SIGNED: Charles Jasper Selwyn - Pamela Barnes

CHARLES JASPER SELWYN " Where Duty Leads "  Officer Commanding ROYAL ENGINEERS GRAHAMS TOWN 1834 - 1842 by PAMELA BARNES  Softcover ( Size A4 ) 42 Pages plus Appendix  ; LIMITED Edition ; no ; 295/1000 Copies 1979. In very good condition. Signed on title page.

" Came to the Cape in about 1830, an officer in the ROYAL ENGINEERS. He was Commanding Officer on the Cape Frontier from 1834 to 1840 and was apparently responsible for the design of the Drostdy Gate, Grahamstown, built by Royal Engineers. Selwyn is also credited with the design of Selwyn's Castle, Grahamstown in Gothic Revival style (1835) and of the Settler's Memorial Methodist Church (1835). "