For the New Zealand artist, see Alfred Sharpe (New Zealand).
Alfred Sharpe
Sir Alfred SharpeKCMG CB (19 May 1853 – 10 December 1935) was Commissioner and Consul-General for the British Central Africa Protectorate and first Governor of Nyasaland.
He trained as a solicitor but was in turn a planter and a professional hunter before becoming a British colonial administrator. He was commissioner (a de facto governor) of the British Central Africa Protectorate from 1896 until 1907 and Governor of Nyasaland after the protectorate changed its name to Nyasaland in 1907 until his retirement in 1910. He was involved in some of the events which shaped south-Central Africa at the onset of colonialism.
Sir AlfredSharpe KCMG CB (19 May 1853 – 10 December 1935) was Commissioner and Consul-General for the British Central Africa Protectorate and first Governor...
sphere of activities, and Rhodes sent emissaries Joseph Thomson and AlfredSharpe to make treaties with chiefs in the area west of Nyasaland. Rhodes also...
Governor Sharpe may refer to: AlfredSharpe (1853–1935), 1st Governor of Nyasaland from 1907 to 1910 Horatio Sharpe (1718–1790), 22nd Proprietary Governor...
Concession); and in the Lake Mweru area (AlfredSharpe's 1890 Kazembe concession). Rhodes also sent Sharpe to get a concession over mineral-rich Katanga...
South Africa Company of Cecil Rhodes sent agents to obtain a treaty—AlfredSharpe in 1889, and Joseph Maloney in 1895, who were both unsuccessful. In...
signed a BSAC mineral concession and a British treaty brought to him by AlfredSharpe in 1890, and allowed visits by British missionary pioneer Dan Crawford...
courted by the Portuguese and the BSAC sent agents to obtain a treaty — AlfredSharpe in 1889, and Joseph Maloney in 1895, who were both unsuccessful. In...
Commissioner and Consul-General from 1 February 1891 to 16 April 1896. AlfredSharpe, Sir Alfred from 1903, who had been Johnston's deputy from 1891, took over...
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becoming Administrator for all North-Western Rhodesia in 1900. In 1890, AlfredSharpe undertook an expedition with the objective of acquiring Katanga. He...
by Robert Codrington who had been sent by the British Commissioner AlfredSharpe to prepare the way for a permanent memorial. He made a clearing in the...
Katanga ... You must go and get Katanga." The efforts of Thomson and AlfredSharpe to secure a Company concession over the area were furiously rebuffed...
there. Cecil Rhodes obliged and AlfredSharpe, Johnston’s second in command undertook a tour of the area. When AlfredSharpe toured the major posts in the...
master's thesis Writing AlfredSharpe was a study of the painting and writing of the 19th-century landscape artist AlfredSharpe. From 1983 to 1998, Blackley...
British protection. In November 1890, to justify his claim, Johnston sent AlfredSharpe (who would become his successor in Nyasaland) to act for Rhodes and...
Harry Hamilton Johnston, Commissioner 16 April 1896 to 1 April 1907 AlfredSharpe, Commissioner from 1 January 1902 he was Commissioner, Commander-in-Chief...
Commissioners to the British Central Africa Protectorate, Harry Johnstone and AlfredSharpe, were unwilling to involve African chiefs in the governance of the protectorate...
He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He has also written The Saxon Stories, a series of 13 novels about the...
region to start rebellions against his authority. In November 1890 AlfredSharpe arrived in Bunkeya from Nyasaland on behalf of the BSAC and the British...
powerful mwami (King), Msiri, had already rejected a treaty brought by AlfredSharpe on behalf of Cecil Rhodes. In 1891 a Free State expedition extracted...
Barotseland in western Zambia from about 1851 to his death in 1863 AlfredSharpe – British administrator and agent for Cecil Rhodes Lawrence Aubrey Wallace...
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