Gerald Portal

Sir Gerald Herbert Portal ( born March 13, 1858 in Laverstoke Park, Hampshire; † January 25, 1894 in Westminster, London ) was a British diplomat in Africa.

Portal was built in 1887 sent as an emissary to Ethiopia to give IV between Italians, who so claims to Ethiopia, and Emperor Yohannes.

1889 to 1891 he was ambassador to Zanzibar, where he is the Sultan Khalifa ibn Sa ʿ Eid convince inter alia, the abolition of slavery. Moreover, it was he who settled the Indian splendor Crow on Zanzibar to combat domestic pests, which developed later, however, even the plague.

March 6, 1891 to December 12, 1892 he was Consul General in Zanzibar and in 1892 defeated the Knight.

Frederick Lugard recruited in October 1882 in England for the establishment of a British Protectorate in Uganda, which was intended to replace the Imperial British East Africa Company ( IBEACo ), the British trading company for East Africa, in Buganda. Portal was sent into the country to create an opinion on the possible funding on behalf of the British government. On April 1, 1893 Portal was the first time the Union Jack hoisted over Fort Kampala, on 29 May 1893 he signed a contract with the then King Mwanga, church leaders and Muslims who put Buganda under de facto British protectorate. Officially Buganda became a protectorate in 1894 on June 18.

Portal supported the military considerations Frederick Lugard establishing forts on the border between the kingdoms of Toro and Bunyoro, which is why one of them was named after him in 1900 Fort Portal, in which city his image can be seen. He settled with his administration in Entebbe, the capital of Uganda remained until independence in 1962.

Works

  • The British mission to Uganda in 1893
  • Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
  • Companion of the Order of the Bath
  • British diplomat
  • Briton
  • Born in 1858
  • Died in 1894
  • Man
City of Westminster Yohannes IV. Kabaka of Buganda Mwanga II of Buganda
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