Frederic Cardew
Frederic Cardew (born September 27, 1839 in Somerset , England , † July 6, 1921 ) was a British colonial administrator . He was from 1894 to 1900 five times governor in Sierra Leone . Cardew was Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) and Colonel .
Cardew's decision to introduce a hut tax led to the Mende-Temne War of 1898 , which also went down in history as the Hut Tax War .
Cardew was married to Katharine Octavia Cardew (1846-1932). He is buried in Whitchurch Hill , Oxfordshire , England.
See also
Publications
- Private Papers of Colonel Sir Frederic Cardew KCMG. August 1914-November 1916; Letters and diaries; exhibited in the Imperial War Museum .
literature
- Christopher Fyfe: Sierra Leone, 1787–1987: Two Centuries of Intellectual Life , Manchester University Press, Manchester 1987, ISBN 0-7190-2791-8 .
- F. Harrison Rankin: Sierra Leone or The White Man's Grave , Richard Bentley, London 1836. ( available online )
- David Killingray: Africans in Britain , Routledge, 2012, ISBN 978-1-136-29999-5 .
- Zubairu Wai: Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone , Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, ISBN 978-1-137-28079-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sir Frederic Cardew. Find a grave. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cardew, Frederic |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British colonial administrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Somerset , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1921 |