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Aga Ghan
Delegate to the Round Table Conferences
James Aggrey
A teacher from Ghana who was a pioneer of racial equality
William Angliss
An Australian who pioneered the export of refridgerated meat.
Leopold Amery
A writer-statesman who drafted the Balfour Declaration
Alexander Burnes
The most famous player of the Great Game
Sara Forbes Bonetta
Sir Bartle Frere
A colonial administratorwho reached the highest levels but brought about the Zulu War of 1879
Henry Hesketh Bell
Thomas Baines
Baden-Powell
A soldier who was in charge of the defence of makeking during the Boer War and founder of the Boy Scout movement
Olaf Caroe
The last governor of the North West province, India, at the time of partition
Cetewayo
A Zulu king whose forces inflicted the heaviest defeat on the British army in the Victorian era
Lord Curzon
Viceroy of India, Foreign Secretary and a leading authority on the Far East
Thomas Daniell
Sir Ralph Darling
Joseph Chamberlain
Hugh Clifford
A colonial administrator who worked all over the empire
Thomson Hankey
Sir George Grey
A colonial governor who served successfully in the Cape Colony, South Australia and New Zealand
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General Gordon
Nicknames 'Chinese Gordon' but better known for his expedition to Khartoum and subsequent death there
Mary Kingsley
A writer and explorer who helped to educate people on African culture
James Hannington
A missionary to eastern equatorial Africa where he was assassinated
Emily Hobhouse
A campaigner against the Boer War who exposed the horrors of the British concentration camps
Sammy Marks
He was typical of thousands who started their lives with nothing but sought their fortunes in the empire
Sake Dene Mahomet opened the first Indian restaurant in Britain and later established shampooing baths in Brighton
Rudyard Kipling
The 'imperial laureate' who warned against excessive patriotism
Frederick Lugard
An imperial hero who captivated the public's imagination in the late c19th
General Charles Napier
A soldier who served for many years in India and responsible for the annexation of Sind
Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales 1810-1822
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General Robert Napier
At the relief of Lucknow and the destruction of the Summer Palace in Peking and in command at the Battle of Magdala
Louis Riel
Lord Roberts
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Flora Shaw
The first female editor of a nationalpaper who then travelled the world bringing the empire to the attention of the British public
Frank Swettenham
A colonial administrator who served in the Straits Settlements
Sir Stamford Raffles
A colonial administrator who founded Singapore
Ranji
Indian cricketer who played for England and then became the rruler of a native state in India
Henry Stanley
An explorer and journalist known for ''finding' Livingstone
Lord Salisbury
Prime Minister in the last years of the c19th at the time of the Boer War
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
General Garnet Wolseley
Early life of Lachlan Macquarie
Cecil Rhodes
In the mid-1890s one of the most powerful men in the world with a huge diamond and gold empire
William Des Voeux
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