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See also:BURGERS, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:FRANCOIS (1834-1881) , See also:president of the See also:Transvaal See also:Republic, was See also:born in Cape See also:Colony on the 15th of See also:April 1834, and was educated at See also:Utrecht, See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, where he took the degree of See also:doctor of See also:theology. On his return to See also:South See also:Africa he was ordained See also:minister of the Dutch Reformed See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, and stationed at See also:Hanover in Cape Colony, where he exercised his ministrations for eight years. In 1862 his See also:preaching attracted See also:attention, and two years later an ecclesiastical tribunal suspended him for heretical opinions. He appealed, however, to the colonial See also:government, which .had appointed him, and obtained See also:judgment in his favour, which was confirmed by the privy See also:council of See also:England on See also:appeal in 1865. On the resignation of M. W. See also:Pretorius and the refusal of President See also:Brand of the See also:Orange See also:Free See also:State to accept the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, Burgers was elected president of the Transvaal, taking the See also:oath on the 1st of See also:July 1872. In 1873 he endeavoured to persuade Montsioa to agree to an alteration in the boundary of the Barolong territory as fixed by the See also:Keate See also:award, but failed (see See also:BECHUANALAND). In 1875 Burgers, leaving the Transvaal in See also:charge of Acting-President See also:Joubert, went to See also:Europe mainly to promote a See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme for linking the Transvaal to the See also:coast by a railway from Delagoa See also:Bay, which was that See also:year definitely assigned to See also:Portugal by the See also:MacMahon award. With the Portuguese Burgers concluded a treaty, See also:December 1875, providing for the construction of the railway. After See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting with refusals of See also:financial help in See also:London,
Burgers managed to raise 9o,000 in Holland, and bought a quantity of railway plant, which on its arrival at Delagoa Bay was mortgaged to pay See also:freight, and this, so far as Burgers was concerned, was the end of the See also:matter. In See also:June 1876 he induced the raad to declare See also:war against Sikukuni (Secocoeni), a powerful native See also:chief in the eastern Transvaal. The See also:campaign was unsuccessful, and with its failure the republic See also:fell into a See also:condition of lawlessness and insolvency, while a Zulu See also:host threatened invasion. Burgers in an address to the raad (3rd of See also:March 1877) declared " I would rather be a policeman under a strong government than the president of such a state. It is you—you members of the raad and the Boers—who have lost the See also:country, who have sold your See also:independence for a drink." See also:Sir See also:Theophilus See also:Shepstone, who had been sent to investigate the condition of affairs in the Transvaal, issued on the 12th of April a See also:proclamation annexing the Transvaal to See also:Great See also:Britain. Burgers fully acquiesced in the See also:necessity for See also:annexation. He accepted a See also:pension from the See also:British government, and settled down to farming in Hanover, Cape Colony. He died at See also:Richmond in that colony on the 9th of December 1881, and in the following year a See also:volume" of See also:short stories, Tooneelen uit ons dorp, originally written by him for the Cape Volksblad, was published at the See also:Hague for the benefit of his See also:family. A patriot, a fluent See also:speaker both in Dutch and in See also:English, and possessed of unbounded See also:energy, the failure of Burgers was due to his fondness for large visionary plans, which he attempted to carry out with insufficient means (see TRANSVAAL: See also:History).
For the annexation See also:period see See also:John See also:Martineau, The See also:Life of Sir Bartle See also:Frere, vol. ii. See also:chap. xviii. (London, 1895).
End of Article: BURGERS, THOMAS FRANCOIS (1834-1881)
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