Harry Hamilton Johnston
Harry Hamilton Johnston
| Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston GCMG KCB, DSc FZS HBM Consul-General | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1858 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1927 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
Queen Anne's Mansions, Westminster St Margaret's Mansions, Victoria Street, Westminster, SW [1885] Cameroons, West Africa [1888] The Residency, Zomba [1894] Queen Anne's Mansions, Westminster [1897] Special Commissioner, Uganda c/o Foreign Office, SW [1899 vol. 29] 27 Chester Terrace, Regents Park, NW [1901] St John's Priory, Poling, Arundel [1906] | ||||||||||
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explorer botanist linguist administrative | ||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
AI Council 1904 Member
AI Council 1905 Member
AI Council 1906 Vice President
AI Council 1907 Vice President
AI Council 1908 Vice President
AI Council 1909 Vice President
AI Council 1910 Vice President
House Notes
1885.06.09 proposed for election at next meeting
HBM Consul-General Tunis
HBM Vice-Consul
death reported in Report of the Council for 1927
Notes From Elsewhere
Sir Henry "Harry" Hamilton Johnston GCMG KCB (12 June 1858 – 31 July 1927), was a British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administrator, one of the key players in the "Scramble for Africa" that occurred at the end of the 19th century.
Born London; died Worksop.
Started life as artist but decided, while in Tunis in 1880, to devote himself to African exploration. Between 1882-1900 spent most of the time in Africa on exploration and administration. Numerous publications and contributions to science. Collections to Kew, British Museum and London Zoo. KCB, 1896; GCMG, 1901. Gold Medals of RGS, RSGS, and Zoological Society. Honorary degree from Cambridge. JP. Stood unsuccessfully, as a Liberal, for Parliament in 1903 and 1906.
Explorer and colonial administrator of Scottish extraction, who had studied at King’s College in London at the Royal Academy. He received the gold medal of the RGS, and while serving as a colonial administrator became a prolific travel writer, colonial historian and novelist. He was the first Commissioner of Nyasaland (modern day Malawi) and briefly administered Uganda at the turn of the 19th century. He met Burton in London in 1885, through Oswald Crawfurd, and idolized him, leaving an affectionate reminiscence in his memoirs (see Volume 3). Isabel recorded that on their visit to London in 1888 “we had the pleasure of seeing our friend H. H. Johnston, Consul in West Africa and artist, one of the most charming and sympathetic of men
Publications
External Publications
The River Congo (1884)
The Kilema-Njaro Expedition (1886)
The History of a Slave (1889)
British Central Africa (1897)
The Colonization of Africa (1899)
The Uganda Protectorate (1902)
The Nile Quest: The Story of Exploration (1903)
Liberia (1906)
George Grenfell and the Congo (1908)
The Negro in the New World (1910)
The Opening Up of Africa (1911) Phonetic Spelling (1913)
(online) A Comparative Study of the Bantu and Semi-Bantu Languages (1919, 1922)
(online) The Gay-Dombeys (1919) – a sequel to Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
Mrs. Warren's Daughter—a sequel to Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw The Backward Peoples and Our Relations with Them (1920)
The Story of my Life (1923) – autobiography The Veneerings – a sequel to Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
House Publications
the people of eastern equatorial africa 10 feb, 1885
on the races of the congo and the portuguese colonies in western africa 8 Jan. 1884
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