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1881, Frere, Union of Various Portions of British South Africa
“The Union of the Various Portions of British South Africa”: by Sir Bartle E. Frere, paper extracted from Proceedings of the Royal Colonial
Institute, Vol. 12, 1880/81, pp. 130-174. (Lacks TOC & index. Sir Bartle Frere was an English colonial administrator who was educated at the East India Company
College, the precursor to the later Haileybury and its successor, the Imperial Service College. He began his Company service in 1834 as a writer in
Bombay, and by 1842 had risen to private secretary to the Governor of Bombay. In 1884 he became the political resident at the court of the Rajah of
Satasra, and on that ruler’s death in 1848 became the administrator of the province during its annexation by the East India Company. From 1850-59 he
served Chief Commissioner in Sind, performing with great distinction during the Indian Mutiny. After that upheaval, and now a government official, he
joined the Viceroy’s Council in 1859, and was appointed Governor of Bombay in 1859. His eight-year term was notable for many civic improvements. Upon his
return to England in 1867, he served on the Council of India for a decade, and from 1872-1875 performed various diplomatic missions in Zanzibar and
India with such distinction that by 1967 he had risen to a baronetcy. From 1877-1880 he served as High Commissioner of Southern Africa, where he tried
to implement Foreign Secretary Lord Carnarvon’s ill-fated scheme for a South African Federation. That plan met with intense local resistance that led
up to the Boer War. In addition, Frere mishandled relations with the then-independent Zulu Kingdom. By making ultimatums with which he knew the Zulu
king could not comply, he instigated a war with the Zulu’s against the wishes of the incumbent British government. The battle of Isandlwana, which was
disastrous for the British, and additional defeats of the British in another war that Frere had started with the Basotho, brought him into disgrace.
He was called back to London in 1880 to face charges of reckless misconduct, but died in 1884 before he could fully vindicate his actions. The present
lecture was given during Frere’s period of forced inaction while the charges of misfeasance in office were being investigated.)
Title:   The union of the various portions of British South Africa.
OCLC Number:   878329470
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