| Authorised form of name | Frere; Sir; Henry Bartle Edward (1815 - 1884) |
| Dates | 1815 - 1884 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Clydach, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 29 March 1815 |
| Place of death | Wimbledon, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 29 May 1884 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
St Paul's Cathedral, London |
| Occupation | Colonial administrator |
| Research field | Natural history |
| Religion |
| Activity | Education:
Haileybury College; East India Company College
Career:
Joined the Bombay Civil Service (1834); Assistant Collector, Poona; Private Secretary to Sir George Arthur, Governor of Bombay (1842); Commissioner at Scinde (1850-1859); Governor of Bombay (1862-1867); Member of Council of the Secretary of State for India (1866-1877); Privy Councillor (1873); received the Freedom of the City of London (1874); accompanied the Prince of Wales on his tour in India (1875); Governor of Cape Colony and High Commission for South Africa (1877); as Governor implemented a set of policies which attempted to impose a British confederation on the region and led to the overthrow of the Cape's first elected government in 1878 and a string of regional wars, culminating in theAnglo-Zulu war (1879), Basotho Gun War (1880) and the First Boer War (1880-1881); recalled to England to face charges of misconduct (1880) charged with having acted recklessly, and censured by Parliament; Mount Bartle Frere (1622m), the highest mountain in Queensland, Australia, is named after him; The botanist, N. A. Dalzell (1864) named the plant genus Frerea in his honour "not only as a mark of esteem and respect, but also because he always has been the enlightened encourager and promoter of scientific researches in India, and is himself a close observer of nature."
Honours:
KCB 1859; GCSI 1867; Bt 1876; GCB 1876
Memberships:
Royal Asiatic Society (President 1872); Royal Society of South Africa (founder and President, 1877) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/05/1877 |
| Age at election | 62 |
| Relationships | Son of Edward Frere and his wife Mary Anne, daughter of James Greene; younger brother of George Edward Frere (FRS 1837); grandson of John Frere (FRS 1771); married (10 October 1844) Catherine, daughter of Sir George Arthur, Governor of Bombay |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Vanity Fair 20 September 1873
Notes:
Boase gives birth date as 29 March 1815; BR gives 15 March 1815 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/47066410/#Frere,_Bartle,_1815-1884 |
| Royal Society code | NA6536 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| MC/11/90 | Letter from H B E [Henry Bartle Edward] Frere, Government House, Cape Town, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 20 July 1877 |
| EC/1877/02 | Frere, Sir Henry Bartle Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/29/77 | Letter from Harold Frere, 6 Magdalen Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, to Robert Harrison, [Assistant] Secretary, [Royal Society] | 23 March 1914 |
| MC/11/99 | Letter from Geo E [George Edward] Frere, Roydon Hall, Diss, to the Royal Society | 18 September 1877 |
| MC/11/107 | Letter from Geo E [George Edward] Frere, Roydon Hall, Diss, to [Joseph Dalton] Hooker, [President of the Royal Society] | 28 October 1877 |
| MC/11/270 | Letter from Geo E [George Edward] Frere, Roydon Hall, Diss, to [Walter White], Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 18 November 1878 |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| MC/29/76 | Letter from Harold Frere, 6 Magdalen Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, [Royal Society] | 10 March 1914 |
| MC/29/75 | Letter from Harold Frere, 6 Magdalen Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, to The Secretaries, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London | 19 February 1914 |