Personalities, Surname H

Haggard, Major Edward Arthur

Youngest son of Wm. M Rider Haggard, of Bradenham Hall, Norfolk. He was educated at Cambridge, and the RMC, Sandhurst; joined the 1 st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1884 at Malta; served in the Suakim campaign in 1885, including the march to Tamai, and throughout the British occupation (Egyptian medal and clasp and star), subsequently serving in Egypt and Malta. He was appointed to the Army Service Corps in 1889, but retired in 1892 and joined the 3rd Battalion Beds. Regiment (Mil.), from which he retired in 1904. He saw special service in South Africa in 1900-1 as DAAG, attached to the ASC, and acted as Supply Officer to the 11th Divisional Troops during the advance of Lord Roberts from Bloemfontein to Pretoria; was present at the British entry into Pretoria, when he was appointed Officer-in-Charge of Supplies at Johannesburg, which post he held until 1901 (QSA and four clasps). Major Haggard has been Secretary, of the Union Jack Club (a national memorial to the sailors, soldiers, and marines who lost their lives in South Africa and China) since its inauguration in 1902. He is the author (under the pseudonym of Arthur Amyand) of Only a Drummer Boy, Sidelights on Soldier Life, Comrades in Arms, and The Kiss of his. He is deeply interested in all questions tending to the improvement of the conditions of the sailor on the lower deck, and the soldier in the ranks, and to the raising of their social level in the eyes of the general public. Recreations: Fishing, hunting, shooting, and travelling. He married, July, 1887, Emily, daughter of Edmund Calvert, of Walton-le-Dale, Lanes.

Haggard, Henry Rider, JP

Born at Bradenham, Norfolk, June 22, 1856; is the sixth son of Wm. M Rider Haggard, of Bradenham Hall, and was educated at Ipswich and privately. He resided for a considerable time in Natal on a farm which is well known as the supposed home of 'Jess'. He was Secretary, to Sir H Bulwer, Governor of Natal, in 1875, and in 1877 he joined the staff of Sir T Shepstone, and was one of the "handful of individuals" concerned in the annexation of the Transvaal in that year, where he hoisted the British Flag in 1877. In 1878 he was appointed Master of the High Court of the Transvaal, and the following year was given a Lieutenant's commission in the Pretoria Horse at the time of the Zulu War. He was called to the Bar of Lincoln's Inn in 1884, and unsuccessfully contested the Eastern Division of Norfolk in the Conservative interest in 1895.  Mr Haggard is famous as the author of a number of charming romances, besides which he has published several books on rural life, known as A Farmer's Year, A Gardener's Year, and Rural England (2 vols.), in connection with which latter he made a prolonged tour of the country to acquire at first hand such data as were necessary to make his work a valuable book of reference and rural and social research. In addition to this, he constantly finds occasion to inform the public in the Press on questions connected with Africa and country life, on which subjects his large and varied knowledge always procures him a ready hearing. For many years he was one of the proprietors of the African Review, and recently he was appointed by HM's Govt, a Commissioner to investigate the Salvation Army Land Settlements in the United States and for other purposes. He takes a considerable interest in Egyptology, but his main hobbies (though he takes them quite seriously) are farming, gardening, and cycling. He married, in 1880, Mariana Louisa, daughter of Major Margitson, of Ditchingham.

Hall, Lieutenant Colonel R H, 1st Battalion South Lancashire Regiment. 

Entered 1873; Lieutenant Colonel, February 1900.  War service: Boer War, 1899-1900.  Commanded 1st Battalion South Lancashire Regiment on death of Colonel M'Carthy O'Leary. 

Halswell, Lieutenant Wyndham

Born in 1882, and joined the 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry in 1901, with which regiment he served in the Boer War in 1902 (QSA with four clasps). He is the amateur quarter mile and Army half mile champion, and won the officers' quarter at the Army Athletic Meeting at Aldershot in 1906.

Hamilton, Lieutenant Honourable G G

This officer, serving in Compton's Horse, was formerly in the Scots Guards.  He was the eldest son of Baron Hamilton of Dalzell.

Hanbury-Tracy, Major the Honourable A H C, R Horse Guards. 

Entered 1892; Brevet Major, March 1900.  Staff service:  Employed in Brit.  E Africa Protectorate, 1897; Special Service, South Africa, 1899; DAAG, South Africa, 1899.  War service: Uganda, 1897-98 (Despatches; 3rd class brilliant star of Zanzibar; medal with clasp; Brevet of Major); Boer War, 1899-1900.

Hanbury-Tracy, Captain Eric Thomas, Coldstream Guards

Born 4 Jul 71, only son of Hon Frederick Hanbury-Tracy, son of 2nd Baron Sudeley. Mother Helena Caroline, daughter of Sir Thomas Winnington 4th Baronet. Educated Eton 1885-88. Commissioned 2nd Lieut 25 May 92 in the Coldstream Guards. Retired 10 Jun 11 to reserve of Officers. Recalled to colours 7 Aug 1914 as Captain, Coldstream Guards. Served as Regimental Adjutant throughout the war. He did not serve abroad. OBE LG 3 Jun 19.

OBE (1st, Mil), QSA (3) CC OFS Belf (Capt E T H Hanbury-Tracy Coldstm Gds), KSA (2) (Cpt E T H Hanbury-Tracy Cld Gds).  JM-Medals Feb 07 £650.

Hanbury-Williams, Lieutenant Colonel John, CMG

Son of Ferdinand Hanbury-Williams, of Coldbrook Park; was educated at Wellington College and passed into the 43rd U in 1878. He acted as ADC to Sir E Hamley in the Egyptian Campaign of 1882, when he was present at Tel-el-Kebir, where his horse was shot under him, being mentioned in despatches, medal, clasp, star, and 5th class Medjidieh; he was extra ADC to Sir M Grant Duff during his Governorship of Madras, 1884-5; was extra ADC to Sir H Macpherson in Burma in 1886, and was in 1892 appointed Adjt. of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Oxfordshire U, attending the German Army manoeuvres in 1894. He relinquished this appointment in 1897 to join Lord Milner in SA as his Military Secretary; he received the CMG in 1899, and was appointed secretary to the Secretary, of State for War in 1900. He married, in 1888, Anne Emily, daughter of Emil Reiss.

Harding, Colonel Colin, CMG

The son of Charles Harding, of Montacute Abbey, Somerset, where he was born Aug 15, 1863. He was educated privately, and went to SA, where he served in Mashonaland during the rebellion. For some time he was galloper to Colonel Alderson. He received his commission in the BSA Police in the same year, and raised and commanded the Mashonaland Native Police. He was mentioned three times in despatches, and received his CMG for services during the Mashona Rebellion. He proceeded to British Central Africa in 1898 and raised the Native Police Force for North Eastern Rhodesia. In 1899 he went to North Western Rhodesia as Acting Administrator, and later raised a force of Native Police for North Western Rhodesia. Colonel Harding was sent on special service to explore the boundaries of Lewanika's kingdom, and during his expedition went to the source of the Zambesi River. In 1902 he escorted Lewanika to England for the Coronation, returning in Aug of the same year to act as Administrator of Barotse Land during the absence of. Mr R T Coryndon. He married, June 28, 1899, Margaret, youngest daughter of Robert Porter, of Lyncombe, Bath.

Harley, Colonel G E, CB

Entered 1864; Colonel, 1897.  Staff service: Captain Inst.  of School of Musketry, Hythe, 1882-85; DAAG, N Brit, and N District 1886-89; DAAG, School of Musketry, 1889-91; AAG, Belfast District 1897-1900; AAG, Aldershot, 1900; AAG, South Africa, March 1900.  War service: Operations in Chitral, 1895 (Despatches; CB; medal with clasp); Boer War.

Harrison, Lieutenant Colonel C E C B, Lieutenant Colonel, Royal West Kent Regiment

Entered 1876; Lieutenant Colonel, March 1900.  War service:  Boer War, 1881; Transvaal Campaign; Egyptian Expedition 1882 (medal; bronze star); Boer War, 1899-1900.

Harrison, C W Francis

Youngest son of David Harrison, of Nottingham, was born, Dec 7, 1874, at Grantham, Lines. After serving in the GNR Co's chief offices he joined the Natal Railway service (Dec, 1898), becoming personal assist, to Sir David Hunter, and later Acting Chief Clerk to the General Manager. He was appointed Secretary to the Special Commission in Railways, 1902, and Secretary, to the Railway Employees' Inquiry Board, 1904. Mr Harrison directed the preparation of the art albums and souvenirs presented to the Royal visitors to Natal, 1901-2; was joint compiler of the Official Birdseye Map of the War District in Natal; compiled also the Official Railway Guide and General Handbook to Natal (1903), Guide to Port Natal, and other Governmental publications.

Hart, Edward Aubrey

The son of Thomas Gray Hart, artist, was born, March 1 2, 1842, at Southampton, and was educated at the Reverend Eldred Woodland's School at Southampton. He joined the Union Steamship Company, Ltd, in Sep, 1857, when the first mail steamer sailed for Cape Town, and was appointed Secretary, of the Company on January 1, 1870, and Manager and Secretary, in 1893. This position he retained until the amalgamation of the Union with the Castle SS Company, in 1900; and he retired from the Company in 1903. During these thirty years he was frequently consulted by the various Government Depts., especially by the Transport Department of the Admiralty, for whom he arranged the conveyance of many thousands of troops in Boer War. In 1884 he was instrumental in providing Her Majesty's Govt, with two of the then fastest steamers, the Moor and Mexican, as armed cruisers. The former was the only merchant ship at that time which flew the pennant; she was commanded by Royal Naval officers, carried a naval crew, and was armed with heavy guns. It was likewise his good fortune to he called upon to make all arrangements for the journey to Africa of the ill-fated Prince Imperial at the time of the Zulu War, and when the body of the dead Prince was interred at Chislehurst Mr Hart was one of the very few Englishmen, outside the Royal family, who were invited into the chapel. Subsequently Mr Hart was requested to carry through all the arrangements for the journey out and home to Natal of the Empress Eugenie, and on her return to England he was specially thanked by Her Majesty. Mr Hart married, Oct, 1868, Harriette Steele, daughter of John Dotterill, of Gosport.

Hartley, Colonel Edmund, Baron, VC, CMG

Born May 6, 1847; is son of Dr Edmund Hartley, of S Devon, and was educated privately at Plymouth. He joined the CMR November 4, 1877; served through the Gaika-Galcka and Marotsi rebellions, 1877-8-9 medal); Basuto and Tembuland, 1880-1; Langberg, 1897 (medal and three clasps); and the Boer War (QSA, three clasps, and KSA, two clasps). Colonel Hartley commands the Cape Med. Corps, and is PMO of the Cape Colony Forces. He married Ellen, 2nd daughter of J Rose-Innes, CMG, late Under-Secretary for native Affairs.

Hasler, Lieutenant Colonel Julian

He was born October 16, 1868, and entered the East Kent Regiment in 1888. He took part in the operations in Chitral with the Relief Force in 1895 (medal with clasp); the operations on the NW frontier of India in 1897-8, with the Malakand Field Force (clasp), and the Boer War in 1899-02, in which he was severely wounded (despatches, KSA with two clasps and brevet of Major) He was promoted Lieutenant Colonel in 1906 in recognition of his services during the Munshi Expedition.

Hawksley, Bourchier F

He was the personal adviser of Mr Cecil Rhodes and Mr Alfred Beit, and is also solicitor to the Chartered Company, since the date of inception of which he has been closely associated with Rhodesian affairs. Mr Hawksley was a firm believer in and friend of Mr Rhodes, and is a strong supporter of that statesman's Imperialistic ideas in South Africa.

Hawtayne, Major Thomas Montgomery

Born June 28, 1859, and entered the Army in 1879. He served in the Sudan Expedition in 1884-5, with the Egyptian Army (medal with clasp and bronze star); the Expedition up the Gambia against the native chief, Fodey Kabba, in 1891-2, as Superintendent of the Gambia Police Force (medal with clasp), and the Boer War in 1901-2, in command of the Wakkerstroom Section, Volksrust Sub District, being present at the operations in the Transvaal (QSA and clasp).

Hay, Major General Edward Owen, CB

Was born at Ryde, Oct 24, 1846, and is son of Admiral J B Hay. He was educated at Rugby, Clifton, and the RMA, Woolwich; entered the RA in 1867, and served in Egypt in 1882, including the battles of Kassassin and Tel-el-Kebir (mentioned in despatches, brevet of Major, medal and clasp. 4th CIass Medjidieh and Khedive's star). He commanded troops at Ladysmith in 1897-9; and was appointed AAG, RA, at the War Office, 1899-1903; was Major General on the Staff, commanding RA of the 2nd Army Corps in 1903, and Administrative General of the Southern Command in 1905. He married, in 1870, Helena, daughter of Admiral Sir J Crawford Caffin, KCB.

Heathcote, Lieutenant J R C, Cameron Highlanders

John Robert Campbell Heathcote was born on 24 April 1879, and educated at Eton.  He joined the Cameron Highlanders as 2nd Lieutenant (from 3rd Battalion Somerset LI) on 26 July 1899, becoming Lieutenant in December 1900.  He served in the Boer War in 1902 with Fincastle’s Horse (Imperial Yeomanry).  He had served with the 1st Battalion in Egypt before the South African War, and with the 2nd Battalion in Gibraltar and South Africa.  Rejoining the 2nd Battalion he went with it to Hong Kong in 1907, and was appointed ADC to General Broadwood, commanding troops in China, 16 May 1908. It was during his time in the Far East that Heathcote was mauled by a tiger, which in later years caused health problems that obliged him to retire from the service.  On promotion to Captain in March 1910 he returned from China and was posted to the 3rd Battalion at Inverness.  In September 1914, Heathcote joined the Royal Flying Corps as a Flying Officer and became a Squadron Commander in January 1916.  He served throughout the Great War with the Royal Flying Corps, reaching the ranks Lieutenant Colonel and Group Captain, but he was obliged to retire owing to ill-health.  He died on 15 July 1947.

QSA (2 ) CC SA02 (Lieut, Cam’n Hdrs), 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt, Cam’n H. Attd RFC), BWM, VM (Lt. Col, RAF)

Heath, Lieutenant Colonel H N C, Yorkshire Light Infantry, AAG. 

Entered 1881; Major, 1898.  Staff service: Staff Captain (Intelligence) Headquarters of Army, 1898-99; Special Service, South Africa, October to November 1899; AAG, South Africa, November 1899.  War service: Egyptian Expedition 1882 (medal; bronze star); Sudan Expedition 1884-85 (Despatches; 2 clasps; Brevet of Major); Boer War, 1899-1900; on Staff.

Hegan, Colonel E 

Entered 1876; Lieutenant Colonel, 1899.  Staff service: Commandant, School of Auxiliary Cavalry, Aldershot, 1882-84; ADC to GOC W District 1889-90; DAAG, Cork District 1890-93; Special Service, South Africa, 1899-1900; AAG, South Africa, February 1900.  War service: Boer War, 1881; Tirah, 1897-98 {Despatches; medal with 2 clasps); Boer War, 1899-1900.

Hely-Hutchinson, The Honourable Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson, GCMG Governor of Natal and Zululand

The son of the 4th Earl of Donoughmore, and was born in the Irish capital, Aug 22, 1849. Commencing his education at Cheam School, he afterwards went to Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA He is also a Barrister of the Inner Temple. At the age of 25 he went to Fiji as attache on Lord Rosmead's (then Sir Hercules Robinson) staff, becoming Private Secretary, for Fiji Affairs, and the following year Private Secretary, for New South Wales Affairs. After acting in this capacity for a couple of years he went to Barbados as Colonial Secretary, leaving the West Indies in 1883 to take up an appointment as Chief Secretary, at Malta. In 1884 he became Lieutenant Governor of the Island, remaining there until 1889, when he was appointed Governor of the Windward Islands. Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson's connection with SA dates from 1893, when he represented the Crown in handing over responsible government to Natal, of which Colony he was Governor from 1893-1901, his public services being meanwhile recognised by the Grand Cross of St Michael and St George, conferred upon him in 1897. Since 1901 Sir Waiter has been Governor and CIC of the Cape Colony He married, in 1881, May, eldest daughter of Major. General Wm. Clive Justice, CMG.

Henderson, Captain Harold

The son of Sir Alexander Henderson. He was formerly in the 1st Life Guards, and served throughout the Boer War in 1899-1902. He unsuccessfully contested a seat in Parliament at the General Election in 1906. He married Lady Violet Dalzell, daughter of Lord Carnwath.

Herbert, Colonel Ivan John Caradoc, CB, CMG

Born at Llanarth Court, July 16, 1851, and he traces his descent to Hubert, Count of Vermandois, who came over at the Norman Conquest, the family possessions in S Wales having been held in unbroken male succession from the 12th century. Colonel Herbert is the eldest son of J A E Herbert and his wife, the Hon Augusta Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter of the 1st Baron Llanover. He was educated at St Mary's College, Oscott, and entered the Grenadier Guards in 1870, reaching the rank of Colonel in 1889. He entered the Staff College in 1879, and in 1882 was appointed Brigade Major of the Brigade of Guards, and served in that capacity through the campaign against Arabi Pasha in Egypt (medal and two clasps, Khedivial star, and 4th class Medjidie). He subsequently served in the Camel Corps in the Sudan Campaign of 1884-5; was Adjt. of the Guards Camel Regiment, and took part in all the actions on the Nile and in the Bavuda Desert. Returning in 1885, he was appointed commandant of the School of Instruction for Auxiliary Forces, and in 1886 was sent to St Petersburg as Military Attache—a post which he occupied till 1890. He acted as Military Adviser to the Ambassador, Sir R Morier, in the negotiations which led to a delimitation of the Russo Afghan Frontier in 1887, and in 1890 was given the command of the Canadian Local Forces with the rank of Major General, occupying this post for five years. In 1897 he had command of all the Colonial troops assembled in London for the Jubilee of her late Majesty Queen Victoria; commanded the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards in 1897-8, and was appointed AAG for the Home District in the latter year. Colonel Herbert having devoted much attention to the study of foreign languages, of which he speaks five, he was placed charge of the foreign representatives with the army in South Africa in 1899. He also served as .AG on the Staff of Lord Roberts, and was for a time Inspector General of the Lines of Communication. In addition to the orders already mentioned, he is decorated with the Egyptian medal with three clasps, the QSA with four clasps, the Order of the Red Eagle and class); is a Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy, and an Officer of the Legion of Honour. At the General Election in 1906 he was returned as Liberal MP for S Monmouthshire. In the field of sport Colonel Herbert has found time for steeplechasing, polo, and hunting. He married, in 1873, the Hon Abertina Agnes Mary, daughter of the 1st Baron Londesborough.

Hermon-Hodge, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert MP

Commanded the Imperial Yeomanry Depot at Oxford at the outbreak of the Boer War, in which two of his sons served. He was appointed to the command of the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (Yeomanry) in Jan, 1905.

Hill, Archibald Oakley

Entered the Royal Navy in 1860, and retired in 1878. He was appointed Record Clerk in the Civil Commissioner's Office at Kimberley in 1882; acted as Ordnance Storekeeper from 1884-96; and in 1897 was appointed Secretary to the Kimberley Board of Health.

Hill, Captain A, MP, 5th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles

Eldest son of Right Honourable Lord Arthur Hill.

Hime, Colonel Honourable Sir A, KCMG, Royal Engineers

Prime Minister of Natal.  Rendered valuable service throughout the Natal Campaign.

Hofmeyr, Hon J H

This gentleman for some years has been a prominent figure in South African affairs, and intimately associated with many leading men.  With Sir Henry de Villiers and Sir Charles Mills, he represented South Africa at the Ottawa Conference, and in the same capacity was present at London (Salisbury-Knutsford) Conference, with Sir T Uppington, KCMG, QC, and Sir John Robinson, KCMG.

Hofmeyr, San Hendrik

Born in the capital of the Colony, July 4, 1845, his father, Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, of Cape Town, having been the descendant of an ancestor of exactly the same name, who left Eppenburcn to settle in the Cape Colony early in the eighteenth century. The subject of our sketch was educated at the South African College, and began his career as a journalist on the staff of the Volksvriend, of which he afterwards became proprietor. In 1871 he purchased the Zuid Afrikaan, amalgamated the two papers, and thus became the controller of a very powerful Press organ. Seven years later he founded the Boeren Vcrecniging (Farmers' Association), starting with purely local aims, mainly to combat the Excise, but eventually, in 1883, after an evidently impending rivalry, this association joined forces with the Afrikander Bond, which at first had been supposed to be hostile to British rule. But Mr Hofmeyr rapidly became the virtual controller of the Bond, and from that time it was not at any rate officially disloyal, though he has been suspected of a desire to constitute SA an independent Republic. Mr Hofmeyr entered the Cape Legislative Assembly as member for Stellenbosch in 1879. He was for a short time a member of Sir Thomas Scanlen's Ministry without portfolio. He was offered the Premiership in 1884, but declined. In 1887 he was one of the Cape delegates to the first Colonial Conference in London and again at Ottawa in 1894. He was a member of the Customs Union Conferences at Cape Town in 1888, and at Bloemfontein in the following year. In 1890 he acted as HM Special Agent to Pretoria, to induce the Transvaal Govt, to sign the Swaziland Convention, his success in the matter at the time having been thought to have averted war. Though he had retired from active political life in 1894, he, at the time of the Jameson Raid, exercised considerable influence over Lord Rosmead, at that time High Commissioner. He also endeavoured to act as arbiter during the crisis preceding the Boer War, and while retaining the nominal leadership of the Dutch Afrikander party, who are devoted to him and believe and trust him implicitly, he was at one time the hope of the Moderates and persona grata with the Colonial Office. He is chairman of the Afrikander Bond Committee on Elections, and on the occasion of Mr Chamberlain's visit to South Africa he issued an appeal in favour of reconciliation between the English and Dutch after the War. He is president of various Cape Town and Stellenbosch cricket and football clubs. Mr Hofmeyr married, Sep 1, 1900, Johanna Hendriksz. of Somerset West.

Hole, Lieutenant Hugh Marshall, South Rhodesian Volunteers

Hugh Marshall Hole studied law at Balliol College, Oxford before emigrating to South Africa and, while working for a firm of solicitors in Kimberley in 1899, met Cecil John Rhodes.  He joined the British South Africa Company in 1890 and in 1891 moved to Mashonaland where he became private secretary to Dr Leander Starr Jameson, the Administrator, a post he held for three years.  Afterwards he served as Civil Commissioner at both Salisbury and Bulawayo, took an active part in the fighting during the Mashona rebellion, but was obliged to retire later in the year because of ill health.  He returned to Matabeleland in 1898, held a number of administrative positions, later served in the Boer War with the Southern Rhodesia Volunteers and, later still, in the Great War.  After the war he resumed service with the BSA Company, in London, eventually becoming Managing Secretary from 1924 until 1928.  He was made CMG in 1924 and retired to England in 1928.  A first class historian and a cultured man of varied interests, he achieved wide recognition as an author.  Among his better known books are 'The Jameson Raid', 'Rhodesia Days' and 'The Making of Rhodesia' all of which he was uniquely qualified to write about from personal experience.

Residing in Bulawayo early in 1900 it was Marshall Hole's responsibility to find a way around the great currency shortage then being experienced as a result of the war.  Holding large stocks of postage stamps, he introduced his Money Cards bearing on one side his signature and the stamp of the Administrators Office, and on the other side a BSA Company postage stamp of varying denominations.

CMG (n/b), BSACM reverse Rhodesia 1896 (Lieut & Adjt, 5. FF), QSA (1) Rhod (Lieut, SRV), 1902 Coronation.  DNW Dec 91 £1,100.

Hope, Lieutenant Colonel L A, CB, ASC

Lieutenant Colonel, 1892.  Staff service: DAAG, Curragh District 1892-95; Egypt, 1897-1900; Special Service, South Africa, January 1900.  War service: Boer War, 1879 (medal with clasp); Sudan Expedition 1884-85 (medal with clasp; bronze star); Nile Expedition 1898 (Despatches; CB; Egyptian medal with clasp; medal); Boer War, 1809-1900; Special Service Officer.

Hornby, G

He was the third son of Mr A N Hornby, the well-known Lancashire cricketer. The late Mr Hornby served in the Boer War as Lieutenant, in the 2nd Cheshire Regiment He was well known in Cheshire hunting circles.  His death took place at Heidelberg, South Africa.

Hosken, William

Born at Hayle, Cornwall, July 6, 1851, and is the son of Richard and Caroline Hosken. He was educated at Hayle and had his commercial training with Wm. Hosken and Son, a well-known firm in Cornwall, now merged in Hosken, Trevithick, and Polkinghorn, Ltd He went to SA early in 1874; became a digger at Pilgrim's Rest; subsequently went to Natal, and was engaged in merchant business there until 1889; then went to Johannesburg as Managing Director of the City and Suburban, Heriot, Nigel, and other Natal directed mines; became Foundation Executive Committee Member of the Chamber of Mines; established the merchant business of Wm. Hosken and Company, and joined the Chamber of Commerce, having been six times elected President of that Chamber; is Lloyd's Agent for Johannesburg and Chairman of the Committee of Management of the British SA Explosives Company, Ltd He has for years taken a large interest in politics. He assisted in establishing the National Union in 1892, and was elected to the Executive Committee; was member of the Reform Committee in 1896, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment and fined, as in the case of the other prisoners. He was Chairman of the mass meetings and political demonstrations in 1899, and was unanimously elected President of the Uitlander Council formed that year. He was also Chairman of Committee which in 1899 raised Thorneycroft's and Bethune's Mounted Infantry, and subsequently raised the Imperial Light Infantry. All these corps were raised without expense to the Government He has served on various Government Commissions during and since the war; was a Transvaal delegate at the Bloemfontein Customs Union Conference in March, 1903, and became a member of the Legislative Council which commenced its sitting at Pretoria in May, 1903. In 1904 he was elected a member of the Inter-Colonial Council, and was re­elected in 1905 He is President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of South Africa. In the Transvaal and Inter-Colonial Councils he is a vigorous critic of Government finance, and succeeded at the last Session of the Intcr-Colonial Council in carrying through a scheme for light railways to develop agricultural districts, in place of the Government proposal to build heavy standard gauge lines. Mr Hosken had the locally unenviable distinction of being the only non-official member of the Council in favour of granting the municipal franchise to coloured persons. He married, Oct 16, 1877, Miss Clara James, of Maritzburg.

Hotson, S H

Was admitted to practise as a solicitor in England iii 1898. He served at Lieutenant, with the Volunteer Company of the Norfolk Regiment in the Boer War in 1901-2 (QSA and five clasps), and was appointed Assistant Resident Magistrate at Thaba Nchu in 1904.

Howard, Esme William, MVO

Born at Greystoke Castle, Penrith, Sep 15, 1863, and is son of Henry Howard, of Grcystoke. He was educated at Harrow, and passed a competitive examination for Diplomatic Service in 1885; acted as Private Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, of Ireland in 1885-6, subsequently being appointed Attache to the Embassy at Home. In 1887 he was promoted to be third Secretary, and was transferred to the Embassy at Berlin in 1888. He resigned in 1892; was Assistant Private Secretary, to the Earl of Kimberley, Secretary, of State for Foreign Affairs in 1894-5. During 1900 he served in the Boer War with the Imperial Yeomanry (medal with four clasps), and received the Coronation medal in 1902. He became Hon Second Secretary, to the Embassy at Rome in 1903, and has held his present position since then. He married, November 17, 1898, Lady Isabella, daughter of Prince Giustiniani-Bandini, Earl of Newburgh.

Howe, Lady

She died in the early part of 1906, was the wife of Lord Rowe, GCVO During the Boer War in 1899-1902 she founded the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, whose medical staff surpassed the Government Hospitals in efficiency. She was also associated with the Mafeking Relief Fund, £27,000 being subscribed in response to her appeal for funds.

Howick, Lord

Born, Dec 14, 1879, and is the only son and heir of the fourth Earl Grey. Lord Howick left Cambridge with a Bachelor's hood in 1901; entered the 1st Life Guards, and subsequently joined Lord Milner's Staff in South Africa. He married, in 1906, Lady Mabel Laura Georgiana Palmer, daughter of Lord and Lady Selborne, and granddaughter of Marquis of Salisbury.

Hughes, Lieutenant Colonel S

Lieutenant Colonel Canadian Local Forces; Special Service Officer, including service as Railway Staff Officer.

Hull, Henry Charles

He went to Kimberley in 1879; was in the Civil Service for a short period, and then became admitted and practised there as a solicitor until 1889, when he removed to Johannesburg. He was one of the members of the Reform Committee, and with his comrades was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, to pay a fine of £2,000, and in default of payment to a further year's imprisonment, and to banishment for three years. After undergoing imprisonment for a short period, the sentence was commuted to the payment of the fine. He assisted Lord Milner at the Bloemfontein Conference, and shortly before the war took a prominent part in the Franchise agitation in Johannesburg. During the war he assisted in recruiting the SA Light Horse, Marshall's Horse, and the Eastern Province Horse, and took part in the column which under General Brabant relieved Wepener. He was appointed one of the unofficial members of the Legislative Council of the Transvaal in May, 1903, and was one of the small minority of four who opposed Sir Geo. Farrar in his motion in the Council to import Chinese or other alien labour.

Hulley, Thomas Benjamin, JP

The son of Edward and Mary Hulley, and grandson of Richard Hulley, one of the British settlers of 1820. He was born May 15, 1860, at Somerset East, CM, and was educated at Grey College, Bloemfontein, holding the Free State Bursary for two years. In 1881 he served with the Cradock Volunteer Rifles, and during this period he saw active service in Basutoland, receiving medal and clasp. During a portion of this time he was ostrich farming in Cape Colony In 1883 he commenced trading in East Griqualand, and continued until 1886, when he left for the Barberton Gold Fields and he remained with the Shcba Gold Mining Company till 1895 In April of that year he joined the BSA Company as Native Commissioner, and has held this office at Mazoe, Lomagunda, Melsetter, again at Umtali, Inyanga, and once more at Umtali. From November, 1902, to Feb, 1903, he acted as Chief Native Commissioner for Mashonaland, and has on several occasions acted as magistrate for the Umtali District. He was appointed Assistant Magistrate for Umtali and JP for Southern Rhodesia in 1900. Mr Hulley saw active service again as Captain of the Umtali Volunteers in the Mashonaland Rebellion in 1896. He represented the district of Umtali at the funeral of Hon Cecil Rhodes in the Matopos. He was detailed for duty with the Anglo Portuguese Boundary Commission in 1896, and on war breaking out in the Transvaal he volunteered for service. He married, Oct 13, 1897, Gcorgina, third daughter of Edward Coleman.

Huneberg, Joseph

Joined the Cape Military Forces in 1878; acted as Captain in command of the Northern Border Horse in 1879, and served in the hostilities in Cape Colony, Griqualand West, Bechuanaland, Koranaland, Namaqualand, and in the Transvaal between 1878-9; the first Boer War in 1881, and the Boer War in 1899-1902 (two medals and seven clasps). In 1879 he was Landdrost Clerk at Standerton, and held a similar position at Pretoria in 1880, and at Waterberg in 1880-1. He was transferred to the Natal Civil Service Customs Department in 1881, but owing to an engagement in the Colonial Secretary's Office in Natal he did not take up his duties until 1882; was employed in the Natal Treasury in 1883, became second Clerk in the Treasury in 1884, and was Acting Chief Clerk and Accountant there in 1886 and 1889. In 1890 he held a similar appointment in the Colonial Engineer's Department; acted as Chief Accountant in the Public Works Department in 1896, and was one of the Committee to draft new regulations for the keeping of accounts in the Natal Service in 1898. He became Chief Clerk and Accountant in the Transvaal Public Works Department in Sep, 1901, and in the following year he was nominated Secretary to the Central Judicial Commission, appointed under Article 10 of the Terms of Surrender.

Hunter, Sir David, KCMG (1901), CMG (1898)

He was born, Jan 24 1841, at Broxburn, and was educated at the Parish and Free Church Schools, Kirkliston, Linlithgowshire. He entered the service of the North British Railway Company, Edinburgh, as an apprentice in the Accountants' Department, 1853 and served successively in the Stores, General Superintendent's, and General Manager's Depts. till 1879, when he was appointed by the Secretary, of State for the Colonies to the office of General Manager of Natal Government Railways at their inception. In 1881 and 1882 his services to the military authorities during the Boer War were noticed in despatches by General Sir Evelyn Wood, and he received the thanks of the Secretary, of State. In the same year he was appointed by the Governor a Commissioner of the Natal Harbour Board. In 1883 he was elected first President of the Natal Caledonian Society. In 1890 he was created a member of the Executive Council of the Colony under Royal Sign Manual, and was a member of the Harrismith Hallway Conference. In 1892-3-4 he was a delegate of the Natal Govt, to the Govt, of the (late) SAR on Railway Extension to Johannesburg, which ultimately was arranged under agreement, the construction of the line being carried out by Natal in 1894-5, he representing the Govt, as contractor. He represented Natal in various conferences on Railway and Harbour questions at Cape Town, Pretoria, East London, Johannesburg, and Bloemfontein. He originated and was the first Chairman of the SA Railway Officers' Conference, Pietermaritzburg, 1897. Elected Chairman of Port Advisory Board, 1898, and was a member of Coal Industry Commission, appointed by Govt, in same year. He was first President of Durban Church Council, 1899; was elected Chairman of Colonial Reception Committee in connection with Royal visit to Natal, 1901. Sir David's services during the Boer War (1899-1902) were mentioned in the despatches by Generals Sir George White, Sir Redvers Buller, Field Marshal Lord Roberts, and Lord Kitchener. He was Chairman of the SA Congregational Union in 1903, and Chairman of the Technical Education Commission, 1904-5. He married, Oct 5, 1865, Margaret Gordon Laing, second daughter of Robert Laing, of Mossy Mill. Colinton, near Edinburgh.

Hussey-Walsh, Major William

Born, Dec 16, 1863, at Monkstown, Company Dublin. He was educated at Sandhurst, and joined the Cheshire Regt in 1884. He served in the Burmese Expedition in 1888, and in the Chin-Lushai Expedition in 1889 as Regimental Officer, also as correspondent of the Illustrated London Neivs. He was appointed to the Burma Intelligence Branch in 1890 serving on the Chinese Boundary in the Kachin Expedition in the same year. In 1895 he served as Adjutant in the 1st VB Essex Regiment, from which he retired in 1899, subsequently rejoining when the war broke out in South Africa, and serving with then during embodiment. He joined the SA Constabulary in 1901 as Troop Commander, being promoted to District Commandant, Middelburg, on conclusion of the war, subsequently being transferred to the Headquarter Staff of the SAC as Recruiting Staff Officer, which position he still holds. Recreations, principally aquatic sports. He married, Feb 14, 1902, Miss Mary Evered.

Hutchinson, Captain Elliot St Maurice

Son of Bury Victor Hutchinson, Solicitor; was born in England; educated at King's College School, London, and spent the early part of his life in the redwoods of California and on the plains as a cowboy. Returning to England he became a solicitor and member of the firm of Hutchinson and Sons, Lincoln's Inn Fields. He went to SA in 1896 during the Matabele rebellion, and was admitted as a solicitor in Rhodesia, where he practised until the war, when he joined the Rhodesian Frontier Force, serving as Lieutenant, in the Rhodesian Volunteers. He was severely wounded at the commencement at Tuli; was sent home as one of the delegates to interview Mr Chamberlain, on behalf of the SA Vigilance Assoc, in connection with the peace terms. On returning to SA he took command of G squad of 2nd Kitchener's Fighting Scouts, and saw much fighting with Colonel Wilson's column in the N Transvaal and ORC, being mentioned in despatches by Lord Kitchener for conspicuous gallantry at Blauwkrantz, ORC He was on the Staff and Special Intelligence at Pretoria at the close of the war, when he resumed his practice as a solicitor in the firm of Hutchinson, Sons, and Russell, of Johannesburg and London. Captain Hutchinson is the author of Two Years a Cowboy, which is an account of his early life.