Sir Lloyd William Mathews, 1880 - 1901
Scope and Contents
115 x 160 mm A seated portrait showing Mathews in uniform and wearing decorations. Mathews (1850-1901) entered the Royal Navy in 1863 and after service in the Ashanti Campaign of 1873-4 was stationed aboard H.M.S.S ‘London’ on slave trade suppression on the East coast of Africa. In 1877 he was selected to command and retrain Sultan Barghash of Zanzibar’s army and in 1892 became Prime Minister and Treasurer of Zanzibar. For photographs of his funeral see Y30468A/39-41. This photograph is used as the frontispiece of Robert Nunez Lyne’s biography of Mathews ‘An Apostle of Empire’ (1936).
Dates
- Creation: 1880 - 1901
Creator
- From the Fonds: Rogers, Alexander Stuart, 1862 - 1930 (Person)
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Language of Materials
English
Date information
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Finding aid date
2012-05-21 11:15:22+00:00
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