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Theophilus Shepstone. Sir Theophilus Shepstone KCMG (8 January 1817 – 23 June 1893) was a British South African statesman who was responsible for the annexation of the Transvaal to Britain in 1877. Shepstone is the great great grandfather of international artist Conor Mccreedy. [1]
Jun 19, 2024 · Sir Theophilus Shepstone (born Jan. 8, 1817, Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died June 23, 1893, Pietermaritzburg, Natal [now in South Africa]) was a British official in Southern Africa who devised a system of administering Africans on which all later European field administrations in Africa were to be based.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
8 January 1817. Date of Death: 23 June 1893. Theophilus Shepston was born near Bristol in 1817, the son of the Reverend J William Shepstone, who became an 1820 settler, and his wife Elizabeth Brooks, a Quaker. Shepstone's father was entered as a stonemason on the 1820 settler's list. Their first home was a rough shelter near Bathurst where ...
Jun 4, 2014 · Theophilus Shepstone and the Forging of Natal could have made an important contribution to a post-apartheid South African history. We desperately need an engaged historiography that sets a new agenda for historical research, not one that is cantankerous, inaccessible, and trapped in old paradigms.
- Clifton Crais
- 2014
Jul 30, 2018 · His final book, Theophilus Shepstone and the Forging of Natal, was published by UKZN Press in 2013. He will be remembered for his invaluable contributions to South African scholarship. This article was published with kind permission from his family.
- Jeff Guy
- 2018
Missions in Shepstone's Early Career*l THOMAS MCCLENDON (Southwestern University) African historiography looks to Theophilus Shepstone as the architect of a 'system' that presaged twentieth-century styles of indirect rule in Africa. But Shepstone's ideas did not develop in a vacuum or emerge as a ready-made blueprint. This article examines how his
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Theophilus Shepstone is recognized as one of the key figures in the history of colonial Africa. He is credited with developing some of the essential and widely copied features of colonial administration, including indirect rule, customary law, and segregation.
