Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Bartle Frere
Standard Name: Frere, Bartle
Used Form: Sir Bartle Frere
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 | |
Residence | Mary Frere | |
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 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.