John William Colenso

FC 's father, the Reverend John William Colenso , was English Bishop of Natal from 1853 until his death on 20 July 1883. In this capacity he translated the New Testament and parts of the...

Once in Natal, Bishop Colenso took the side of the natives against Boer oppression; however, as critic Margaret Daymond notes, he did not set himself against war as such; it was the injustices of a...

FPC 's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot , Frances Sarah Colenso and her husband Bishop Colenso (while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett , Charles Kingsley , W. E. H. Lecky , Sir Charles Lyell

In South Africa FD remembered warmly, even sentimentally, her childhood meeting with the Prince Imperial (son of Louis-Napoleon of France, an early anglophile) whom she had met as a child and who had died fighting...

FPC 's subject here was particularly topical given the furore created by Essays and Reviews, 1860 and Bishop Colenso 's The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined, 1862.

Her most vociferous opponents now included John Robinson , editor of the Natal Mercury (who chose to interpret her as a mere mouthpiece for Bishop Colenso ), and in time most of the British Tory...

Her visit to Zululand was undertaken at the request of King Cetshwayo , and once there she caused consternation among British officials by attempting to sound out local Zulu opinion about his removal from rule...

In probably May 1864 GC wrote and sent to Cardinal Wiseman a poem of protest against Bishop Colenso of Natal (father of Frances Colenso ); she also sent it to the comte de Montalembert .

After FC 's father was consecrated Bishop of Natal, the family sailed for South Africa, where they settled in a place called from them Bishopstowe near Pietermaritzburg.

FC returned from Natal to England to assist Sir George Cox with producing a biography of her father (who had died in July 1883).