FRERE

Sir Henry Bartle Edward» statesman and administrator, born at Clydale, Wales, 1815, died at Wimbled on 1884. He entered the East India Company’s civil service in 1833; mastered the native languages with great rapidity, and introduced important improvements into the system of tax collection. From 1847 to 1850 he was Resident at Sattara, and at the latter date succeeded Sir Charles Napier as Chief Commi ioner at Scinde. He rendered valuable services during the Mutiny, at the close of which he was nominated to the Viceroy’s Council at Calcutta. He returned to England in 1867. In 1872 he negotiated a treaty with the Sultan of Zanzibar, abolishing the slave-trade in that ruler’s dominions. In 1877 he went to South Africa as Commi ioner for the settlement of native affairs, but this mi ion was a failure. He was the author of a life of his uncle, John Hookham Frere, and numerous lectures and pamphlets. —Cf. John Martin eau, Life and Correspondence of Sir Bartle Frere.