Sir Richard Southey was a British colonial administrator, cabinet minister and landowner in South Africa.
Sir Richard Southey British imperial administrator Cape Colony archives
George Southey, Richard's brother who was chiefly known for shooting Xhosa King Hintsa and mutilating his body.
Portrait of Sir Richard Southey in the early 1870s as Colonial Secretary. Portrait by WH Schroder, published in The Zingari.
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Sir John Gordon Sprigg was a British colonial administrator and politician who served as prime minister of the Cape Colony on four occasions.
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…Eastern Cape, he was soon elected to the Cape Parliament as the member for Grahamstown. In this capacity, he joined fellow easterners John Paterson and Gordon Sprigg, as the opposition to the Cape's ruling government. Southey's career finally ended in 1878, when Britain suspended the Cape government and assumed…
Sir John Gordon Sprigg
An early cartoon of John Gordon Sprigg holding the national budget. Sprigg's terms in office were often characterised by a notoriously unsustainable fiscal policy.
Drawing of John Gordon Sprigg as Prime Minister in September 1897