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.
Griqualand West
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Griqualand West is an area of central South Africa with an area of 40,000 km2 that now forms part of the Northern Cape Province. It was inhabited by the Griqua people – a semi-nomadic, Afrikaans-speak
Richard Southey (colonial administrator)
…British Imperial control as a separate colony, to the north of the Cape Colony. In 1873, Southey moved there and was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Griqualand-West, where he had previously found one of the first diamonds in South Africa, on a witch doctor. He had laid it on a table before the Cape Parliament and…
A one penny 1879 revenue stamp of Griqualand West.
The Griqua Kaptein Andries Waterboer and his sons
David Arnot, Griqua lawyer and diplomat
The Griqua Kaptein Nicolaas Waterboer.