3-078-052 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Col. Sir Francis de Winton, new Administrator of the British East Africa Co.'s Territory, 1890. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. J. Thomson. 'The British East Africa Company has been fortunate in obtaining the services of this distinguished military officer, African traveller, and Government Commissioner for African affairs, as the Administrator and actual Governor of its large territory from the east coast to the shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza. Sir Francis...served in the Crimean War...was aide-de-camp to General Sir W. Fenwick Williams, commanding the forces in British North America from 1860 to 1865, and was on the staff of that General as Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia...in 1877 and 1878 [he] was a military attaché to the British Embassy at Constantinople...he entered the service of the King of the Belgians, President of the new Congo Free State[and is a] Commander of the Belgian Order of Leopold...He went to South Africa last year, as Commissioner of her Majesty's Government, jointly with that of the Transvaal Republic, to visit Swaziland, and to inquire concerning the best mode of settling that country...Sir Francis De Winton took the most active part in organising and directing Mr. Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.