With an Introduction by Lord Charles Beresford. Hard cover, red cloth boards with gilt titling on cover and spine, with 1 photogravure & 32 other illustrations; Black & White Illustrations, pp. 395. Spine worn at extremities, internally clean.
Of interest to Africana, esp. Anglo-Boer collectors, will be the BOOK PLATE of Sir GEORGE HERBERT FARRAR D.S.O., the South African mining magnate, politician and soldier which appears on the first loose endpaper. Farrar created the East Rand Proprietary Mines (ERPM) and remained chairman of the company throughout his life. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Transvaal and Leader of the Opposition. For his part in the Jameson Raid he was sentenced to hang but the sentence was commuted to a fine of £25 000. During the Boer War he raised two regiments of South African Horse and on 1 December 1900 was appointed Major in the Kaffrarian Rifles. He saw service in the Orange River Colony, took part in the defence of Wepener and saw action at Wittebergen" south of the Orange River. He was mentioned in despatches and was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal with 4 clasps, a DSO for his military service during the Boer War and was knighted in 1902. He became chairman of the Chamber of Mines. With the attaining of autonomy for the Transvaal in 1906, he represented Boksburg East in the Legislative Assembly and was leader of the Opposition. He represented Georgetown in the first parliament of Union of South Africa in 1910-11 and was created Baronet on 2 February 1911. In December 1911 he withdrew from politics and devoted all his time to his enterprises on the East Rand.
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