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Born 1764 • Scotland
Died May 18, 1848 (aged 84)
Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, 5th earl of
Thomas Douglas, 5th earl of Selkirk
Scottish philanthropist
Cecil Rhodes
Cecil Rhodes
prime minister of Cape Colony
Full-length portrait of King George III in a red military uniform and black bicorne hat, standing outdoors with a distant building and cloudy sky in the background.
George III
king of Great Britain
Frederick Lugard
Frederick Lugard
British colonial administrator
Robert Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
prime minister of United Kingdom
Dalhousie, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Watson-Gordon, 1847; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
James Andrew Broun Ramsay, marquess and 10th earl of Dalhousie
governor-general of India
Frank Holl: Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
British politician and social reformer
Napier, Robert Napier, 1st Baron
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier
British field marshal
Theophilus Shepstone.
Sir Theophilus Shepstone
British South African statesman
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Sir Leander Starr Jameson, Baronet
prime minister of the Cape Colony
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet.
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet
British statesman
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Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch
British colonial official
Earl of Ellenborough, detail of an oil painting by F.R. Say, c. 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Edward Law, earl of Ellenborough
British governor of India
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William Legge, 2nd earl of Dartmouth
British statesman
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Barghash
sultan of Zanzibar
Charles Townshend
Charles Townshend
British statesman
Burgers, Thomas François
Thomas François Burgers
president of Transvaal
Whitaker, Sir Frederick
Sir Frederick Whitaker
prime minister of New Zealand
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Sir Kenneth Blackburne
British colonial administrator
Sir Philip Francis, detail of an oil painting by J. Lonsdale; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Philip Francis
British politician