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See also:SHIPPARD, See also:SIR See also:SIDNEY See also:GODOLPHIN See also:ALEXANDER (1838-1902) , See also:British colonial See also:administrator, was the eldest son of See also:Captain See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Shippard, 29th See also:Regiment. He was educated at See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College school and See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. Taking his degree in 1863, he was called to the See also:bar as a member of the Inner See also:Temple in 1867. He then entered upon a See also:long career in See also:South See also:Africa. He was See also:attorney-See also:general of Griqualand See also:West from 1873 until 1877, when he was made acting See also:recorder of the High See also:Court of Griqua-See also:land. From 188o to 1885 he sat as a See also:judge of the Supreme Court of Cape See also:Colony; and he was British See also:commissioner on the Anglo-
See also:German See also:commission in 1884–1885 for settling the claims of British subjects at See also:Angra Pequena and other parts of the south-west See also:coast. Shippard, while at Oxford in 1878, had discussed with See also:Cecil See also:Rhodes the See also:plan of the projected British advance in south central Africa. He saw in the German See also:annexation of See also:Damaraland and See also:Namaqualand the first step in a See also:design to secure for See also:Germany territory stretching from ocean to ocean—a design which if executed would have been fatal to the British position in South Africa. Consequently when after the See also:Warren expedition of 1885 he was chosen to organize the newly acquired British possessions in See also:Bechuanaland he saw in his See also:appointment an opportunity for See also:forestalling the Germans, and also the See also:Boer adventurers who likewise sought to be beforehand with See also:Britain in the countries See also:north of the See also:Limpopo. From his first See also:establishment in Bechuanaland he kept up a friendly See also:correspondence with the See also:Matabele king Lobengula with the See also:object of attaching him to the British cause. At the end of 1887 he went to See also:Graham's See also:Town with the See also:hope of inducing the high commissioner (Sir See also:Hercules See also:- ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
- ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
- ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
- ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
- ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
- ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
- ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)
Robinson —afterwards See also:Lord See also:Rosmead) to See also:sanction the conclusion of a treaty with Lobengula binding that ruler not to cede any See also:part of his territory to any other See also:power than See also:England. " I used all my power of persuasion," Sir Sidney writes, " but failed to induce Lord Rosmead either to See also:act on his own responsibility in the See also:matter or to approach Her See also:Majesty's See also:government on the subject. As a last resource I telegraphed to Mr Rhodes, who was then busily engaged at See also:Kimberley, to come down at once to Graham's Town and try the effect of his eloquence. He came, and by taking upon himself all pecuniary responsibility succeeded in obtaining the requisite sanction" (see See also:article "Bechuanaland," by Sir S. Shippard, in British Africa, See also:London,1899). The treaty was signed and British interests secured. Shippard was thenceforth freer to devote himself to the See also:special interests of Bechuanaland, which he governed with conspicuous success. He held the See also:chief See also:official position there from 1885 to 1895, being administrator, chief See also:magistrate and See also:president of the Land Commission for British Bechuanaland, and See also:resident -commissioner for the Bechuanaland See also:Protectorate and the See also:Kalahari. He was created K.C.M.G. in 1887. In 1896 he played an unofficial part in the negotiations between Sir Hercules Robinson and the Johannes-See also:burg reformers after the See also:Jameson See also:Raid. He then returned to England, where he died on the 29th of See also:March 1902.
End of Article: SHIPPARD, SIR SIDNEY GODOLPHIN ALEXANDER (1838-1902)
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