Henry Bartle Frere
Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet GCB, GCSI, PC ( born March 29, 1815 in Clydach in Brecknockshire, Wales, † May 29 1884 in Wimbledon ) was a British diplomat.
Life
Sir Henry Edward Frere ( pron. frähr ) received his education at Haileybury College and played in 1833 in the service of the East India Company.
After he had held several positions under more orderly in the judiciary and administration, he was appointed British Resident in Sindh in 1850 and was serving as such during the Sepoy Rebellion excellent services, for which the government in 1859 appointed him commander of the Bath.
In 1862 him the governorship of Bombay was transferred, where he remained five years, after which he returned to Europe. Later he was sent by the British government to Zanzibar to move the Sultan Barghash ibn Said to abolish the slave trade. Frere came in January 1873 in Zanzibar and brought the conclusion of a contract then targeting after the Sultan was intimidated by the appearance of British warships, on June 5, 1873 about. Frere reported on his mission in Correspondence respecting Sir Bartle Frere 's mission to the East -coast of Africa, 1872-73 (London 1873).
After his return from Zanzibar Frere was a baronet in 1874, appointed to the Privy Council, an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge and an honorary citizen of the City of London. In 1875 he accompanied the Prince of Wales on his trip to India, and in January 1877 he went to South Africa as governor of the Cape Colony and High Commissioner for South Africa. Under his authority, the annexation of the Transvaal was completed in April 1877; but he complicated by and through his vigorous campaign against the king of the Zulus, Cetshwayo, in January 1879 the UK in the dangerous, happy quit until July Zulu War.
In the British Parliament his " imperialist" policy was violently attacked, and the government disapproved of his high-handed, sometimes downright instructional illegal acts, even though It left him at his post in the Cape Colony. Frere wrote about it in Correspondence respecting affairs of Basutoland to the territories to the eastward of the Cape Colony Cont. (1882).
Only in the autumn of 1880 he was appointed William Ewart Gladstone on the insistence of the Liberal Party from after his efforts to unite the South African colonies of Great Britain a confederation had failed. Frere died on 29 May 1884 in Wimbledon in London, he was buried in the Saint Paul's Cathedral.
From his writings are to be mentioned: Eastern Africa a field for missionary labor ( new ed 1874); On the impending Bengal famine (1874 ); Pandurang Hari, memoir of a Hindoo ( new ed 1873).