 


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Eastern  System. 
Traffic  Manager,  N.  Wilson. 
Asst.   Traffic  Manager,   A.  Drake. 
Goods  Superintendent,  H.  Veary. 

Northern  System. 
Kimberley — Asst.  Traffic  Manager,  W.  Steven- 
i^        son. 
Chief  Clerk,  H.  S.  Jones. 

Rhodesia  System. 
Traffic  Manager,  J.  J.  de  Bene. 
Chief  Clerk  to  T.M.,  A.  Baird. 

Accounting  Depabtmenx. 
Chief  Accountant,  C.  G.  Goodison. 
Accountant,  T.  Ireland. 
Asst.  Accountant,  C.  Brink. 


Correspondence    Clerk,    J.    Locke. 
Revenue  Auditor,  J.  Lawrence. 
Assistant  Accountant,  C.  H.  Elton. 
Expenditure  Auditor,  G.  A.  Reid. 
Revenue  and  Clearing  Officer,  T.  C.  Smyth. 

Stores  Department. 
Chief  Rail.  Storekeeper,  W.  Sinclair. 
Asst.     do.     do.,  Chas.  Coek. 

Western  System. 
Railway  Storekeeper,  P.  J.  Hart. 
Cliief  Clerk,  H.  F.  J.  Smallman. 

Midland  System. 
Railway  Storekeeper,  T.  G.  Wilton. 

Eastern  System. 
Railway  Storekeeper,   Edwin  Giles. 


MINISTERIAL  DEPARTMENT  OF  SECRETARY  FOR  AGRICULTURE. 


Secretary  for  Agriculture,  Hon.  A.  J.  Fuller. 

Under-Sec.  for  do.,  Charles  Currey. 

Asst.     Under- Sec.     and     Accounting      Officer, 

W.  H.  Tooke. 
Acting  Chief  Clerk,  W.  W.  Thompson. 
Principal   Clerk,   B.    ilcMillan. 
First  Class  Clerks,  H.  M.  M.  Piers,  P.  J.  du  Toitc, 

G.  N.  Williams,  W.  A.  Rennie,  O.  K.  A.  von 

Oppell. 

Accounting  Branch. 

Accounting  Officer,  W.  H.  Tooke. 
Chief  Accountant,  T.  Jones. 
Accoimtant  and  Depart.   Auditor  of  Revenue, 
G.  W.  Caffyn. 

Veterinary  Branch. 

Colonial  Vet.  Surgeon,  D.  Hutcheon,  M.R.C.V.S- 

Assistant  to  do.,  F.  J.  du  Plessis. 

Bacteriologist  to  Agricultural  Dept.,  W.  Robert- 
son, M.R.C.V.S. 

Assistant  Veterinary  Surgeons,  J.  D.  Borthwick, 
M.R.C.V.S.  ;  R.  W.  Dixon,  M.R.C.V.S. ; 
M.  A.  Hutchence,  M.R.C.V.S.  ;  H.  T. 
Armstrong,  M.R.C.V.S.  ;  D.  C.  Campbell, 
M.R.C.V.S.  ;  G.  W.  Freer,  M.R.C.V.S.  ; 
J.  A.  Robinson,  M.R.C.V.S.  ;  J.  Spreull, 
M.R.C.V.S. 

Brands. 

Registrar,  W.  A.  Rennie. 

Pisciculture. 

Government  Biologist,  J.  D.  F.  Gilchrist,  M.A., 

Ph.D.,  B.Sc. 
Asst.  Govt.  Biologist,  J.  Stuart  Thomson,  F.L.S. 


Entomology. 
Govt.  Entomologist,  C.  P.  Loxinsbiu'y,  B.Sc. 
Assistant     do.,  C.  W.  Mally,  M.Sc. 

Scab  Act. 
Chief  Insp.  of  Sheep,  A.  G.  Davison. 
Chief  Clerk,  H.  D.  Home. 
Assistants  to  Chief  Inspector  of  Sheep,  W.  L 

Currie,  D.   H.   Nash,  W.  J.   Fuller,  W.   J. 

Smuts,  J.  H.  Louwrens,  R.  Rich,  H.  J.  le 

Riche,    H.    A.    Alston,    C.    A.    Wilson   and 

F.  P.  Fincham. 

{Transheian  Territories). 

Assistants  to  Chief  Inspector  of  Sheep,  H.  D. 

Graham,  B.  S.  King  and  J.  P.  Hughes. 

Viticulture. 
Viticultural  Expert,  R.  Dubois. 
Manager,  Govt.  Wine  Farm,  J.  Jagger. 

Botany. 
Government  Botanist,  P.  McOwan,  Hon.  D.Sc. 
(C.G.H.),  B.A.  (Lond.),  F.L.S. 

"  Agricultural  Journal.''^ 
Editor,  F.  D.  MacDermott. 
Librarian,  W.  Tyson,  F.L.S. 
Mines. 
Inspector  of  Mines,  T.  Quentrall. 
Insp.    and   Reg.    of   Claims,   Barkly   West,    W. 
FrankUn. 

Guano  Islands. 
Superintendent,  Capt.  C.  H.  Jackson. 
Assistant     do.,    Capt.    J.    Spence. 
Accountant,  W.  R.  Zeederberg. 
Clerk  and  Chief  Outdoor  Officer,  H.  Jackson. 


Cape  Colony,  Agricultural  Department 


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Forests. 
Western  Conservancy. 
Conservator  and  Consulting    Officer    at    Head- 
quarters, D.  E.  Hutchins. 
Head  Clerk,  W.  H.  Buckerfield. 
District  Forest  Officer,  Uitvlugt,  W.  N.  Brown. 

Midland  Conservancy. 

Conservator,  Knysna,  C.  B.  MeNaughton. 

Eastern  Conservancy. 

Conservator   of   Forests,    J.    S.    Lister,    I.S.O., 
K.W.T. 

Transheian  Conservancy. 
Conservator,  Umtata,  A.  W.  Heywood. 


SuRVE yob-Gbnekal' s  Office. 

Surveyor-General,  C.  H.  L.  M.  Jurisch. 

First  Asst.  Survej^or-General,  H.  van  Renen. 

Second     do.     do.,  A.  H.  Cornish-Bowden. 

Chief  Clerk,  W.  H.  Home. 

First  Class  and  Dep.  Aud.  of  Ex.,  T.  H.  Maclear 

Do.  and  Rev.  Acct. -Officer,  E.  Stapleton. 

First  Class  Clerks,  A.  S.  Harker,  W.  F.  Gregory, 
A.    J.    Begg. 

Clerk  in  Charge  of  British  Bechuanaland  Re- 
cords,  C.   E.   Matthews. 

Exp.  Acctg.  Officer  and  Rev.  Dep.  Auditor, 
J.  C.  Krynauw. 

Examiner  of  Diagrams,  M.  C.  Vos. 

Chief  Draughtsman,  M.  J.  Brink. 

Geodetic  Officer,  J.  J.  Bosman. 


NATAL. 


GOVERNORS  AND  ADMINISTRATORS. 


The  following  is  a  list  of  the  Governors  and  Administrators  of  Natal  since  its  constitution  as 
a  British  Colony  :  — 


1845.  Martin  West,  Lieutenant-Governor. 

1849.  Colonel  E.  F.  Boys,  Administrator. 

1850.  Benjamin  C.  C.  Pine,  Lieutenant-Governor. 

1852.  Colonel  E.   F.   Boys,   Acting  Lieutenant- 

Governor. 

1853.  Major  W.  R.  Preston,  Acting  Lieutenant- 

Governor. 
1853.  Benjamin      C.       C.      Pine,       Lieutenant- 
Governor. 

1855.  Lieutenant-Colonel    H.     Cooper,     Acting 

Lieutenant-Governor. 

1856.  John  Scott,  Lieutenant-Governor. 

1860.  Major  W.  Williamson,  Administrator. 

1861.  John   Scott,    Lieutenant-Governor. 

1864.  J.   Maclean,   C.B.,  Lieutenant-Governor. 

1865.  Colonel  J.,W.  Thomas,  C.B.,  Administrator. 
1865.   Colonel  J.  J.  Bissett,  Administrator. 
1867.  Robert  W.  Keate,  Lieutenant-Governor. 
1870.   Colonel  R.  H.  Browne,  Administrator. 
1870.  Robert  W.  Keate,  Lieutenant-Governor. 
1872.   Lieutenant-Colonel     T.     Miles,     Adminis- 
trator. 

1872.  Anthony  Musgrave,   C.M.G.,   Lieutenant- 

Governor. 

1873.  Lieutenant-Colonel    T.     Miles,     Adminis- 

trator. 

1873.  Sir    Benjamin    C.     C.     Pine,     K.C.M.G., 

Lieutenant-Govern  or. 

1874.  Lieutenant-Colonel    T.     Miles,     Adminis- 

trator. 

1874.  Sir    Benjamin    C.     C.     Pine,     K.C.M.G., 

Lieiitenant-Governor. 

1875.  Major-General    Sir    Garnet    J.    Wolseley, 

K.C.B.,  G.C.M.G.,  Administrator. 
1875.   Sir       Henry       E.       Bulwer,       K.C.M.G., 
Lieutenant-Governor. 

1879.  General  Sir  Garnet  J.  Wolseley,  G.C.B., 

G.C.M.G.,  Governor. 

1880.  Colonel  W.  Bellairs,  C.B.,  Administrator. 


1880.  Major-General  Hon.  Sir  H.  H.  Chfford, 
V.C,  K.C.M.G.,  C.B.,  Administrator. 

1880.  Major-General  Sir  George  Pomeroy-Col- 
iey,  K.C.S.I.,  C.B.,  C:M.G.,  Governor. 

1880.  Colonel   H.    Alexander,    Administrator. 

1880.  Major-General    Sir    George    Pomeroy-Col- 

ley,  K.C.S.L,  C.B.,  C.M.G.,  Governor. 

1881.  Brigadier-General   Sir  H.    Evelyn  Wood, 

V.C,  K.C.B.,  Administrator. 
1881.  Major-General  Redvers  H.   Buller,  V.C, 

C.B.,  C.M.G.,  Administrator. 
1881.  Major-General  Sir  H.  Evelyn  Wood,  V.C, 

K.C.B.,  Administrator. 

1881.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Charles  B.  H.  Mitchell, 

C.M.G.,  Administrator. 

1882.  Sir  Henrv  E.  Bulwer,  K.C.M.G.,  (G.CM.G, 

1883),'  Governor. 
1885.  Sir    Charles    B.    H.    Mitchell,    K.C.M.G., 

Administrator. 
18S5.   Sir     Arthur     E.      Havelock,      K.C.M.G., 

Governor. 
1889.  Sir    Charles    B.    H.    Mitchell,    K.C.M.G., 

Administrator. 

1889.  Sir    Charles    B.    H.    Mitchell,    K.C.M.G., 

Governor. 

1890.  Francis  Seymour  Haden,  C.M.G.,  Deputy- 

Governor. 

1890.  Sir    Charles    B.    H.    Mitchell,    K.CM.G., 

Governor. 

1891.  Francis  Seymour  Haden,  CM.G.,  Deputy- 

Governor. 

1892.  Francis  Seymour  Haden,  CM.G.,  Deputy- 

Governor. 

1892.  Sir    Charles    B.    H.    Mitchell,    K.CM.G., 

Governor. 

1893.  Francis    Seymour    Haden,    CM.G.,    Ad- 

ministrator. 
1893.  Honourable    Sir    Walter    Francis    Hely- 
Hutclnnson,  K.CM.G.,  Governor. 


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223 


1897.  Sir  Michael  H.  Gallwey,  K.C.M.G.,  Q.C., 
Deputy-Governor. 

1897.  The     Hon.     Sir     Walter     Francis     Hely- 

Hutchinson,    G.C.M.G.,    Governor. 

1898.  vSir  Michael  H.  Gallwey,  K.C.M.G.,  Q.C., 

Deputy-Governor. 
1898.   The     Hon,      Sir     Walter     Francis     Hely- 

Hutchinson,  G.C.M.G.,  Governor. 
1901.  Sir  Michael  H.  Gallwey,  K.C.M.G.,  K.C., 

Administrator. 


1901.  Col.  Sir  Henry  Edward  McCallum' 
K.C.M.G.,    A.D.C.   to  H.M.,  Governor. 

1901.  Sir  Henry  Bale,  K.C.M.G.,  K.C.,  Deputy- 
Governor. 

1901.  Col.  Sir  Henrv  Edward  McCallum, 
K.C.M.G.,  A.D.C,  Governor. 

1903.  Sir  Henry  Bale,  K.C.M.G.,  K.C.,  Ad- 
ministrator. 

1903.  Col.  Sir  Henry  Edward  McCallum, 
K.C.M.G.,  A.D.C,  Governor. 


THE        MINISTRIES. 

FIRST  MINISTRY  : 

Formed  October  10,   1893. 
Pkime  Ministee,  Colonial  Secbetaky  and  Minister  of  Education  : — Sib  John  Robinson, 

K.CM.G.,  M.L.A. 
Attobney-Genebal  : — Habby  Escombe,  Q.C,  M.L.A. 
Tbeasubeb  : — Geobge  Mobeis  Sutton,  M.L.C 

Secbetaby  fob  Native  Affaibs  : — Feedebick  Robeet  Moob,  M.L.A. 
Ministee  of  Lands  and  Woeks  : — Thomas  Keib  Mubeay,  CM.G.,  M.L.A. 

SECOND  MINISTRY. 

Formed  February  15,  1897. 

Peime  Ministee,  Attobney-Genebal  and  Ministee  of  Education  : — Habby   Escombe,    Q.C, 

M.L.A. 
Colonial  Secbetary  : — Thomas  Keib  Mueray,  CM.G.,  M.L.A. 
Tbeasubeb  :  George  Morris  Sutton,  M.L.C. 

Secretary  for  Native  Affairs  : — Frederick  Robert  Moob,  M.L.A. 
Minister  of  Agriculture  :  Edward  Ryley,  M.L.A. 
Minister  of  Lands  and  Works  : — John  Henby  Wallace,  M.L.A. 


THIRD  MINISTRY. 

Formed  October  5,   1897. 

Peime  Minister  and  Colonial  Secretary  : — Sir  Henry  Binns,  K.CM.G.,  M.L.A. 
Attorney-General  and  Minister  of  Education  : — Henry  Bale,  Q.C,  M.L.A. 
Minister  of  Lands  and  Works  : — Lieut.-Col.  Albert  Henby  Hime,  late  R.E.,  CM.G., 

M.L.A. 
Secretary  foe  Native  Affaibs  : — James  Liegh  Hulett,  M.L.A.   (October  8,   1897). 
Tbeasubeb  : — William  Abbuckle,  M.L.C.   (October  7,   1897). 

Ministers   of  Agriculture  : — Francis  Augustus  Robert  Johnstone  (October  22,  1897). 

Henry  Daniel  Winter,  M.L.A.    (February  16,   1899). 

PRESENT  MINISTRY. 

Formed  June  9,  1899. 

Prime  Minister  and  Minister  of  Lands  and  Works  : — Lieut.-Col.  Sir  Albert  Henry  Hime, 

late  R.E.,  P.C,   K.CM.G.,  M.L.A. 
Secretary  for  Native  Affairs  : — Frederick  Robert  Moob,  M.L.A. 
Colonial  Secbetaby  and  Minister  of  Education  : — Charles  John  Smythe,  M.L.A. 
Minister  of  Agriculture  : — Henry  Daniel  Winter,  M.L.A. 
Tbeasubeb  : — Thomas  Hyslop,  M.L.A.  (January  27,  1903). 
Ministee  of  Justice  : — William  Boase  Mobcom,  K.C,  M.L.A.  (January  27,  1903). 


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LEGISLATIVE  COUNCIL. 

President  : — Hon.  Sir  William  Aebttckle,  Knt.  Bachelor. 
Clerk  of  the  Cottncil  : — C.  W.  P.  Douglas  de  Fenzi. 
Clerk  Assistant,  Hansard  Reporter  and  Accounting  Officer  : — D. 
Usher  of  the  Black  Rod  : — V.  W.  L.  Blake. 


ROBB. 


MEMBERS. 


County    of    Durban. — Hon.  Archibald    Mitchell 
Campbell. 
Hon.  Robert  Jameson. 
County  of  Victoria — Hon.  Marshall  Campbell. 
County  of  Alexandra — Hon.  Thomas  Kirkman. 
County  of  Pietermaritzburg — Hon.  George  Morris 
Sutton. 
Hon.  Sir  William  Arbuckle,  Kt.  Bachelor. 
County    of    Umvoti — Hon.    Frederick    Throlkeld 
Angus. 


County     of     Weenen — Hon.     Casper     Jeremiah 
Labuschagne. 
Hon.  Gorege  Turner. 

County  of  Klip  River — Hon.  Alfred  John  Craw- 
ford. 

Province    of    Zululand  —  Hon.    Dirk    Cornelius 
Uys. 

County  of  Alfred — Hon.  William  Arthur  Hutch- 
inson. 

Northern  Districts  (member  not  yet  appointed). 


LEGISLATIVE  ASSEMBLY. 

Speaker  : — Hon.  Robert  Montgomery  Archibald,  J.Pj 

Clerk  : — G.  W.  Sweaney,  B.A.,  LL.B. 

Clerk  Assistant  and  Librarian  : — A-  R.  Payne. 


MEMBERS. 


Pietermaritzburg    City — Wm.     Boase    Morcom, 
K.C. 

Kenneth  Howard  Hathorn.  K.C. 

Lieut.-Col.  Sir  Albert  H.  Hime.  P.C. 

Frederic  Spence  Tatham,  K.C. 
Pietermaritzburg     County — XJmgeni     Division — 

Thos.  Hyslop,  J.P. 

Wm.  Baynes,  J.P. 
Lion^s    River    Division — Ed.  Mackenzie  Greene, 

K.C.     Charles  J.  Smythe,  J.P. 
Ixopo  Division — Joseph  Baynes,  C.M.G. 

Jas.  Schofield. 
Umvoti  County — George  Leuchars. 

Wm.  Arthur  Deane. 

Wm.  L' Estrange. 
Weenen  County — Frederick  Robert  Moor. 

Henry  Daniel  Winter. 

George  Robert  Richards. 
Klip  River  County — Klip  River  Division — Joseph 
Farquhar,  C.M.G. 

Walter  Pepworth. 

George  Frederick  Tatham. 
Neivcastle  Division — Charles  O' Grady  Gubbins. 

Henry  Wiltshire. 

Thomas  Watt. 


Durban  Borough — .John  Geo.  Maydon. 

Henry  Ancketill. 

Dan.  Tajdor. 

William  MacCarty. 
Durban  County — Charles  Henwood. 

Frank  Oliver  Fleetwood  Churchill. 

James  Mcintosh. 
Victoria  County — Sir  James  Liege  Hulett,  Knt. 
Bachelor. 

John  Elwin  Marchant. 

Walter  Fredk.  Clayton. 

Geo.  Shearer  Armstrong. 
Alexandra  County — Robert  Montgomery  x\rchi- 
bald,  J.P. 

Frank  Umhlali  Reynolds. 
Alfred  County — John  Frederick  Rethman. 

Charles  Hitchins. 
Vryheid  District — 
Utrecht  District — 

Province  op  Zululand. 

Electoral    District    of    Eshowe — Ernst     August 

Brunner. 
Electoral     District     of     Melmoth — Cecil     Audley 

Sacheverell  Yonge. 


NATAL    CIVIL    ESTABLISHMENTS. 


Governor  and   Commander-in-Chief: — His  Excellency  Colonel  Sir  H.  E.  McCallxjm,  R.E. 

K.C.M.G.,  A.D.C. 
Private  Secretary  : — Arthur  J.  Hedgeland,  B.A.,  Oxon. 
Aide-de-Camp  : — Captain  H.  E.  Walter,  Lincoln  Regimont. 
Extra  Aide-de-Camp  : — Captain  W.  M.  C.  dxt  Q.  Caillard,  7th  D.G. 
Hon.  Aide-de-Camp: — Captain  C.  N.  H.  Rodwell,  N.C. 


Colonial  Secretary's  Office. 
Colonial  Secretary,  the  Hon.  Charles  J.  Smythe, 

i>  M.L.A. 
Principal  Under  Secretary,  C.  J.  Bird,  C.M.G. 
Assistant  Under  Secretary,  H.  A.  Hime. 
Clerk  to  Executive  Council,  H.  A.  Hime. 
Accounting  Officer,  C.  N.  H.  Rodwell. 
StatisticafOfficer,  A.  C.  Griffin. 

Audit  Department. 
Auditor-General,  T.  Orr. 
Chief  Inspector,  A.  W.  Forbes  Taylor. 
Inspectors,   Major  H.    Gardner,   A.    Greenslade 
and  F.  Chapman. 

Postal  Department. 
Postmastor-General,  C.  Maxwell-Hibberd. 
Secretary,  A.  J.  Norris. 
Assistant  Secretary,  F.  W.  Ford. 
Chief  Accountant,  J.  O'Keeio. 
Surveyor,  E.  H.  Mitchell. 
Controller,  M.O.O.,  J.  D.  Adams. 
Postmaster,  Pietermaritzburg,  H.  Sullivan. 
Superintendent,  P.M.B.,  E.  V.  Goble. 

Telegraph  Office,  Pietermaritzburg. 
Controller    and   Traffic    Superintendent,    J.    M. 

Laing. 
Superintendent,  F.  Easton. 

Telegraph  Engineering  Staff. 
Telegraph  Engineer,  R.  W.  Weigh tman. 
Asst.    Telegraph    Engineers,    N.    Harrison    and 
D.  C.  Mcllleron.  " 

Post  Office. 
Postmaster,  Durban,  J.  W.  Coleman. 
Post     and     Telegraph     Superintendent,    S.     C. 

Beckerleg. 
Superintendent,  A.  E.  Almond. 


Telegraphs. 

Controller,  Durban,  J.  Younghusband. 

Asst.  Controllers,  .J.  Summers  and  B.  R.  Cullen, 

Postmaster,  Newcastle,  A.  E.  Browning. 

Greytown,  F.  J.  Blackmore. 

Ladysmith,  H.  K.  Osborn. 

Dundee,  H.  H.  Paris. 

Estcourt,  W.  Dent. 

Point,  J.  W.  Allen. 

Verulam,  F.  W.  Gumey. 

Ixopo,  T.  M.  Robinson. 

Stanger,  W.  A.  Grundy. 

Immigration  Restriction  Department.' 

Principal   Immigration   Restriction   Officer,   H, 

Smith. 
Clerk,  G.  W.  Dick. 

Indian  Immigration  Department. 

Protector  of  Immigrants,  L.  H.  Mason. 
Acting  Protector,  J.  A.  Polkinghorne. 
Deputy  Protector,  A.  R.  Dunning. 

Indian  Immigration  Trust  Board. 
Acting  Secretary,  W.  Stead. 
Accountant,  F.  C.  Smith. 

Government  Observatory. 
Government  Astronomer,  E.  Nevill. 
Senior  Assistant,  R.  T.  Rendell. 

Government  Laboratory. 
Government  Chemist,  E.  aSTevill. 

Natal  Government  Museum. 
Director,  E.  Warren. 
Assistant,  F.  W.  Fitzsimmons. 
Hon.   Secretary,   C.   Fuller  (Government  Ento- 
mologist). 


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Civil  Commissioner's  Department. 
Civil  Commissioner,  C.  J.  R.  Saimders,  C.M.G. 
Secretary,  V.  G.  M.  Robinson. 

Magistracies. 
Magistrate,   Pietermaritzburg,    J.    C.    C.    Chad- 
wick. 
Principal  Clerk,  C.  P.  Wolhuter. 
Magistrate,  Umgeni,  J.  R.  Bennett. 
Acting  Asst.  Magistrate,  J.  Lennon. 
„       Clerk  of  Court,  E.  W.  Barter. 
Magistrate,  Lion's  River,  J.  W.  Cross. 
Clerk  of  the  Court,  T.  B.  Carbutt. 
Magistrate,  Upper  Umkomanzi,  J.  P.  Waller. 
Clerk  of  the  Court,  A.  D.  Graham. 
Magistrate,  Ixopo,     F.    E.    Foxon. 
Acting  Asst.  Magistrate,  T.  R.  Bennett,  Junr. 
Magistrate,  Ipolela,  H.  W.  Boast. 

,,  Underberg,  W.  H.  Acutt. 

,,  Impendhle.  D.  G.  Giles. 

„  New  Hanover,  C.  L.  A.  Ritter. 

„  Estcourt,  R.  H.  Addison. 

Acting  Asst.  Magistrate,  H.  M.  Barker. 
Clerk    and    Hindustani   Interpreter,    J.    W.    F. 

Biggs. 
Magistrate,  Weenen,  R.  E.  Dunn 

,,  Umvoti,  J.  y.  Gibson. 

Clerk  of  the  Court,  H.  v.  Gerard. 
Magistrate,  Krantzkop,  G.  W.  Adamson. 
Acting  Magistrate,  Klip  River,  C.  H.  R.  Norman. 

„       Asst.  Magistrate,  R.  A.  L.  Brandon. 
Magistrate,  Bergville,  W.  G.  Wheelwright. 

„  Umsinga,  J.  Maxwell. 

,,  Newcastle,  J.  O.  Jackson. 

Acting  Asst.  Magistrate,  G.  B.  Warner. 
Magistrate,  Dundee,  M.  R.  N.  Matthews. 


Acting  Asst.  Magistrate,  G.  W.  Wilson. 

Chief  Magistrate,  Durban,  W.  Broome. 

First  Asst.  Magistrate,  J.   Stuart. 

Second  Asst.     do.,  H.   J.   Colenbrander. 

Principal  Clerk,  G.  O.  Cauvin. 

Receiving  Officer  (Savings  Bank),  A.  H.  Hogard. 

Magistrate,  Umlazi,  W.  R.  W.  Saunders. 

,,  Inanda,  J.  L.  Knight. 

,,  Lower  Tugela,    F.  P.  Shuter. 

,,  Indwedwe,  J.  J.  Field. 

Acting  Magistrate,  Mapumulo,  J.  J.  Jackson. 
Maaistrate,  Alexandra,  J.  McLaurin. 
Alfred,  P.  W.  Shepstone. 

,,  Lower  Umzinkulu,  P.  Hugo. 

Vrvheid,  A.  J.  Shepstone,  C.M.G. 
Clerk  of  the  Court,  H.  L.  Gebei-s. 
Secretary,    Repatriation    Commission,  J.  H.  B. 

de  Villiers. 
Magistrate,  Utrecht,  R.  H.  Beachcroft. 
Acting  Asst.  Magistrate,  J.  S.  Ente. 
Clerk  of  the  Court,  O.  J.  M.  Muirhead. 
Magistrate,   Paulpietersberg,   D.   Adamson. 

Province  of  Zut-uland. 

Magistrate,  Eshowe,  A.  Boast. 

Nqutu,  C.  F.  Hignett. 
Nkandhlna,  C.  C.  Foxon. 
Emtonjaneni,  A.  HuUey. 
Ndwandwe,  A.  W.  Leslie. 
Lower  Umfolozi,  A.  R.  R.  Turnbull. 
Ubombo,  C.  O.  Griffin. 
Hlabisa,  J.  F.  Clark. 
Ingwavuma,  G.  W.  Armstrong. 
Umlalazi,  B.  Colenbrander. 
Mahlabatini,  A.  J.  S.  Maritz. 


MEDICAL  DEPARTMENTS 


Health  Department. 

Health  Officer  for  Colony,  E.  Hill. 
Port  Health  Officer,  H.  E.  Fernandez. 
Quarantine  Officer,  E.  Rice. 

District     Surgeons     and     District  Health 
Officers. 

Pietermaritzburg    City,    C.    Ward    (Dist.    Surg. 

only). 
Umgeni  Division,  D.  Campbell  Watt. 

,,  „  Camperdown,  J.  Evans. 

New  Hanover  Di\'ision,  C.  H.  Herbert. 
Upper  Umkomanzi  Division,  A.  E.  Carte. 
Ixopo  Di\dsion,  J.  Dodd. 
Polela     do.,  F.  J.  Livingstone. 
Underberg     do.,  J.  C.  Gilmiour. 
Lion's  River     do.,  E.  A.  Hardwicke. 


Impendhle,  W.  H.  Henson. 

Durban  Borough,  D.  Birtwell  (Dist.  Surg.  only). 

Umlazi  Division,  W.  A.   Addison. 

Upper  Umlazi  Div.,  Malvern,  G.  P.  O'Connor. 

Inanda  Division,    W.    J.    Hill    (Health    Officer 

only). 
Verulam     do.,  W.  J.  Hill  (Health  Officer  only). 
Indwedwe     do.,  W.  J.  Hill  (Dist.  Surg.  only). 
Lower  Tugela     do.,   H.   W.   Jones. 
Napumulo     do.,  W.  A.  Savage  (Dist.  Surg.  only). 
Alexandra  Countv,  J.  Booth  Clarkson. 
Alfred     do.,  F.  R.  H.  Potts. 
Lower  Umzimkulu  Division,  C.  A.  Bowker. 
Port  Shepstone,  C.  A.  Bowker  (Health  Officer 

only). 
Klip  River  Division,  H.  T.  Piatt. 
Ladysmith  Borough,  H.  T.  Piatt  (Health  Officer 

only). 


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227 


Bergville  Division,  G.  B.  Jones. 
Umsinga     do.,  F.  W.  Newcombe. 
Newcastle     do.,    J.    M.    Ormond. 
Newcastle  Borough,  J.  A.  Nolan  (Dist.  Health 

Officer  only). 
Newcastle  Division,  Dannhauser,  C.  J.  Douglas 

{Asst.  Dist.  Surg.). 
Dundee  Division,  A.  J.  Abraham. 
Dundee  Borough,  H.  T.  Galbraith  (Dist.  Health 

Officer  only). 
Charlestown,  J.  E.  Briscoe  (Dist.  Surg.  only). 
Estcourt  Division,  J.  B.  Brewitt. 
Weenen     do.,  W.  Black. 
Umvoti     do.,    H.    E.    Wright. 
Greytown    Township,    H.    E.    Wi-ight    (Health 

Officer  only). 
Krantzkop   Division,    A.    Iren. 
Utrecht     do.,  W.   C.   Loos. 
Paulpietersberg  Division,  W.  Case. 


Province  of  Zuldi,and. 
Acting  Chief  Medical   Officer   and   Dist.    Surg., 

Eshowe  and  Umlalazi,  G.  K.  Moberley. 
Emtonyaneni,  J.  Petrie. 
Ndwandwe,  F.  W.  Walters. 
Ingwavuma,  J.  von  Mengershausen. 
Nqutu,  H.  A.  Bridgman. 
Nkandhla,  J.  A.  Kennedy. 

Natal  Government  Asylxtm. 
Medical     Superintendent,     J.     Hyslop,     M.B., 

CM.  Edin.,  D.S.O. 
Asst.  Med.  Officer,  W.  A.  Skinner. 

Natal    Government    Hospital,    Addington. 
Medical    Superintendent,    J.    H.    Balfe,    M.D., 

F.R.C.S. 
Asst.  Med.  Officer,  R.  M.  Smyth. 
Second  Asst.  Med.  Officer,  W.  A.  Peverley. 
Third     do.     do.,    R.    D.    Kidd. 


MINISTRY  OF  JUSTICE. 


Minister  of  Justice,  the  Hon.   W.  B.   Morcom 
K.C.,  M.L.A. 

Attorney-General's  Office. 
Attorney-General,  G.  A.  de  R.  Labistour,  K.C. 
Secretarv,  Law  Dept.,  J.  W.  F.  Bird 
Clerk,  C."^  F.  W.  Hime. 

Clerks  of  the  Peace. 
City  and  Umgeni,  L.  E.  Vaughan  Williams. 
Divisions    of    L^pper    Umkomanzi    and    Lion's 

River,  B.  C.  Clarence. 
District  of  Ixopo,  F.  L.  Thring. 
District  of  Durban,  D.  Calder. 
Asst.    Clerk    of    Peace,    Durban    and    Umlazi, 

W.  C.  Miller. 
Divisions  of  Alexandra  and  Lower  Umzinkulu, 

A.  W.  Wray. 
Coimty  of  Victoria,  ex<'lusive  of  Inanda  Division, 

A.  E.  Foss. 
Inanda  Division,  J.  R.  Hammond. 
Polela    and    Impendhle    Divisions,    W.    E.    C. 

Wynne. 
Klip  River  and  Upper  Tugela  Division,  H.  E.  R. 

Anderson. 
Newcastle  Division,  G.  L.  Eraser. 
Dundee    and    Umsinga    Divisions,    W.    Dalzoll 

Tiirnbull. 
Weenen  County,  T.  Hellett. 
Umvoti    County    and    New    Hanover   Division, 

C.  Tatham. 
Vryheid  and  Paulpietersberg,  J.  Nottman. 
Utrecht,  H.  M.  Meyler. 


Supreme  Court. 


Chief  Justice,  Sir  Henry  Bale,  K.C,  K.C.M.G. 
First  Puisne  Judge,  R.  I.  Finnemore. 
Second     do.  do.,    W.    H.    Beaumont. 

Registrar,  Supremo  Court,  H.  J.  J.  d'Hotman. 
Registrar  Circuit  Court,  Durban,  W.  H.  D.  Goss. 
Asst.  Registrar,  R.  W.  McAhster. 
Secretary  to  Chief  Justice,  H.  S.  Woods. 

Master's  Office. 
Master,   Supreme  Court,  H.   C   Koch. 
Asst.  Master     do.     do.,  Thos.  Gutridge. 

Native  High  Court. 

Judge,  President,  H.  C.   Campbell. 
First  Puisne  Judge,  J.  E.  Fannin. 
Second     do.     do.,  H.  G.  Boshoff. 
Registrar,    F.    A.    Farrer. 
Asst.  Registrar,  T.  A.  Jackson. 

Sheriff's  Office. 
Sheriff  of  Natal,  R.  C  Visick. 
Clerk  to  Sheriff,  W.  P.  Gough. 

Deeds  Office. 

Registrar  of  Deeds,  H.  Miller. 
Registrar-General,  H.  Miller. 
Clerk,  L.  H.  Moe. 

Legal  Department,  Province  of  Zululand^ 

Crown    Prosecutor,    Zululand,    W.    A.    Vander- 
plank. 


228 


Anglo-African  Who's  Who 


EDUCATION  DEPARTMENT. 


Superintendent  of  Education,  P.  G.  Barnett, 
M.A. 

Senior  Inspector  of  Schools,  C.  J.  Mudie. 

Inspector  of  Schools;  J.  H.  Klehischmidt  and 
H.  R.  Dukes. 

Secretary  and  Accounting  Officer,  W.  H.  Ben- 
nett. 

Examining  Officer  and  Statistical  Clerk,  J. 
Austin. 

Headmaster,  Maritzburg  Coll.,  E.  W.  Bams, 
M.A. 

Asst.  Masters,  Maritzburg  Coll..  J.  Stalker,  M.A., 
A.  S.  Langloy,  B.A.,  S.  R.  Edminson,  B.Sc, 
H.  Bryan,  M.A.,  H.  Stubbs,  W.  Abbit,  B.A., 
F.  J.  WiUiams,  B.A.,  E.  B.  Redlich,  M.A., 
J.  B.  Chambers,  M.A.,  and  C.  H.  Langley. 

Headmiaster,  High  School,  Durban,  W.  H 
Nicholas,  B.A. 

Asst.  Masters.  High  School,  Durban.  E.,A.  Bel- 
cher, B.A.,  H.  C.  Ballance,  B.A.,  V.  C. 
Stutfield,  B.A.,  H.  S.  Gorst,  B.A.,  J.  H. 
Eraser,  M.A.,  C.  E.  Carpenter,  S.  W.  Pape, 
B.A.,  and  T.  H.  Blackmore,  M.A. 

Headmaster,  Boys'  Model  School,  P.M.B., 
F.  G.  Richmond. 

Headmaster,  Boys'  Model  School,  Durban, 
R.,  L.   Grant. 

Headmaster,  Verulam  School,  .J.  B.  Martindale. 


Headmaster,  Ladysmith  School,  W.  R.  Mmrray 

Brown,  M.A. 
Headmaster,    Newcastle  School,  T.  D.  Wilson, 

B.A. 
Headmaster,  Greytown  School,  J.  A.  McLaren. 
„  Richmond  School,  W.  A.  Hawes. 

Pinetown  School,  C.  J.  Oflord. 
„  Estcourt  School,  A.  H.  Lewis. 

Dundee  School,  R.  A.  Gowthorpe. 
„  Ixopo  School,  J.  W.  M.  Robinson. 

„  Stanger  School,  J.  Banks. 

„  Umzinto  School,  G.  I.  Beckett. 

„  Weenen  School,  G.  Rutter. 

„  Ho-R-ick  School,  A.  G.  N.  Harward. 

„  Camperdown  School,  G.  P.  Pardy. 

Eshowe  School,  J.  Burton,  M.A. 
Bellair  School,   S.   T.    Downes. 
Port    Shepstouo    School,     J.     W. 
Ryder. 
Headmaster,  Utrecht  School,  F.  M.  Sivil. 
„  Vrylieid  School,  G.  Reos. 

,,  Paulpietersberg     School,     L.     T. 

Fowle. 
Director  of  Science  and  Art,  Major  S.  Herbert. 
Art  Master,  Maritzburg,  C.  E.  C'hidley. 
Durban,  W.  H   T.  Venner. 
Inspector  of  Native  Education,  R.  Plant. 


TREASURY. 


Treasurer,  Hon.  Thos.  Hyslop,  M.L.A. 
Secretary  to  Treasm-y,  A.  S.  Leslie. 
Chief  Accountant,  T.  M.  Owen. 
Clerks,  J.  C.  Crowly  and  A.  C.  Townsend. 

Agent  General  in  London. 
Agent-General,  Sir  Walter  Peace,  K.C.M. 
Secretary,  R.  Russell,  Junr. 
Chief  Indnt.  Clerk,  E.  J.  L.  Corness. 
Emigration   Officer,    E.    Gimter. 

Consulting  Engineer's  Office. 
Consulting  Engineer,  H.  G.  Humby. 


Savings  Bank. 

Controller,  E.  Pope. 

Customs. 

Collector  of  Customs,  Registrar  of  Shipping, 
Receiver  of  Wrecks  and  Emigration  Officer, 
G.  Mayston. 

Asst.  Collector  of  Customs,  R.  R.  Cochrane. 

Chief  Clerks,  C.  Winser  and  H.  W.  Goodwin. 

Chief  Clerk  and  Accounting  Officer,  W.  L.  Howe. 

Surveyor,  C.  B.  Jones. 

Controller  of  Excise  and  Inspector  of  Dis- 
tilleries, G.  Mayston. 


NATIVE  AFFAIRS  DEPARTMENT. 

Secretary  for  Native  Affairs,   the   Hon.   F.   R.  I  Asst.     Under     Secretary     for     Native     Affairs. 

Moor,  M.L.A.  |  S.  Harrison. 

Under    Secretary    for    Native    Affairs,    S.    O.      Accounting    Officer    and    Clerk,    Natal    Native 

Samuelson,  J. P.  |  Trust,  W.   N.   Armstrong. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE. 


Minister  of  Agriculture,  the  Hon.  H.  D.  Winter, 

M.L.A. 
Secretary    to    Minister    of    Agricultiu-e,    E.    T. 

Mvxllens. 
Director  of  Agriculture,  A.  N.  Pearson. 
Entomologist,  C.  Fuller. 


Chief  Locust  Officer,  W.  H.  Bushby. 
Dairy  Expert,  E.  O.  Challis. 
Conservator  of  Forests,  T.  R.  Sim.    "!: 
Govt.  Experimental  Farm  Manager,  A.  Reid. 
Editor  "  Agricultural  Journal,"  H.  R.  Shaw. 
Accounting  Officer,  T.  J.  St.  George. 


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229 


MINES  DEPARTMENT. 


Commissioner  of  Minos,  C.  J.  Gray. 
Deputy    Commissioners    of    Mines.    W.    Muir, 
A.  J.  Netter,  J.  S.  Hedges,  J.  T.  Andas, 

Government  Bacteriologist. 
Govt.  Bacteriologist,  and  Director  of  Veterin- 
ary Dept.,  H.  Watkins  Pitchford. 
Professional  Assistant,  W.  Watkins  Pitchford. 


Curator,  Laboratory,  H.  H.  Potter. 

Veterinary  Department. 

Principal  Vet.  Surgeon,  S.  B.  Woollatt. 

Dist.  Vet.  Surgeons,  F.  A.  Vemey,  W.  M.  Power, 
C.  H.  Cordv,  S.  T.  A.  Amos,  F.  Hutchinson, 
C.  Tyler,  D.  Crole,  W.  Fvrth,  A.  O.  O'Neill, 
C.  M.  Sharpe  and  J.  L.  Webb. 


DEPARTMENT  OF  LANDS  AND  WORKS. 


Prime  Minister  and  Minister  of  Lands  and 
Works,  the  Right  Hon.  Lieut.-Col.  Sir 
A.  H.  Hime,  P.C,  K.C.M.G.,  M.L.A. 

Secretary,  Prime  Minister  and  Secretary  of 
Lands  and  Works,  G.  T.  Plowman. 

Chief  Engineer,  J.   F.  E.  Barnes,  C.M.G. 

Asst.     do.,   H.   B.   Jameson. 

Secretary,  F.  G.  Rodwell. 

Statistical  Clerk,  R.  G.  Shepstone. 

Chief  Draughtsman,  H.  J.  Dadswell. 

Clerk  of  Works,  New  Works,  W.  Farley. 

Chief  Accountant,  A.  P.  Smith. 
District  Engineers. 

Maiitzburg  District,  A.   Head. 

Coast  District,  W.   Bosnian. 

Ladysmith  District,  G.  Hyslop. 

Newcastle  District,  R.  King. 

Province  of  Zululand,  P.  Harrison. 


Surveyor  General's  Department. 

Siu'vevor-General,  J.  L.  Masson. 

Chief  Clerk,  F.  A.  Hoffmann. 

Examiner  of  Diagrams,  J.  L.  Watson. 

Inspector  of  Boilers,  W.  J.  Quince. 

Secretary,  Harbour  Dept.,  H.  Smith. 

Port  Captain,  H.  Ballard. 

Asst.  Harbour  Master,  W.  Gordon. 

Wharf  Supt.   and  Traffic  Manager,   J.  MeCon- 

nachio. 
Asst.  Wharf  Master,  R.  T.  McKenzie. 
Engineer,    Harbour    Works,    Chas.    J.    Crofts, 

M.Inst.  C.E. 
.4.sst.  Engineer,  D.  C.  Davey. 
Mechanical  Engineer,  G.  Thomson,  M.I.M.E. 
Asst.  Engineers,  E.  C.  Davey,  L.  H.  A.  Shadwell, 

and  J.  H.  Hoenan. 


VOLUNTEER  DEPARTMENT. 

(See  "Military  Forces  in  Africa") 


Natal  Police. 
Chief  Commissioner,  G.  Mansel,  C.M.G. 
Acting  Asst.  Commissioner,  F.  A.  Campbell. 
Adjt.  and  Sub-Inspector,  O.  Dimmick. 
Inspector  and  Paymaster,  F.  H.  S.  Sewell. 
Sub-Inspector  and  Acctg.  Officer,  W.  E.  Ives. 
Inspector  and  Quartermaster,  W.  E.  Lyttle. 
Criminal  Investigation  Officer,  W.  J.  Clarke. 
Sub-Inspector,    Criminal    Investigation    Dept., 
S.  Hunt. 


Supt.   Railway  Police,  W.   Bousfield. 
Supt.  Water  PoUce,  G.  E.  Tatum. 
Sub-Inspector  and  Vet.  Surg.,  J.  B.  Collyer. 
Sub-Inspector  and  Surgeon,  H.  R.  Brown. 
Inspectors,  W.  F.  Fairlie,  F.  L.  Phillips,  W.  V. 

D.  Dorehill,  A.  Prendergast,  G.  S.  Mardall, 

J.  B.  Marshall  and  W.  C.  H.  George. 
Governor    Durban  Gaol,  A.  M.  Smith. 

,,         Pietermaritzburg     do.,    J.    Thomson. 

,,         Eshowe  do.,  J.  Deane. 


NATAL  GOVERNMENT  RAILWAYS. 


General  Manager,  Sir  David  Hunter,  K.C.M.G. 
Asst.  Gen.  Manager,  J.  M.  Hunter. 
Chief  Clerk,  T.  H.  Mackay. 
Asst.  Traffic  Manager,  D.  B.  Downie. 
Locomotive  Supt.,  G.  W.  Reid. 
Engineer-in-Chief,  J.  W.  Shores,  C.M.G. 
Supt.     Engineer,     Surveys    and     Construction, 
W.  H.  Cobley,  T.S.O.' 


Chief  Accountant,  R.  W.  Harwin. 
Dist.   Agent,  .Johannesburg,  H.   Salmon. 
Maritzburg  Dist.  Supt.,  G.  H.  Chick. 
Ladysmith     do.     do.,    G.    Donaldson. 
Newcastle     do.     do.,  P.  Littlejohn. 
Stores  Superintendent,   E.  B.  Kirkman. 
Locomotive  Supt.  (acting),  D.  A.  Hendrie. 


THE    IMPERIAL    BRITISH    EAST    AFRICA    COMPANY. 


1888-9. 
1889. 
1889-90. 
1890-1. 


George  S.  Mackenzie. 
J.  W.  Buchanan. 
George  S.  Mackenzie. 
Sir  Francis  de  Winton. 


Administbatoks. 
1891. 
1891. 
1891-2. 
1892-5. 


Geo.  S.  Mackenzie. 

Capt.  H.  B.  Mackay  (Acting). 

Ernest  J.  S.  Berkeley. 

J.  R.  W.  Piggott  (Acting). 


EAST    AFRICA    PROTECTOkATE. 


Commissioners  and  Consuls-Generai. 
1895-1900.     Sir  Arthur  H.  Hardinge,  K.C.M.G.,     1900.       Sir    Charles    N.    E.    Eliot,    K.C.M.G. 


C  B 

1900.      Col.   T.'   P.    B.   Ternan,  C.M.G.,   D.S.O. 

(acting). 


C.B. 
1904.       Sir  Donald  William  Stewart,  K.C.M.G. 


UGANDA    PROTECTORATE. 

List  of  Commissioners. 


1893-4, 
1894-5 
1895. 

1895-9 


Sir  Gerald  Portal,  K.C.M.G. 
Col.  ColviUe,  C.B. 
F.  J.  Jackson,  C.B.  (Acting). 
E.  J.  L.  Berkeley,  C.B. 
Col.  Ternan,  D.S.O.,  Acting  during  absence 
of  E.  J.  L.  Berkeley. 

ZANZIBAR    PROTECTORATE. 


G.  Wilson,  C.B.,  Acting  during  absence  of 
Col.  Ternan. 
1899-1901.  Sir  H.  Johnston,  K.C.B. 
1901-2.  F.  J.  Jackson,  C.B.  (Acting). 

1902.  Col.  Hayes  Sadler,  C.B.,  April  1. 


1840-57. 
1858-60. 
1861-2. 
1863-7. 

1867-72. 
1873-87. 
1887-8. 


Col.  Hamerton. 

Col.  C.  P.  Rigby. 

Col.  Lewis  Pellv. 

Col.  Playfair. 

Mr.  Henry  Churchill. 

Sir  J.  Kirk,  G.C.M.G.,  K.C.B 

Sir  Claude  Macdonald. 


British  Representatives. 

1888-90.     Col.  Sir  C.  B.  Evan  Smith,  K.C.B. 
1891-3.        Sir    Gerald    Portal,    K.C.B. 
1893-4.       Mr.  (afterwards  Sir)  Rennell  Rodd. 
1894-1900.     Sir  A.  Hardinge,  K.C.M.G.,  C.B. 
1900-1.       Mr.  Basil  S.  Cave,  C.B. 
1901.     Sir  C.  N.  E.  Eliot,  K.C.M.G.,  C.B. 
1904.     Sir  Donald  WilUam  Stewart,  K.C.M.G. 


BRITISH  CONSULATE  AND  AGENCY,  ZANZIBAR. 


Agent  and  Consul-General,  Sir  Donald  W. 
Stewart,  K.C.M.G. 

Consul,  Basil  S.  Cave,  C.B. 

Vice-Consuls,  V.  K.  Kestell-Cornish,  J.  H.  Sin- 
clair, H.  C.  Venables. 

Vice-Consul  at  Pemba,  D.  R.  O' Sullivan-Beare. 

Medical  Adviser,  Dr.  F.  Charles. 

JUDICIAI,. 

Judge,  H.B.M.  Court,  G.  B.  Piggott. 
Assistant   Judge,    Lindsay   Smith. 
Second  Assistant  Judge,  Skinner  Turner. 
Judge    of     Subordinate    Court,    Pemba,    J.    P. 

Farler. 
Registrar,  H.B.M.  Court,  Bomanji  Talati, 
Government  Officials,  Zanzibar. 
Prime  Minister,  A.   S.   Rogers. 
Commandant  of  Forces,  General  A.  E.  Raikes. 
Treasurer,  A.  Alexander. 
Port  Officer,  Captain  A.  Le  Page  Agnew. 


Officer  Commanding  Forces  and  Chief  of  Police, 
Pemba,  Captain  E.  H.  Goldie  Taubman. 

Chief  of  Customs,  R.  V.  Coster. 

Assistant  Collector  of  Customs,  W.   B.   Swine- 
herd. 

Slavery  Commissioner,  J.  T.  Last. 

Pemba,  J.  P.  Farler. 

Director  of  Public  Works,  Bomanji  Maneckji. 

Director  of  Agriculture,  R.  N.  Lyne. 

Zanzibar    Government    Agent    for    Pemba,    H. 
Lister. 

Legal  Ad^dser,  F.  H.  O.  Wilson. 

Medical  Officer,  Dr.  G.  A.  Macdonald. 

„  ,,       Dr.  A.  D.  Mackinnon,  C.M.G. 

,,        and   Officer  in   Charge   Prison 
Island,  IDr.  A.  H.  Spurrier. 

Surgeon,    Dr.    Nariman. 

Master  of  the  Horse,  Dr.  Andrade. 

Inspector  of  Roads,  C.  A.  Gunning. 


THE    TRANSVAAL    COLONY. 


ADMINISTRATORS : 

Sept.  1,  1900.     Field-Marshal  Baron  Roberts,  K.P.,  G.C.B.,  G.C.S.I.,  G.C.I.E,,  V.C. 

Oct.    8,   1900.     The  Right  Hon.  Baron  Milner,  P.C,  G.C.M.G.,  K.C.B. 

May   9,  1901,  to  Aug.  1901  (Acting).     The  Right  Hon.  Baron  Kitchener,  G.C.B.,  G.C.M.G. 

GOVERNOR : 
June  21,  1902.     The  Right  Hon.  Baron  (cr.  Viscount  1902)  Milner,  P.O.,  G.C.B.,  G.C.M.G. 


Sept.  29, 1902. 


LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR 
The  Hon.  Sir  Arthur  Lawley,  K.C.M.G. 


LEGISLATIVE  AND  EXECUTIVE  COUNCILS. 
President  : — -The  Hon.  Sir  Arthur  Lawley,  K.C.M.G. 
Colonial  Secretary  : — Walter  Edward  Davidson. 
Colonial  Treasurer  : — Patrick  Duncan. 
Commissioner  op  Lands  : — Adam  Jameson. 

Attorney-General  : — The  Hon.  Sir  Richard  Solomon,  K.C.M.G.,  C.B. 
Commissioner  of  Native  Affairs  : — Sir  Godfrey  Lagden,  K.C.M.G. 
Commissioner  op  Mines  (Acting) : — Wilfred  John  Wybergh. 

LEGISLATIVE  COUNCIL. 

The  Legislative  Council  includes  the  foregoing  members  of  the  Executive  Council,  and  also  the 

foUowins  nominated  members: 


Edmund  Fraiicis  Bourke. 

Lieut. -Col.  George  Henry  Fowke,  R.E. 

John  William  Honey. 

Lieut.-Col.  Hugh  Milborne  Jackson,  R.E. 

Johannes  Cornelis  Brink. 

John  Frank  Brown. 

Andries  Petrus  Johannes  Cronje. 

Johan  Zulch  de  Villiers. 

Thomas  Everard. 

Sir  George  Farrar,  D.S.O. 

Richard  Kelsey  Loveday. 

Frank  Braybrooke  Smith. 

JOHANNESBURG  MUNICIPALITY, 


Frank  Turner. 

Daniel  Ward,  LL.D. 

P^abian  Ware. 

Sir  James  Percy  Fitzpatrick. 

WiUiam  Hosken. 

Henry  Charles  Hull. 

Alexander  Seaton  Raitt. 

Peter  Roux. 

Harry  Solomon. 

Hendrik  Petrus  Francois  Janse  van  Rensburg. 

Clerk  to  the  Council,  E.  M.  O.  Clough. 


The  Mayor  : — W.  St.  John  Carr. 
Deputy  Mayor  : — G.  H.  Goch. 


Col.  Dale  Lace. 

R.   C.  Brown. 

W.   Dalrymple. 

J.  W.   Quinn. 

R.   Shanks. 

W.   K.  Tucker,  C.M.G. 

A.  E.  Steytler. 

A.  S.  Raitt,  M.L.C. 

George  A.  H.  Dickson. 

H.  A.  Reid. 

A.  Mackie  Niven. 

H.  J.  Hofme^T. 

Max  Langerman. 

James  Thompson. 


W.  Rockey. 

Julius  Jeppe. 

J.  A.  Hamilton. 

C.  Chudleigh. 

Howard  Pimm. 

John  Roy. 

J.  M.  Buckland. 

William  Hosken,  M.L.C. 

E.  Hancock. 
A.  Epler. 

J.  Emoys  Evans. 
S.  C.  Black. 
A.  A.  Noble. 

F.  D.  P.  ChapUn. 


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TRANSVAAL  CHAMBER  OF  MINES. 

OFFICERS    FOR    THE    YEAR    1904. 
President  : — Harold  F.  Strange. 

Vice-Presidents  : — J.  N.  de  Jongh  and  R.  W.  Schumacher. 
Executive  Committee. 


Julius  Jeppe. 

J.  W.  S.   Langerman. 

E.  Hopper. 

Leon  Sutro. 

S.   Evans. 

A.  J.  Sharwood. 


A.  Brakhan. 
W.  H.  Dawe. 

A.  Epler. 

Sir  George  Farrar,  D.S.O. 

F.  Francois. 

F.  O.  P.  Chaplin. 
■Secretary  : — J.  Cowie. 
Legal  Adviser  : — G.  L.  Craik. 

■Curator  of  Museum  and  Librarian  : — J.  Dampier  Green,  F.G.S.,  M.I.M.E. 
Solicitors  : — Van  Hulsteyn,  Feltham  &  Fry. 

Auditors: — C.  L.  Anderson  &  Co.,  Incorporated  Accountants;  and  Thos.  Douglas,  F.C.A. 
London  Secretary  : — A.  R.  Goldring,  202-3,  Salisbury  House,  E.C. 
Representatives  in  Paris  : — La  Compagnie  Franc; aise  De  Mines  D'or  et  De  L'Afrique  Du 

SuD,  20,  Rue  Taitbout. 
Hepresentatives  in  Berlin  : — Hardy  Bros.,  Behren-Str.,  4,  W. 


Members  for  the  Year  1904. 


Company. 

African  Claim  and  Land  Co. 
Angelo  Gold  Mines,  Ltd.  . 
Angelo   Deep   Gold   Mines, 

Ltd. 
Apex  Mines,  Ltd. 

Aurora  West  United  G.  M. 

Co.,  Ltd. 
Bantjes  Con.  Mines,  Ltd.    . 
Barnato         do. 
Benoni  Gold  Mines,  Ltd.    . 
Block  A,  Randfontein  G.  M. 

Co.,  Ltd. 
Block  B,  Langlaagte  Estate 

and  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd. 

Bonanza,  Ltd 

Boksburg  Gold  Mines,  Ltd. 
Brakpan  Mines  .... 
Buffelsdoorn  Est.  and  G.  M. 

Co.,  Ltd. 

Cassel  Coal  Co 

Cason   Gold   Mines,    Ltd.  . 


Co., 


Representative. 

Langermann,  M. 
Hullmann,  F. 
Hudson,  W.  E. 

Bagot,  Major,  the 

Hon.  W.  L. 
Blinkhorn,  J.  V. 

Heneage,  E. 
Munro,  J. 
Cadell,  T. 
Johnstone,  G. 

Scholtz,  N.  J. 

Griges,  R.  E. 
Holford,  W.   G. 
Elkan,  F. 
Peirson,   C.    E. 

Ross,  W. 
Farrar,     Sir     G., 

D.S.O. 
Diamond,  F.   W. 


Central  Geduld  G.  M 

Ltd. 
Champ  d'Or  French  G.  M.     Stone,  A. 

Co.,  Ltd. 
Cinderella  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd.  .      Eraser,    H.    P. 
City  and  Suburban  G.   M.     Hawkins,  H.  C. 

and  Esta.te  Co.,  Ltd. 
"City  Deep  Ltd Raleigh,  F. 


Company. 

Clydesdale     (Trans.)    Coll., 

Ltd. 
Cons.  Goldfields  of  S  Africa, 

Ltd. 
Cons.  Langlaagte  Mines,  Ltd. 
Cons.  Main  Reef  Mines  and 

Estate,  Ltd. 
Crown  Reef  Gold  M.   Co., 

Ltd. 
Crown  Deep,  litd. 
Driefontein     Cons.     Mines 

Ltd. 
Driefontein  Deep,  Ltd. 
Durban  Roodepoort  G.  M. 

Co.,  Ltd. 
Durban  Roodepoort  Deep, 

Ltd. 
East  Rand  Prop.  Mine. 
East  Rand  Deep,  Ltd.  . 
Ferreira  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd.    . 
Ferreira  Deep  Ltd.   . 
French  Rand  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd 
Geduld    Prop.    Mines    . 
Geduld  Deep        .... 
Geldenhuis  M.  R.  G.  M.  Co., 

Ltd. 
Geldenhuis  Est.  and  G.  M. 

Co. 
Geldenhuis  Deep,  Ltd. 
Ginsberg,  G.  M.  Co.  . 
Glen  Deep,  Ltd 


Repre.sentative. 
Orr,  J.  E. 

Fricker,  R.   G. 

Calvert,  H.  R. 
Auret,  A.  A. 

Lys,  R.    O.    G. 

Evans,  S. 
Dalrymple,  W. 

Wolff,  K.  F. 
Martin,  W.  A. 

Bradley,  B. 

Higgins,  W. 
Tainton,  C.   F. 
Holgate,   R.    M. 
Rogers,  H.  A. 
Drake,  F. 
ITevmann,  R. 
Williams,  E. 
Thorburn,  J.  A. 

Lance,  W.  F. 

Reversbach,    L. 
Pitts,  J. 
Read,  H.  A. 


Transvaal  Chamber  of  Mines 


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Company. 

Representative. 

Company. 

Representative. 

Glencairn  M.  R.  G.  M.  Co.  . 

Henderson,  D. 

N.  Randfontein  G.  M.  Co. . 

Angus,  G.  S. 

GljTin's  Lydenburg,  Ltd.    . 

Cameron,  R. 

Nourse  Deep,  Ltd.    . 

Graham,  W.   T. 

Great  Eastern  Collieries     . 

Marks,  S. 

Paarl    Central    G.    M.    and 

Ryan,  J.  H. 

Henry  Nourse  G.  M.  Co.    . 

Nourse,  H. 

Explor.  Co.,  Ltd. 

Jubilee  Gold  Co.,  Ltd.  .      . 

Gluyas,  C. 

Porges  Randfontein  G.    M. 

Ferguson,  J. 

Jupiter  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd..      . 

Chaphn,  F.  D.  P. 

Co.,  Ltd. 

Jumpers  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd.    . 

Haw,  P.  C. 

Princess  Est.  and  G.  M.  Co., 

Epler,  A. 

Jumpers  Deep,  Ltd. 

Caldocott,   H.   S. 

Ltd. 

Klerksdorp  Prop.  Mines,  Ltc 

Symons,  D. 

Rand  Central  Gold  Mines, Ld. 

Middleton,  R.  V. 

Klip  Deep,  Ltd 

Jennings,    S.    J. 

Rand  Victoria  East,  Ltd.  . 

Webb,  J.  N. 

Knights  Central,  Ltd.  . 

Lilienfeld,   W.    H. 

Rand  Mines,  Ltd.      . 

Webber,  G.  E. 

Knights  Deep  Ltd.   . 

Hume,  W. 

Rand  Mines  Deep  Ltd.  . 

Behr,  H.  C. 

Lancaster  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd.  . 

Francke,  M. 

Rand  Victoria  Mines,  Ltd.  . 

Robertson,  R.  H. 

Lancaster  West  G.  M.  Co., 

Fraser,  E. 

Randfontein  Est.  G.  M.  Co. 

Lilienfeld,  R. 

Ltd. 

(Witwatersrand),  Ltd. 

Langlaagte  Deep  Ltd.  . 

Carpenter,   F.   J. 

Randfontein  Deep,  Ltd.     . 

Bain,  C.  A.  0. 

Langlaagte  Est.  and  G.  M. 

Hebbard,   J.   A. 

Rietfontein  "  A  "  Ltd.  . 

Strange,  H.  F. 

Co. 

Rietfontein  "  B  "  Ltd.  . 

Marx,  C. 

Langlaagte  Explor.  and  Bldg 

Watson,  J. 

Robinson  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd.    . 

Fitzpatrick,  Sir  J. 

Co.,  Ltd. 

P. 

Luipaardsvlei  Est.  and  G.  M. 

Douglas,  J. 

Robinson  Deep  G.  M.  Co., 

Davies,  C. 

Co.,  Ltd. 

Ltd. 

May  Cons.  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd.  . 

Fitzpatrick,  G.  C. 

Robinson  Central  Deep,  Ltd. 

Jolly,  J. 

Meyer  and  Charlton  G.  M. 

Owen,  H. 

Robinson  Randfontein  G.M. 

Yeatman,  P. 

Co.,  Ltd. 

Co.,  Ltd. 

Middlevlei  Est.  and  G.  M. 

Diu-ham,  J. 

Roodepoort  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd. 

Wilkinson,  E. 

Co.,  Ltd. 

Roodepoort    United    Main 

Sharwood,  A.  J. 

Midas  East  Est.  and  G.  M. 

Saenger,  H. 

Reef  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd. 

Co.,  Ltd. 

Rose  Deep,  Ltd. 

Dodd,  M. 

Midas  Deep  Ltd. 

Rainier,  J.   H. 

Sacke  Est. and Min.  Co.,  Ld. 

Sacke,  S. 

Modderfontein  Exten.,  Ltd. 

Calvert,  E. 

Saxon  Est.   and    Min.   Co., 

Peirson,  J.  W. 

Modderfontein  Deep  Levels, 

Ltd. 

Ltd. 

Salisbm-y  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd.    . 

Taafe,  E.  S.  D. 

Mynpacht  Randfontein  G. 

Tudhope,   F.   S. 

Sheba  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd.  .      . 

Hatch,  Dr.  F.  H 

M.  Co.,  Ltd. 

Simmer    and    Jack    Prop. 

Solomon,  H.  D. 

New  Blue  Skv  G.  M.  Co., 

Pott,  W. 

Mines,  Ltd. 

Ltd. 

Simmer  and  Jack  East,  Ltd. 

Christopherson,  D 

New  Comet  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd. 

Francois,  F. 

Simmer  and  Jack  West,  Ld. 

Corstorphine,    Dr 

New  Goch  Gold  Mines,  Ltd. 

Albu,  L. 

G.  S. 

New  Heriot  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd. 

Aimetti,  S.  C.  B. 

South  African  Gold  Mines  . 

Jeppe,  J. 

New  Kleinfontein  Co.,  Ltd. 

Wav,  E.  J. 

South  City,  Ltd.        .      .      . 

Wolfes,  E. 

New  Modderfontein  G.  M. 

Dawe,  W.  H. 

South  Geldenhuis  Deep,  Ld. 

Smits,  W.  S. 

Co.,  Ltd. 

South  Nourse,  Ltd. . 

Park,  W.  E. 

New  Primrose   G.   M.   Co., 

Blane,  J. 

South  Rand.  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd. 

Langerraan,J.W.S. 

Ltd. 

South  Rose  Deep,  Ltd. . 

Stuart,  C. 

New  Rietfontein  Est.  Gold 

Johns,  J.  H. 

South  Wolhuter,   Ltd..      . 

Ball,  T.  J. 

Mines,  Ltd. 

Slab  Nigel,  Ltd 

Kearney,  W.  St.  J 

New  Stevn  Est.  Gold  Mines, 

Denny,  H.  S. 

Transvaal  Goldfields,  Ltd. 

Black,  S.  C. 

Ltd. 

Trans.  Coal  Trust  Co.,  Ltd. 

Cerruti,  C. 

New  Unified  M.R.G.M.  Co. 

Mardall,  W.  H. 

Transvaal   Nigel,    Ltd. 

McCallum,  W. 

New   Era   Cons.,    Ltd.  . 

Airth,  G.  R. 

Transvaal  G.  M.  Est.,  Ltd. 

Bourke,  B.  T. 

New  Trans.   Chemical    Co., 

Sehlesinger,  Dr.  J. 

Treasury  Gold  Jlines,  Ltd. 

Reyersbach,  A. 

Ltd. 

Tudor  G.  M.  Co.        ... 

Kuhlman,  J.  L. 

Nigel  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd.  .      . 

Sutru,  L. 

Turf  Mines,  Ltd.      .      .      . 

Heim,  F. 

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Company. 

Representative. 

Company. 

Representative. 

Van  Ryn  Gold  Mines  Est., 

Denny,  G.  A. 

West   Rand   Mines,   Ltd.  . 

Barclay,  C.  H. 

Ltd. 

West  Roodepoort  Deep,  Ld. 

Kehler,  C.  R. 

Van  Ryn  Deep,  Ltd.  . 

Hanau,  C. 

Windsor  Gold  Mines,  Ltd. . 

Hopper,  E. 

Vereeniging  Estates,  Ltd.  . 

Jongh,  J.  N.  de. 

Witbank  Colliery,  Ltd.  .      . 

Currey,  J.  G. 

Village  Main  Reef  G.  M.  Co., 

Raine,  R. 

Witwatersrand  G.   M.   Co., 

Lace,  J.  Dale. 

Ltd. 

Ltd.  (Knights). 

Village  Deep,  Ltd.  . 

Schumacher,  R.W. 

Witwatersrand  Deep,   Ltd. 

Niven,  A.  ]M. 

Vogelstruis  Consolidated 

Thomson,  S.   C. 

Wolhuter  Gold  Mines    . 

Panchaud,  H.G.L. 

Deep,  Ltd. 

Wolhuter    Deep    Ltd.  . 

Perry,  F. 

Wemmer,  G.  M.  Co.,  Ltd.  . 

Goch,  G.  H. 

Western  Rand  Est.,  Ltd.  . 

Hull,  H.  C. 

Aburrow,  Chas.,  M.LC.E. 
Rathbone,  Edgar,  P.,  M.Inst.M.M. 


Associate  Members. 

I  Rennert,  Theodore,  M.I.C.E. 


Honorary  Members. 


President,  Rhodesia  Chamber  of  Mines. 
President,  Salisbury  Chamber  of  Mines. 
Oberbergrath  Sclimeisser,  Berlin. 


Professor  Becker,    Washington,    U.S.A. 
H.  M.  Guest,  Klerksdorp. 


ORANGE     RIVER     COLONY. 

GOVERNOR : 
The  Right  Hon.  Viscount  Milnee,  P.O.,  G.C.B.,  G.C.M.G. 

EXECUTIVE  AND  LEGISLATIVE  COUNCILS. 

LIETJTENANT-GOVEENOR  : SiR   HAMILTON    J.    GoOLD-AdAMS,    K.C.M.G, 

Colonial  Secretary  : — H.  T.  Wilson. 

Director  of  Education  : — -Edmund  Beale  Sargant. 

Postmaster-General  :— A.  Falck. 

Colonial  Treasurer  : — A.  Browne. 

Collector  of  Customs  : — Johannes  Henricus  Meiring. 

Director  of  Public  Works  : — G.  A.  Northcroft. 

Attorney-General  : — H.  T.  Blaine 

OTHER  MEMBERS  OF  LEGISLATIVE  COUNCIL. 

Burnet  Adams  (Surveyor-General) 

John  George  Feases 

Johannes  Frederick  Janse  van  Rensbueg 

Johannes  Matheus  Wessels 


INTER-COLONIAL    COUNCIL 

of  the 
TRANSVAAL    AND    ORANGE     RIVER    COLONY 

The  High  Comictssionee  and  Goveenoe,  Peesident,  H.  E.  Viscount  Milnee,  G.C.B.,  G.C.M.G. 
The  Lieut. -Governor  of  the  Transvaal  : — H.E.  the  Hon.  Sie  Aethur  Lawley,  K.C.M.G. 
The  Acting  Lieut.-Governor  of  the  O.R.C.  : — H.  F.  Wilson,  C.M.G. 
The  Inspector-General  of  South  African  Constabulary  : — Lieut. -Col.  J.   S.  Nicholson, 

C.B.,  D.S.O. 
The  Commissioner  of  Railways  : — Sir  E.  P.  C.  Girouaed,  K.C.M.,  G.D.O.O.,  R.E.  (resigned). 
Attoeney-General  of  the  Transvaal  : — Hon.  Sir  Richard  Solomon,  K.C.,  K.C.M.G.,  C.B. 

COLONI.AL    SeCEETARY   OF    THE    TrANSVAAL  : P.    DuNCAN. 

Attorney-General  of  the  O.R.C.  : — H.  T.  Blaine,  K.C. 

Colonial  Treasurer  of  the  O.R.C.  : — A.  Browne,  I.S.O. 

Commissioner  op  Lands  of  the  Transvaal  : — Adam  Jameson. 

Director  op  Customs  of  the  Transvaal  : — J.  W.  Honey. 

Collector  of  Customs  op  the  O.R.C.  : — J.  H.  Meiring. 

Director  of  Agriculture  of  the  O.R.C.  : — C.  W.  Palmer. 

Chief  Staff  Officer  of  the  South  African  Constabulary  : — Lieut.-Col.  Curtis,  D.S.O.,  Pv.E^ 

OTHER  MEMBERS. 


E.  F.  Bourke. 

Sir  Geo.  Farrar,  D.S.O. 

G.  P.  Eraser. 

H.  P.  F.  G.  van  Rensbiorg. 

W.  Burns-Thompson. 

H.  C.  Hull. 

T.  Brain. 

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Wm.  Hosken. 

Johann  Rissik. 

G.  F.  J.  von  Rensburg. 

R.   K.  Loveday. 

H.  W.  Stockdale. 

Secretary,  The  Hon.  R.  H.  Brand. 


THE    BRITISH    SOUTH   AFRICA   COMPANY. 

(Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  29th  October,  1889,  at}d  Supplemental  Charter,  dated  8th  June,  1900.) 


BOARD  OF   DIRECTORS 

His  Grace  the  DUIiE  OF  ABERCORN,  K.G.,  President. 
The  Right  Hon.  EARL  GREY,   Vice  President. 


The  Right  Hon.  LORD  GIFFORD,  V.C. 
J.  ROCHFORT  MAGUIRE. 
P.  LYTTELTON  GELL. 
A.  BEIT. 


Dr.    The    Hon.    L.    S.    JAMESON,    C.B,, 

M.L.A. 
The  Hon.    Sir  LEWIS    L.   MICHELL, 

M.LA. 


Head  Office,  2,  LONDON  WALL  BUILDINGS,  LONDON,  E.G. 
Manager,  H.  WILSON  FOX. 
Joint  Manager  and  Secretary,  J.  F.  JONES,  C.M.G. 
Assistant  Secretaries,  A.  P.  MILLAR,  D.  E.  BRODIE. 
Registrar,  R.  C.  BOLTON  ;  Assistant  Registrar,  F.  C.  APPLETON. 

MINING   DEPARTMENT. 
Resident  Engineer  in  Rhodesia,  E.  H.  GARTHWAITE. 

RAILWAYS. 
Consulting  Engineers,  London,  Sir  DOUGLAS  FOX  and  PARTNERS. 
Consulting  Engineer,  Rhodesia,  Sir  CHARLES  METCALFE,  Bart. 

ADMINISTRATION  OF  SOUTHERN  RHODESIA. 


Chief  Magistrates. 

24th   July,    1891.     A.    R.    Colquhoun    (Acting). 
18th  Sept.,  1891.     Dr.  Leander  Starr  Jameson, 

C.B.,  M.D. 
7th  Oct.,   1893.     A.  H.  F.   Duncan  (Acting). 

Administrators. 

10th  Sept.,  1894.  Dr.  Leander  Starr  Jameson, 
C.B.,  M.D. 

2nd  April,   1896.     The  Right  Hon.  Earl  Grey. 

5th  Dec,  1898.  Administrator  of  Mashonaland 
and  Senior  Administrator  of  Southern  Rho- 
desia,  W.    H.   Milton. 

6th  Dec,  1898.  Administrator  of  Matabeleland, 
Captain  the  Hon.   A.  Lawley  (resigned  on 


appointment  as  Governor  West  Australia, 

March,  1901). 
20th    Dec,    1901.     Administrator    of    Southern 

Rhodesia,     Sir     WilUam     Henry     Milton, 

K.C.M.G.  (1903.) 

Acting  Adtninistrators. 
2nd    Oct.,    1894.     Colonel   Francis   Rhodes. 
1896.     His  Honour  Judge  Vintcent. 
July,  1897.     W.  H.  Milton. 
5th  Dec,  1898.     The  Hon.  Sir  Thomas  C.  Scan 

len,  K.C.M.G. 
10th  June,  1899.      Captain  the  Hon.  A.  Lawley 

(Mashonaland). 
8th  May,  1902.     J.  G.  Kotz6,  K.C. 
12th  March,  1903.     J.  G.  Kotze,  K.C. 


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237 


EXECUTIVE  COUNCIL. 

President : 
Sir  William  Henry  Milton,  K.C.M.G.,  Administrator,  etc. 
Members  : 


Lieutenant- Colonel  Sir  Marshal  James  Clarke, 
K.C.M.G.,  Imperial  Resident  Commissioner, 
etc.,  etc.,  etc. 

Sir  Thomas  Charles  Scanlen,  K.C.M.G.  (Ad- 
ditional Law  Officer),  6th  February,  1902. 


Francis    James    Newton,    C.M.G.     (Treasurer), 

16th  April,   1903. 
Herbert     Hayton     Castens     (Chief     Secretary), 

6th  February,   1902. 
Clarkson   Henrv   Tredgold    (Attorney-General), 

7th  April, '1903. 


LEGISLATIVE  COUNCIL. 

Nominated  Members  who  take  precedence  over  the  Elected  Members 

Sir  Thomas  Charles  Scanlen,  K.C.M.G.  (Additional  Law  Officer). 

Francis  James  Newton,  C.M.G.   (Treasurer). 

Herbert  Hayton  Castens  (Chief  Secretary). 

Clarkson  Henry  Tredgold  (Attorney- General). 

James  Hutchinson  Kennedy  (Master  of  the  High  Court). 

Edward  Ross  Townsend  (Secretary  for  Agriculture). 

Ernest  William  Saunders  Montagu  (Secretary  for  Mines). 


Elected  Members. 


Eastern  District. 


John  Meikle. 


Northern  District. 

Colonel  Raleigh  Grey,  C.M.G. 
Dr.  Richard  John  Wyhe,  M.D. 

Resident  Commissioner  (Southern  Rhodesia) 
^^  Private  Secretary  :   C.  Douglas  Jones. 


Midland  District. 
Colonel  Herman  Melville  Heyman. 

Western  Disti'ict. 
Cliarles  Theodore  Holland. 
William  Henry  Haddon. 
Colonel  WiUiam  Napier,   C.M.G. 
Lieut.  Col.  Sir  Marshal  J.  Clarke,  K.C.M.G. 


CIVIL  ESTABLISHMENT. 

ADMINISTRATOR'S  DIVISION. 

Administrator  of  Southern  Rhodesia  :    His  Honour  Sir  William  H.  Milton,  K.C.M.G. 

Private  Secretary  :  A.  H.  Holland. 

Clerk  of  Legislative  and  Executive  Councils  :   Jas.  Robertson. 


CHIEF  SECRETARY'S  DIVISION. 


Chief  Secretary,  H,  H.  Castens. 
Under  Secretary,  A.  B.  Rankine. 
Accountant  and  Principal  Distributor  of  Stamps, 
P.  E.  Craven. 

Cape  Town  Office. 
Government  Agent,  J.  A.  Stevens. 
Accountant,  W.  Olive. 


Health. 

Salisbury. 

Medical  Director  and  Inspector,  A.  M.  Fleming, 

C.M.G. 
Resident  Surgeon,  F.  C.  Drew. 
Hospital  Secretary,  R.  de  Vere  Comwell. 


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TJmtali. 
Hospital  Surgeon,  J.   Harpur. 
„         Secretary,  W.  McBeath. 

Gwelo. 
Hospital  Surgeon,  H.  K.  Smith. 
,,         Secretary,  J.  J.  Tupholme. 

Victoria. 
Hospital  Storgeon,  M.  J.  Williams. 
Secretary,  D.  T.  Phillips. 

Hartley. 
Hospital  Surgeon,  W.  M.  Eaton. 

,,  „        (Acting),  A.  J.  Mackenzie. 

„        Secretary,  A.  T.  Watson. 

Gwanda. 
Hospital  Surgeon,  E.  T.   Clayton. 
„         Secretary,  G.  H.  Lowry. 

Selukwe. 
Hospital  Surgeon,  F.  P.  Maitland. 
„         Secretary,  F.  W.  Bmit. 

Filabusi. 

Hospital  Surgeon,  H.  Rochfort  Hunt. 
Secretary,  F.  T.  Reed. 

Enkeldoorn. 
Hospital  Surgeon,  J.  Ritchie  Brown. 

Native  Department,  Mashonaland. 

Acting     Chief     Native     Commissioner,     W.     S- 

Taberer. 
Act.  Nat.  Coimnr.,  Salisbury,  Capt.  R.  C.  Nesbitt. 
Nat.  Commr.,  Charter,  J.  W.  Posselt. 

„  „  Chilimanzi,  H.  C.  K.  Fynn. 

Asst.  Nat.  Commr.,  Chilimanzi,  F.  G.  Howman. 
Nat.  Commr.,  Hartley,  S.  N.  G.  Jackson. 

„  „         Lomagondi,  W.   E.   E.   Scott. 

Asst.  Nat.  Commr.,  iV.  Mazoe,  E.  J.  Eardley-Mare. 

8.  Mazoe,  E.  T.  Kenny. 
Act.  Nat.  Conamr.,  MHoko,  F.  R.  Byron. 
Nat.   Commr.,  M'rewa,  W.   Edwards. 

„  „  Marondella,  E.   W.  Morris. 

„  „  Makoni,  A.  R.  Ross. 

Umtali,  T.  B.  HuUey. 
Clerk  in  Charge,  Inyanga,  W.  T.   Laing. 
Nat.  Commr.,  Melsetter,  L.   C.  Meredith. 

„  ,,  Victoria,  A.   Drew. 

Gutu,  H.  C.  K.  Fynn. 
Asst.  Nat.  Commr.,  N^danga,  A.  T.  Holland. 
Nat.   Conamr.,  Chibi,  P.   Forrestall. 
Asst.  Nat.  Commr.,  Chilimanzi,  W.  S.  Wragg. 

Native  Department,  Matabeleland. 
Chief  Nat.  Commr.,  H.  J.  Taylor. 


Head  Office,  Bulawayo. 

Relieving  Officer,  C.   L.   Carbutt. 

Chief  Clerk  and  Accountant,  H.  J.  Nanson. 

Nat.   Commr.   and  Asst.   Magistrate,  Bubi  Dis- 
trict, R.   Lanning. 

Asst.  Nat.  Commr.,  H.  G.  Fuller. 

Nat.  Commr.,  Bulilima-Mantwe,  W.  E.  Thomas. 

Nat.     Commr.     and     Asst.     Magistrate,     Gwelo 
District,  C.  T.   Stuart. 

Nat.  Commr.,  Selukwe,  F.  G.  Elliott. 
,,  „  A.  A.   Campbell. 

Asst.   Magistrate,  Insiza,  L.   G.   Robinson. 

Nat.  Commr.,  Belingive  District,  Vacant. 

Asst.    Nat.    Commr.    (Acting   N.C.    and   A.M.), 
T.  M.  Thomas. 

Nat.  Commr.,  Matobo  District,  H.  M.  G.  Jackson. 

Nat.   Commr.  and  Magistrate,  Gtvanda  District, 
J.  P.   L.  de  Smidt. 

Asst.  Nat.   Commr.,  J.  F.  Gordon. 

Nat.    Commr.   and  special  J. P.,  Sebungwe  Dis- 
trict, W.  E.  Farrer. 

Asst.  Nat.  Commr.,  C.  W.  G.  Morris. 

Asst.   Nat.   Commr.    and    special  J. P.,    Wankie 
District,  A.  M.  Dale. 

Asst.    Nat.    Commr.    (Act.)    and    special    J.P., 
H.  F.   Greer. 

Nat.  Commr.,  Fingo  Location,  C.  G.  Fynn. 

Inspectors  of  Native  Compounds. 

Division  1,  F.  G.  Elliott. 
Division  2,  H.  A.  Elliott. 
Division  3  (Acting),  C.   L.  Carbutt. 

Education. 

Director  of  Education,  G.  Duthie.     (Also  Regis- 
trar of  Births  and  Deaths.) 

Stationery  and  Printing  Department. 

Controller,  C.  R.  W.  Farmar. 
Distributor,  H.   Cordner. 

Public  Works  Department. 

Secretary  for  Public  Works,  H.  Ashmead. 
District  Inspector,  H.  B.  Douslin. 
Inspector,  S.  J.   Oliphant. 
Assistant  Inspectors,  T.  N.  Amos. 
„  „  W.  Grant. 

C.  F.  Arnold. 

F.  G.  Manders. 
Inspectors  of  Roads,  C.  W.  Briggs. 

,,  „  J.   C.  J.  Coope. 

Assistant  Inspector  of  Roads,  H.  S.  Meilandt. 
Paymaster,  H.  A.  Harper. 
Chief  Clerk,  C.  G.  Laurie. 
Draughtsman,  P.  G.  R.  Harvey. 


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239 


TREASURER'S  DIVISION. 


Treasurer,  F.  J.  Newton,  C.M.G. 
Assistant  Treasurer,  R.   A.  Harbord. 
Chief  Clerk  and  Bookkeeper,  S.  F.  Morris. 
Clerk  and  Assistant  Bookkeeper,  E.  de  L.  Scully. 

General  Post  Office. 

Postmaster-General,  G.  H.  Eyre. 
Secretary  and  Paymaster,  A.  F.  Emerton. 
Accountant,  D.  Gillespie. 
Chief  Clerk,  A.  E.  HoUoway. 
Postmaster,  Salisbury,  T.  U.   Lapham. 
Postmaster,  Kopje  (Salisbury),  P.  J.  de  Stadler. 
Surveyor  and  District  Engineer,  Bulawayo,  Dan 

Judson. 
Postmaster,  J.  P.   A.  Powell. 
Superintendent  Telegraph  Office,  G.    Roberts. 

Customs. 

Administrative  Section. 

Controller  of  Customs,  E.   C.  Baxter. 
Secretary  and  Accountant,  H.  A.  Cloete. 
Relieving  Officer,  L.  G.  Jones. 

Executive  Section. 

Collector    of    Customs    and    Warehousekeeper, 

Bulawayo,  A.   F.  Emerton. 
Chief  Examining  Officer,  A.  E.    Speight. 
Collector  of  Customs,  Salisbtiry,  L.  L.  Bayne. 
Clerk  and  Asst.  Examining  Officer,  S.  M.  Symons. 


Clerk  and  Asst.  Examining  Officer,  H.  G.  Jones. 
1st  Class  Outdoor  Officer,  J.  U.  Stanton. 
2nd  do..  Temp. -Trooper,  B.S  A.P.,  G.  A.  Allen. 
Officer  in  charge,  Gwelo,  T.  J.  Wadeson. 
Auditor  and  Inspector,  P.  D.  L.  Fynn. 
Chief  Examiner,  A.  G.  Pett. 
Examiner  of  Revenvie,  C.   Short. 
Secretary  for  Mines,  E.  W.  S.  Montagu. 
Mining  Commissioners,  N.  Macglashan. 

G.  J.'  Bowen. 

C.  D.  Fleming. 

O.  H.   Ogilvie. 

A.  A.  I.  Heyman. 

F.  S.  Broun. 
Registrar  of  Claims,  A.  C.  Bagshawe. 
Chief    Clerk,    Mines    Office,    Bulawayo,    H.    P. 

Selmes. 
Chief  Clerk,  Sec.  for  Mines'  Office,  G.  K.  Fleming. 

lerks,  C.  J.  S.  Hopgood,  C.  E.   Slocock. 
Beacon  Inspector  and  Clerk,  G.  H.  James. 

B.  A.  McM.  Helm. 
Clerk,  E.  T.  Boiling. 

Beacon  Inspector  and  Clerk,  H.  U.  Spreckley. 
Surveyor  to  Mines  Department,  C.  H.  Rivers. 

Lands. 

Surveyor- General,  W.  J.  Atherstone. 
Secretary  for  Lands,  F.  W.  Inskipp. 
Acting  Examiner  of  Diagrams,  H.  G.  E.  J.  E; 

Sawerthal. 
Draughtsman,  C.  F.  Gapper. 


ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S  DIVISION. 


Attorney-General,  C.  H.  Tredgold. 
Draughtsman  and  Additional  Law  Officer,  Hon. 

Sir  Thomas  C.  Scanlen,  K. C.M.G. 
Secretary  to  Law  Department,  C.  Bayley. 
Senior  Clerk  and  Legal  Assistant,  R.  Mcllwaine. 

\Solicitor-GeneraV s  Office,  Bulawayo. 
Solicitor-General,  J.  D.  Mackenzie. 
Chief  Clerk,  A.  C.  Kirby. 

High  Court  of  Southern  Rhodes  ta. 
Salisbury. 
Judge,  J.  P.  Watermeyer. 
Assistant  Registrar,  J.  H.  Kennedy. 
Acting    Chief    Clerk    and    Assistant    Registrar, 

w    T    Biddulph. 

Bulawayo. 
Senior  Judge,  J.  Vintcent. 
Assistant  Registrar,  C.  F.  Grainger. 


Registrar  of  Deeds  and  Companies. 

Registrar,  Salisbury,  G.  J.  King. 
Registrar,  Bulawayo,  A.  R.   Tonge. 

District  Courts  and  Offices. 

Civil  Commissioner,  Salisbury,  G.  W.  Farmaner. 
Clerk,  A.  U.  MacDonald. 

„     E.  C.  Sharp. 
Clerk    and    Sub  Distributor    of    Stamps,    P.    D. 

Mybi.u"gh. 
Magistrate,  E.  A.   L.  Brailsford. 
Civil  Commr.,  Bulawayo,  H.  Marshall  Hole. 
Acting  Civil  Commissioner,  W.  H.  L.  Honey. 
Chief  Clerk,  N.  H.   Chataway. 
Magistrate,  LI.  Powys  Jones. 
Assistant  Magistrate,  C.  J.  R.  Gardiner. 
(Acting),  C.  W.  Gary. 
Civil  Commr.  andMagis.,  Umtali,  R.  H.  Myburgh. 
Addl.  Asst.  Magis.,  W.  T.  Laing. 


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Chief  Clerk,  A.  L.  Baker. 

Civil  Commr.  and  Magis.,  Gwelo,  P.  G.  Smith. 

Asst.  Magis.,  G.  J.  Lawlor. 

Chief  Clerk,  F.  J.  Clarke. 

Civil    Cominr.     and     Magis.,     Victoria,     G.    M. 

Huntly. 
Act.  Civil  Commr.  and  Magis.,  E.  J.  Lawlor. 


Civil  Commr.  and  Magistrate,  Melsetter,  W.  M. 

Longden. 
Act.  Civil  Commr.  and  Magistrate,  F.  A.  Yates. 
Civil  Commr.  and  Magis.,  GwoMda,  J.  P.  L.  de 

Smidt. 
Assistant  Magistrate,  Selukwe,  C.  M.   Fletcher. 
Magistrate,  Enkddoorn,  W.  R.  Shand. 


DIVISION  OF  SECRETARY  FOR  AGRICULTURE. 


Sec.  for  Agriculture  and  Acctg.  Onicer,  Sec  for 
Agriculture  and  Registrar  of  Brands,  E. 
Ross  Townsend. 

Assistant  Do.,  W.  H.  Honey. 

Clerk,  A.  E.  Briggs. 

Accountant  and  Paymaster,  J.  Milton. 

Veterinaey  Branch. 
MasJionaland. 
Chief  Veterinary  Surgeon  and  Chief  Inspector 
of  Cattle,  C.  E.  Gray,  M.R.C.V.S. 


Bruce, 
Jarvis. 


Veterinary   Surgeon,    Salisbury,    G.    S. 

M.R.C.V.S. 
Veterinary  Surgeon,     Umtali,     E.     M. 

M.R.C.V.S. 

Mataheland. 
Veterinary  Surgeon,  Bulawayo.,  J.  M.   Sinclair, 

M.R.C.V.S. 
Veterinary  Surgeon,  Bulawayo,  C.  R.  Edmonds, 

M.R.C.V.S. 
Veterinary    Surgeon,    Gwelo,    J.      J.     Gorman, 

M.R.C.V.S.^ 


POLICE  AND  DEFENCE  DIVISION. 


Commandant-General,    Lieut.  Col.    R.   Chester- 
Master. 
Chief  Staff  Officer,  Major  J.  W.  Fuller. 
Principal  Medical  Officer,  A.  M.  Fleming,  C.M.G. 
Commandant,  Lieut.-Col.   W.   Bodle,   C.M.G. 
Chief  Inspectors,  Major  H.  Hopper. 
,,  „  Major  M.  Straker. 

Inspector  Pajinaster,  Capt.  C.  F.  L.  Money. 
Inspector  Quartermaster,  Capt.  T.  S.  Masterman. 
Sub    „  „  Lieut.  R.  H.  Griffith. 

Medical  Officers,  Capt.  A.  J.  Peel. 

Capt.  W.  R.  Fenton. 
„  Capt.  E.  Yeates. 


Constabulary. 
Chief  Inspector,  G.  V.  Drury. 
Inspector  of  Constabulary,  H.  Warr. 
Sub-Inspectors,  J.  W.  Macdougall. 

„  D.  M.  Lewis. 

„  H.  J.  K.  Brereton. 

Sub-Inspector  and  Chief  Detective,  T.  Kyd. 

Accounting  Department. 
Accounting  Officer,  R.  H.  Everett. 
Paymaster,  Bulawayo,  E.  D.  Smith, 
Local  Accountant,  Salisbury,  W.  P.  Moore. 
Inspector,  Audit  Dept.,  S.  V.  Cloete. 
Bookeeper,  A.  C.  J.  Ellis. 


NORTH-EASTERN  RHODESIA. 
H.M.  Commissioner,  Consul-General  and  Commander-in-Chief  for  the  British  Central  Africa 

Protectorate  : 

Sir  Alfred  Sharpe,  C.B.,  K.C.M.G. 

Administrator  of  North-Eastern  Rhodesia  : 

His  Honour  Robert  Codrington. 


Private  Secretary, 

Judge  of  the  High  Court,  His  Honour  Leicester 
P.  Beaufort,  B.C.L. 

Registrar,   C.   H.   Timmler. 

Secretary,  North-Eastern  Rhodesia  Adminis- 
tration,    Richard     Goode. 

Chief  Clerk,  C.  H.  Timmler. 

Chief  Accountant,  W.   H.   Carpenter. 

Accoiinting  Clerk(Transport  and  Supply  Branch), 
H.  C.  Parkin. 

Master   S.S.   Adventure,  J.  Livingstone. 


R.  A.  Osborne. 

Principal  Medical  Officer,  J.  C.  Spillane,  M.B. 

District  Surgeon,  Fort  Jameson,  S.  H.  Morris, 
M.B. 

District  Surgeon,  Mwomhoshi,  D.  A.  Martin, 
M.R.C.S. 

District  Surgeon,  Ahercorn,  J.  G.  Bowen,   B.C. 

Chief  Surveyor  (Department  of  Lands  and  Agri- 
culture), L.  A.  Wallace. 

Second  Surveyor,  O.  L.  Beringer. 


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241 


DISTRICT  AND  DIVISIONAL  ESTABLISHMENTS. 


East  Luangwa  District. 

CO.  and  Magistrate,  Fort  Jameson,  C.  P.  Ches- 

naye. 
Native  Commissioner,  E.  S.  B.  Tagart. 

„  ,,     Nawalia,  W.  P.  Kennelly. 

,,  ,,     Petmike,  J.  C.  Coxhead. 

Assist.   Native   Commr.,   H.    I.   Thornicroft. 

West  Ltjangwa  District. 
Civil  and  Nat.  Commr.,  Serenje,  H.  Croad. 

Kaftje  and  Zumbo  Districts. 
C.C.  and  Magistrate,  Mwomboshi,  P.  H.  Selby. 
Native  Commissioner,  J.  E.  Stephenson. 
„  „     Feira,  C.  C.  Shekleton. 

„     MIcushi,  P.  E.  Hall. 
,,  ,,     Kapopo,  F.  E.  F.  Jones. 

,,  ,,      Sitanda,  V.  B.  Reid. 

North  Ltjangwa  and  Awemba  Districts. 
C.C.  and  Magistrate,  Fife,  C.  McKinnon. 
Native  Commr.,  J.  H.  Forbes. 
Assist.  Native  Commrs.,  R.  S.  McDonald,  and 

J.  H.  W.  Sheane. 
Native   Commr.,   Mirongo,   R.   Young. 
Assist.   Native  Commr.,  Katumhi,  J.   de  Jong. 


Native  Commrs.,  Kasama,  P.   C.   Cookson,  and 

E.  A.  A.  Jones. 
Native  Commr.,  Luena,  G.  M.  E.  Leger. 
Mpika,  F.  H.  Melland. 

Tanganyika  District. 

C.C.  and  Magistrate,  Abercorn,  H.  C.  Marshall. 

Native  Commrs.,  J.  L.  Greer  and  A.  C.  R.  Miller. 

Assist.  Native  Commr.,  Sambu,  A.  C.  Francis. 

Katwe,  J.  G.  Hall. 

MwERu  District. 

Civil  and  Nat.  Commr.,  Kalungwisi,  H.  G.  Willis. 

Assist.  Nat.  Commr.,  Kampanda,  H.  R.  Cox. 
Upper  Luapttla  District. 

Civil  and  Native  Commr.,  G.  E.  P.  Lyons. 
Lower  Luapula  District. 

Civil  and  Native  Commr.,  H.  T.  H.  Harrington. 

Assist.  Native  Commr.,  R.  M.  Green. 

Commandant     (North-Eastern    Rhodesia    Con- 
stabulary),  Capt.   R.   Bright. 

Officer  in  Charge  (Geodetic  Survey),  Dr.  G.  T. 
Rubin. 

Second  in  Charge,  G.  T.  McCaw. 

Assistants,  E.  Stroud,  R.N.R.,  and  P.  Chapman. 

Medical  Officer,  F.  O.  Stoehr,  B.C.H. 


NORTH-WESTERN  RHODESIA. 

Administrator,   1899-1903: 

R.    T.    CORYNDON. 

Acting  Administrators,   1899-190^  : 
Lieut.  Colonel  Colin  Harding,  C.M.G. 

1903  (July) :  H.  Marshall  Hole. 
1904  (April)  :  F.  V.  Worthington. 
Administrator  (1904)  :  R^  T.  Coryndon. 


Secretary,  S.   M.   Lamgan-O' Keeffe. 

Secretary  to    Administrator  for  Native  Affairs, 

F.  V.  Worthington. 
Accountant,  A.  Nell. 
Medical  Officer,  R.  W.  Middleton. 
Magistrate,     H.     Rangeley. 
Commandant     (Barotse     Native     Police),     Col. 

Colin    Harding,    C.M.G. 
Major,  J.  Garden  (seconded  from  B.S.A.P.). 
Captain,  Har  e  Barry  (seconded  from  B.S.A.P.). 
,,         F.  A.  Hodson  (seconded  from  B.S.A.P.). 


Quartermaster  and  Chief  Paymaster,  H.  L.  Byas. 
Sub-Inspectors,  H.  M.  Stennett,  G.  H.  Hamilton, 

J.    W.    Dale    Jameson,    J.    J.    O' Sullivan, 

H.  O.  Worringham. 

Compilers  of  Census  : — 

Mpanza,  W.  Hazell. 
Sejoba,  E.  R.  Miller. 
Churundu,  R.  Tilney. 
Kaounga,  F.:W.  Moseley. 
Cattle  Inspector,  R.  G.  Hardisty. 


DISTRICT  ESTABLISHMENTS. 


District  Commr.,  Barotse  District,  F.  Aitkens. 
Falls  District,  F.  W.  Sykes. 

„  ,.         Batoka  District,  E.  M.  Fowle. 

Assist.  District  Commr.,  C.  R.  Swanson. 

„  „  „         E.  A.  Copeman. 

Assist.  District  Commr.,  A.  G.  P.  Collen. 

,,  ,,  ,,       Sesheke,  W.  F.  Dawson. 


Assist.     District    Commr.,    Kasempa,    Dr. 

Blair  Watson. 
Assist.  District  Commr.,  Kafue  District,  A. 

Anderson. 
Mines  Department,  J.  A.   D.  Hawksley. 
Controller,   Stores   Department,   W.    Elliott. 
Agent  in  Bulawayo,  Lieut.  Griffiths, 


MILITARY    FORCES   IN   AFRICA. 

SOUTH  AFRICAN  COIVmAND. 

High  Commissioneb  for  South  Africa  .      .     Rt.  Hon.  Visct.  Milner,  G.C.B.,  G.C.M.G.,  etc. 

Military  Secretary Maj.  J.  Deane,  C.M.G.,  R.  Highrs. 

Aide-de-Camp Lt.   Lord  H.  C.   Seymour,  G.  Gds.   (extra^ 

CAPE  OF  GOOD  HOPE. 

Governor  and  Comjiander-in- Chief  of  the     Hon.   Sir  W.   F.   Hely- Hutchinson,  G.C.M.G. 
Cape  of  Good  Hope  with  its  Territories 
AND  Dependencies 

JMilitary  Secretary 

Aides-de-Camp Capt.  W.  A.  Gordon,  6  Bn.  Wore.  R. 

Capt.  J.  T.  Lutley,  5  Bn.  Wore.  R.  (extra). 

NATAL  AND  ZULULAND. 

Governor  and  Commander-in-Chief  .      .      .     Brev.  Col.  Sir  H.  E.  McCallum,  K.C.M.G..  hp.,  R. 

Eng.  (Res.  List). 

Aides-de-Camp Capt.  H.  E.  Walter,  Line.  R. 

Capt.  W.  M.  C.  Du  Q.  Caillard,  7  D.  G.  (extra). 

TRANSVAAL  AND  ORANGE  RIVER  COLONY. 

Governor  and  Commander-in-Chief    .      .      .     Rt.  Hon.  Visct.  Milner,  G.C.B.,  G.C.M.G. 

Military  Secretary Maj.  J.  Deane,  C.M.G. 

Aide-de-Camp Lt.  Lord  H.  C.  Seymour,  G.  Gds.  (extra). 

Transvaal. 

Lieutenant-Governor Hon.   Sir  A.   Lawley,   K. C.M.G. 

Aide-de-Camp 

Orange  River  Colony. 

Lieutenant-Governor Sir  H.  J.  Goold-Adams,  K.C.M.G.,  C.B. 

Aides-de-Camp Capt.  R.  W.  Hare,  D.S.O.,  Norf.  R. 

Brev.  Maj.  P.  G.  A.  Cox,  Rif.  Brig,  (extra). 

SOUTH  AFRICAN  IMPERIAL  FORCES. 

Lieutenant- General Sir  H.  J.  T.  Hildyard,  K.C.B. 

Assistant  Military  Secretary      ....     Brev.  Lieut.-Col.  R.  A.  Browne,  Bord.  R. 

Aide-de-Camp Capt  R.  J.  T.  Hildyard,  R.  W.  Kent  R. 

Chief  Staff  Officer Col.  (temp.  Brig.-Gen.)  H.  B.  Jeffreys,  C.B. ,  p.s.c 

Assistant  Adjutant  General         ....     Col.  T.  P.  B.  Teman,  hp.,  C.M.G.,  D.S.O. 
Deputy-Assistant  Adjutant-General     .      .     Brev.  Maj.  E.  W.  Margesson,  Norf.  R. 
Deputy-Assistant-Quartek-Master-General.  Brev.   Maj.   T.   H.    Shoubridge.   D.S.O. ,   North'd. 

Fus. 
Deputy-Assistant  Quarter-Master  General    Brev.  Maj.  R.  H.  Massie,  R.  Art. 
(Intelligence). 


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Officer     Commanding     Royal     Artillery  Brev.  Col.  J.  Hotham  (temp.). 

(Colonel  on  the  Staff). 

Brigade  Major,  Royal  Artillery     .      .      .  Maj.  J.  G.  Potton,  R.A. 

Commanding  Royal  Engineer  (Colonel  on  Col.  W.  Peacocke,  C.M.G.,  p.s.c.   (temp.). 

the  Staff). 

Director      of     Supplies     and     Transport  Col.  G.  P.  Bourcicault. 

(Colonel  on  the  Staff) 

Assistant  Director  of  Supplies         .      .      .  Capt.  G.  F.  Walton,  A.S.C.  (temp.). 

Assistant  Director  of  Transport     .      .      .  Maj.  C.  S.  Dodgson,  A.S.C. 

Principal  Medical  Officer Surg.-Gen.  J.  D.  Edge,  M.D.,  C.B. 

Chief  Ordnance  Officer Brev.    Col.    R.   W.    M.    Jackson,   C.M.G.,   Army 

Ord.  Dept. 

Chief  Paymaster Col.   G.   Dewar,  A.  P.   Dept. 

Principal   Veterinary    Officer,    S.    Africa  Vety.   Lt.-Col.   F.   Smith,  F.P  CV.S.     C.M.G. 

Staff  Officer  to  Principal  Vety.  Officer.  Capt.  F.  Eassie,  A.V.D. 

TRANSVAAL  DISTRICT.  J 

Commanding Col.  (local  Maj. -Gen.)  T.  E.  Stephenson,  C.B. ,  p.s.c. 

Aide-de-Camp G.  W.  Howard,  D.S.O.,  Essex  R,  (temp.). 

Assistant  Adjutant-General         ....  Brev.  Lt.-Col.  B.  R.  Mitford,  D.S.O.,  E.  Surr.  R., 

p.s.c. 

Deputy- Assistant  Quarter-Master-General  Brev.  Maj  C.  E.  Corkran,  G.  Gds. 

Officer  Commanding  Army  Service  Corps    .  Lieut. -Col.  F.  B.  Buist,  A.S.C. 

Chief  Ordnance  Officer Lt.-Col.  R.  H.  B.  Taylor,  A.  Ord.  Dept. 

Pretoria  Sub-District. 
Staff  Captain Capt.  J.  H.  A.  Anneslej%  D.S.O.,  3  D.G. 

MiDDELBUEG    SUB-DlSTRICT- 

CoLONBL  ON  THE  Staff  Col.  (local  Brig. -Gen.)  W.  R.  Kenyon-Slaney 

Staff  Captain Maj.  E.  Layton,  D.S.O.,  W.  York.  R. 

POTCHEFSTROOM    SUB-DlSTRICT. 

Colonel  on  the  Staff         Col.     (local    Brig. -Gen.)    J.    F.    Bum-Muraoch, 

C.B.,  p.s.c. 

Staff  Captain Capt.  C.  Gosling,  K.  R.  Rif.  C. 

Standeeton  Sub-District. 
Staff  Captain Capt.  C.  E.  Higginbotham,  North' n.  R. 

ORANGE  RIVER  COLONY  DISTRICT. 

Brigadier-General Col.   (local  Brig. -Gen.)  R.   G.  Broadwood,   C.B., 

p.s.c,  A.D.C. 
Assistant  Quarter-Master-General  .      .      .     Col.  R.  F.  Lindsell,  C.B. 
Deputy  Assistant  Adjutant-Genfral     .      .     Maj.  C.  Ross,  GIouc.  R. 
Officer  Commanding  Army  Service  Corps  .     Bt.  Col.  P.  J.  T.  Lewis,  C.M.G.,  A.S.  Corps. 

Principal  Medical  Officer 

Chief  Ordnance  Officer Maj.  W.  T.  Davies,  A.  Ord.  Dept. 

Bloemfontein  Sub-District. 

Staff  Captain Capt.  L.  I.  O.  Robins,  Welsh  R. 

Harrismith  and  Natal  Sub-District. 

Colonel  ON  THE  Staff         Col.  (localBrig.-Gen.)  C.  J.  Blomfleld,  C.B.,  D.S.O. 

Staff  Captain Capt.  J.  H.  Hall,  Middlesex  R. 

Commanding  Royal  Engineer       ....  Bt.  Col.  J.  A.  Ferrier,  D.S.O-,  R.  Eng. 

Officer  Commanding  Army  Service  Corps   .  Capt.  G.  E.  Pigott,  D.S.O.,  A.S.C. 

Chief  Ordnance  Officer Maj.  A.  Y.  Barton,  A.  Ord.  D^pt. 

District  Paymaster Capt.  A.  B.  Nolan,  A. P.  Dept. 


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NATAL. 


Colonel  on  the  Staff   

Deputy- Assistant  Adjutant  General 


Deputy- Assistant  Quarter-Master-General 
Commanding  Royal  Engineer  .... 
Officer  Commanding  Army  Service  Corps  . 

Chief  Ordnance  Officer 

District  Paymaster        

Natal  Volunteer  Forces. 

Commandant  of  Volunteers,  Col.  H.  P.  Leader. 

Staff  Officer  and  Controller  of  Axms,  Lt.-Col. 
A.  T.  G.  Wales. 

Asst.  Staff  Officer,  Lt.  S.  R.  Lawrenson. 

District  Adjutants,  Lt.-Col.  H.  T.  Bru-de-Wold, 
C.M.G.,  Lt.-Col.  H.  Lugg,  Maj.  P.  A.  SU- 
burn,  Lt.  W.  E.  C.  Tanner,  Lt.  T.  H.  Blew. 

Ordnance  Officer,  Capt.  F.  J.  Choles. 

Paymaster,   Lieut.  R.   I.   Inman. 

Staff  Officer,  Cadets,  Maj.  W.  H.  A.  Molyneux. 


Col.  (local  Brig.-Gen.)  R.  G.  Broadwood,  C.B.p.s.c. 
Brev.  Lt.  Col.  H.  A.  Coddington,  D.S.O.,  R.  Ir. 

Fus.  (temp.). 
Capt.  J.  H.  Hall,  Midd'x.  R.  (temp.). 
Lt.-Col.  J.  A.  Terrier,  D.S.O.,  R.  Eng. 
Maj.   C.  S.  Dodgson,  A.S.   Corps. 
Brev.  Maj.  A.  Y.  Barton,  R.  M.  Art.,  p.a.c, 
Lt.-Col.  S.  S.  C.  Dolby,  A.  P.  Dept. 

Natal  Defence  Committee. 
The  General  Officer  Commanding,  Natal. 
The     Officer     Commanding     Royal     Artillery, 

Natal. 
The  Chief  Commissioner  of  PoUce. 
The  Commandant  of  Volunteers. 
Lieut.-Col.  H.  T.  Bru-de-Wold,  C.M.G. 
Lieut. -Col.  D.  Taylor,  Natal  Volunteers. 
Thomas  Watt,  M.LA.. 
F.   F.    Churchill,   M.L.A.,  and   a  naval    officer 

nominated  by  the  Admiral  of  the  Station. 


3APE  COLONY. 


Major-General 

Assistant  Military  Secretary  and  Aide-de- 
Camp. 

Aide-de-Camp 

Assistant  Quarter-Master-General 
Deputy-Assistant  Adjutant-General 
Deputy- Assistant-  Quarter  Master-Generals 

CoMJiANDiNG  Royal  Engineer  (Colonel  on 

the  Staff. 
Officer  Commanding  Army  Service  Corps  . 

Principal  Medical  Officer 

Chief  Ordnance  Officer 

District  Paymaster 

Senior  Veterinary  Officer 


E.  S.  Brook,  C.B. 


Col.  C.  F.  N.  Macready,  Gord.  Highrs>. 
Maj.  H.  C.  Sutton,  C.  Gds.  (temp.). 
Capt.  A.  Blair,  D.S.O. 
Capt.  S.  W.  Robinson,  R.  Art.  (temp.). 
Col.  C.  Hoskyns. 

Brev. -Col.   C.  E.   Wyncoll,  A.S.C. 

Col.  J.  C.  Dorman,  M.B.,  C.M.G.,  R.A.M.C. 

Maj.   C.  W.   Tribe,  A.   Ord.   Dot. 

Lt.-Col.  S.  S.  C.  Dolby,  A.P.D. 

Vety.  Maj.  R.  W   Raymond,  A.  Vety.  Dept. 


MrODLEBURG    SUB-DlSTRICT. 


Colonel  on  the  Staff 
Staff  Captain  . 


Col.  T.  E.  Hickman,  C.B.,  D.S.O. 
Capt.  W.  A.  Eaton,  E.  Kent  R. 


SOUTH  AFRICAN  COLONIAL  FORCES. 

Cape  of  Good  Hope  Defence  Department, 

Commandant-General Maj. -Gen.  Sir  E.  Y.  Brabant,  K.C.B.,  C.M.G. 

Senior  Staff  Officer Lieut.-Col.  R.  F.  Cantwell,  C.M.R. 

Staff  Officer  and  A.D.C Capt.  P.  C.  Clowes,  C.M.R. 

Colonial  Military  Secretary      ....  Col.  R.  G.  Southey,  C.B.,  C.M.G. 

Staff  Officers Lieut. B.jW. Bell  and  Lieut. W.J. Bolton, C.M.R. 


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245 


Volunteers. 

Adjutant  Cape  Garrison  Artillery    (Vacant). 
First  Class  Instructors  : 

Grahamstown,  R.  Morris. 

Ivimberlev.  D.  R.  McFarlane. 

Port  EUzabeth,  E.  McCall. 

Queenstown,  F.  J.  Smith. 

Cape  Town,  M.  Mullnis  and  J.  Windrum. 

Beaconsfield,  H.  Wilkins. 

Ordnance  Department. 
King  Williamstown. 
Senior  Ordnance  Officer,  Lt.-Col.  S.  R.  Style. 
Asst.  Com.  of  Ordnance,  Lieut.  W.  Armstrong 
and  Lieut.  W.  E.  Mallett. 

Cape  Toion. 
Ordnance  Officer,  Major  C.  L.  Ricketts. 
Asst.  Com.  of  Ordnance,  Lieut.  T.  Walsh. 

Kimberley. 
Asst.  Com.  of  Ordnance,  Lieut.  H.  G.  Chevens. 

Umtata. 
Asst.  Com.  of  Ordnance,  Lieut.  G.  B.  Morrig. 

Kokstad. 
Asst.  Com.  of  Ordnance,  Lieut.  E.  F.  Nicholson- 

Cape  Mounted  R,iflemen. 

Colonel,  H.  L  Lukin,  C.M.G.,  D.S.O. 

Lieut. -Col.  R.   F.   CantweU. 

Brev.    Lieut.-Col.    (2nd    in    command),    R.''  C. 

Grant,  D.S.O. 
Brev.    Majors,    C.    L.    J.    Goldsworthy,    R.    B. 

Stewart,  W.  P.  Straw  and  J.  F.    Purcell, 

D.S.O. 


Captains,  H.  Carstensen,  E.  A.  Taplin,  R.  N. 
Ciimming,  G.  Curtis,  A.  Cosgrove  and 
J.  E.  G.  Roy,  D.S.O. 

Lieutenants,  J.  M.  Grant,  A.  S.  Boardman, 
E.  J.  Welby,  D.  A.  H.  Bowers,  D.S.O., 
E.  K.  Grant,  N.  H.  M.  Burne,  P.  C.  Clowes 
(local  capt.),  O.  G.  Fox,  M.  Humphery, 
J.  J.  CoUyer  (local  capt.),  B.  C.  Judd, 
C.  R.  Burgess,  C.  F.  Graham,  A.  J.  Taylor, 
C.  O.  Rutherfurd,  G.  H.  Giles,  A.  E.  Lorch, 
A.  J.  Cowlev.  S.  R.  Bomford,  W.  J.  Hunt- 
Grubbe,  P."^P.  Fellowes,  L.  Grey,  M.  H. 
Pike   and   R.    Stopford. 

Adjutant,  Lieut.  E.  J.  Welby. 

Gunnery  Instructor,  Capt.  J.  E.  G.  Roy,  D.S.O. 

Quartermaster,  Capt.  and  Hon.  Major  W.  H.  B. 
Phillips. 

Paymaster,  Hon.  Capt.  H.  H.  Gordon. 

Remoxhstt  Department. 

Hon.  Lieut,  and  Remount  Officer,  P.  Shannon. 
Lieut,  and  Veterinary  Officer,  J.  A.  Worsley. 

Medical  Department,  Cape  Medical  Corps. 

Principal     Med.     Officer,     C.C.F.,     Lieut. -Col. 

G.  B.  Faskally. 
Major,  G.  H.  Knapp. 
Captain,  R.  A.  J.  Asbviry. 
Quartermaster  and  Captain,  H.  Richmond. 
Lieutenant  and  Adjutant,  F.  E.  Bolton. 

Pav  Department. 

Principal   Paymaster   and    Accounting   Officer 

Lieut.-Col.  Adam  Ivitchener. 
Paymaster,  Capt.  H.  H.  Gordon. 
Asst.  Paymaster  and  Accountant,  Lieut.  F.  M. 

Havbittel. 


ST. 


Governor  and  Commander-in-Chief 


Garrison  Adjtjtant 

Officer  Commanding  Royal  Artillery 

Commanding  Royal  Engineer 

Officer  Commanding  Army  Service  Corps 

Senior  Medical  Officer 

Chief  Ordnance  Officer 


HELENA. 

Lt.-Col.  H.  L.  Gallwey,  C.M.G.,  D.S.O.,  Res.  of 

Off.  and  Ret.  pay. 
Lt.  H.  St.  J.  L.  Winterbotham,  R.E. 
Maj.  W.  H.  Robinson,  Royal  Garr.  Art. 
Maj.  G.  H.  Paske,  R.  Eng. 
Qr.-Mast.  C.  W.  Stott,  A.S.  Corps,  hon.  It. 
Maj.  C.  E.  G.  Stalkartt,  M.D.,  R.  A.  Med.  Corps. 
Capt.  H.  G.  F.  S.  Gregson,  E.  Kent  R. 


WEST  AFRICAN  FORCES. 
GAMBIA. 
Governor  and  Commander-in-Chief    ...     Sir  George  Chardin  Denton,  K.C.M.G. 
Aide-de-Camp^1 Capt.  L.  F.  Scott,  Oxf.  L.I. 

GOLD  COAST  COLONY. 

Governor  and  Commander-in-Chief        .      .     J.  P.  Rodger,  C.M.G. 

Aide-de-Camp^..;^,  .      .      .      .      .      .      .     Capt.  T.  C.  Hinks,  Royal  Berks  R. 


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LAGOS  COLONY. 

GOVEENOB  AND  Commander  in  Chief         .      .      Sir  William  MacGregor,   M.D.,  K.C.M.G.,   C.B. 
Aide-de-Camp 


High  Commissioneb 


NIGERIA  (NORTHERN). 

.      .      .      .     Lt.-Col.   (local  Brig.-Gen.)  Sir  F.   J.   D.   Lugard, 
K.C.M.G.,  C.B.,  D.S.O. 


NIGERIA  (SOUTHERN). 
High  Commissioneb W.  Egerton,  C.M.G. 


SIERRA  LEONE. 


GOVEBNOB   AND    CoMMANDEE-IN-ChIEF 


Aide-de-Camp 

Brigadiee-Geneeal 

Deputy-Assistant    Adjutant-General    . 
Deputy-Assistant  Quaetee-Mastee-General 
Officer  Commanding  Royal  Aetilleey 
Commanding  Royal  Engineer        .... 
Officee  Commanding  Aemy  Seevice  Coeps  . 

Senior  Medical  Officee 

Chief  Oednance  Offices 

District  Paymaster        


Sir    Charles    Anthony    King-Harman,    K.C.M.G.» 

Free  Town. 
Lt.  E.  C.  Ogle,  W.I.R. 
Col.  F.  J.  Graves. 
Capt.  F.  L.  Blosse,  W.I.R. 

Maj.  R.  W.  Thompson,  D.S.O.,  N.  Lan.  R.,  p.s.c. 
(Vacant.) 

Capt.  S.  C.  Babington,  R.E. 
Capt.  C.  H.  Lewis,  A.S.  Corps. 
Lt.-Col.  C.  R.  Bartlett,  R.  A.  Med.  Corps. 
Maj.  P.  A.  Bainbridge,  A.  Ord.  D. 
Capt.  J.  C.  Armstrong,  A.  P.  Dept. 


WEST  AFRICAN  FRONTIER  FORCE. 

{Administered  by  the  Colonial  Office.) 
Inspector-General  of  the  West  African  Frontier  Force: — Bt.-Col.  (local  Brig.-Gen.)  G.  V, 

Kemball,  C.B.,  D.S.O. ,  p.s.c. 
Staff  Officers  : — Maj.  E.  Lyon,  D.S.O.,  R.  Art.,  p.s.c.  (Colonial  Office),  and  Capt,  W.  H.  Maud, 
Som.  L.L 


NORTHERN  NIGERIA  REGIMENT, 
Staff. 
{Headquarters — Zungeru). 
Commdant.  in  Northern  Nigeria  : — (Vacant). 

2nd  in  Command,  Northern  Nigeria  : — Bt.  Maj.  A.  H.  Festing,  C.M.G. ,  D.S.O.,  R.  Ir.  Rif, 
Brigade  Major  : — Capt.  P.  M.  Robinson,  R.  W.  Kent  R. 

Brigade  Transport  Officers: — Qr.-Mr.  (hon.  capt.)  D.  Wallbach  ;    Capt.  E.   A.  C.  Wilcox, 
4  Bn.  Ir.  Fus.  ;  Qr.-Mr.  (hon.  It.)  D.   Lees. 

Artillery.  Lieut. -Colonels  Comda.  tins. 


ICapt.  E.  H.  Phillips,  D.S.O.,  R.  Art. 
2Capt.  H.  C.  L.  Cook,  R.  Art. 

Lt.  J.  C.  Dunbar,  R.  Art. 
ILt.  C.  W.  Spinks,  R.  Art. 
ILt.  P.  J.  B.  Heelas,  R.  Art. 

Lt.  H.  J.  A.  Evans,  R.  Art. 

Lt.  C.  F.  S.  Maclaverty,  R.  Art. 

Infantry. 

1st  Bn.  (Inf.)     Zungeru.     2nd  Bn.  (Inf.)  Lokoja. 
3rd  Bn.   (Mtd.  Inf.)  Zaria 
Note. — The  figm'es  preceding  the  names  show 
the  battalion  to  which  the  officers  are  attached. 


IBt.  Maj.  A.  McClintock,  D.S.O.,  Sea.  Highrs. 
3Bt.  Maj.  T.  A.  Cubitt,  D.S.O.,  R.  Art. 

Majors. 

IMaj.  N.  H.  C.  Dickinson,  D.S.O.,  Leins.  R. 
3Bt.  Maj.  .1.  Hasler,  E.  Kent  R. 
3Bt.  Maj.  C.  W.  Barlow,  Essex  R. 
2Capt.  G.  C.  Merrick,  R.  Art. 

Captains. 
2Maj.  A.  Parkin,  North' n.  R. 
3Bt.  Maj.  H.  A.  Porter,  19  Hrs. 
2Ma,j.  W.  FitzG.  Plummer,  5  Bn.  R.  Muns.  Fut. 


Northern  Nigeria  Regiment 


247 


2Capt.  J.  E.  S.  Woodman,  Lan.  Fus. 

SCapt.  R.  H.  Goodwin,  R.  Art. 

3Capt.  A.  D.  Green,  D.S.O.,  Wore.  R. 

ICapt.  E.  E.  Williams,  North'd.  Fus. 

2Capt.   D.   F.   MacCarthy  Morrogh,   3   Bn.,   R. 

Muns.  Fus. 
2Capt.  E.  M.  J.aker,  Manch.  R. 
ICapt.  W.  D.   Sword,  N.  Staff.  R. 
ICapt.  A.  J.  Oigan,  D.S.O.,  Mid.  Ulster  R.G.A. 

Militia. 
2Capt.  F.  F.  W.  Bvng-Hall,  Suff.  R. 
ICapt.  W.  Q.  N.  Hastincrs,  D.S.O.,  Manch.  R. 
ICapt.  E.    J.  H.  Elliot,'  R.  Art. 
2Capt.  F.    jewis,  Leic.  R. 
2Lt.  (local  Capt.)  P.  H.  Short,  Glouc.  R. 
ILt.  (local  Capt.)  S.  B.  B.  Dyer,  D.S.O.,  2  L.G. 
ICapt.  J.  Mackenzie,  V.C,  R.  Scots. 
aCapt.  C.  C.  Maud,  Som.  L.I. 
3Hon.  Capt.  (Army)  D.  H.  Macdonell,  Capt.  City 

of  Lend.  Impl.  Yeo. 

Lieutenants. 

ICapt.  F.  Jenkins,  C.  Gds. 

Capt.  B.  D.  Macculloch,  16  Lrs. 
2Capt.  W.  H.  Browne,  6  Bn.  R.  Fas. 
ICapt.  C.  F.  Gordon,  Cork  R.G.A.  (Mila.). 
2Cap  t.  W.  D.  Deverell,  4  Bn.  R.  Ir.  Rif. 
ICapt.  A.  E.  Gallagher,  9  Bn.  K.  R.  Rif.  C 
2Lt.  R.  O.  F.  Oldman,  Norf.  R. 
3Lt..  C.  von  Essen  Moberly,  11  Hr,?. 
ILt..  L   F.  Renny,  R.  Dub.  Fus. 
2Lt.  H.  C.  Nisbet,  Oxf.  L.I. 
3Lt.  C.  Fane,  D.S.O.,  12  Lrs. 
ILt.  H.  F.  Baillie,  Sea.  Highfs. 
2Lt.  R.  L.  Beaslev,  Glouc.  R. 
3Lt.  F.  H.  Romilly,  Welsh  R. 
2Lt.  O.  H.  D'A.  Steward,  R.  Highrs. 
2Lt.  I.  G.  Sewell,  R.  Fus. 
ILt.  N.  W.  F.  Baynes,  Glouc.  R. 

Lt.  C.  G.  V.  Wellesley,  Line.  R. 
ILt.  W.  S.  W.  Browne,  Liverpool  R. 
3Lt.  F.  H.  Nangle,  R.  W.  Fus. 
3Lt.  T.  C.  R.  Higgins,  R.  Lane.  R. 
ILt.  E.  E.  D.  Henderson,  W.  I.  R. 
2Lt.  C.  T.  Lawrence,  Hamps   R. 
22nd  Lt.  H.  McM.  Pearson,  6  Bn.  R.  Ir.  Rif. 
2Lt.  P.  Z.  Paulson,  Manch.  R. 
2Lt.  A.  L.  Ross,  Lan.  Fus. 
3Lt.  F.  P.  Crozier,  Manch.  R. 
ILt.  H.  M.  Pryce-Jones,  C.  Gds. 
3Lt.  F.  I.  A.  Mackworth,  R.  Art. 
3Lt.  I.  D'E.  Roberts,  R.  Art. 
2Lt.  L.  Galloway,  R.  Art. 
22nd  Lt.  G.  W.  Moran,  Notts  and  Derby  R. 
2Lt.  E.  S.  Graham,  R.  Art. 


2Lt.  E.  J.  Wolseley,  E.  Lan.  R. 
Lt.  C.  L.  Brierley,  Lan.  Fas. 
ILt.  H.  W.  Langworthy,  W.I.R, 
2Lt.  G.  W.  Browne,  R.  Sc.  Fus. 
ILt.  R.  W.  B.  Onslow,  Suff.  R. 
3Lt.  H.  J.  Huddleston,  Dorset  R. 
Lt.  W.  N.  Herbert,  Northd.  Fus. 
Lt.  C.  M.  Leatham,  E.  York  R. 
ILt.  A.  N.  Woods,  R.  Art. 
2Lt.  R.  W.  Fox,  R.  Wor.  R. 
2Lt.  F.  J.  Pye,  6  Bn.  R.  Fus. 
2Lt.  H.  R.  Sparenborg,  R.  Lane.  B. 
3Lt.  F.  E.  Blackwood,  E.  Surr.  R. 
3Lt.  F.  A.  Forster,  R.  Fus. 
2Lt.  W.  H.  Lee,  R.  Art. 

3Lt.  J.  A.  L.  Campbell,  Arg.  and  Suth'd.  Highrfc, 
ILt.  G.  L.  Uniacke,  4  Bn.  R.  Lane.  R. 
Lt.  R.  W.  V.  Bruce,  17  Lrs. 
ILt.  G.  F.  Phillips,  Sco.  Rif. 
3Lt.  C.  L.  Wells,  3  Bn.  Hamps.  R. 
12nd  Lt.  A.  B.  BailHe  Hamilton,  Sea.  Highra 
Lt.  T.  S.  Wickham,  D.S.O.,  Manch.  R. 
ILt.  F.  R.  O'Neill,  4  Bn.  R.  Innis.  Fus. 
3Hon.   Lt.   (Army)  H.   C.  Hall,  2nd  Lt.   Notts 

(Sher.  Rang.)  Impl.  Yeo. 
12nd  Lt.  W.  D.  Barber,  K.  R.  Rif.  C. 
2Lt.  W.  J.  McLay,  R.  Art. 
2Lt.  C.  M.  Smith,  E.  York  R. 
32nd  Lt.  J.  Stuart- Wortley,  Sco.  Rif. 
2Lt.  W.  O.  Croft,  Sco.  Rif. 

Lt.  E.  G.  L.  Thurlow,  Som.  L.I. 
3Lt.  P.  P.  W.  Fendall,  Bord.  R. 
22nd  Lt.  J.  M.  Salmond,  R.  Lane.  R. 
2nd  Lt.  O.  C.  J.  Stevenson-Hamilton,  High.  L.I. 
12nd  Lt.  A.  C.  Miller,  5  Bn.  R.  Fus. 
12nd  Lt.  W.  E.  Murray,  Gord.  Highrs. 
2nd  Lt.  V.  H.  Seeker,  14  Hrs. 
2nd  Lt.  C.  C.  Wigram,  Som.  L.I. 
2nd  Lt.  G.  Farmer,  Oxf.  L.I. 

Adjutants 

2Capt.  T.  A.  Rose,  D.S.O.,  R.  Sc.  Fus. 
ILt.  H.  N.  Kempthorne,  R.  Sc.  Fus. 
3Lt.  A.  C.  MeLachlan,  18  Hrs. 

Quarter  -Masters. 

3Hon.  Capt.  E.  C.  Hides,  Qr.-Mr.  4  Co.  London 

Impl.  Yeo  (hon.  It.  in  Armv). 
3Capt.  G.  Condon,  3  Bn.  Durh.  L.I. 
2Qr.-Mr  (hon.  It.)  G.  C.  Thomas. 
12nd  Lt.  A.  E.  Bosher,  E.  Norf.  R. 
2nd  Lt.  R.  N  Pike,  6  Bn.  Rif.  Brig. 

Veterinary  Officers. 
j  Capt,  F.  U.  Carr,  A.  Vetv.  Dept. 
I  Lt.  H.  C.  Welch,  A.  Vety.  Dept. 


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SOUTHERN  NIGERIA  REGIMENT. 

{Headquarters — Old  Calabar). 


Lt.-Col.  Comdg. 
Bt.  Col.  A.  F.  Montanaro,  R.  Art. 

2nd  in  Command. 
Bt.  Maj.  H.  C.  Moorhouse,  R.  Art. 

Artillery. 
Captains. 
Capt,  G.  T.  Mair,  R.  Art. 

Lieutenants. 
Lt.  R.  P.  Jones,  R.  Art. 
Lt.  A.  J.  Turner,  R.  Art. 
Lt.  H.  A.  Hamilton,  R.  Art. 
Lt.  C.  E.  Vickery,  D.S.O.,  R.  Art. 

Infantry. 
Captains. 
Bt.  Maj.  H.  M.  Trenchard,  R.  Sc.  Fus. 
Capt.  H.  C.  Macdonald,  Arg.  and  Suth'd  Higlirs. 
Capt.  A.  D.  Lewes,  R.  Sc.  Fus. 
Capt.  C.  E.  Heathcote,  Yorks  L.I. 
Capt.  I.  G.  Hogg,  4  Hrs. 
Capt.  E.  de  H.  Smith,  R.  Art. 
Capt.  H.  H.  Sproule,  Ind.  Army. 
Lt.  C.  E.  W.  Carleton,  W.I.R. 
Bt.  Maj.  A.  H.  Macdone,ll  D.S.O.  Canadian  Mila. 

Lietttenants. 
Capt.  C.  W.  WalHs,  Res.  of  Off.  (Capt.  1st  Mon. 
R.G.A.  (Vols.). 


Capt.  G.  N.  Sheffield,  3  Bn.  Essex  R. 

Capt.  W.  H.  Beverley,  3  Bn.  Essex  R. 

Capt.  B.  M.  Byrne,  4  Bn.  Conn.  Rang. 

Lt.  P.  S.  Vassall,  Glouc.  R. 

Lt.  A.  Moore,  D.S.O. ,  R.  Dub.  F  is. 

Lt.  H.  R.  Eliott.  Wore.  R. 

Lt.  J.  Halfpenny,  R.  Innis.  Fus. 

Capt.  J.  Wayling,  Canadian  Mila. 

Lt.  H.  L.  Helme,  N.  Lan.  R. 

Lt.  W.  V.  Hume,  S.  Lan.  R. 

Lt.  H.  A.  Kirkby,  Lan.  Fus. 

Lt.  G.  A.  S.  Williams,  R.  Fus. 

Lt.  R.  D.  Whigham,  Lan.  Fus. 

Lt.  C.  V.  Fox,  S.  Gds. 

Lt.  A.  W.  CoUey,  N.  Lan.  R. 

Lt.  H.  C.  Fox,  R.  Sc.  Fus. 

Lt.  D.  Mathers,  R.  Scots. 

Lt.  L.  H.  D'O.  Moule,  E.  Lan.  R. 

Lt.  N.  C.  Duncan,  Wore.  R. 

Lt.  F.  C.  D.  Burton,  R.  Art. 

2nd  Lt.  J.  F.  Mackay.  V.C,  K.O.  Sco.  Bord. 

Lt.  G.  C.  Corry-Smith,  4  Bn.  Bord  -  P . 

Lt.  A.  Nugent,  E.  York  R. 

Lt.  A.  A.  C.  FitzClarence,  R.  Fus. 

2nd  Lt.  R.  L.  Lloyd,  R.  W.  Fus. 

Adjutant. 
Capt.  W.  J.  S.  Hosley,  Lan.  Fus. 


GOLD  COAST  REGIMENT. 


1st  Battalion — Kumasi. 
Lieut.-Colonels  Commdg. 

IBt.   Lt.-Col.   (local  Lt.-Col.)  P.   S.  Wilkinson, 

Northd.  Fus. 
2Bt.    Lt.-Col    (local    Lt.-Col  )    A.    H.    Morris, 

C.M.G.,  D.S.O.,  R.  Ir.  Regt. 

Majors. 
IMaj.  (local  Maj.)  W.  T.  M.  Reeve,  Leins.  R. 
2Capt.  (local  Maj.  in  Army)  R.  A.  Irviiie,  Done- 
gal R.G.A.  (Mila.). 

Artillery. 
Captains. 
ICapt.  W.  J.  B.  Allen,  R.  Art. 
2Capt.  J.  O'Kinealy,  R.  Art. 

Lieutenants. 
ILt.  C.  E.  G.  Schrottky,  R.  Art. 
ILt.  B.  R.  W.  Beor,  R.  Art. 


2nd  Battalion — Gambaga. 

Infantry — (2  Battalions). 
Captains. 
ICapt.  C.  E.  D.  O.  Rew,  W.I.R 
2Capt.  E.  N.  L.  Breck,  Wore.  R. 
ICapt.  C.  G.  D.  Haslewood,  3  Bn.  E.  Kent  R. 
ICapt.  F.  E.  Bishop,  D.S.O.,  3  Bn.  Bedf.  R. 
ICapt.  E.  H.  Hobart,  9  Bn.  K.  R.  Rif.  C. 
ILt.  G.  A.  F.  Watson,  5  Bn.  R.  Fus. 
2Capt.  A.  P.  Berthon,  R.  Mun.  Fus. 
2Capt.  P.  Lonsdale,  E.  Lan.  R. 
2nd  Lt.  H.  R.  Stirke,  3  Bn.  Liverpool  R. 
ICapt.  L.  E.  O.  Charlton,  D.S.O.,  Lan.  Fus. 
2Capt.  F.  R.  Sedgwick,  R.  Art. 
ILt.  D.  J.  Sweetzer,  North' d  Fus. 
2Capt.  B.  M.  Read,  4  Bn.  Ches.  R. 
ICapt.  J.  F.  Crean,  Canadian  Art. 

Lieutenants. 
2Capt.  H.  W.  R.  Potter,  R.  Ir.  Regt. 


West  African  Forces 


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2Capt.  A.  O.  Luckman,  Thames  Div.  R.E.  (Mila) 
2Capt.  E.  O.  Warden,  4  Bn.  Essex  R. 
ICapt.  H.  de  C.  Denny,  5  Bn.  R.  Innis  Fus. 
2Capt.  H.  T.  C.  Wheeler,  3  Bn.  L'pool  R. 
ICapt.  J.  Craven,  3  Bn.  E.  Lan.  R. 
ICapt.  S.  D.  Nash ,  3  Bn.  R.  Muns.  Fus. 
2Lt,  K.  J  Roy,  Midd'x  R. 
2Lt.  A.  M.  Fleury,  3  Bn.  R.  Ir.  Fus, 
Lt.  W.  G.  Charles,  Essex  R, 
ILt.  F.  M.  Murray,  R.  Art. 
ILt.  G.  M-  Griffith,  R.  Art. 
ILt.  H.  A.  Kortright,  3  Bn.  R.  W.  Fus. 
2Lt.  A.  H.  Hince,  Lan.  Fus. 
ILt.  W.  E.  Gatacre,  Yorks  L.I. 
ILt.  C.  H.  Dinnen,  L'pool  R. 
ILt.  A.  W.  Norris,  R.  Berks  R. 
ILt.  C.  A.  G.  Cunningham,  N.  Staff.  R. 
ICapt.  W.  H.  Gundry,  Canadian  Mila. 
ILt.  T.  W.  C.  Carthew,  North' d  Fus. 


ILt.  E.  V.  Colhns,  R.  Art. 

22nd  Lt.  G.  W.  F.  Wright,  4  Bn.  L'pool  R. 

ILt.  J.  E.  H.  Ford,  R.  Art. 

ILt.  H.  S.  Tarrant,  R.  War.  R. 

2Lt.  B.  H.  W.  Taylor,  R.  Berks  R. 

12nd  Lt.  E.  J.  Gwyther,  4  Bn.  S.  Staff.  R. 

ILt.  J.  T.  H.  Burnside,  Canadian  Mila. 

Lt.  A.  G.  Joiner,  R.  Garr.  R. 

12nd  Lt.  G.  C.  B.  Farrell.  W.  Rid.  R. 

12nd  Lt.  H.  F.  Sproston,  3  Bn.  E.  Lan.  R. 

ILt.  L.  H.  T.  Martin,  3  Bn.  R.  Ir.  Fus. 

22nd  Lt.  G.  A.  E.  Poole,  5  Bn.  Midd'x  R. 

22nd  Lt.  J.  A.  H.  L.  TinHng,  Ches.  R. 

Adjutants. 
22nd  Lt.  J.  Marlow,  4  Bn.  R.  Ir.  Regt.  (and 

Paymaster). 
ILt.  J.  J.  K.  Greenway,  R.  Art. 

Paymaster  and  Quarter -Master. 
ILt.  H.  Read,  Canadian  Mila. 


LAGOS  BATTALION. 

{Headquarters — Lagos ) . 


Major  Gomdg.  Bn. 
Maj.  E.  C.  Tidswell,  D.S.O.,  Lan.  Fus. 

2nd  in  Command. 
Bt.  Maj.  P.  Maclear,  R.  Dub.  Fus. 

Captains. 
Capt.  L.  E.  H.  Humfrey,  R.  Garr.  R. 
Capt.  F.  R.  Ewart,  D.S.O.,  L'pool  R. 
Capt.  A.  W.  Butterworth,  4  Bn.  R.  Lane.  R. 

Lieutenants. 
Capt.  A.  H.  W.  Haywood,  R.  Art. 
Capt.  C.  A.  M.  Lyon-Campbell,  3  Bn.  High.  L.I. 


Lt.  L   O.  W.  Jones,  Essex  R. 

Capt.  W.  D.  Byrne,  5  Bn.  R.  Ir.  Regt 

Lt.  C.  R.  T.  Hopkinson,  Lan.  Fu  . 

Lt.  J.  F.  Oliver,  Manch.  R. 

Lt.  R.  J.  G.  Stoker,  Lan.  Fus. 

Lt.  G.  M.  Barrow,  K.  O.  Sco.  Bord. 

Lt.  M.  H.  Corsellis,  Don.  R.G.A.  (Mila.) 

Lt.  W.  G.  Mansergh,  Manch.  R. 

Lt.  W.  S.  Hern,  Wilts  R. 

Lt.  H.  Y.  Pureell,  6  Bn.  Manch.  R. 

Adjutant. 
Bt.  Maj.  P.  Maclear,  R.  Dub.  Fus. 


SIERRA  LEONE  BATTALION. 


{Headquarters — Freetown) 


Major  Comdg.  Bn. 
Capt.  C.  E.  Palmer,  R.  Art.' 

2nd  in  Command. 

Captains. ' 
Lt.  T.  B.  G.  F.  Eames,  Conn.  Rang. 
Capt.  H.  H.  Bond,  R.  Art. 
Lt.  L.  Murray,  E.  Surr.  R. 
Lt.  C.  C.  Norman,  R.  W.  Fus. 
Lt.  R.  Cockbum,  Suff.  R. 


Captain  Commanding. 
Capt.  C.  F.  O.  Graham,  R.  Mar. 


Lieutenants. 


Capt.  P.  A.  Legge,  Pembroke  R.G.A.  (Mila.) 

2nd  Lt.  A.  Farrar,  3  Bn.  Essex  R. 

Lt.  E.  von  Brockdorff,  R.  Lane.  R. 

2nd  Lt.  A.  H.  P.  Luckhardt,  3  Bn.  Som.  L.I. 

2nd  Lt.  H.  E.  Bailey,  3  Bn.  L'pool  R. 

Lt.  A.  W.  Boddy,  Canadian  Mila. 

2nd  Lt.  R.  M.  B.  Needham,  Suff.  R. 

Lt.  G.  W.  P.  Dawes,  R.  Berks  R. 


GAMBIA  COMPANY. 

Headquarters — Bathurst). 

Lieutenants. 
Lt.  H.  C.  W.  HoskjTis,  Line.  R. 
Lt.  C.  Morley,  Manch.  R. 


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THE  KING'S  AFRICAN  RIFLES. 

{Administered  by  the  Foreign  Office,  with  the  exception  of  the  1st  Battalion,  which  is  about  to  be 

administered  by  the  Colonial  Office.) 

In-spector-General  op  the  King's  African  Rifles  : — Bt.   Lt.-Col.   (local  Brig.-Gen.)  W.  H. 

Manning,  C.B.,  Ind.  Army. 
Staff  Officer: — Capt.  (local  Maj.)  H.  W.  Rattigan,  K.  O.  Sco.  Bord. 


1st  (Central  Africa)  Battalion. 


Comm,andant. 

Capt.  (local  Lt.-Col.)  A.  S.  Cobbe,  V.C,  D.S.O., 
Ind.  Array. 

2nd  in  Com,mand. 

Capt.  (local  Maj.)  G.  M.  P.  Hawthorn,  L'pool  R- 

Compaw    Commanders. 
Lt.  (local  Capt.)  C.  E.  Luard,  D.S.O.,  Norf.  R. 
Capt.  H.  A.  R.  Walker,  R.  Fus.,  Adjt. 
Lt.  (local  Capt.)  C.  McG.  Withers,  Ind.  Army. 
Capt.    (local   Capt.    in   Army)   J.    Rosborough, 

6  Bn.  R.  Ir.  Rif. 
Lt,  (local  Capt.)  J.  W.  Nelson,  North' d  Fus. 
Lt.  (local  Capt.)  J.  P.  L.  Mostvn,  Norf.  R. 
Lt.  (local  Capt.)  C.  R.  K.  Bacon,  R.  W.  Surr.  R. 
Lt.  (local  Capt.)  R.  G.  Stirling,  K.  R.  Rif.  C. 


Subalterns. 


Lt.  R.  H.  Olivier,  D.  of  Corn.  L.I. 

Capt.  C.  H.  Stigand,  R.  W.  Kent  R. 

2nd  Lt.  (local  Lt.)  R.  S.  Hart,  Notts  and  Der.  R. 

Lt.  T).  McLeod,  Cam'n  Highrs. 

Lt.  H.  M.  Craigie  Halkett,'High.  L.T. 

Lt.  R.  P.  Lewis,  Devon  R. 

Adjutant  and  Quarter-Master. 
H.  A.  Walker,  Co.  Comdr. 

Indian  Contingent. 
Staff  Officer. 
Capt.  P.  C.  R.  Barclay,  Ind.  Army. 

Double  Company  Comm,ander. 
Capt.  B.  R.  Graham,  Ind.  Army. 

Quarter-Master. 
Capt.  W.  A.  S.  Walker,  Ind.  Army. 


2nd  (Central  Africa)  Battalion. 


Comm,andant. 


(Vacant). 

2nd  in  Comm,and. 
(Vacant). 

Company  Comm,anders. 
Capt.  R.  E.  L.  Townsend,  Wore.  R. 
Capt.  H.  F.  Byrne,  York  and  Lane.  R. 
Capt.  E.  H.  Llewellyn,  R.  Innis.  Fus.  Adjt. 
Capt.    (local    Capt.    in    Army)    H.    P.    Bennitt, 

Devon  R.G.A.  (Mila.). 
Capt.  H.  H.  Hughes  Hallett,  W.I.R. 
Capt.  R.  H.  Baldwin,  E.  Surr.  R, 
Lt.  (local  Capt.)  J.  O.  Hopkinson,  Sea.  Highrs. 


Subalterns. 

Lt.  M.  G.  Sandeman,  Arg.  and  Suth'd  Highrs. 

Capt.  H.  W.  Stevens,  Manch  R. 

2nd  Lt.  (local  Lt.)  P.  Elwell,  Wore.  R. 

Lt.  C.  W.  Barton,  D.S.O.,  Northn.  R. 

2nd  Lt.  (local  Lt.)  W.  G.  Stonor,  K.  O.  Sco.  Bord. 

Lt.  A.  St.  A.  Molesworth,  Duke  of  Corn.  L.I, 

Capt.  J.  Harington,  Rif.  Brig. 

Capt.  L.  H.  Hickson,  R.  W.  Kent  R. 

Adjutant  and  Quarter-Master. 
Capt.  E.  H.  Llewellyn. 


3rd  (East  Africa)  Battalion, 


Comm,andant. 
Bt.  Maj.  (local  Lt.-Col.)  E.  G.  Harrison, D.S.O., 
W.  Rid.  R. 

2nd  in  Command. 
Capt.J(local  Maj.)  P.  B.  Osborn,  D.S.O.,  Oxf.  L.I 

Majors. 

Capt.  (local  Maj.^  H.  W.  Rattigan.  K.  O.  Sco. 
Bord.  (Staff  Off.  to  Insp.-Gen.). 


Capt.  L.  H.  R.  Pope-Hennessy,  Oxf.  L.T.  (Maj. 
Jubaland). 

Company  Commanders. 
Capt.  G.  R.  Breading,  Wore.  R. 
Capt.  J.  D.  Mackay,  Middx.  R.,  Adjt. 
Capt.  F.  A.  Dickinson,  D.  of  Corn.  L.I. 
Capt.  R.  E.  Salkeld,  Oxf.  L.I. 
Capt.  H.  F.  I^rkpatrick,  E.  Kent  R. 
Lt.  (local  Capt.)  F.  W.  O.  Haycock,  Suff.  R. 
Lt.  (local  Capt.)  W.  E.  H.  Barrett,  Conn.  Rang. 


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Subalterns. 
Lt.  J  L.  O.  Mansergh,  R.  Ir.  Regt. 
Lt.  E.  V.  L.  Wardle,  D.S.O.,  York  R 
Lt.  R.  Meinertzhagen,  R.  Fu9. 
Lt.  W.  Swire,  E.  York  R. 
Lt.  C.  L.  Barlow,  W.  York  R. 
Lt.  J.  K.  T.  Whish,  E.  Siirr.  R. 
Lt.  S.  D.  Brancker,  E.  Surr.  R 
Capt.  H.  C.  Hart,  R.  War.  R. 


Commandant. 

Lt.-Col.  (local  Col.)  A.  H.  Colos.C.M.G.,  D.S.O. 

2nd  in  Command. 

Bt.  Lt.-C!oI.  C.  Delms-Radcliffe,  Coiin.  Rang, 
p.s.c. 

Company  Commanders. 

Maj,  E.  H.  Gorges,  D.S.O.,  Manch  R.  (Co.  Comdr. 
and  Major);  Adjt. 

Capt.  (local  Capt.  in  Army)  J.  A.  Meldon,  4  Bn. 
R.  Dub.  Fus. 

Capt.  C.  E.  H.  Laughlin,  Leins.  R.  (Anglo- 
German  Boundary  Commn.). 

Capt.  G.  M.  N.  Harman,  D.S.O. ,  Rif.  Brig. 
(Anglo-German  Boundary  Coniinn.). 

Capt.  C.  C.  L.  Barlow,  Line.  R. 

Lt.  (local  Capt.)  H.  W.  Fletcher,  E.  Lan.  R. 

Capt.  J.  Hayes-Sadler,  R.  Art. 

Capt.  (local  Capt.  in  Army)  A.  J.  Whittle, 
3  Bn.  L'pool  R. 

Capt.  L.  E.  S.  Ward,  Oxf.  L.L 


Lt.  C.  S.  Sharpe,  York,  and  Lane.  R. 

Lt.  A.  H.  W.  Elias,  Ind.  Army. 

2nd  Lt.  (local  Lt.)  J.  H.  Levenson-Gower,  G.Gds. 

Lt.  Hon.  L.  P.  Cary  (Master  of  Falkland),  G.  Gds. 

Adjutant  and  Quarter-Master. 
Capt.   J.   D.   Mackay. 

Officer  Commanding  Juhaland  Camel  Corps* 
Capt.  J.  A.  Hannyngton,  Ind.  Army. 
4th  (Uganda)  Battalion. 

Subalterns. 
Lt.  H.  A.  Wilson,  Conn.  Rang. 
Lt.  C.  R.  Hall,  R.  Muns.  Fus. 
Lt;  E.  V.  Jenkins,  D.S.O.,  W.  Rid.  R. 
Lt.  N.  E.  Willoughby,  E.  Surr.  R. 
Lt.  F.  J.  E.  Archer,  Norf.  R. 
Lt.  A.  W.  Jennings  Bramly,  20  Hrs. 
Lt.  E.  E.  S.  Bennett,  Ind.  Army. 
Lt.  R.  G.  B.  M.  Hyslop,  Dorset  P 
Lt.  F.  James- Wallace,  W.  York  R. 
Capt.  A.  H.  C.  MacGregor,  R.  Ir.  Fus. 
Capt.  H.  M.  Tufnell,  3  Bn.  Essex  R. 
Lt.  (local  Lt.  in  Aimy)  P.  Garrard,  4  V.B.  R.  W, 

Surr.  R. 
Lt.  S.  W.  H.  Rawlins,  R.  Art. 
Lt.  (local  Lt.  in  Army)  H.  S.  Burrough,  4  Bn. 

Shrops.  L.I. 
Capt.  E.  M.  G.  McFerran,  4  Bn.  R.  Ir.  Rif. 

Adjutant  and  Intelligence  Offr. 
Maj.  E.  H.  Gorges,  D.S.O. 

Qr.-Mr.,  Commt.  and  Transpt.  Offr. 
Qr.-Mr.  (hon.  It.)  Greenwood. 


5th  (Uganda)  (Indian)  Battalion. 


Commandant. 
Capb.  (local  Maj.)  M.  L.  Hornby,  D.S.O.,  Ind. 
Army  (temp.  Comdt.  2  Bn.). 
Captains 
Capt.  R.  L.  Camegy,  Ind.  Army. 
Capt.  W.  H.  Nicolson,  Ind.  Army,  Adjt. 

6th  (S0MALIT.AND)  Battalion 
Cominandant.  i 

Capt.  (loca   Maj.)  A.  G.  G.  Sharp,  Leins.  R. 

Company  Commanders. 
Lt.  (local  Capt.)  A.  C.  H.  Dixon,  W.I.R. 
Capt.  H.  du  B.  O'Neill,  Bedf.  R! 
Capt.  T.  N.  S.  M.  Howard,  W.  York  R.,  Adjt 
Lt.  (local  Capt.)  L.  C.  Morley,  Hamj^s.  R. 


Lieutenant. 
Lt.  N.  Macleod,  Ind.  Army. 

Adjutant  and  Quarter-Master. 
Capt.  W.  H.  Nicolson. 

Medical  Officer. 
Capt.  H.  Price,  M.B.,  Ind.  Med.  Serv. 


Subalterns. 
Capt.  T.  G.  Salmon,  3  Bn.  W.  York  P 
Capt.  L.  W.  D.  Everett,  Welsh  R. 
Lt.  J.  W.  C.  Kirk,  D.  of  Com.  L.L 
Lt.  R.  A.  McClymont,  R.  Art. 

Adjutant  and  Quarter-Master. 
T.  N.  S.  M.  Howard,  Co.  Comdr. 

BRITISH   CENTRAL    AFRICA    PROTECTORATE) 
CoMiaissiONBR         Commandeb-in-Chief      AND     Sir  Alfred  Sharpe,   K.C.M.G.,   C.B. 
Consul-General 

EAST  AFRICA  PROTECTORATE. 
Commissioner,       Commander-in-Chief      and     Sir  Donald  William  Stewart,  K.C.M.G. 
Consul  General 


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Anglo-African  Who's  Who 


UGANDA  PROTECTORATE. 
Commissioner,       Commandek-inChief      and     Lt.-Col.  James  Hayes  Sadler,  C.B. 

CONStTL-GENEKAL 

SOMALI  COAST  PROTECTORATE. 
Commissioner,       Commandeb-in-Chief      and     Brev.  Lt.-Col.  Eric  John  Eagles  Swayne,  I.  Army 

C0NSIIL-GE2SrERAL 

SOMALILAND  FIELD  FORCE. 

Commanding  the  Force Maj.-Gen.  Sir  C.  C.  Egerton,  K.C.B.,  D.S.O.,  In.  A. 

Aides-de-Camp Capt.  R.  G.  Mvinn,  Ind.  Army. 

Lt.  J.  B.  Egerton,  Ind.  Army. 


Chief  Staff  Officer 

Deputy-Assistant  Adjutant-General 


Maj.  H.  E.  Stanton,  D.S.O.,  R.  Art. 

Maj.    C.    L.   R.    Petrie,   D.S.O.,   Manch.   R.    (Co. 

Comdr.  4  Bn.  King's  Afr.  Rif.). 
Lt.-Col.  G.  T.  Forestier  Walker,  R.  Art.,  p.s.c. 


Assistant     Quarter-Master-Genebal     (for 

Intell.  ) 
Deputy- Assistant  Quarter-Master-General 

(for  Intell.) 
Staff  Captain  (for  Intell.) Capt.  R.  W.  C.  Blair,  Ind.  Army, 


Maj.  E.  M.  Woodward,  Leic.  R.,  p.s.c. 


Deputy- Assistant  Quarter-Masteb-General 
Deputy  -  Assistant       Adjutant  -  Generals 

(Lines  of  Communication) 
Base  Commandants 


Director  of  Supplies  and  Transport 
Assistant  Director  of  Supplies  . 
Transport  Officers        .... 

Commanding  Royal  Engineer 
Principal  Medical  Officer 


Maj.  C.  O.  Swanston,  D.S.O.,  Ind.  Army. 
Lt.-Col.  R.  G.  Brooke,  D.S.O.,  7  Hrs.,  p.s.c. 
Capt.  J.  H.  W.  Pollard,  R.  Sc.  Fus.,  p.s.c. 
Lt.-Col.  J.  C.  Swann,  C.B.,  Ind.  Army. 
Maj.   M.   L.   Hornby,  D.S.O.,  Ind.  Army  (Comdt 

5Bn.  King's  Afr.  Rif.). 
Col.  W.  R.  Yeilding,  CLE.,  D.S.O.,  Ind.  Army. 
Major  H.  de  B.  Codrington,  Ind.  Army. 
Brev.  Maj.  C.  R.  Ballard,  Norf.  R.,  p.s.c. 
Capt.  E.  B.  Macnaghten,  R.  Art. 
Maj.  R.  F.  Allen,  R.  Eng. 

Lt.-Col.    J.    F.    Williamson,   M.B.,    C.B.,  C.M.G., 
R.A.  Med.  Corps. 

Chief  Ordnance  Officer Maj.  P.  A.  Bainbridge,  R.  Art.,  p.a.c.,  Berbera. 

1st  Brigade. 

Commanding Brev.  Lt.-Col.  (local Brig. -Gen.)  Sir  W.  H.  Manning, 

K.C.M.G.,  C.B.,  Ind.  Army,  Insp.-Gen.  King's 
Afr.  Rif. 

Aide-de-Camp Lt.  H.  W.  Peebles,  Res.  of  Off. 

Deputy- Assistant  Adjutant-General     .      .     Capt.  J.  H.  Lloyd,  Ind.  Army. 

2nd  Brigade. 

Commanding 

Deputy-Assistant  Adjutant-General    .      .     Capt.  P.  C.  Eliott-Lockhart,  D.S.O.,  Ind.  Army. 

Special  Service  Officers. 


Brev.  Col.  A.  N.  Rochfort,  C.B.,  C.M.G. 

Lt.-Col.  P.  A.  Kenna,  V.C,  D.S.O.,  21  Lrs. 

Brev.  Maj.  J.  E.  Gough,  Rif.  Brig. 

Brev.  Maj.  G.  T.  M.  Bridges,  R.  Art. 

Brev.  Maj.  A.  W.  S.  Ewing,  N.  Staff.  R. 

Capt.  (local  Maj.)  R.  P.  Cobbold,  Res.  of  Off. 

Maj.  Hon.  J.  G.  H.  H.  Beresford,  7  Hrs. 

Capt.  W.  H.  Armstrong,  E.  York  R. 

Capt.  H.  P.  Lane,  Ind.  Armv- 

Capt.  C.  H.  M.  Doughty,  R.  V.  Fus. 

Capt.  C.  V.  N.  Lyne,  Ind.  Army. 

Capt.  A.  E.  Barnard,  Ind.  Army. 

Capt.  D.  J.  Glasfurd,  Arg.  and  Suth'd  Highrs. 

Capt.  C.  B.  L.  Clery,  Ind.  Army. 

Capt.  H.  Maclear,  E.  Lan.  R. 


Capt.  W.  F.  B.  R.  Dugmore,  D.S.O.,  N.  Staff.  R. 

Capt.  S.  R.  Davidson,  Ind.  Army. 

Capt.  F.  D.  Farquhar,  D.S.O.,  C.  Gds. 

Capt.  D.  G.  Bryce,  Ind.  Army. 

Capt.  G.  W.  G.  Lindesay.  Ind.  Army. 

Capt.  H.  W.  B.  Thorp,  York.  L.I. 

Capt.  G.  Knowles,  D.S.O.,  Ind.  Army. 

Capt.  Hon.  T.  Lister,  D.S.O.,  10  Hrs. 

Lt.  J.  A.  Longridge,  Ind.  Army. 

Lt.  R.  W.  M.  Stevens,  R.  Ir.  Rif. 

Lt.  H.  H.  Sver,  Ind.  Army. 

Lt.  G.  H.  Walford,  Suff.  R. 

Lt.  J.  A.  Ballard.  R.  Art. 

Lt.  C.  L.  Smith,  D.  of  Cum.  L.I. 

Lt.  A.  E.  H.  Breslin,  4  Hrs. 


Egyptian  Army  253 


EGYPTIAN  ARMY. 

Headquabters  Staitt. 

SiEDAB Maj.-Gen.  Sir  F.  R.  Wingate,  K.C.B.,  K.C.M.G. 

D.S.O.,  R.  Art. 

Aide-i>e-Camp Capt.  E.  J.  F.  Vaughan,  Manchester  R. 

Private  Secretary Maj.  P.  R.  Phipps,  Dorset  R.,  p.s.c. 

Assistant  Private  Secretary Capt.  C  E.  C.  G.  Charlton,  Royal  Art. 

Adjutant-General Brev.  Col.  St.  G.  C.  Henry,  C.B. 

Assistant  Adjutant-Generals       ....     Maj.  (local  Lt.-Col.)  J.  K.  Watson,  C.M.G.,  D.S.O., 

K.  R.  Rif.  C. 
Maj.    H.    D.    Palmer,    R.M. 
Capt.  E.  S.  Herbert,  R.  Highrs. 
Deitjt 2 -Assistant  Adjutant-Generals   .      .     Capt.  A.  R.  Lempriere,  Lancashire  Fua. 

Capt.  G.  F.  Clayton,  R.A. 

Director  of  Supplies Maj.  (local  Lt.  Col.)  C.  E.  G.  Blunt. 

Director  op  Works Capt.  M.  R.  Kennedy,  D.S.O.,  R.E. 

Director  of  Stores         .      Qr. -Mr.  (hon.  Capt.)  G.W.  Anderson,  Sea.  Highlrs. 

Financial  Secretary Brev.  Maj.  (local  Lieut.-Col.)  J.  J.  Asser. 

Principal  Medical  Officer Maj.  (local  Lt.-Col.)  R.  H.  Penton,  D.S.O.,  R.  A. 

Med.  Corps. 
Principal  Veterinary  Surgeon    ....     Vety.  Maj.   (local  Vety.  Lt.-Col.)  G.  R.  Griffith, 

D.S.O. 

EGYPTIAN  FORCES. 

Major-General Maj. -Gen.  J.  R.  Slr.de,  C.B.,  R.  Art. 

Aide-de-Camp  Lt.  R.  B.  Brassey,  17  Lrs.  vprov.). 

Chief  Staff  Officer  (graded  as  Assistant  Col.  G.  M.  Bullock,  C.B.,  p.s.c. 

Adjutant-General). 

Deputy-Assistant  Quarter-Master-Genebal  Maj.  A.  H.  C.  Kenney-Herbert,  North'n.  F. 

Staff  Captain Capt.  T.  E.  Bayley,  20  Hussars. 

Officer  Commanding  Royal  Artillery        .  Brev.  Lt.-Col.  G.  F.  W.  St.  John,  R.  Garr.  Art. 

Commanding  Royal  Engineer        ....  Brev.  Col.  L.  B.  Friend,  R.E. 

Officer  Commanding  Army  Service  Corps.  Lt.-Col.  C.  Rawnsley,  D.S.O. ,  A.S.  Corps. 

Principal  Medical  Officer      .....  Col.  W.  A.  May,  C.B.,  R.  A.  Med.  Corps. 

Chief  Ordnance  Officer .Lt.  Col.  G.  R.  Atkinson,  A.  Ord.  Dept. 

District  Paymaster         Col.  T.  S.  Coppinger,  A.  P.  Dept. 

Senior  Veterinary  Surgeon Vety.  Maj.  E.  J.  Lawson. 

GARRISON  OF  ALEXANDRIA. 

Colonel  on  THE  Staff  Col.  (local  Brig.  Gen.)  R.  H.  Murray,  C-B.,  CM.G. 

Deputy-Assistant  Adjutant-General     .      .     Maj.  E.  R.  O.  Ludlow,  A.S.C.,  p.s.c. 

Chief  Ordnance  Officer Maj.  A.  Mackenzie  Pendrill,  N.  Staff.  R- 

1st  Class  Military  Districts. 

Berber         Brev.  Maj.  Sir  H.  B.  Hill,  Bart.  R.  Irish  Fas. 

Cairo Brev.   Maj.   (local  Lt.-Col.)  H.  G.   K.  Matchett, 

Conn.  Rang. 

Dongola Brev.  Col.  H.  W.  Jackson,  C.B. 

Kassala Brev.  Maj.  (local  Lt.-Col.)  E.  B.Wilkinson.  Lin.  R. 

Sennar         Brev.  Lt.-C'>l.  G.  F.  Gorringe,  C.M.G.,  D.S.O. 

Khartoum         Brev.  Col.  St.  G.  C.  Henry,  C.B. 

Bahb-el-Ghazal Maj.  W.  A.  Boulnois,  R.A. 

KoRDOFAN  Capt.  (local  Maj.)  J.  R.  O'Connell,  Shrops.  L.I. 

'2kd  Class  Military  Districts. 

SuAKiN  Brev.  Maj.  F.  J.  L.  Howard,  A.S.C. 

Halfa Brev.  Maj.  (local  Lt.-Col.)  G.  B.  Macauley.R.Eng 


254  Anglo-African  Who's  Who 

OrncEB  COMMANDING  CAVA.B.  ....  JJ^^^  Jj^^  .^^--^^^^  J^"  ^eakeT  M  G^'^^^ 
Officer  Commanding  Artilleby  ....  Maj  (local  Lt  -Col  )  M.  Peake,  C.M.U.,  «• 
Officer  Commanding  Camei,  Corps     .      .      .     Capt.  ^  J.  Hawker   Cold   Gds.  j^^^.i^.tt. 

Commandant  Military  School       ....     BrevMaj.   (local  Lt.-Col.)  ±i.   u.   iv. 

Conn.  Rang. 

Sudan  Administration. 

Mai  -Gen    Sir  F.  R.  Wingate,  K.C.B.,  K.C.M.G. 
Governor-General DSO    R.  Art. 

•^                c                  .  Mai    P    R.  Phipps,  Dorset  R.,  p.s.c. 

Private  Secretary ^^^h  ^-  -^  ^'  vv  '  ,      ,  t^  ^ 

Assistant  Private  Secretary Sf  ^^'i^^f  F "  S;if  A  S    Coif 

ASSISTANT  Secretary p  ^^;  ^r  ^  r    r    Owef  OxW  ^ 

Deruty-Assxstant  SECRETARIES       ....  g^^  1  ^  ?arSerR.  S^sex  R. 

Director    of    Intelligence    and    Agent-  Brev.  Lt.-Col.  Lord  E.H.  Cecil,  D.S.O.,  Gren.  Gds. 

FiNA?cr^%...p^^ ^^^^i^;^:t%^-^^- 

SSSr  S  giXrYS  :      ::::::     Brev:fMlocalLt.-Col.)aB.Macauley,R.Eng. 

srR^LEro^FTTORr."^:^^.^^.^^  ;  ;  t?^.'i^t'^:-^^^^^^^ 

A.  S.  Corps. 

Inspector  OF  Prisons Capt.  N.  T.  Borton,  R.  War.  R. 

Governors  of  Provinces  (1st  Class). 
R^„^^^  .      .     Brev.  Maj.  Sir  H.  B.  Hill,  Bart. 

^^™, .      Brev.  Col.  H.  W.  Jackson,  C.B. 

^r^'^^ft^t .     Brev.  Maj.  (local  Lt.-Col.)  E.  B.  Wilkinson 

KhIrtoum'      •■;:::..     Brev.Ma.(localLt.-Col.)E.A.Stanton,OxfL.i. 
i™^  ....  _      g^^^    Lt.-Col.  G.  F.  Gorringe,  C.M.G.,  D.S.O. 

ITd^fan    •      ::::::....      Capt.(localMaj.)J.R.O'Connell. 

Sf.RFiGHlzT'' '.      *      MaTw    A.  Boulnois,  R.A. 

Bahr-el-LtHAZAL :^'^"J    ^    ^   ,,   , ,,  T>  Ti/r 

Upper  Nile Maj.  G.  E   Matthews,  R-M- 

GOVERNORS    OF    PROVINCES    (2nD    ClASS). 

Q,,,^TXT  ....      Brevt.  Maj.  F.  J.  L.  Howard,  A.S.G 

nlLFr    .■.*.'.'.".!'...••      Capt.  W.  Hayes-Sadler,  R.  Sc.  Fus. 

MILITARY  RANKS. 

Sirdar Commander-in-Chief. 

El-Lewa  (carrying  title  of  "Pasha").      .      .  Major-General. 

El  Miralai,  carrying  title  of  "  Bey").      .      .  Colonel. 

El  Kaimakan       „  „  „        .      .      .  Lieutenant-Colonel. 

El  Bimbashi ^^^j°^-. 

El  Yusbashi Captam. 

El  MtJLAZiM Lieutenant. 

El  Mxjlazim  Jani 2nd  Lieutenant. 


SPECIAL    ARTICLES 


SOME    PROMINENT    ANGLO-AFRICANS 
AND    THEIR    ACHIEVEMENTS. 


In  the  biographical  section  of  this  book  we  have  referred,  in  some  cases  at  considerable 
length,  to  undertakings  with  which  the  subjects  of  our  sketches  have  been  identified. 
But  a  difficulty  has  constantly  confronted  us,  inasmuch  as  in  a  large  majority  of  cases 
it  would  be  exceedingly  invidious  to  ascribe  the  success  (or  failure)  of  a  particular 
enterprise  to  any  one  individual,  and,  in  the  lines  devoted  to  his  career,  to  credit  him 
with  achievements  in  which  he  has  been  equally  aided  by  other  members  of  his  own, 
or  temporarily  alHed,  groups.  In  South  Africa  especially  there  are  few  cases  where 
one  strong  man  stands  out  pre-eminently  above  his  confreres,  and  who  might  with 
justice  say  "  Alone  I  did  it."  Mr.  J.  B.  Robinson  in  the  Transvaal,  Mr.  Robert 
Wilhams  in  Northern  Zambesia,  and  Sir  Alfred  Jones  in  West  Africa,  are  instances 
of  the  latter  which  immediately  occur  to  one.  But  in  the  vast  majority  of  cases  it  is 
more  suitable  to  deal  with  South  African  enterprises  as  the  joint  achievements  of 
numerous  workers,  combining  their  forces  for  a  common  end,  be  that  end  the  develop- 
ment o^  industries  or  the  expansion  of  an  Empire. 

THE  BRITISH  SOUTH  AFRICA  COMPANY. 

The  sub-Continent  is  particularly  indebted  to  joint-stock  enterprise.  Even 
Rhodesia,  a  country  larger  in  area  than  France,  Germany,  Austria  and  Italy  com- 
bined, is  administered  under  what  is  for  all  intents  and  purposes  the  Joint  Stock  Com- 
panies Acts.  At  a  time  when  more  than  one  European  Power  was  anxious  to  establish 
itself  in  Africa,  the  British  Imperial  Parliament  could  not  undertake  the  vast  responsi- 
bilities involved  in  the  acquisition  of  such  an  extensive  territory  as  that  which  has 
for  years  borne  the  name  of  Rhodesia  ;  and  had  it  not  been  for  the  foresight  and 
patriotic  enterprise  of  Mr.  Cecil  Rhodes  and  his  associates  in  the  formation  of  the 
Chartered  Company,  Matabeleland  and  Mashonaland  would  probably  have  fallen 
to  either  one  of  these  Powers,  or  would  have  become  part  of  the  South  African 
Republic.  Early  in  1888  Lobengula  entered  into  a  Treaty  with  Great  Britain  ;  and 
Messrs.  C.  B.  Rudd,  Rochfort  Maguire  and  F.  R.  Thompson  went  to  Matabeleland 
to  obtain  concessions,  with  a  view  to  the  formation  of  the  Chartered  Company.  The 
Rudd  Concession  was  obtained  from  Lobengula  in  October,  1888,  and  the  Royal 
Charter  was  granted  just  a  year  later. 

The  Company  having  decided,  on  the  advice  of  Lobengula,  to  open  up  Mashona- 

257  S 


258  Anglo-African  Who's  Who 

land  first,  organized  a  pioneer  expedition  under  Major  Frank  Johnson  (June,  1890), 
consisting  of  about  200  Europeans  and  150  native  labourers.  The  aim  of  the  expe- 
dition was  to  cut  a  road  400  miles  long  from  Macloutsie,  passing  through  the  south 
of  Matabeleland  and  terminating  at  Mount  Hampden,  in  Mashonaland.  This  was 
duly  accomplished,  and  having  founded  Fort  Sahsbury  at  a  spot  twelve  miles  south- 
east of  Mount  Hampden  (September  12,  1890),  the  column  was  disbanded,  and 
immediately  set  to  work  prospecting  and  occupjdng  the  country. 

Much  was  done  by  the  Company  in  the  next  four  years  to  develop  the  country, 
Mr.  A.  Colquhoun  assumed  the  administration  of  Mashonaland  in  October,  1890, 
there  being  then  about  1,000  white  men  in  the  country.  Mining  Commissioners  were 
appointed,  townships  laid  out,  roads  constructed  to  different  parts,  a  postal  system 
inaugurated  and  measures  taken  generally  for  the  settlement  of  the  country.  Mr. 
Colquhoun  was  succeeded  by  Dr.  L.  S.  Jameson,  who  was  appointed  Chief  Magistrate 
in  September,  1891.  For  the  protection  of  the  community  forts  were  built  at  Tuli, 
Victoria,  Charter  and  Sahsbury,  and  a  military  police  force  was  enrolled.  The 
strength  of  the  force  in  1891  reached  650,  but  was  reduced  as  soon  as  possible  to  140 
whites  and  15  native  police,  and  a  volunteer  force  ("  Mashonaland  Horse  ")  500  strong, 
raised  locally  by  Major  Forbes,  took  its  place  ;  the  remainder  of  the  settlers  forming 
a  burgher  force  in  case  of  need.  The  Chartered  Company  arranged  for  the  extension 
northwards  of  the  Gape  telegraph  and  railway  from  Mafeking,  and  the  surveys  for  the 
Beira  Railway,  connecting  Mashonaland  with  the  East  Coast,  were  begun  in  1891. 
A  commission  of  prominent  South  African  farmers  came  up  in  1891  to  look  into  the 
agricultural  prospects  of  the  country,  and  gave  a  most  satisfactory  report,  resulting 
in  the  organization  of  the  "  Moodie  trek  "  of  farmers  with  their  families,  which  left 
the  Orange  Free  State  in  May,  1892,  and  founded  the  settlement  of  Melsetter,  in  Gaza- 
land,  early  in  1893. 

In  1890  and  1891  a  number  of  Boers  from  the  Transvaal  attempted  to  enter  the 
south-east  portion  of  Matabeleland  and  occupy  it  by  force.  This  invasion  was  averted 
by  the  firm  attitude  of  the  Company  {see  Pres.  Kruger,  p.  97).  Boer  farmers  were, 
however,  invited  to  come  in  and  settle  peacefully  in  the  country  ;  they  now  form  the 
majority  in  the  districts  of  Charter  and  Melsetter,  and  assisted  the  Company  loyally 
during  the  native  troubles. 

The  same  year  the  Company  found  themselves  somewhat  embarrassed  by  the 
action  of  Mr.  Edward  Lippert,  a  Transvaal  financier  and  banker,  who  obtained  from 
Lobengula  a  concession  to  grant  titles  to  land  in  the  Company's  field  of  operations.  As 
the  Rudd  Concession  did  not  formally  provide  for  more  than  mining  rights,  it  was 
decided  to  come  to  terms  with  Mr.  Lippert  and  to  take  over  his  concession.  This 
was  accordingly  arranged,  and  the  matter  received  the  consent  of  Her  late  Majesty's 
Secretary  of  State,  in  March,  1892.  Other  concessions  from  numerous  chiefs  were 
secured  soon  after  the  entrance  of  the  pioneers  to  the  country,  the  most  important 
being  those  from  Umtassa  (Manicaland),  Lewanika  (Barotseland),  and  Gungunhana 
(Gazaland).  In  cormexion  with  certain  of  these  concessions  some  friction  arose  with 
the  Portuguese,  resulting  in  the  temporary  occupation  of  Massikessi  by  the  Rhode- 
sians,  A  modus  vivendi  was,  however,  arrived  at,  and  the  most  cordial  relations  have 
since  prevailed. 


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THE  FIRST  MATABELE  WAR. 

The  year  1893  was  a  most  eventful  one  for  the  pioneer  community.  The  Bechu- 
analand  Railway  Company  had  been  formed  and  work  started  on  the  Vryburg-Bula- 
wayo  extension ;  the  first  section  of  the  Beira  Railway  had  been  opened,  a  good  road 
made  from  Sahsbury  to  the  railhead,  and  a  telegraph  line  constructed  from  Mafeking 
to  Salisbury.  A  period  of  steady  progress  was  anticipated.  Unfortunately,  war 
•with,  the  Matabele  was  forced  on  the  Company  by  the  action  of  Lobengula.  The 
duties  of  maintaining  peace  and  order  imposed  on  them  by  the  Charter  were  made 
most  difficult  by  the  existence  of  the  Matabele  military  system,  under  which  the 
Mashonas  were  periodically  raided,  their  cattle  looted,  and  men,  women  and  children 
carried  into  slavery,  thus  reducing  the  Mashona  tribes  to  an  abject  and  impoverished 
condition. 

The  Company  prepared  for  war,  informing  the  High  Commissioner  that  they 
did  not  wish  to  ask  the  assistance  of  Her  Majesty's  Government  in  deahng  with  the 
trouble  which  had  arisen.  Repeated  attempts  at  negotiation  with  Lobengula  proved 
fruitless,  and  the  Company's  police  having  been  fired  upon  near  Victoria,  Dr.  Jameson 
was  authorized  by  the  High  Commissioner  to  proceed  as  he  thought  best.  On  October  5 
the  Matabele  fired  on  a  party  of  Bechuanaland  Border  Police,  an  Imperial  force  patrol- 
ling British  territory.  The  High  Commissioner  immediately  ordered  Col.  Goold- 
Adams  to  occupy  Tati  with  a  force  of  Bechuanaland  Border  Police  and  to  affect  a 
junction  with  the  Company's  column  at  Tuli,  which  was  about  to  proceed  northwards. 
The  main  body  of  the  Company's  forces,  consisting  of  police,  settlers  and  native  allies, 
under  the  command  of  Maj.  P.  W.  Forbes,  accompanied  by  Dr.  Jameson,  entered 
Matabeleland  early  in  October,  1893,  being  joined  there  by  Mr.  Rhodes,  who  had 
hurried  up  from  the  South.  Decisive  engagements  occurred  at  the  Shangani  River 
(October  24)  and  the  Bembesi  River  (November  1),  in  which  Lobengula's  best  regi- 
ments were  thoroughly  beaten.  Bulawayo  was  burnt  by  Lobengula's  orders  and  left 
in  our  hands  (November  4),  while  the  king  himself  took  to  flight  towards  the  Zambesi. 
Letters  were  sent  after  him  asking  him  to  come  back,  and  guaranteeing  his  safety  ; 
but  no  answer  having  been  received  before  the  two  days  of  grace  had  expired,  Major 
Forbes  was  instructed  to  pursue  him.  On  December  3,  at  a  point  on  the  Shangani 
River,  eighty-four  miles  N.N.W.  of  Shiloh,  the  pursuers  came  close  on  Lobengula's 
track,  and  a  small  reconnoitring  party  under  Maj.  Alan  Wilson  crossed  the  river, 
which  unfortunately  came  down  in  flood  and  cut  them  off  from  their  companions. 
After  making  a  most  gallant  stand  they  were  overwhelmed  by  the  king's  body  guard, 
who  did  not  leave  one  alive.  A  monument  has  been  erected  to  their  memory  close  to 
the  tomb  of  Mr.  Rhodes  in  the  Matoppo  Hills.  Owing  to  the  difficulty  of  moving 
troops  in  the  rainy  season,  Major  Forbes  returned  to  Bulawayo,  while  Lobengula  and 
the  remnants  of  his  band  retired  towards  the  Zambesi,  where  Lobengula  died. 

Under  the  altered  circumstances  of  the  country  it  became  necessary  to  discuss 
its  future  Administration  with  Her  Majesty's  government,  and  a  new  Constitution 
was  agreed  upon  (July  18,  1894),  the  government  of  the  country  being  carried  on  by 
an  Administrator  (Dr.  L.  S.  Jameson)  and  a  Council  of  four,  consisting  of  IMr.  Justice 


26o  Anglo- African  Who's  Who 

Vintcent ;  Col.  F.  W.  Rhodes,  D.S.O.,  Military  Member  of  Council  ;  A.  H.  F.  Dun- 
can,  Surveyor-General ;    and  George  Pauling,  Commissioner  of  Public  Works. 

The  years  1894  and  1895  were  marked  by  prosperity  and  peace.  The  mining 
and  farming  industries  were  pushed  on  and  the  railways  and  telegraphs  extended. 
The  volunteer  force  was  reorganized,  and  a  native  police  force  consisting  entirely  of 
Matabele  was  established. 

The  political  disturbances,  which  had  long  been  threatening  in  the  Transvaal, 
culminated  in  December,  1895,  when  Dr.  Jameson,  with  a  force  largely  composed 
of  the  Company's  police,  made  an  unauthorized  incursion  into  the  South  African  Re- 
public, with  a  view  to  assisting  the  Uitlander  population  {see  Dr.  L.  S.  Jameson's  life). 
Dr.  Jameson's  resignation  from  the  position  of  Administrator  was  accepted  early  in 
1896,  and  the  Right  Hon.  the  Earl  Grey  succeeded  him  in  April  of  that  year. 


THE  SECOND  MATABELE  WAR. 

Then  followed  a  series  of  misfortunes  which  might  have  combined  to  wreck  a 
greater  country  than  Rhodesia.  A  drought  of  abnormal  length  and  severity  had 
prevailed  ;  locusts  devastated  the  country ;  and  rinderpest,  hitherto  quite  unknown 
in  South  Africa,  came  down  from  the  north,  destroying  whole  herds  of  native  cattle. 
The  M'Limo  (the  Makalaka  deity)  persuaded  the  Matabele  that  this  combination  of 
plagues  was  the  direct  result  of  the  malign  influence  of  the  white  men  ;  and  Matabe- 
leland  was  once  more  plunged  in  war,  the  natives  beginning  hostilities  with  a  pre- 
arranged series  of  savage  murders  of  white  men,  women  and  children,  in  March,  1896. 

The  Company's  territory,  deprived  for  the  time  of  its  police  protection  owing 
to  the  Jameson  Raid,  was  at  a  disadvantage  when  this  second  Matabele  War  broke 
out ;  but  the  danger  to  the  whole  population  was  successfully  averted  by  the  courageous 
and  self-reliant  action  of  the  settlers. 

Measures  for  protecting  the  community  were  at  once  taken.  Laagers  were  formed 
at  Bulawayo  and  Gwelo,  and  Maj.  Laing  with  his  small  party  also  went  into  laager 
at  Belingwe.  The  existing  Volunteer  Force  was  expanded  into  the  Bulawayo  Field 
Force,  and  under  the  leadership  of  Cols.  W.  Napier,  J.  Spreckley  and  Hon.  Maurice 
Gifford,  Capts.  Macfarlane,  George  Grey  and  F.  C  Selous,  numerous  patrols  were 
sent  out  in  various  directions,  and  they  were  successful  in  bringing  in  small  parties  of 
refugees.  The  great  danger  to  the  Bulawayo  laager  was  that  the  Matoppo  and 
Umgusa  rebels  might  combine  and  rush  the  town,  but  on  April  25,  Capt.  Macfarlane 
engaged  the  enemy  at  the  Umgusa,  and  defeated  them  so  heavily  as  to  remove  all 
cause  for  anxiety.  It  was  necessary  to  follow  up  with  vigour  Capt.  Macfarlane's 
victory  ;  the  settlers,  however,  were  not  strong  enough  to  accomplish  this,  and  the 
Imperial  Government  issued  instructions  for  the  inhabitants  to  wait  for  reinforce- 
ments. Col.  Plumer,  with  a  force  of  Volunteers,  left  Mafeking  on  April  12,  and 
reached  Bulawayo  at  the  end  of  May,  after  a  brilliant  engagement  at  the  Khami. 
Simultaneously,  a  column  raised  in  Salisbury  under  Col.  Beal,  and  accompanied 
by  Mr.  Rhodes,  left  for  the  relief  of  Bulawayo.  Col.  Napier  went  out  to  meet  them, 
defeating  the  rebels  at  Thabas  Induna  ;  and  Col.  Beal,  after  a  successful  action  at 


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Mavene,  joined  Napier's  force,  and  proceeded  to  Bulawayo,  bringing  in  quantities  of 
captured  stock. 

Sir  Richard  Martin  arrived  in  Bulawayo  on  May  21,  and  took  over  command 
of  military  operations  until  the  arrival  of  Gen.  Sir  F.  Carrington  on  June  3.  Two 
columns  under  Plumer  and  Macfarlane  were  sent  out  north  and  south,  and  a  third 
was  on  the  point  of  starting  when  an  impi  appeared  at  the  Umgusa,  six  miles  out  of 
Bulawayo.  Cols,  Spreckley  and  Beal  immediately  moved  against  them,  and 
inflicted  heavy  loss  on  the  enemy.  Spreckley's  column  then  set  out  as  originally 
intended,  and  the  three  columns  swept  the  country  of  rebels.  Col.  Plumer  stormed 
and  carried  the  stronghold  of  Tliabas  Imamba,  where  he  made  important  captures 
of  prisoners,  grain  and  cattle,  and  recovered  a  quantity  of  loot  taken  from  murdered 
settlers. 

The  country  was  now  practically  free  from  rebels,  except  the  Matoppo  Hills, 
where  they  occupied  positions  which  were  almost  impregnable.  Operations  were 
successfully  initiated,  but  the  white  losses  were  heavy  owing  to  the  nature  of  the 
country.  Mr.  Rhodes,  therefore,  determined  to  open  negotiations,  going  five  miles 
into  the  hills  accompanied  by  three  unarmed  men,  and  holding  an  indaba  with  the 
rebel  chiefs.  To  further  allay  the  suspicions  of  the  natives  he  moved  his  camp,  which 
was  quite  unprotected  by  any  military  force,  to  a  spot  close  to  the  rebel  stronghold, 
where  he  remained  for  two  months,  reassuring  and  conferring  with  the  natives.  On 
October  13  the  Administrator  had  an  official  indaba  with  the  Matabele  chiefs,  and 
received  their  formal  promises  of  submission.  Col.  Plumer 's  column  was  disbanded 
on  the  22nd  of  the  same  month,  many  of  its  members  remaining  in  the  country  as 
settlers. 

Long  before  the  restoration  of  peace  to  Matabeleland,  trouble  had  appeared  in 
Mashonaland.  In  June,  1896,  a  series  of  murders  similar  to  those  in  Matabeleland 
occxirred. 

Mr.  Justice  Vintcent  was  at  the  head  of  affairs  in  Salisbury,  and  immediately 
organized  a  defence  committee,  and  called  in  all  the  population  to  laager. 

One  of  the  first  events  which  followed  was  the  stirring  episode  of  the  rescue  of  a 
party  of  twelve,  including  three  women,  who  gathered  at  the  Alice  Mine,  in  the  Mazoe 
district,  twenty-seven  miles  from  Salisbury.  In  order  to  telegraph  for  assistance, 
two  of  their  number  heroically  volunteered  to  go  to  the  telegraph  office.  They  were 
successful  in  sending  their  message,  but  were  killed  in  trying  to  regain  the  laager.  On 
receiving  the  telegram,  Inspector  Judson  left  Salisbury  with  five  men,  but  found  the 
situation  at  the  laager  so  desperate  that  he  sent  a  message  to  Salisbury  to  say  that  it 
would  require  forty  men  and  a  Maxim  to  effect  a  rescue,  as  the  whole  Mazoe  valley 
was  lined  with  natives  some  1,000  strong.  Capt.  Nesbitt,  who  had  gone  out  with 
twelve  men  to  reinforce  Inspector  Judson's  patrol,  received  the  message,  and  deter- 
mined, notwithstanding  the  smallness  of  his  force,  to  push  on.  He  succeeded  in 
bringing  out  the  party,  and  for  this  deed  was  rewarded  with  the  Victoria  Cross.  The 
return  journey  was  accomplished  under  heavy  fire,  all  concerned  displaying  much 
courage. 

A  small  body  of  Volunteers  from  Natal,  under  Capt.  Taylor,  who  were  at  Charter, 
on  their  way  to  Matabeleland,  returned  to  Salisbury  on  the  outbreak  of  hostilities. 


262  Anglo -African  Who's  Who 

as  did  Col.  Beal's  column  of  the  R.H.V.,  which  was  then  at  Bulawayo.  These 
latter  were  accompanied  by  100  men  under  Maj.  Watts,  D.A.A.G.,  and  75  men  of 
Grey's  Scouts,  under  Capt.  White. 

Large  patrols  were  now  sent  out  to  commence  offensive  operations  against  the 
natives,  pending  the  arrival  of  380  regular  troops  under  Col.  Alderson,  which  had 
been  sent  through  Beira  from  Natal.  They  reached  Salisbury  on  August  9,  having 
relieved  Umtali  en  route.  Col.  Alderson  remained  five  months  in  the  country, 
and,  although  much  hampered  by  shortness  of  supplies,  he  effected  the  capture  of  the 
important  chief  Makoni,  and  attacked  and  defeated  Matshayangombi,  who  may  be 
said  to  have  been  the  leader  of  this  rebellion. 

The  Imperial  troops  left  Rhodesia  on  November  29,  1896,  but  the  trouble  was 
not  yet  over.  After  the  rainy  season  Col.  de  Moleyns  commenced  vigorous  opera- 
tions" with  a  successful  attack  on  the  Magwendi  rebels,  followed  up  by  the  defeat  of 
Kunzi  and  Mashanganyika.  The  Mashonaland  forces  having  been  strengthened  by 
a  detachment  of  Hussars  and  police  from  Matabeleland,  the  country  about  Salisbury, 
Umtali  and  Charter  was  cleared  of  rebels,  and  a  well  organized  attack  made  on  Mat- 
shayangombi (July  24,  1897),  when  the  latter  was  shot.  It  was  decided  to  be  unneces- 
sary to  retain  the  services  of  the  Hussars  after  September.  This  date  practically  marks 
the  close  of  the  campaign,  and  the  police  having  reached  their  full  complement,  the 
volunteers  were  disbanded  and  returned,  some  to  their  farms  and  others  to  the  mining 
centres.  The  energetic  and  self-reliant  conduct  of  the  settlers  during  the  war,  and 
many  instances  of  bravery,  individual  and  general,  form  a  record  in  the  history  of 
the  new  country  of  which  it  may  well  be  proud. 

The  Chartered  Company  generously  paid  out  compensation  to  settlers  for  direct 
losses  incurred  during  the  rebellion.  The  Compensation  Courts  paid  out  £253,500  in 
Matabeleland,  and  the  awards  in  Mashonaland  brought  up  the  sum  to  £360,000. 


PROGRESS  IN  SOUTHERN  RHODESIA. 

During  the  period  occupied  by  the  war,  the  attention  of  the  Government  was 
not  only  devoted  to  meeting  questions  of  defence  and  transport.  It  was  felt  neces- 
sary to  reorganize  the  Civil  Service  of  the  country  and  to  establish  it  on  a  permanent 
basis.  This  work  was  carried  out  by  Mr.  W.  H.  Milton,  who  was  transferred  to  Rho- 
desia from  the  Cape  Colony  Civil  Service  in  July,  1896,  as  Chief  Secretary  to  the 
Administrator  (Earl  Grey),  whom  he  succeeded  in  July,  1897. 

The  native  problem  was  next  tackled  by  the  Company,  who  successfully  adopted 
a  system  of  governing  the  natives  through  the  medium  of  native  salaried  indunas. 
Large  reserves  were  set  aside  for  the  natives,  amounting  to  12,114  square  miles  in 
Matabeleland,  and  26,757  square  miles  in  Mashonaland.  A  period  of  native  pros- 
perity followed,  as  may  be  gathered  from  the  following  figures  for  1903-4,  when  in 
Southern  Rhodesia  the  natives  possessed  nearly  100,000  head  of  cattle  and  416,000 
sheep  and  goats,  while  they  also  had  over  half  a  million  acres  under  cultivation. 

In   1899  a  Legislative  Council  was   established  for   Southern  Rhodesia,  which 


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now  consists  of  the  Administrator,  Resident  Commissioner,  seven  elected  and  seven 
members  nominated  by  the  Company,  so  as  to  ensure  it  a  majority  so  long  as  it  remains 
responsible  for  the  finances  of  the  country.  The  names  of  the  members  are  given 
elsewhere. 

Early  in  1891  the  Imperial  Government  extended  the  field  of  the  Company's 
operations  so  as  to  include  [the  whole  of  the  British  sphere  north  of  the  Zambesi, 
except  Nyasaland,  now  known  as  the  British  Central  African  Protectorate. 
Northern  Rhodesia  is  now  divided  into  North-Eastern  and  North-Westem  Rhodesia, 
and  each  is  under  an  Administrator  appointed  by  the  British  South  Africa  Company. 


THE  RHODESIAN  RAILWAYS. 

Notwithstanding  the  natural  difl&culties  of  developing  a  new  country,  so  large 
and  remote,  the  progress  accompHshed  during  the  thirteen  years  of  the  history  of 
Rhodesia  has  been  very  considerable. 

Two  railway  systems  have  been  constructed. 

The  main  trunk  fine  (3  ft.  6  in.  gauge)  has  been  continued  via  Mafeking  north- 
ward through  Bechuanaland  into  Rhodesia.  This  forms  part  of  the  Cape  to  Cairo 
Railway,  which  was  completed  as  far  as  Bulawayo  in  October,  1897.  The  further 
construction  of  the  line  proceeded  uninterruptedly,  with  the  result  that  the  Wankie 
coalfields  were  reached  on  September  21,  1903,  and  the  Victoria  Falls  on  April  25, 
1904.  The  whole  line  from  Bulawayo  to  the  Victoria  Falls  was  opened  for  traffic 
on  June  20.  The  river  Zambesi  is  to  be  spanned  by  a  railway  bridge  thrown  across 
the  gorge  in  the  immediate  neighbourhood  of  the  Victoria  Falls  ;  construction  being 
carried  on  from  both  ends.  The  materials  are  already  on  the  spot,  and  the  founda- 
tions have  been  laid  in  the  solid  rock  that  flanks  the  river  on  both  sides.  The  con- 
struction of  a  further  100  miles  of  line  north  of  the  Zambesi  is  being  proceeded  with, 
having  as  its  immediate  objective  Kalomo,  the  present  seat  of  the  Administration  of 
North- Western  Rhodesia,  and  arrangements  are  being  made  for  the  extension  of  the 
line  to  the  mining  districts  of  the  Kafue,  and  thence  to  the  Rhodesia  Broken  Hill  Mine. 

A  branch  line,  leaving  the  main  line  at  Heany  Junction,  seventeen  miles  north 
of  Bulawayo,  for  the  Gwanda  district,  has  been  opened  for  trafiic  as  far  as  Gwanda 
Township,  seventy-four  miles  from  the  Junction.  A  further  twenty-nine  miles,  now 
practically  finished,  will  complete  this  branch  line.  Other  lines  completed  are  the 
Gwelo  to  Selukwe,  twenty-two  miles  long,  opened  in  August,  1903  ;  and  the  short 
line  to  the  Matoppos,  built  by  the  trustees  of  the  late  Mr.  Rhodes,  and  opened  in 
November,  1903.  There  are  still  further  lines  which  have  been  decided  upon  by  the 
directors  of  railway  enterprises  in  Rhodesia,  amongst  which  may  be  mentioned  the 
extension  of  the  Gwelo  line  past  Selukwe  to  the  Victoria  district. 

The  East  Coast  fine,  originally  a  hght  railway  from  Beira  to  Umtali,  was  opened 
in  February,  1898,  and  was  widened  to  the  3  ft,  6  in.  gauge  in  August,  1900,  in  order 
to  complete  a  uniform  line  between  Salisbury  and  the  coast,  a  3  ft.  6  in.  fine  having 
already  been  opened  between  Salisbury  and  Umtali  in  May,  1899. 


264  Anglo-African  Who's  Who 

In  addition  to  these  lines  a  3  ft.  6  in.  line  has  been  constructed  from  Umtali  to 
Gwelo  to  meet  a  line  100  miles  long  from  Bulawayo,  a  continuous  overland  route 
being  thus  established  between  Beira  and  Gape  Town.  Of  this  line,  2,000  miles  long, 
the  construction  of  over  1,400  is  directly  due  to  the  British  South  Africa  Company. 


THE     VICTORIA     FALLS. 

THE  GREAT  POWER  SCHEME. 

In  the  current  year,  as  has  been  stated,  the  Victoria  Falls  have  been  reached  by 
the  Cape-to-Cairo  Railway.  That  fact  is  fraught  with  vast  possibilities  for  Rhodesian 
enterprise.  That  railway  is  already  stimulating  the  development  of  Rhodesia,  and 
the  transformation  now  quickly  coming  to  pass  is  one  of  the  most  impressive  in  the 
history  of  colonization.  In  the  near  future,  however,  there  looms  the  most  momentous 
achievement  of  all — namely,  the  harnessing  of  the  Victoria  Falls.  When  that  comes 
to  pass — hastened  by  the  facilities  which  the  railway  can  already  afford — it  will  be 
possible  to  proceed  with  the  biggest  enterprise  the  world  is  ever  likely  to  see  in  the 
way  of  power  generation  and  transmission.  The  Victoria  Falls  are  about  two  and  a- 
half  times  as  high  as  those  of  Niagara,  and  they  are  approximately  twice  as  wide. 
If,  therefore,  Niagara  power  transmission  be  revolutionizing  industrial  development 
in  America,  the  proportionately  greater  importance  of  the  Victoria  Falls  to  the  future 
of  South  Africa  is  obvious.  English  newspaper  readers  have,  by  this  time,  gained 
some  inkling  of  the  project ;  but  it  is  safe  to  say  that  comparatively  few  quite 
realize  its  import  to  South  Airica,  and,  perhaps,  to  the  Empire.  Indeed,  it  seems 
necessary  to  dispel  mis-apprehension  on  the  subject.  It  has  been  argued  that  the 
success  of  the  Niagara  enterprise  is  no  guarantee  of  like  success  for  the  Victoria  Falls 
scheme,  inasmuch  as  the  former  serves  old-established  industrial  centres  in  the  United 
States  and  Canada,  whereas  the  harnessing  of  the  latter  looks  like  being  in  advance 
of  population. 

It  is  true  that  old  centres  like  Buffalo  are  being  served  with  power  transmitted 
from  Niagara,  but  it  is  equally  certain  that  new  local  development  has  been  encouraged 
in  the  course  of  a  few  years  by  the  Niagara  Falls  operation,  whicli  has  already  brought 
together  a  population  of  half  a  million — a  population  which  is  reasonably  expected 
to  be  doubled  before  long.  The  natural  inference  is  that  wherever  abundance  of 
electrical  power  is  available  and  cheap,  capital  and  population  are  bound  to  be 
attracted.  Indeed,  if  the  Victoria  Falls  be  harnessed  in  advance  of  local  settlement 
it  may  be  a  positive  advantage,  for,  in  that  case,  industry  will  be  adopted  from  the 
first  to  the  most  modern  conditions,  and  costly  compHcations  will  be  avoided.  It 
needs  to  be  pointed  out  also  that  scientific  and  mechanical  skill  has  made  very  great 
progress  since  the  harnessing  of  Niagara,  so  that  very  much  more  remarkable  results 
are  now  practicable  than  were  deemed  possible  in  the  infancy  of  electrical  power  trans- 
mission. This  is  a  highly  important  consideration,  for  even  prior  to  the  growth  of 
industrial  communities,  there  is  adjacent  to  the  Victoria  Falls  an  assured  demand  for 
power  within  the  enlarged  radius  of  up-to-date  transmission.     Within  that  radius  are 


The  Robert  Williams  Group  265 

some  of  the  finest  mineral  areas  of  Rhodesia  and  the  township  of  Bulawayo,  where 
the  power  may  be  used  for  the  needs  of  tramways,  electric  lighting,  telegraphs, 
telephones  and  a  number  of  local  industries.  It  is  also  anticipated  that  the  railways 
for  a  considerable  distanc«3  on  each  side  of  the  Zambesi  may  be  most  cheaply  worked 
with  electricity  from  the  Falls. 

Far,  therefore,  from  offering  vague  promise  in  the  remote  future,  the  harnessing 
of  the  Victoria  Falls  looks  Hke  being  an  assured  success  from  the  start.  And  in 
years  to  come,  when  industrial  cities  spring  up  north  and  south  of  the  present  township 
at  the  Falls,  the  fruits  of  the  undertaking  may  be  colossal.  It  was  stated  recently 
by  Sir  Charles  MetcaHe,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Rhodesian  Railways,  that  Messrs.  Thomas 
Gook  and  Sons  have  already  established  a  tour  to  South  Africa,  including  a  journey 
to  the  Victoria  Falls.  All  things  considered,  it  is  not  surprising  that  the  scheme  is 
one  having  a  peculiar  fascination  for  men  of  large  prevision  like  the  late  Mr.  Cecil 
Rhodes,  and  that  engineers  and  other  practical  men  have  become  enthusiastic  since 
their  interest  was  aroused. 

Ever  since  the  scheme  commended  itself  to  expert  judgment,  the  British  South 
Africa  Company  has  been  keenly  interested,  and  is  represented  in  the  management 
of  the  African  Concessions  Syndicate.  That  S3mdicate  holds  the  sole  concession  for 
developing  electrical  power  at  the  Falls  for  a  period  of  seventy-five  years.  That  may 
seem  to  imply  a  huge  monopoly  of  a  natural  boon  to  civihzation,  but  the  pioneers  of 
such  an  enterprise  as  the  one  under  consideration  deserve  generous  treatment.  The 
origmal  syndicate  was  an  amalgamation,  at  the  late  Mr.  CecU  Rhodes'  suggestion,  of 
two  propositions,  namely,  those  of  the  Africa  Trust,  Limited,  of  London,  and  of  Mr. 
H.  B.  Marshall,  of  Johannesburg.  Under  the  auspices  of  Mr.  Rhodes,  the  small  capital 
of  the  syndicate  was  doubled  ;  and  the  new  issue  taken  by  the  Chartered  Company, 
whose  Directors  having  already  done  so  much  for  Rhodesia,  naturally  desire  to  reap 
where  they  have  sown,  and  to  share  in  the  great  benefits  which  are  expected  to  accrue 
from  the  exploitation  of  Victoria  Falls.  The  Africa  Trust  participation  at  a  later 
stage  was  acquired  by  the  Rand-Rhodesia  Trust  and  General  Exploration  Company, 
Ltd.  The  financial  position  of  the  African  Concessions  S5nidicate  is  exceedingly 
strong,  its  unissued  capital  and  readily  realizable  investments  representing  nearly 
four-fifths  of   the  authorized  capital  of  the  S3mdicate. 


THE  ROBERT  WILLIAMS  GROUP. 

North  of  the  Zambesi  there  is  practically  only  one  group  systematically  developing 
the  country.  This  group  includes  the  Tanganyika  Concessions,  Limited  ;  the  Zam- 
besia  Exploring  Company,  Limited  ;  and  the  Katanga  Railway  Company  ;  while  the 
country  coming  under  the  sphere  of  operations  of  the  group  spreads  from  Lobito  Bay 
on  the  west  coast  to  Lake  Tanganyika  far  away  in  the  east.  It  is  mainly  due  to  the 
initiative  and  enterprise  of  Mr.  Robert  Williams,  the  Managing  Director  of  the  above- 
named  Companies,  that  this  huge  tract  has  been  thrown  open  to  the  pioneers  of 
civilization. 


266  Anglo-African  Who's  Who 

The  Katanga  Railway  Company,  in  which  the  Tanganyika  Concessions  Company 
has  an  interest  of  two-fifths,  is  a  concession  obtained  some  time  ago  by  Mr.  WiUiams 
in  Brussels  for  the  purpose  of  surveying  a  railway  in  the  neighbourhood  of  the  mines 
of  Katanga,  in  order  to  make  connection  with  other  lines  now  constructed  or  in  course 
of  construction.  A  survey  party  has  been  sent  out  with  the  object  of  finding  out 
which  is  the  best  route  to  foUow  so  as  to  determine  the  best  means  of  communication 
with  the  coast.  Satisfactory  arrangements  have  been  made  for  the  commencement 
of  the  Lobito  Bay  Railway,  and  it  is  expected  that  a  start  will  be  made  early  in 
November,  1904.  Men  are  already  at  work  at  Lobito  Bay  erecting  the  bridge  over 
the  CatumbeUa  River,  which  has  been  sent  out  from  England,  and  it  is  expected  that 
this  bridge,  which  is  219  feet  in  length,  25  feet  high,  and  18  feet  wide,  will  be  open 
for  traffic  before  the  end  of  1904.  There  is  little  doubt  that  this  line  when  completed 
will,  besides  developing  local  trade,  absorb  a  large  proportion  of  the  carrying  traffic 
to  and  from  Northern,  and  possibly  Southern,  Rhodesia,  the  distances  to  be  saved 
both  by  sea  and  land  being  very  considerable. 

The  last  Directors'  Report  of  the  Tanganyika  Concessions  states  that  prospecting 
is  being  actively  carried  on  in  the  area  of  the  Congo  and  Benguella  Concessions,  with 
the  object  of  proving  the  existence  of  minerals  in  the  countries  in  which  the  Company 
have  rights.  Several  important  discoveries  have  been  made,  and  although  the  work 
done  is  small,  in  comparison  with  the  vast  extent  of  territory  involved,  exploration 
has  revealed  such  a  variety  of  mineral  resources  as  to  place  the  success  of  Tanganyika 
Concessions  beyond  doubt.  In  the  Ruwe  Mine,  for  instance,  the  further  testing  of 
which  for  some  months  past  has  given  very  favourable  results,  although  the  testing 
is  being  done  by  the  somewhat  primitive  system  of  treating  the  ore  by  means  of  sluice 
boxes,  the  operations  result  in  a  large  profit  each  month,  and  indicates  that,  worked 
on  an  appropriate  scale  and  with  modern  appliances,  the  mine  would  make  a  handsome 
return  to  the  shareholders.  The  output  of  gold  from  the  sluice  up  to  date  was  2,030 
ozs.,  and  an  endeavour  was  being  made  to  increase  the  present  monthly  returns.  The 
expense  of  carrying  on  this  work  by  present  methods  was  only  about  £250.  This 
cannot  be  considered  otherwise  than  satisfactory,  when  it  is  stated  that  the  output 
from  the  sluice  boxes  alone  for  August,  1904,  was  512  ozs.,  which  will  be  materially 
augmented  when  the  amount  recovered  by  amalgamation  is  made  known.  The  output 
for  July,  including  the  amount  recovered  by  amalgamation,  was  544  ozs.  These 
returns  suffice  to  show  that,  even  were  the  expenses  doubled,  the  Ruwe  Mine  is  yielding 
a  handsome  profit,  Mr.  George  R.  Adams,  the  company's  resident  engineer  in  the 
Congo  Free  State,  reports  that  the  shafts,  drifts,  and  cross-cuts  on  the  mine  have 
developed  a  large  reef  of  ore,  showing  all  through,  for  a  distance  of  1,200  ft.  along  its 
strike,  some  values  in  platinum,  gold,  and  silver.  Above  the  water  level  there  is 
estimated  to  be  102,143  tons  of  ore,  the  body  of  ore  so  far  developed  being  1,200  ft. 
long  and  150  ft,  deep,  with  an  average  width  of  8  ft.,  a  width  which  augurs  weU  for 
economic  working. 

Similar  good  progress  has  been  made  in  the  work  of  opening  the  company's  copper 
mines,  and  the  reports  from  the  properties  continue  to  point  to  the  enormous  wealth 
contained  in  these  areas.  During  the  year  over  3,000  ft.  of  underground  work  has 
been  carried  out,  and  since  the  date  of  the  last  report  a  considerable  amount  of  work 


The  Transvaal  Gold  Mining  Groups  267 

has  been  done  on  the  properties  situated  west  of  the  Lualaba  River.  The  engineer 
estimates  the  practically  proved  tonnage  of  ore  above  the  depths  attained  in  the  three 
mines  (Dikurwe,  Musonoi,  and  Kolwazi)  to  be  nearly  one  and  a-half  miUion  tons,  the 
average  value  of  which,  according  to  the  assays,  is  about  13  per  cent,  copper. 

The  discovery  of  tin  in  the  Busanga  mine  is  an  important  one,  both  as  regards 
the  value  of  the  metal  itself  and  the  facilities  for  mining  it,  as  well  as  for  the  fact  that 
it  extends  over  a  large  area.  Mr.  George  Grey,  the  company's  manager  in  Africa, 
reports  :  "  The  discoveries  of  tin  are  of  great  interest,  and  I  consider  of  great  probable 
value.  The  existence  of  stream  tin  and  cassiterite  in  quartz  reefs  is  now  proved  at 
intervals  for  a  distance  of  fifty  miles."  Mr.  Adams  estimates  that  9,324  tons  of 
cassiterite  in  the  area  would  give  a  value  of  5,920  tons  of  tin,  with  a  value  of  £781,440. 
To  demonstrate  the  reduction  of  the  ore  Mr.  Adams  satisfactorily  smelted  a  small 
bar,  which  he  forwarded  to  London.  This  was  sent  to  a  firm  of  metal  brokers  of 
standing,  who  have  examined  it,  and  they  state  that  they  find  the  metal  to  be  of  very 
good  quality,  and  consider  it  equal  to  "  Straits  "  tin. 

THE  TRANSVAAL  GOLD  MINING  GROUPS. 

Most  people  are  aware  that  the  control  of  the  mining  industry  of  the  Transvaal  is 
for  the  most  part  centred  in  various  influential  financial  firms  who  are  chiefly  interested 
in  South  Africa,  and  who  hold  enormous  blocks  of  shares  in,  and  direct  the  manage- 
ment of,  groups  of  companies  with  which  they  are  identified.  There  are  certain  com- 
panies that  do  not  come  within  the  influence  of  either  of  the  groups.  These  are  fcAV  in 
number,  but  for  all  practical  purposes  the  Transvaal  gold  mining  industry  may  be  said 
to  be  controlled  by  a  dozen  of  the  leading  financial  houses.  The  greatest  of  these  is  the 
firm  of  Wernher,  Beit  and  Co.,  with  which  are  associated  the  firm  of  Messrs.  H,  Eck- 
stein and  Co.  and  the  Rand  Mines,  Limited.  Then  come  the  ConsoHdated  Gold  Fields 
of  South  Africa  ;  Messrs.  Farrar  Bros,  and  the  Anglo-French  Exploration  Company  ; 
Mr.  J.  B.  Robinson  ;  General  Mining  and  Finance  Corporation  (Messrs.  G.  and  L.  Albu) ; 
Messrs.  A.  Goerz  and  Co.,  Limited  ;  the  Johannesburg  Consolidated  Investment  Com- 
pany (Messrs.  Barnato  Bros.) ;  Messrs.  S.  Neumann  and  Go. ;  Messrs.  Lewis  and  Marks ; 
and  the  Transvaal  Goldfields,  Limited.  According  to  an  estimate  carefuUy  compiled 
recently  by  "  The  African  World  " — a  journal  to  which  the  public  is  constantly  indebted 
for  accurate  and  up-to-date  information  regarding  the  African  continent,  and  to  which 
we  are  particularly  indebted  for  much  detail  in  the  following  articles — these  firms  are 
responsible  for  a  capital  expenditure  on  the  Rand  alone  of  a  sum  considerably  in  excess 
of  £30,000,000,  and  the  estimated  capital  expenditure  for  projected  development 
during  the  next  ten  years  is  put  down  at  not  less  than  £50,423,000,  of  which  £13,000,000, 
it  is  calculated,  will  be  spent  by  the  Consolidated  Gold  Fields,  £7,700,000  by  the 
Robinson  group,  £6,960,000  by  H.  Eckstein  and  Co.,  £4,900,000  by  A.  Goerz  and  Co., 
Limited,  £4,040,000  by  the  General  Mining  and  Finance  Corporation,  £3,955,000  by 
the  Johannesburg  ConsoHdated  Investment  Company,  £3,450,000  by  S.  Neumann 
and  Co.,  £3,283,000  by  Farrar  Bros,  and  Anglo-French  Exploration,  and  £2,680,000  by  the 
Rand  Mines,  Limited.     It  may,  therefore,  be  taken  for  granted  that  when  the  Rand 


268  Anglo-African  Who's  Who 

is  once  more  working  under  normal  conditions  there  will  be  such  a  period  of  activity 
as  was  never  before  known  there,  and,  seeing  the  developments  that  are  taking  place 
east  and  west  on  the  extension  of  the  Main  Reef  series,  and  north  and  south  on  what 
is  generally  beUeved  to  be  the  Rand  formation,  it  is  safe  to  predict  that,  instead  of 
£50,000,000  being  spent  on  development  during  the  next  decade,  there  is  likely  to  be 
an  expenditure  of  more  than  double  that  sum.  Although  the  rate  of  recovery  made 
by  the  mining  industry  has  been  necessarily  slow,  the  value  of  the  gold  output  for  the 
whole  of  the  Transvaal  has  steadily  increased  since  the  war  until  it  reached  in  August, 
1904,  a  total  value  for  the  month  of  £1,326,468,  the  total  for  the  eight  months  up  to  the 
end  of  August,  1904,  being  considerably  over  ten  and  a-quarter  millions  sterling. 


THE  WERNHER-BEIT  GROUP. 

Foremost  among  the  Transvaal  financial  houses  is  that  of  Messrs.  Wernher,  Beit 
and  Co.,  ^vith  whom  are  associated  the  well-known  firm  of  H.  Eckstein  and  Co.,  and  the 
Rand  Mines,  Limited.  This  powerful  combination  has  unquestionably  done  more 
than  any  other  to  open  up  the  resources  of  the  Rand,  especially  the  deep-level  areas, 
and  it  has  enormous  interests  in  other  properties  the  development  of  which  will  be  pro- 
ceeded with  whenever  the  conditions  are  favourable.  This  group  includes  a  consider- 
able number  of  important  Rand  outcrop  mines,  but  their  deep-level  holdings  are  by 
far  the  most  important.  The  parent  company  of  the  producing  deep-levels  belonging 
to  the  Wernher-Beit  group  is  the  Rand  Mines,  Limited,  which  has  numerous  sub- 
sidiary companies  in  which  its  share  holdings  are  enormous,  ranging  from  20%  to  80%. 
These  subsidiary  companies  are  the  Glen  Deep,  Ltd.,  Rose  Deep,  Ltd.,  Geldenhuis 
Deep,  Ltd.,  Jumpers  Deep,  Ltd.,  Nourse  Deep,  Ltd.,  South  Nourse,  Ltd.,  Ferreira 
Deep,  Ltd.,  Crown  Deep,  Ltd.,  Langlaagte  Deep,  Ltd.,  Durban  Roodepoort  G.M.,  Ltd., 
South  Rand  G.M.  Co.,  Ltd.,  Simmer  and  Jack  West,  Ltd.,  Wolhuter  G.M.,  Ltd., 
Wolhuter  Deep,  Ltd.,  City  Deep,  Ltd.,  Village  Main  Reef  G.M.  Co.,  Ltd.,  ViUage  Deep, 
Ltd.,  Robinson  Central  Deep,  Ltd.,  Paarl  Central  G.M.  and  Exploration  Co.,  Ltd. 


THE  J.  B.  ROBINSON  GROUP. 

The  group  of  companies  with  which  Mr.  J.  B.  Robinson  is  so  prominently  identified 
is  probably  the  largest  individual  control  on  the  Rand.  Some  of  the  larger  groups 
associated  with  the  mining  industry  of  the  Transvaal,  although  nominally  under  the 
control  of  one  firm  or  corporation,  are  really  subject  to  a  combination  of  influences, 
whereas  the  Robinson  group  stands  alone,  there  being  no  divided  interests  in  the  man- 
agement of  the  various  companies  included  in  it.  Of  the  several  companies  comprising 
the  group,  it  may  be  stated  without  fear  of  contradiction,  so  far  as  those  that  are  pro- 
ducing and  developing  are  concerned,  that  their  prospects  are  exceedingly  bright, 
and  promise  well  from  a  shareholder's  point  of  view.  The  management  is  of  the  best, 
the  producing  mines  are  equipped  with  up-to-date  machinery  and  plant,  and  the  assay 


The  Consolidated  Gold  Fields  Group  269 

values  of  the  ore  that  is  being  mined  and  developed  are  above  the  average  of  the  Rand. 
To  jVIr.  J.  B.  Robinson,  together  with  the  late  ]Mr.  Herman  Eckstein,  is  due  the  credit 
of  having  laid  the  solid  foundations  of  that  vast  and  truly  Imperial  asset  known  as  the 
Rand  mining  industry  of  the  Transvaal.  From  the  days  in  1886,  when  Mr.  Robinson 
prophetically  named  the  first  stone -built  residence  in  Johannesburg  "  Langlaagte 
Restante,"  until  now,  he  has  stood,  with  indomitable  trust  in  the  future,  at  the  helm 
of  his  enormous  mining  and  financial  ventures  as  one  of  the  old  "  pilots  of  the  Rand," 
whose  name  will  live  in  the  history  of  the  greatest  goldfields  the  world  has  known. 
Mr.  J.  W.  S.  Langerman  is  Mr.  Robinson's  principal  representative  in  South  Africa, 
and  associated  with  him  are  Messrs.  J.  Watson,  R.  Lilienfield,  Jas.  Ferguson  and  F.  S. 
Tudhope.  The  principal  companies  controlled  by  this  group  are  the  Langlaagte  Estate, 
the  Randfontein  Estates,  the  Block  "  B  "  Langlaagte  Estate,  the  Block  "  A  "  Rand- 
fontein,  the  Mynpacht  Randfontein,  West  Randfontein,  East  Randfontein,  Ferguson 
Randfontein,  Van  Hulsteyn  Randfontein,  Johnstone  Randfontein,  South  Randfontein, 
North  Randfontein,  Robinson  Randfontein,  and  Forges  Randfontein  Gold  Mining 
Companies  ;  the  Robinson  South  African  Bank,  the  Orange  Free  State  and  Transvaal 
Diamond  Mines,  and  the  Langlaate  Exploration  and  Building  Company,  Ltd.  When 
it  is  remembered  that  the  total  nominal  capital  of  the  above  companies  is  well  over 
twelve  milUons  sterling,  some  idea  of  the  enormous  extent  of  Mr.  Robinson's  interests 
in  South  Africa  alone  may  be  obtained. 


THE  CONSOLIDATED  GOLD  FIELDS  GROUP. 

The  Consolidated  Gold  Fields  of  South  Africa,  whose  destinies  are  presided  over 
by  Lord  Harris,  controls  one  of  the  biggest  groups  of  companies  on  the  Rand.  Its 
chief  claim  holdings  and  share  interests  are  confined  to  the  central  section  of  the  Rand, 
where  it  has  very  extensive  claim  areas,  or  controls  the  companies  which  have  been 
formed  for  the  purpose  of  working  them,  and  other  important  interests  are 
held  on  the  West  Rand  and  in  the  Nigel  district.  The  Gold  Fields  combination  is 
a  most  influential  one,  and  when  the  whole  of  its  deep-level  ground  has  been  developed, 
and  all  its  companies  have  reached  the  producing  stage,  it  will,  if  possible,  be  a  much 
more  important  factor  in  connection  with  the  exploitation  of  Rand  mining  industry 
than  it  now  is.  Like  all  the  other  groups  operating  in  the  Transvaal,  the  Consolidated 
Gold  Fields  has  suffered  very  severely  owing  to  the  scarcity  of  unskilled  labour  for  the 
mines. 

Amongst  those  who  are  mainly  concerned  in  the  direction  of  this  group  may  be 
mentioned  Messrs.  E.  S.  Birkenruth,  S.  Christopherson,  H.  W.  H.  Dunsmure,  J.  J. 
Hamilton,  Leigh  Hoskyns,  R.  G.  Fricker-,  Col.  Ed.  Frewen  and  Major  H.  L.  Sapte. 
Mr.  H.  H.  Webb  is  their  consulting  engineer,  and  the  permanent  engineering  staff 
includes  Mr.  H.  C.  Behr  and  Dr.  G.  S.  Corstorphine.  The  chief  companies  in  the  group 
are  the  Simmer  and  Jack  Proprietary,  Robinson  Deep,  Knights  Deep,  Central  Nigel 
Deep,Luipaard's  Vlei  Deep,  Nigel  Deep,  Rand  Mines  Deep,Robinson  Deep,  Rand  Victoria 
Mines,    Rand  Victoria  East,  Simmer  and  Jack  East,  South  Geldenhuis  Deep,  South 


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Rose'^Deep,  Sub-Nigel,  Simmer  and  Jack  West,  Jupiter,  Knights  Deep,  and  Turffontein 
Estate,  Ltd.,  and  when  it  is  remembered  that  the  dividends  estimated  to  accrue 
to  jthe  Consolidated  Goldfields  on  its  share  holdings  in  the  three  companies  first  named 
should  amount  to  some  £400,000  per  annum,  when  normal  times  arrive,  some  idea  of  the 
magnitude  of  the  share  assets  of  the  Consolidated  Goldfields  may  be  arrived  at.  The 
company  has  also  a  considerable  number  of  claims  along  the  main  reef,  mainly  on  the 
central  and  eastern  sections. 


THE  BARNATO  GROUP. 

The  group  of  companies  under  the  control  of  the  house  of  Barnato  is  very  large, 
and  includes  several  powerful  concerns,  some  of  which  are  producing  gold  and  earning 
considerable  profits,  while  others  that  have  not  yet  reached  that  much-desired  goal 
are  possessed  of  great  potentialities.  The  firm  of  Barnato  Brothers  wields  a  powerful 
influence  on  the  Rand,  where  it  has  vast  holdings  and  interests  ;  and,  in  the  future, 
besides  maintaining  the  efficiency  of  the  properties  under  its  control  on  the  developed 
portion  of  the  Main  Reef,  it  seems  destined  to  take  a  leading  part  in  opening  up  what 
may  be  described  as  another  Rand  on  the  long  line  of  country  in  which  the  Coronation 
Syndicate — one  of  the  firm's  creations — is  operating. 

The  most  prominent  members  of  the  Barnato  group  are  Messrs.  S.  B.  Joel,  J.  Joel, 
Henry  Barnato,  Carl  Hanau,  H.  S.  Caldecott,  H.  A.  Rogers,  J.  A.  Hamilton,  Harold  F. 
Strange,  E.  B.  Gardiner  and  Thomas  Honey,  whilst  the  companies  which  come  under 
their  direction  are  the  Johannesburg  Consolidated  Investment  Co.,  Barnato  Consolidated 
Mines,  Consolidated  Langlaagte  Mines,  Balmoral  Main  Reef,  Buffelsdoorn  "  A  "  G.M. 
Co.,  Buffelsdoorn  Estate,  Coronation  Syndicate,  Rand  Central  Gold  Mines,  Ginsberg, 
Glencairn  Main  Reef,  New  Primrose,  New  Rietfontein,  New  Unified  Main  Reef,  Rand- 
fontein  Deep,  Rietfontein  "  A,"  Rietfontein  "  B,"  South  Cinderella  Deep,  and  Roode- 
poort  G.M.  Co.'s,  the  Johannesburg  Waterworks,  Estate  and  Exploration  Co.,  and  the 
Johannesburg  Estate  Co.,  Ltd. 

All  things  considered,  the  Johannesburg  Consolidated  Investment  Company, 
Limited,  is  doing  remarkably  well,  and  Mr.  Hanau,  who  took  the  chair  at  the  last  meeting 
held  at  Johannesburg,  presented  a  highly  encouraging  statement  for  the  financial  year 
ended  June  30,  1903.  He  stated  that  the  reserve  remained  at  £1,000,000,  the  total 
indebtedness  amounted  to  £946,000,  cash  in  hand  loans  £1,074,000,  and  stocks  and  shares 
£3,000,000.  The  total  assets  of  the  company  amounted  to  £5,310,000,  and  Mr.  Hanau 
remarked  that,  according  to  his  own  personal  valuation,  they  were  over  £10,000,000. 
Investments  in  real  estate  amounted  to  £591,414,  the  Johannesburg  properties  being 
worth  £284,000,  with  an  annual  rent  roll  of  £34,800.  An  imposing  block  of  new  offices 
was  being  built,  a  view  of  which  is  given  on  another  page  ;  and  the  Carlton  Hotel, 
which' would  be  one  of  the  finest  structures  in  the  country,  was  making  progress.  This 
demonstrated  the  board's  confidence  in  the  future  of  the  municipality.  Mr.  Hanau 
went  on  to  say  that  the  estimated  value  of  the  company's  suburban  properties  was 
1,100,000.     He  gave  a  glowing  description  of  the  condition  of  the  company's  gold 


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mines,  and  referred  in  the  highest  terms  to  the  company's  interest  of  85  per  cent,  in 
the  Leeuwpoort.  The  Delagoa  Bay  Lands  Syndicate's  title  had  been  settled,  and, 
owing  to  the  authorities'  liberal  policy,  the  town  must  progress  rapidly.  The  Johannes- 
burg Waterworks  Company's  financial  position  was  satisfactory.  The  company  had 
paid  10  per  cent,  dividend,  and  would  continue  to  pay  good  dividends.  The  net  profits 
of  the  Consolidated  Company  for  the  year  amounted  to  £278,316,  and  the  credit  balance 
carried  forward  at  the  close  of  the  year  amounted  to  £665,470,  out  of  which  a  dividend 
of  10  per  cent,  had  been  recommended  and  confirmed.  After  the  payment  of  the 
dividend,  the  amount  carried  forward  was  £394,4:80,  which  was  equal  to  another  15 
per  cent. 


SIR  GEORGE  FARRAR'S  GROUP. 

What  is  known  as  the  Farrar  Group — that  is,  the  large  aggregation  of  companies 
with  which  Sir  George  Farrar,  D.S.O.,  and  his  brother,  Mr.  Sidney  H.  Farrar,  are  con- 
nected— is  one  of  the  most  powerful  and  important  on  the  Rand.  Sir  George  is  one 
of  the  best  trusted  and  most  highly  respected  men  in  South  Africa,  and  it  is  freely  said 
of  him  that  under  conceivable  circumstances — if  a  great  change  or  governmental  up- 
heaval in  South  Africa  should  ever  come  about — he  would  most  likely  be  chosen  as 
the  first  President  of  the  United  States  of  South  Africa.  The  operations  of  the  Farrar 
group  are  mainly  confined  to  the  East  Rand,  chiefly  in  the  district  of  which  the  town 
of  Boksburg  is  the  centre,  and  it  has  done  more  to  exploit  and  develop  that  section  of 
the  Witwatersrand  goldfields  than  any  other  corporation.  The  principal  undertaking 
of  the  group  is  the  East  Rand  Proprietary  Mines,  Limited,  with  the  fortunes  of  which 
Sir  George  Farrar  and  Mr.  Sidney  Farrar  have  been  prominently  identified  from  its 
inception,  and  it  is  to  their  administrative  ability  and  untiring  energy  that  the  enormous 
success  of  the  company  and  its  numerous  subsidiaries  is  largely  due.  The  producing 
companies  of  the  East  Rand  Proprietary  Mines  contain  ore  of  higher  value  than  the 
average  for  the  Rand,  and  the  whole  of  this  corporation's  subsidiaries  are  so  well  laid 
out  and  developed  that,  under  normal  conditions,  they  cannot  fail  to  yield  large  profits. 

The  companies  controlled,  or  partly  controlled,  by  the  group  are  the  Driefontein 
Consolidated,  Angelo,  New  Comet,  Cason,  Cinderella,  New  Blue  Sky,  H.  F.  Co.,  Anglo- 
French  Exploration,  Kleinfontein  Estates,  Boksburg  Gold,  Rand  Klipfontein,  New 
Kleinfontein,  Anglo-French  Land  Co.,  Anglo-French  (Transvaal)  Navigation  Coal 
Estates,  Chimes  West,  Apex,  Klipfontein  Estate,  Anglo-French  Matabeleland,  and 
Penhalonga  Proprietary  Mines,  the  two  last  being,  of  course,  Rhodesian  properties. 


THE  LEWIS  AND  IVLA.RKS  GROUP. 

The  old-established  and  well-known  South  African  firm  of  Messrs.  Lewis  and 
Marks,  of  Threadneedle  House,  Bishopsgate  Street,  Within,  London,  has  been  the 
means  of  founding  several  prosperous  industries  in  the  Transvaal,  and  has  materially 


272  Anglo-African  Who's  Who 

assisted  in  developing  the  various  resources  of  that  colony.  To-day  Messrs.  Lewis 
and  Marks  are  as  active  as  ever  in  exploiting  the  unbounded  resources  of  the  Transvaal, 
including  mining  and  agriculture,  and  they  are  also  building  up  several  important 
industries,  which  are  none  the  less  necessary  because  they  have  none  of  the  glamour 
of  gold-seeking  about  them.  Through  the  group  of  companies  with  which  they  are  asso- 
ciated Messrs.  Lewis  and  Marks  control  enormous  land  and  mining  interests,  and  a 
prosperous  Transvaal  will  bring  them  and  their  co-shareholders  profits  such  as  are  little 
dreamt  of  to-day.  There  is  hardly  any  interest  or  branch  of  industry  in  the  Transvaal 
that  can  have  prosperity  without  some  measure  of  it  falling  to  the  lot  of  Messrs.  Lewis 
and  Marks'  group,  and  this  fact,  taken  in  conjunction  with  the  recently  disclosed 
possibilities  of  the  firm's  holdings  on  the  eastern  extension  of  the  Rand,  augurs  well  for 
the  future  of  this  comprehensive  combination.  This  is,  without  doubt,  one  of  the  best 
of  the  groups  operating  in  the  Transvaal,  and  when  the  unfavourable  labour  conditions 
have  passed  away  from  the  Rand,  great  progress  will  be  made  with  the  mining  portion 
of  its  holdings,  and  the  interests  and  influence  of  Messrs.  Lewis  and  Marks  will  be  con- 
siderably extended. 

The  propert}^  with  which  Messrs.  Lewis  and  Marks  are  prominently  identified, 
which  is  engaging  the  greatest  attention  at  present,  is  that  of  the  East  Rand  Mining 
Estates,  Limited,  which  has  a  very  large  holding  on  the  eastern  extension  on  the  Main 
Reef,  including  the  farms  Grootvlei  and  Palmietkuil,  situated  east  of  Geduld  and  south 
of  Welgedacht,  and  which  is  taking  a  leading  part  in  proving  the  continuation  of  the 
Main  Reef  series  eastwards,  and  the  results  it  has  so  far  achieved  lead  to  the  conclusion 
that  it  will  eventually  develop  into  a  huge  undertaking  and  the  parent  of  many  flourishing 
subsidiary  companies. 

The  Vereeniging  Estates  is  an  undertaking  of  vast  extent,  of  great  potentialities, 
and  one  that  is  full  of  promise.  There  are  on  the  company's  estates  valuable  colUeries, 
the  coal  in  which  it  is  well-nigh  impossible  to  estimate  ;  a  recent  geological  survey  has 
revealed  possibilities  in  regard  to  the  existence  of  other  minerals  and  metals  which 
cannot  fail  to  have  an  important  bearing  on  the  future  of  this  great  enterprise,  and  the 
farming  and  kindred  operations,  to  say  nothing  of  the  company's  interest  in  the  town- 
ship of  Vereeniging,  amounting  to  over  three-fourths  of  the  erven,  are  no  mean  sources 
of  revenue.  With  regard  to  the  coal  mines,  the  New  Cornelia  and  the  Central  are  well 
developed,  and  are  producing  satisfactorily. 

Coming  to  the  question  of  the  possible  existence  on  the  Vereeniging  Estates  of 
other  minerals  and  metals,  it  must  be  conceded  that  the  geological  survey,  made  some 
time  ago  by  Dr.  Hatch,  has  yielded  important  results.  This  survey  was  carried  out 
most  carefuUy  by  the  eminent  geologist  referred  to,  and  it  may  be  gathered  therefrom 
that  the  value  of  several  of  the  company's  farms,  and  notably  Schaapplaats,  is  likely 
to  be  very  considerably  enhanced.  Without  going  into  details,  it  may  be  stated  that 
there  are  several  other  profitable  industries  carried  on  by  the  Vereeniging  Estates, 
and  that  the  position  and  prospects  of  the  company  are  unquestionably  of  the  brightest 
description.  Another  big  coal  undertaking  ^vith  which  Messrs.  Lewis  and  Marks  are 
associated  is  the  Great  Eastern  Collieries. 

Of  the  landed  interests  with  which  Messrs.  Lewis  and  Marks  are  mainly  identified 
we  must  refer  to  the  Transvaal  Estates  and  Development,  which  owns  about  2,000,000 


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acres  of  land,  twenty-three  mining  claims,  stands  and  buildings  in  Johannesburg,  and 
various  investments.  Messrs.  Lewis  and  Marks,  together  with  Messrs.  Barnato  Brothers, 
John  BaUott  and  others,are  greatly  interested  in  the  coal  mining  industry  of  the  Belfast 
■Carolina  districts  on  the  main  railroad  to  Delagoa,  in  the  development  of  which  port 
their  enterprising  firm  is  taking  a  premier  place.  The  Great  Sheba  Mine,  the  pioneer 
gold-producer  of  the  De  Kaap-Barberton  fields,  along  with  other  local  properties, 
is  under  the  control  of  the  Threadneedle  House  financiers,  whose  industrial  and  mining 
ramifications  literally  extend  from  the  Gape  to  Central  Africa. 


THE  NEUMANN  GROUP. 

Outside  those  who  are  intimately  acquainted  with  the  subject,  perhaps  the  active 
part  played  by  the  firm  of  Messrs.'S.  Neumann  and  Co.,  in  the  development  of  the  Trans- 
vaal gold  mining  industry,  is  not  generally  recognized.  Almost  from  the  early  days  the 
firm  of  Neumann  and  Co.,  in  which  Messrs.  H.  J.  King  and  C.  S.  Goldmann  until  recently 
played  a  prominent  part  as  partners,  has  been  largely  interested  in  the  Rand,  and  has 
materially  aided  in  the  exploitation  of  the  world-famous  goldfield  ;  but  of  late  years  the 
firm's  holdings  have  been  enormously  increased,  with  the  result  that  to-day  it  occupies 
an  influential  position  in  the  ranks  of  the  powerful  financial  groups  whose  names  are 
synonymous  with  Rand  development  and  progress.  The  more  important  of  the  Neu- 
mann group  of  producing  companies  include  the  Treasury  Gold  Mines,  a  steady  dividend 
payer,  which  has  done,  and  is  still  doing,  well  for  its  shareholders  ;  the  Wolhuter  Gold 
Mines,  which,  after  experiencing  a  number  of  vicissitudes,  appears  to  be  on  the  thres- 
hold of  a  period  of  regular  profit-earning  ;  the  New  Modderf ontein,  which  has  excellent 
prospects,  and  to  which  belongs  the  distinction  of  possessing  a  larger  claim  area  than 
any  other  purely  mining  company  on  the  Rand  ;  the  Consolidated  Main  Reef  Mines  and 
Estate,  which  will,  when  normal  conditions  have  been  restored  to  the  mining  industry, 
reward  the  shareholders  for  the  patience  they  have  exhibited  under  trying  circum- 
stances ;  and  the  Witwatersrand  Deep,  which  is  earning  profits  and  appears  to  have  a 
bright  future  before  it.  Among  the  developing  mines  of  the  group,  Knight  C-entral 
And  Driefontein  Deep  are  splendid  properties  ;  whilst  the  African  Farms,  Limited,  and 
Gloverfield  Mines,  Limited,  have  excellent  prospects. 


THE  GOERZ  GROUP. 

The  group  of  companies  associated  with  A.  Goerz  and  Co.,  Limited,  which  the  late 
Mr.  Adolf  Goerz  successfully  founded  and  established  on  a  sound  basis,  includes  several 
well-known  and  very  profitable  mining  undertakings,  as  well  as  a  number  of  mines  still 
in  the  developing  stage,  and  extensive  properties  on  the  East  and  West  Rand,  the 
possibilities  of  which,  owing  to  their  contiguity  to  proved  areas,  are  enormous.  The 
controlling  company  of  the  group  is  A.  Goerz  and  Co.,  Limited,  which  has  done  and  is 
still  doing  an  immense  amount  of  work  in  extending  our  knowledge  of,  and  developing, 


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neglected  sections  of  the  Rand,  and  which  has  been  the  means  of  adding  very  consider- 
ably to  the  workable  areas  of  that  celebrated  goldfield. 

Messrs.  A,  Goerz  and  Co.,  Limited,  of  which  Messrs.  Amandus  Brakhan  and 
Henry  Strakosch  are  the  managing  directors,  has  an  issued  capital  of  £1,325,000,  and 
large  share  interests  in  the  companies  included  in  the  Goerz  Group,  and  holdings  in 
many  other  concerns.  At  the  end  of  1903,  the  company  held  512  claims,  most  of  them 
being  well-situated  deep-level  blocks  in  the  western  district  of  the  Rand,  and  its  land 
holdings  consisted  of  7,480  acres  of  unproclaimed  deep-level  ground  in  the  Western 
and  Eastern  Rand  districts,  including  the  western  half  of  the  farm  Witpoort,  upon  which 
five  bore-holes  have  cut  the  main  reef.  There  are  also  other  important  interests  on 
the  Rand. 

Other  well  known  companies  in  the  group  are  the  Geduld  Proprietary  Mines,. 
Lancaster  West,  May  Consolidated,  Roodepoort  Central  Deep,  Tudor,  Modderfontein 
Deep,  Princess  Estate,  and  Lancaster  Gold  Mining  Companies,  the  Klerksdorp  Explora- 
tion Land  and  Estate  Co.,  and  the  Rand  Central  Electric  Works,  Limited. 


HENDERSON'S  TRANSVAAL  ESTATES. 

The  enormous  interests  and  holdings  of  Henderaon's  Transvaal  Estates,  Limited,  in 
the  Transvaal  and  other  parts  of  South  Africa,  place  it  in  the  front  rank  of  land  and 
mining  corporations  in  that  country.  Henderson's  Transvaal  Estates,  besides  carrying 
on  operations  on  some  of  its  own  properties  in  various  parts  of  the  Transvaal  for  the 
purpose  of  proving  the  existence  of  and  developing  gold  or  other  ore  bodies,  controls 
several  companies,  and,  generally  speaking,  as  far  as  present  conditions  will  allow,  it  is 
doing  its  share  to  advance  the  material  interests  of  the  country.  The  capital  of  the 
company  is  £2,000,000,  and  the  directors  include  Messrs.  J.  C.  A.  Henderson  (chairman), 
W.  Bryson  Butler  (general  manager),  Alfred  Gaussen,  E.  J.  Halsey,  Geo.  Lawson 
Johnston,  and  Roger  C.  Richards,  The  local  committee  at  Johannesburg  is  composed 
of  Messrs.  T.  W.  G.  Moir,  Emrys  Evans,  C.M.G.,  Samuel  Thomson,  G.  W.  Cooke,  and 
William  Pott. 

The  companies  under  the  control  of  Henderson's  Transvaal  Estates  are  :  Con- 
solidated South  Rand  Mines  Deep,  Limited  ;  Daggafontein  Gold  Mining  Co.,  Limited  ; 
Tyne  Valley  Colliery,  Limited ;  and  the  Delagoa  Bay  Development  Corporation, 
Limited. 


THE  ALBU  GROUP. 

Wliat  are  known  as  the  Albu  Group  of  companies,  under  the  control  of  the  General 
Mining  and  Finance  Corporation,  Limited,  which  was  founded  by  Messrs.  George  and 
Leopold  Albu,  the  managing  directors,  form  one  of  the  most  progressive  combinations 
operating  on  the  Rand.  The  group,  as  a  whole,  is  managed  on  up-to-date  lines,  and  a 
feature  in  the  working  of  the  mines  is  the  introduction  of  labour-saving  and  other 


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appliances,  with  a  view  to  economizing  expenditure.  That  the  controlling  company, 
the  General  Mining  and  Finance  Corporation,  is  well  managed  is  evident  from  the 
success  which  has  hitherto  attended  its  operations.  In  addition  to  the  General  Mining 
and  Finance  Corporation,  the  group  consists  of  the  Meyer  and  Charlton,  Roodepoort 
United  Main  Reef,  New  Goch,  Cinderella  Deep,  Van  Ryn,  Aurora  West,  New  Steyn 
Estate,  West  Rand  Mines,  Sacke  Estates,  Violet  Consolidated,  and  the  Midas  East 
Estate  G.M.  Co.,  Limited. 

MESSRS.  OCHS  BROTHERS'  INTERESTS. 

There  are  very  few  firms  who  are  identified  with  a  greater  variety  of,  or  with  more 
substantial,  interests  in  Africa  than  are  the  well-known  financiers  of  Clements  Lane, 
London,  E.G.,  and  of  Paris.  The  firm,  consisting  of  Mr.  Albert  Lionel  Ochs,  Mr.  T.  F. 
Dalglish,  and  Mr.  Louis  Ochs,  has  interests,  of  one  description  or  another,  in  every 
quarter  of  Africa,  and  it  would  be  impossible  for  prosperity  to  come  to  any  part  of  that 
continent  without  benefiting  one  or  other  of  the  important  enterprises  in  which  they 
are  engaged.  This  will  in  a  measure  indicate  how  far-reaching  is  the  firm's  influence 
in  the  development  of  Africa,  but  it  will,  perhaps,  be  more  readily  understood  when  we 
state  that  Messrs.  Ochs  Brothers  are  largely  identified  with  the  Mozambique  Company, 
which,  under  a  Portuguese  Royal  Charter,  is  governing  and  developing  a  vast  territory 
in  East  Africa,  and  that  they  are  interested  in  the  Oceana  Consolidated,  New  African 
Company,  New  Egyptian  Company,  the  International  Ethiopian  Railway  Trust  and 
Construction  Company  (which  has  undertaken  important  railway  work  in  connection 
with  the  opening  up  of  Abyssinia),  the  Soudan  Development  and  Exploration  Company, 
the  London  and  South  African  Agency  Limited,  the  Van  Ryn  Gold  Mines,  and  the 
Welgedacht  Exploration  Company,  Limited.  As  these  companies,  with  one  or  two 
exceptions,  are  associated  with  each  other,  their  interests  are  practically  identical,  and 
it  requires  but  very  little  perception  to  enable  one  to  realize  that  such  a  powerful  com- 
bination must  exercise  a  great  influence  in  the  development  of  Africa. 

THE  EHRLICH-HAMILTON  GROUP. 

Although  one  of  the  youngest  of  the  financial  firms  whose  operations  are  chiefly 
connected  with  the  South  African  mining  industry,  Messrs.  L.  Ehrlich  and  F.  H.  Hamil- 
ton have  associated  themselves  with  an  important  group  of  companies,  many  of  which 
are  under  their  direction  and  control.  This  firm  first  came  into  prominence  through 
the  H.  E.  Proprietary,  Limited,  a  company  brought  out  under  its  auspices  for  the 
purpose  of  acquiring  and  developmg  several  blocks  of  claims  on  the  Murchison  Range 
gold  belt  in  the  Northern  Transvaal.  In  all,  the  company  has  over  1,600  claims  in 
blocks  of  varying  sizes,  and  extending  over  about  sixty  miles.  On  some  of  these 
blocks  shafts  have  been  sunk,  and  the  existence  of  a  series  of  well-defined  reefs  has  been 
established  for  a  distance  of  forty  miles.  Other  companies  coming  within  the  scope 
of  this  group  are  the  Piggs  Peak  Development  Co.,  the  Frank  Smith  Diamond  Co., 
the  East  Rand  Deep,  and  the  Midas  Deep. 


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TRANSVAAL  EXPLORING  COMPANY. 

The  chief  properties  of  the  Transvaal  Exploring  Land  and  Minerals  Company  are 
the  proclaimed  gold  farm  Tweefontein  in  the  Heidelberg  district,  producing  a  consider- 
able income  from  licenses  ;  gold  farm,  Eersteling,  in  the  Pietersburg  district ;  Excelsior 
Coal  property,  Middelburg  ;  Southern  Rand  Mynpachts  ;  Barberton  Gold  properties  ; 
and  extensive  areas  in  the  Carolina,  Potchefstroom,  Bloemhof,  Lichtenburg,  Lydenburg 
and  other  districts.  It  also  holds  nearly  40  per  cent,  of  the  capital  of  the  West  Rand 
Oentral  Mine,  which  is  making  large  profits,  and  building  stands  in  Johannesburg  pro- 
ducing regular  revenue.  These  properties  comprise  gold,  coal,  diamond,  and  landed 
interests  in  all  the  districts  of  repute  in  the  Transvaal  of  to-day,  from  Ventersdorp  in 
the  west  to  Ermelo  in  the  east,  and  from  "  Tweefontein  "  on  the  line  of  the  Coronation 
Reef  to  "  Eersteling  "  in  the  northern  gold-zone,  where  in  these  days  the  "  big  houses  " 
are  increasingly  in  evidence. 

The  result  of  sound  judgment  in  a  long  process  of  acquisition,  and  of  very  consider- 
able foresight  in  the  matter  of  land-futures,  the  Transvaal  Explormg  Company  of  to-day 
makes  substantial  testimony  to  the  pluck,  tenacity  of  purpose,  and  consistent  faith  of 
Mr.  Henry  Samuel,  the  managing  director  of  the  company  and  the  moving  spirit  in  its 
affairs.'^/ Himself  a  poineer  of  the  Rand,  who  saw  Johannesburg's  first  beginnings  ere 
its  name  was  inscribed  in  the  Book  of  Gold,  or  even  on  maps  of  the  period,  and  who  "  in 
the  early  days  "  had  not  a  little  to  do  with  the  big  propositions  which  form  the  basis  of 
the  great  and  representative  concerns  on  the  Rand  of  to-day,  Mi.  Samuel  has  ever  been 
among  the  few  who,  possessing  the  habit  of  the  "  long  view,"  saw  a  future  for  South 
African  land,  and  who  also  insisted  and  predicted  that  the  "  outside  districts  "  or 
"  remoter  rands  "  would,  aU  in  good  time,  come  to  the  front  and  contribute  substantially 
to  the  country's  gold-yield  as  conditions  became  more  favourable. 


TRANSVAAL  GOLD  FIELDS,  LIMITED. 

The  success  which  has  been  achieved  by  the  Transvaal  Gold  Fields,  Limited,  is 
admittedly  due  to  the  unremitting  attention  which  Mr.  Julius  Berlein  and  Mr.  W. 
Dettelbach,  the  managing  directors,  devote  to  its  business.  The  company's  principal 
holdings 'are  in  the  Transvaal  and  Delagoa  Bay  Investment  Company,  Limited,  the 
Windsor  Gold  Mines,  Limited,  on  whose  property  a  large  amount  of  development  work 
has  been  done,  the  ore  assays  giving  every  promise  of  good  results  being  achieved  ;  the 
West  Rand  Mines,  Limited,  the  Tudor  Gold  Mining  Company,  the  Roodepoort  Gold 
Mining  Company  (446  claims),  and  the  Pretoria  Tramway  Company.  In  addition,  the 
company  owns  farms  and  options  on  farms  in  different  parts  of  the  Transvaal,  and  has 
interests  in  mining  claims,  ail  of  which  will  at  the  earliest  opportmiity  be  turned  to 
profitable  account. 


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THE  WESTERN  RAND  ESTATES,  LIMITED. 

r"  A  companyi  which  has  done,  and  is  still  doing,  important  work  in  proving  the 
continuation  of  the  Main  Reef,  or  Randfontein  series,  in  the  extreme  western  section 
of  the  Witwatersrand  Goldfields  in  the  Western  Rand  Estates.  This  company  owes  its 
inception  largely  to  the  energy  of  Mi'.  D.  J.  Pullinger,  the  pioneer  of  the  district,  who  has 
thrown  himself  so  thoroughly  into  the  work  of  proving  the  western  extension  of  the 
Main  Reef  on  the  properties  belonging  to  the  Western  Rand  Estates,  that  locally,  at 
Johannesburg  and  elsewhere  along  the  Reef,  the  companies  boring  and  prospecting  on 
the  Far  Western  Rand  are  generally  described  as  working  on  the  "  Pulhnger  line." 
Originally  the  capital  of  the  company  was  £108,000,  in  4-32,000  shares  of  the  value  of 
55.  each,  fully  paid  up,  of  which  £50,000  was  for  working  capital.  Subsequently,  how- 
ever, the  capital  was  increased  to  £135,000,  in  540,000  5s.  shares,  Mr.  Pullinger  pur- 
chasing 81,000  of  the  new  shares  at  20s.,  and  having  an  option  over  tlie  remaining 
27,000  shares  at  30.s.  for  one  year,  which  has  been  exercised.  The  company  purchased 
the  freehold  and  mineral  rights  of  the  undermentioned  farms,  situated  in  the  district 
of  Krugersdorp,  and  immediately  south-west  of  Randfontein :  — 

Freehold  farms  :  Gemsbokfontein,  No.  1  :  Venterspost  (one  quarter),  No.  27  ; 
Libanon,  No.  396  ;  Uitval,  No.  663  ;  and  Blaaubank  (undivided  half),  No.  672,  equal 
to  26,222  English  acres. 

It  also  holds  mineral  rights  over  the  farms  :  Venterspost  (remaining  three-quarters). 
No.  27  ;  Blaaubank  (whole).  No.  41,  equal  to  18,816  English  acres. 

The  gross  area  of  land  comprised  in  the  above  farms,  of  which  the  owners'  rights  to 
minerals  all  belong  to  the  company,  is  21.278  morgen,  equal  to  45,038  acres.  With  the 
exception  of  the  farm  Blaaubank,  No.  672,  of  which  the  company  owns  an  undivided 
half,  the  properties  are  all  in  one  block,  centreing  roughly  on  the  farm  Middelvlei,  the 
southern  boundaries  of  which  march  both  with  Gemsbokfontein  and  Venterspost. 
More  recently  the  company  has  acquired  half  interest  in  the  option  to  puichase  the 
farms  Orange  Grove  and  Elandsfontein,  which  adjoin  the  farms  LTitval  and  Libanon 
on  the  south,  thus  bringing  the  area  of  its  holdings  up  to  somewhere  in  the  vicinitv  of 
51,390  acres,  The  possibilities  embraced  in  an  estate  of  this  area,  taken  in  conjunction 
with  the  trend  of  the  Randfontein,  or  ]\Iain  Reef,  series,  are  enormous,  and  the  splendid 
results  obtained  from  the  boreholes  whicli  have  been  put  down  will,  doubtless,  in  course 
of  time  lead  to  the  formation  of  several  mining  companies  in  order  to  adequately  deal 
with  such  a  large  and  rich  gold-bearing  property.  The  directors  of  the  company  are 
Messrs.  H.  C.  Hull.  D.  J.  Pullinger,  E.  J.  Pulhnger,  J.  W.  Pierson,  and  J.  C.  Kirkwood, 
with  Messrs.  D.  J.  Pullinger,  F.  C.  Poisson,  and  G.  J.  V.  Emsell  as  a  London  committee. 


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GOLD    DREDGER   AT   WORK    IN    WEST    AFRICA. 


GOLD  DREDGING  IN  WEST  AFRICA. 

From  the  very  earliest  times,  the  commonest  and  most  simple  means  of  obtaining 
gold  has  been  the  washing  of  fine  gold  from  the  beds  of  rivers,  and  though  it  is  a 
long  step  from  the  simple  wooden  bowl  to  the  modern  dredger,  with  its  winches,  pumps, 
water-tube  boilers,  electric  light,  and  its  capacity  of  60  to  90  cubic  yards  per  hour, 
the  two  processes,  both  ancient  and  modern,  may  still  be  seen  working  practically 
side  by  side.  The  pioneer  dredging  company  under  the  most  modern  conditions  in 
West  Africa  is  the  Birrim  Valley  Gold  Mining  and  Dredging  Co.,  Ltd. 

The  concessions  owned  by  the  Birrim  Valley  Company  embrace  a  portion  of  the 
Atiwa  and  the  Apedwa  ranges  of  mountains,  and  the  country  immediately  between 
them,  the  entire  concession  being  situated  in  the  province  of  Eastern  Akim.  The 
headquarters  of  the  company  were  established  at  the  town  of  Kyebi,  in  the  valley 
between  the  two  mountain  ranges,  the  River  Birrim  forming  a  semi-circle  with  about 
a  two-mile  radius  round  the  town.  In  its  normal  condition  the  river  is  about  20  ft. 
wide  and  9  in.  to  1  ft.  in  depth.  Its  bed  is  for  miles  composed  of  auriferous  gravel, 
and  on  either  bank  there  is  an  alluvial  flat  varying  in  width  from  200  to  900  ft. 


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THE  CONSOLIDATED  RAND=RHODESIA  TRUST  AND 
GENERAL  EXPLORATION  COMPANY,  LIMITED. 

AUTHORISED   CAPITAL  £200,000 

IN    SHARES    OF   £l    EACH. 

ISSUED    CAPITAL      .      .      .      ^^93,007 

Directors. 

W.  A.  WILLS,  Chairman. 
E.  PHILLIPS.  Dr.  H.  SAUER. 

P.  S.  INSKIPP.  JOHN  SEEAR. 

R.  C.  RICHARDS. 
Johannesburg  Comryiittee—C.   A.    O.   BAIN  and  H.   FELDMANN. 

Bankers. 

THE  AFRICAN  BANKING  CORPORATION,  LIMITED. 
THE  BRITISH  LINEN  COMPANY  BANK,  LIMITED. 

Solicitors. 

J.  A.  MAXWELL,  41,  Bishopsgate  Street,  E.C. 

SOLOMON  AND  THOMSON,   Johannesburg,  Transvaal  Colony. 

Auditors. 

SEEAR,  HASLUCK  AND  CO.,  Chartered  Accountants. 

Registered  Office.  Secretary. 

1,  RANCH  CHAMBERS,  SALISBURY,  RHODESIA.  H.    BAX,    F.I.C.S. 

London  O^ce— 712-713,  SALISBURY  HOUSE,  LONDON  WALL,  E.C. 
Johannesburg  Office— 2.-10,  BROWN'S  BUILDINGS,  LOVEDAY  STREET. 


CHIEF  ASSETS  as  at  30  June,  1903. 

{Extracted from  Directors'  Report.) 

SHAREHOLDINGS. 
Elandsfontein  Deep,  Limited. 

The  Company's  holdmg  in  this  subsidiary  concern  consists  of  18,500  Shares,  fully  paid,  and 
19,042  Shares,  on  which  .5s.  per  Share  has  been  paid — a  total  holding  of  37,542  Shares. 

The  Elandsfontein  Deep  formerly  owned  a  deep  level  block  of  claims  situate  to  the  sovith 
of  the  Rand  Mines  Deep,  a  deep  level  trust  controlled  jointly  by  Messrs.  Wernher,  Beit,  and 
Co.  and  the  Consolidated  Goldfields  of  South  Africa.  These  claims  were  sold  to  the  latter 
Company  for  a  cash  consideration  of  £31,000,  and  a  Share  consideration  of  about  16,000 
shares  in  a  Gold  Mining  Company  (to  be  formed  by  the  Consolidated  Goldfields),  with  a 
right  to  subscribe  60,000  Shares  in  the  working  capital  on  flotation  at  par.  Tiie  Balance- 
Sheet  of  the  Elandsfontein  Deep,  Limited,  dated  24th  April,  showed  : — 

Cash  in  Hand £37,920 

Cash  at  Call         5,909 

Uncalled  Capital  . .  . .  . .  . .  . .        45,000 

Total  Cash  resources      . .  . .  . .      £88,829 

The  issued  Capital  being  £110,000. 


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THE    CONSOLIDATED    RAND-RHODESIA   TRUST   AND 
GENERAL     EXPLORATION     COMPANY,    LIMITED    (^Continued). 

When  the  time  arrives  for  the  flotation  of  the  ground  sold  to  the  Consohdated  Goldfields  of 
South  Africa,  it  is  expected  that  this  Company  will  realize  a  large  profit  from  its  interest  in  the 
Elandsfontein  Deep. 

Randt  Reefs  Gold  Mining  Company,  Limited,  14,  609  Shares,  fully  paid,  and  Debentures. 

The  115  claims  owned  by  this  Company  are  situated  between  the  property  of  the  Rand 
Mines  Deep  (alluded  to  above)  and  that  of  the  Consolidated  South  Rand  Mines  Deep,  a  large 
deep  level  block  floated  by  Henderson's  Transvaal  Estates,  Limited.  Ultimately  the  claims 
of  the  Randt  Reefs  Company  are  likely  to  be  absorbed  by  a  large  consolidation  of  neighbouring 
interests. 

African  Concessions  Syndicate,  7,080  Shares. 

This  subsidiary  Syndicate  holds  a  concession  for  75  years  from  the  British  South  Africa 
Company  to  employ  the  water  power  of  the  Victoria  Falls,  Zambesi  River,  for  the  develop- 
ment of  electrical  power.  Recent  articles  in  the  Times  and  other  newspapers  will  have 
informed  shareholders  of  the  vast  possibilities  of  this  scheme,  the  ultimate  commercial  value 
of  which  can  hardly  be  over-estimated.  The  total  capital  of  the  Syndicate  is  £50,000,  of 
which  about  £40,000  represents  cash  resources.  One-half  of  the  share  capital  was  subscribed 
at  par  by  the  British  South  Africa  Company. 

REAL    ESTATE. 
Van  der  Berg's  portion  of  Farm  Middelvlei,  Witwatersrand. 

This  asset  consists  of  freehold  ground,  in  extent  about  1,200  acres,  and  yielding  a  revenvie 
of  from  £1,000  to  £1,200  per  annum  to  this  Company.  A  large  amount  on  this  account  for 
the  period  covered  by  the  war  is  in  arrear,  but  the  Company's  Johannesburg  agents  are  en- 
gaged in  collecting  the  same. 

MINING    PROPERTIES  (Witwatersrand). 
347  Claims,  Randfontein. 

This  is  one  of  the  most  important  assets  of  the  Company.  The  property  has  been  reported 
upon  by  Mr.  J.  I.  Hoffmann,  late  Manager  of  the  North  Randfontein  Company,  as  containing 
in  his  opinion  the  extenson  of  the  Randfontein  or  ]\Iain  Reef  series.  If  developments  prove 
his  opinion  to  be  correct  this  property  should  alone  be  worth  the  whole  capital  of  the  Company. 
Good  offers  have  been  made  from  time  to  time,  but  the  directors  have  not  yet  received  one 
which  they  consider  adequately  represents  its  value. 

SUNDRY    INTERESTS. 
Estate  Finance  and  Mines  Corporation,  29,000  Shares. 

This  Corporation  has  a  capital  of  £672,778,  with  large  and  important  assets,  including 
real  estate  in  Johannesburg  yielding  a  revenue  of  £18,000  a  year  and  valued  at  £2'j0,000. 
It  has  real  estate  assets  in  England  at  Edgware,  Bromley,  and  Walmer,  and  holds  a  very 
substantial  proportion  of  the  capital  of  the  Randfontein  Deep,  a  powerful  deep-level  com- 
pany floated  on  joint  account  with  Messrs.  Neumann,  Barnato,  Albu,  and  Goerz.  It  also 
possesses  a  large  interest  in  the  Kamfersdam  Diamond  Mines,  and  other  interests  too  numerous 
to   recapitulate  here. 

Houston  Blocic,  131  Claims  on  Vlakfontein  and  Vogelstruisfontein  {Witivatersrand). 

An  interest  in  the  Houston  Block  is  held  on  joint  accomit  with  Henderson's  Transvaal 
Estates  and  another  large  South  African  House. 

It  stands  in  the  books  at  a  cost  of  £4,143,  and  it  is  considered  should  yield  ultimately  a 
handsome  profit. 

Farm  Vlakfontein  No.  155  {Witivatersrand). 

The  Company  is  interested  in  this  farm  jointly  with  the  Goldfields  of  Matabeleland  and 
others.     Tlie  cost  of  this  participation  stands  in  the  books  at  £4,185. 

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THE    VICTORIA    FALLS. 


The  African   Concessions  Syndicate,  Ltd. 


CAPITAL- 
AUTHORISED     £50,000  in  £1  shares. 

ISSUED       ...     -     6.703  shares  £1  called  up. 


23,297 
20,000 
50,000 

Directors. 

Messrs.  W.  A.  Wills,  Chairman.  A.  H.  D.  Cochrane. 

H.  Wilson  Fox.  A.  H.  Haggard. 

I.  H.  HiRSCHLER.  J.  F.  Jones. 

Consulting  Engineers- 

Sir    Douglas    Fox   and   Sir   Charles   Metcalfe,   Bart. 


lOs. 
5s. 


Auditors. 

Messrs.    Fox,    Sissons    6f    Co.,    9,    Austin    Friars, 
London,  E.C. 

Secretary  and  Offices. 

S.    Staveley    Briggs,    701,    Salisbury    House,   London 
Wall,   London,   E.C. 


The  Syndicate  was  formed  on  the  4th  October,  1895,  to  acquire  a  concession  of  the 
Victoria  Falls  on  the  Zambesi  River,  South  Africa,  for  the  purpose  of  utilizing  the  water  power 
for  the  generation  of  electricity,  and  has  obtained  from  the  British  South  Africa  Company  a  lease 
of  the  Falls  for  75  years  under  certain  conditions. 

A  Model  of  the  Victoria  Falls,  prepared  from  diagrams  and  measurements  made  on  the 
spot  in  1864  by  the  well  known  Explorer,  Mr.  Thomas  Baines,  is  on  exhibition  in  the  Museum 
of  the  British  South  Africa  Company,  London  Wall  Buildings,  London  Wall,  E.C. 

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Riding    Breeches    a    Speciality. 

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MINISTERIAL   AND    DIPLOMATIC 
COUNTY   AND    CITY   LIEUTENANTS 
CONSULAR    SERVICE 
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CLASSIFIED  INDEX  TO  ADVERTISEMENTS 


Advertising  Agents — 

African  Advertising  and  Intelligence 

Agency,    Ltd 292 

Vickers  J.  W 291 

Boot  Makers — 

Norris,  George v 

Directories,  South  African — 

Donaldson  &  Hill 293 

Jew^ellers,  Silversmiths,  etc. — 

Lambert         296 

Military  Tailors — 

Bartels  &  Co 294 

Newspapers  and  Publishers — 

"  African  Review " 279 

"  African  World "          297 

"  Anglo- Japanese    Gazette"   .      .      .  289 
"  British   and  South  African  Export 

Gazette"          288 

Donaldson  &  Hill 293 

""  Financial  News " ii 

"  Financier  and  Bullionist  "...  286 

"  Liverpool  Journal  of  Commerce  "  .  287 

Houtledge,  George,  &  Son,  Ltd.     .      .  vii 

"  South  Africa " i 


page 

Public  Companies — 

African  Advertising  and  ^Intelligence 

Agency,   Ltd 292 

African   Concessions,  Syndicate,  Ltd. 

282,  283 
Consolidated    Rand-Rhodesia     Trust 

and  General  Exploration  Co.,  Ltd.   280-1 

Elandsfontein  Deep.  Ltd 285 

Johannesburg     Consolidated    Invest- 
ment Co.,  Ltd 284 

Railways — 

Rhodesia  Railways,  Ltd,        ...         xi 

Rope  Manufacturers — 

Dreaper,  Sons  &  Co.  (London),  Ltd.    .     285 

Seeds — 

Surrey  Seed  Co.,  Ltd xiii 

Tailors — 

Bailey,  Thos iii 

Bartels  &  Co 294 

Clark,  Fred  W 296 

Turtles — 

Bellis,  T.  K iii 

Typewriting — 

Excelsior  Typewriting  Co.  .  .  .  290 
Watches  and  Clocks — 

Dent,  E.,  &  Co ix 


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