RARE "1st Baron" Frederick Lugard Hand Signed 2X3.25 Card For Sale

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RARE "1st Baron" Frederick Lugard Hand Signed 2X3.25 Card:
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Up for sale a RARE! "1st Baron" Frederick Lugard Hand Signed 2X3.25 Card. 

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Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st 1858 – 11 April 1945), known as Sir Frederick Lugard between

1901 and 1928, was a British soldier,

mercenary, explorer of Africa and colonial administrator. He was Governor of Hong Kong (1907–1912),

the last Governor of the Southern the first High Commissioner

(1900–1906) and last Governor (1912–1914) of the Northern Nigeria

Protectorate and the first Governor-General

of Nigeria (1914–1919). Lugard was born in Madras (now Chennai) in India,

but was raised in Worcester, England. He was the son of the Rev'd Frederick Grueber Lugard,

a British Army chaplain at Madras, and his third wife Mary Howard (1819–1865),

the youngest daughter of Rev'd John Garton Howard (1786–1862), a younger son of

landed gentry Lugard was educated at Rossall School and the Royal Military College,

Sandhurst. The name 'Dealtry' was in honour of Thomas Dealtry, a friend of his father.

Lugard

was commissioned into the 9th Foot (East Norfolk Regiment) in

1878 and joined the second battalion in India; he served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-1880,

the Sudan campaign, 1884-1885 and the Third Anglo-Burmese War, November

1885 and was awarded the Distinguished Service

Order in 1887.[2] After this promising start, his

career was derailed when he fell in love with a twice married British divorcee

he met in India; learning she had been injured in an accident, he abandoned his

post in Burma to join her in Lucknow, then followed her to England. When she rejected him,

Lugard decided to make a fresh start in Africa.

Around

1880, a group of Swahili traders under Mlozi bin Kazbadema established trading

bases in the north-west sector of Lake Malawi, including a stockade at Chilumba on the lake from where ivory and slaves could be

shipped across the lake. In 1883 the African Lakes Company set

up a base in Karonga to exchange ivory for trade goods from these the two groups deteriorated, partly because of the company’s delays or

unwillingness to provide guns, ammunition and other trade goods, and also

because the Swahili traders turned more to slaving, attacking communities that

the company had promised to protect, and hostilities broke out in mid-1887. The

series of intermittent armed clashes that took place up to mid-1889 is known as

the Karonga War, or sometimes the Arab War.

The

African Lakes Company depot at Karonga was evacuated at the end of the year but

in May 1888, Captain Lugard, persuaded by the British Consul at Mozambique,

arrived to lead an expedition against Mlozi, sponsored by the African Lakes

Company but without official British Government support.

Lugard’s

first expedition of May to June 1888 attacked the Swahili stockades with

limited success and, in the course of one attack, Lugard was wounded and

withdrew south. Lugard’s second expedition in December 1888 to March 1889

was larger and included a 7-pounder gun, which

however failed to breach the stockade walls. Following this second failure,

Lugard let the Lake Malawi region for Britain in April 1889. 

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