Bartle Frere

Standard Name: Frere, Bartle
Used Form: Sir Bartle Frere

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Frere
MF 's father, Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere , had a distinguished career with the Indian Civil Service . His thirty-three years in India were broken by only two spells of home leave, in each...
Friends, Associates Florence Dixie
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Pandita Ramabai
While among the Sisters of St Mary the Virgin at Wantage in England, PR wrote a letter to the former governor of Bombay, Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere , entitled The Cry of...
Occupation Florence Nightingale
Her work brought her into contact with top officials and, although she never visited the subcontinent, she corresponded with Sir Bartle Frere , Governor of Bombay; Sir John McNeill , surgeon with the East India Company
Residence Mary Frere
MF sailed from England with her mother for Bombay, to join her father , who was then governor of that city and who was almost a stranger to her.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Residence Mary Frere
MF accompanied her father and mother to South Africa, where the former was appointed British High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Mary Frere
MF calls herself the collector, not the author. She first persuaded Anna Liberata to begin telling stories one day when, as the only woman in the elaborate camp attending her father, she was at a...

Timeline

March 1873: A Times correspondent reported that Sir Bartle...

National or international item

March 1873

A Times correspondent reported that Sir Bartle Frere (father of the folklorist Mary Frere ) had received a flat refusal from the Sultan of Zanzibar in his attempt negotiate an end to the Zanzibarian slave trade.
“12 March 1873. Zanzibar’s slaving sultan gets lesson”. Guardian Weekly, 13 Mar. 2009, p. 22.

Texts

Frere, Bartle et al. “Introduction”. Old Deccan Days, 3rd edition, Revised, John Murray, 1881, p. ix - xvi.
Frere, Mary et al. Old Deccan Days. John Murray, 1868.
Frere, Mary et al. Old Deccan Days. 3rd edition, Revised, John Murray, 1881.
Frere, Mary et al. Old Deccan Days. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.