Sidney Godolphin Alexander Shippard
Sir Sidney Godolphin Alexander Shippard, KCMG (* May 29, 1837 in Brussels, † March 29, 1902 in London) was a British colonial administrator.
Biography
Shippard occurred after the study of law in the judicial service of the British colonial administration and was from 1875 to 1877 Attorney General ( Attorney General ) of Griqualand West and then to 1878 Criminal Judge of the High Court of Griqualand. 1880 he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of the Cape Colony (Cape Supreme Court ). There he worked until 1885.
After the formal takeover of British Bechuanaland on 23 October 1885, he became the first administrator of the newly created Protectorate.
He was an energetic supporter of the plans of Cecil Rhodes to the expansion of British influence in the north, so as to forestall a possible influence by the German Empire and the Boers. In 1887, he pressed the High Commissioner of South Africa, Sir Hercules Robinson not to sanction an agreement between the King of Matabeleland and Mashonaland Lobengula and the representatives of the Transvaal Piet Grobler. For his services he was knighted in 1887 ( Knight) of the Order of St Michael and St George defeated and led since the additional name sir.
In February 1888, he then asked Sir Hercules Robinson for deployment of the Reverend John Smith Moffat to negotiate a treaty with King Lobengula, in which the king was asked to give up any territory without British consent. By watching Moffat's father, Robert Moffat, it actually came to the conclusion that peace and friendship treaty. Then succeeded Shippard to persuade King Lobengula in October 1888, to guarantee the agent of Cecil Rhodes, Charles Rudd, a concession for mining in the Matabele kingdom. This letter approved by a guard ( Royal Charter ) of Queen Victoria procedure provided the foundation for the establishment of the British South Africa Company ( British South Africa Company, BSAC ) in 1889.
After the incorporation of British Bechuanaland to the Cape Colony on November 16, 1895 his position was abolished as an administrator of the former protectorate.
In December 1895 connivance at the so-called Jameson Raid of Leander Jameson for the subjugation of the Boer republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State was with him suspected under direct British colonial rule, as he had previously prompts two chiefs of the Protectorate in 1894, their areas close to the to provide border with Transvaal under the administration of the BSAC. These areas also Pitasani, from where the ultimately failed miserably Jameson Raid was started. At the beginning of the incident, he was however in Johannesburg and asked rumored the local Johannesburg Reform Committee, the prominent supporters of the raid belonged to lay down their arms.
He then went to England and in 1898 became Director of the British South Africa Company ( BSAC ).