page_title: Henry Bartle Frere
section_title: Memorials
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Bartle Frere / Memorials
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of statue of Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet in the Victoria Embankment gardens, London.
context_page_description: Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet GCB GCSI PC was a British colonial administrator. He had a successful career in India, rising to become Governor of Bombay. However, as High Commissioner for Southern Africa, he implemented a set of policies which attempted to impose a British confederation on the region and which led to the overthrow of the Cape's first elected government in 1878 and to a string of regional wars, culminating in the invasion of Zululand and the First Boer War. The British Prime Minister, Gladstone, recalled Frere to London to face charges of misconduct; Whitehall officially censured Frere for acting recklessly.
context_section_description: He was the founder and first president of the Royal Society of South Africa 1877.
  Frere Hall in Karachi was built in his honour. The city also named a road, street and town after him. Karachi Grammar School's Frere House is named after him. In 1888, the Prince of Wales unveiled a statue of Frere on the Thames embankment. Mount Bartle Frere (1622m), the highest mountain in Queensland, Australia, is named after him, as is a boarding house at Haileybury. A road in Parktown, Johannesburg, is also named after him. (Frere Road was also the home of Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Prize-winning author). In Durban, two roads honour him: Frere Road which later transforms into Bartle Road. Freretown, a district of the Kenyan city of Mombasa, is also named after him.
  The botanist, N. A. Dalzell (1864) named the plant genus Frerea to commemorate H. B. Frere. It is a monotypic plant genus known by a single species, viz. Frerea indica Dalzell. Dalzell stated "Sir H. B. E. Frere, not only as a mark of esteem and respect, but also because he always has been the enlightened encourager and promoter of scientific researches in India, and is himself a close observer of nature."
caption: Henry Bartle Frere's statue on the Thames embankment
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