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| | Sir Raleigh Grey. (Commandant Bechuanaland Border Police, | |
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littlehand

Posts : 7076 Join date : 2009-04-24 Age : 54 Location : Down South.
 | Subject: Sir Raleigh Grey. (Commandant Bechuanaland Border Police, Sun Oct 17, 2010 10:39 pm | |
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Posts : 1862 Join date : 2009-03-25
 | Subject: Re: Sir Raleigh Grey. (Commandant Bechuanaland Border Police, Sun Mar 31, 2013 7:41 pm | |
| "Sir Raleigh Grey KBE CMG CVO (24 March 1860 – 10 January 1936) was a pioneer British coloniser of Southern Rhodesia who played an important part in the early government of the colony.
Grey, the great-grandson of 1st Earl Grey, was educated at Durham School and Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1881 he joined The Inniskillings (6th Dragoons) and saw service in the Anglo-Zulu War. When the war ended he was in command of the Bechuanaland Border police, and in the Matabeleland rebellion of 1893 he commanded a column of the British army. From 1894 to 1897 his kinsman the 4th Earl Grey was Administrator of Rhodesia, and Grey accompanied Leander Starr Jameson on the Jameson Raid in 1895; in the aftermath of the raid, Grey served five months' imprisonment.
When Southern Rhodesia was granted a part-elected Legislative Council, Grey was elected at the first election in 1899 to represent Mashonaland. It was subsequently discovered that his supporters had committed bribery and treating of potential voters, and Grey resigned in order to be re-elected free of the taint of electoral corruption.
He served in the Second Boer War, and was promoted to Major in March 1901 for command of mounted troops on the occasion of the capture of Boer guns by Major-General Babington′s column.[2] After the war he retired from the Army in 1904, but remained Commandant of the local Volunteers. He established the company Rhodesia Lands, Ltd. to develop mining and farming interests: the 'Jumbo' mine owned by his company became one of the most profitable. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919.
In the early 1920s the Southern Rhodesians decided to break away from the sponsorship of the British South Africa Company. The issue among the leading figures of the colony was whether to obtain their own 'Responsible Government' or to seek membership of the Union of South Africa. Grey strongly believed that joining South Africa would be preferable, and argued forcibly for it in the Legislative Council. However the majority there and among the public was against him, and as a result he lost his seat in the 1920 election.
Grey took this repudiation in good heart but did not participate in politics again, turning his attention to his business interests. In the late 1920s he returned to Britain, and died in a nursing home in London in 1936."
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|  | | 1879graves

Posts : 3337 Join date : 2009-03-03 Location : Devon
 | Subject: Re: Sir Raleigh Grey. (Commandant Bechuanaland Border Police, Sun Mar 31, 2013 9:43 pm | |
| Hi All Very willing to be corrected but I do believe that he did not take part in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. |
|  | | littlehand

Posts : 7076 Join date : 2009-04-24 Age : 54 Location : Down South.
 | Subject: Re: Sir Raleigh Grey. (Commandant Bechuanaland Border Police, Sun Mar 31, 2013 10:02 pm | |
| I think your correct Graves! "Commissioned in the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons in April 1881 he served as a Captain in the Zululand operations of 1888"[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] |
|  | | 90th

Posts : 10752 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 67 Location : Melbourne, Australia
 | Subject: Re: Sir Raleigh Grey. (Commandant Bechuanaland Border Police, Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:34 am | |
| I agree with Graves , I'm certain he wasnt in the AZW of 1879 . Cheers 90th. |
|  | | gardner1879

Posts : 3287 Join date : 2021-01-04
 | Subject: Re: Sir Raleigh Grey. (Commandant Bechuanaland Border Police, Mon Aug 29, 2022 11:57 am | |
| And heres further proof. "Entered the army in 1881..." [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Portsmouth Evening News - Saturday 11 January 1936 |
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