John Charles Molteno
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Sir John Charles Molteno was a politician and businessman who served as the first Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1872 to 1878.
John Charles Molteno – 1860s
The Cape Colony in 1878, on the eve of the Confederation Wars.
The grave of John Charles Molteno at St Saviour's in Claremont, Cape Town.
Cape Colony
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The Cape Colony, also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope. It existed from 1795 to 1802, and again from 1806 to 1910, whe
John Charles Molteno
…Sir John Charles Molteno (Italian: ; 5 June 1814 – 1 September 1886) was a politician and businessman who served as the first Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1872 to 1878. Born in London into a large Anglo-Italian family, Molteno emigrated to the Cape in 1831 at the age of 17, where he found work as an…
Skirmish during the Xhosa Wars
Mossel Bay on the Indian Ocean, 1818
Table Bay, Cape Town, circa 1832