Sir Graham Bowker’s Secret History of the Jameson Raid and the South African Crisis 1895 – 1902

Sir Graham Bowkers Secret History of the Jameson Raid and the South African Crisis, 1895   1902  

Author: Edited by Deryck Schreuder and Jeffrey Butler      

Publisher: Van Riebeeck Society  

Edition: Second Series No.33 2002 

ISBN: 0-9584112-9-8

Language: English 

Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding     

Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket 

Pages: 206.. Text with images

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This publication of Graham Bowers Secret History is a personal insiders account of the great imperial scandal of the Jameson Raid (1895-6) and the coming of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899 -1902). Although he was the official secretary to Robinson, British High Commissioner in South Africa, he chose to keep silent and play the role of a scapegoat rather than blow the whistle to his boss Robinson after Rhodes had confidentially told him of his plan to send Rhodesian forces into the Transvaal, later known as the Jameson Raid. He refused to incriminate either Rhodes or Robinson at the official British inquiry in 1897, and his noble lie cost him dearly, both personally and in a career destroyed. In 1898, he was appointed to the post of Colonial Secretary of Mauritius, a position he held until his retirement in 1910.

The editors have made this VRS publication from Bowers unpublished manuscripts, his personal papers, official records including the transcript of the 1897 Lying-in-State Inquiry plus oral traditional evidence from the Bower family itself.

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