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About Henry Bartle Frere
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). 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.
Everything about Henry Bartle Frere →- Occupation
- politician, botanical collector
- Position held
- Commissioners of Sind, Governor of Bombay, High Commissioner for Southern Africa, President of the Royal Geographical Society
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- March 29, 1815
- Died
- May 29, 1884