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Early life. Theophilus Shepstone was born at Westbury-on-Trym near Bristol, England. When he was three years old his father, the Rev. William Theophilus, emigrated to Cape Colony.
Shepstone’s family immigrated in 1820 to Cape Colony, and he was educated in his father’s mission school. At an early age Shepstone acquired great proficiency in the native dialects and culture and learned Xhosa.
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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.
that he grew up among African communities on the Eastern Cape frontier (see Figure 1), it is unlikely that this was merely pretence. Rather, it was a role that Shepstone was familiar and comfortable with. The other major influence from growing up on the frontier was the experience of the recurring threat and reality of war.
Jan 1, 2008 · Abstract. Over the last 40 years the reputation of Theophilus Shepstone has grown and grown. In his own time, most white settlers in Natal denounced him as the man who had locked up the land...
Apr 1, 2015 · Historians have long acknowledged Theophilus Shepstone as one of the most influential and important colonial figures in southern African history: the progenitor of the eponymous Shepstone system th...
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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...
