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Also Known As Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr
Born July 4, 1845 • Cape Town • South Africa
Died October 16, 1909 (aged 64)
Political Affiliation Afrikaner Bond
Stephanus Jacobus du Toit
South African politician
P. W. Botha
state president of South Africa
John X. Merriman
prime minister of Cape Colony
William Philip Schreiner
South African politician
Jacobus Johannes Fouché
president of South Africa
François Stephanus Malan
South African politician
Cecil Rhodes
Cecil Rhodes
prime minister of Cape Colony
Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworth
chief justice of United States
Milner, detail of an oil painting by Hugh de Twenebrokes Glazebrook, 1901; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner
British diplomat
Sir Hercules Robinson, lithograph by W.H. Schröder
Sir Hercules Robinson
British colonial governor
Campbell-Bannerman
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
prime minister of United Kingdom
Sir Benjamin D’Urban
British general
Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch
British colonial official
Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th earl of Minto
British official
Sir Bartle Frere, detail of an oil painting by Sir George Reid, 1881; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Bartle Frere, 1st Baronet
British colonial official
Barney Barnato
British financier
Sir Harry Smith, detail of a miniature attributed to Hugh Ross; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Harry Smith, Baronet
British general
John Philip
Scottish missionary
Sir Henry Barkly
British colonial administrator
George Grey
Sir George Grey
British colonial administrator