Fort, G Seymour — Dr [ Doctor ] Jameson

Hurst & Blackett 1918 2nd edition. Cloth, G+. xii+335pp, b/w frontis, 3 b/w plates, cloth a little bumped at the head & tail, sporadic foxing to the title, preliminary pages & fore edges & last few pp, but still a nice copy. Biography of Sir Leander Starr Jameson [ 1853 - 1917 ] who achieved Worldwide fame in 1896 after the failed attmpt to incite an uprising in South Africa among British expatriates with the 'Jameson Raid'. Whilst the uprising did not materialise the Raid was instrumental in the starting of the Second Boer War. Jameson was Administrator General for Matabeleland at the time of the Riad & thus the book contains much on the early history of South Africa as well as the biographical content.