John Clark
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Henry Cloete (1792-1870) was the first Recorder of Natal and very learned in Roman-Dutch law as used in Natal. The British government regarded him highly because of his services to them in conducting a kind of census of all the original farms granted to the Voortrekkers between 1839 and 1843. |
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Sambuca Buchanan |
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Charlotte Evelyn Shepstone was born 29 March 1869 |
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St Vincent Whitshed Erskine (1846 - 1918), Surveyor General of South Africa |
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Killie Campbell |
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Professor Alan Frederick Hattersley (1893-1976) was born in Leeds, England, in 1893. He studied History at Cambridge and on completing his degree was invited to come out to South Africa and lecture in history at the new Natal University College (NUC) in 1916. |
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Chas Barter |
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Lieutenant F.G. Farewell (1793-1829), one of the two exnaval officers who pioneered the opening-up of Natal as a trading-station. No pictyre exists of his partner in the trading venture, James Saunders King, who later died of dysentery in Durban and is buried on the Bluff. |
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From Gardiner's "Journey to the Zoolu Country" |
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Scene at the VictorianDocks, of men bringing thier kit aboard the ship, the S.S. Pretoria |
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Victoria Dock. Horse's stalls on deck. |
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A cavalry unit- the King's Dragoons - entering the capital Pietermaritzburg on their way to Zululand. |
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A war artist's sketch of the 24th REgiment enjoying a wayside halt. Among the figures are officers, colonists acting as guides, and Zulu women and boys selling milk, etc. Nearly every soldier pictured here was to die at Isandhlwana. |
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Royal Marines froding a Zululand river. Note their uniforms and weapons- lanyards,shady hats, cutlasses, and short carbines. |
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Interiour of Dingaan's house from Gardiner's "Journey to the Zoolu Country" |
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Treaty whereby Shaka, King of the Zulu's granted to farewell |
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Sketch by R. Caton Woodville. "Birth of Natal" Farewell and settler party shown conferring with Shaka |
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Wreck of the "Grosnenor" |
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Sketch of the cross and its inscription by a Graphic war artist. |