Henry Bartle Frere
British colonial Welsh administrator (1815-1884) · Politicians · Died at 69
Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet, was a British colonial administrator. He had a successful career in India, rising to become Governor of Bombay (1862-1867).
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Henry Bartle Frere, by 'Spy' in Vanity Fair, 1873
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Pro-imperialist cartoon showing Sir Bartle Frere vanquishing the "negrophilist" liberals of the Cape government, represented by MP Saul Solomon.
Sir Henry Bartle Frere in the 1880s.
The Battle of Isandlwana, Anglo-Zulu War
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However, as High Commissioner for Southern Africa (1877-1880), he implemented a set of policies which attempted to impose a British confederation on the region and which led to the overthrow of the Cape Colony's first elected government in 1878 and to a string of regional wars, culminating in the invasion of Zululand (1879) and the First Boer War (1880-1881). The British Prime Minister, Gladstone, recalled Frere to London to face charges of misconduct; Whitehall officially censured Frere for acting recklessly.
