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    Sir Leander Starr Jameson, 1st Baronet, KCMG, CB, PC (9 February 1853 – 26 November 1917), also known as Starr Jameson, was a British colonial politician...
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    as the Transvaal) carried out by British colonial administrator Leander Starr Jameson, under the employment of Cecil Rhodes. It involved 500 British South...
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  • Jameson High School, located in Kadoma, Zimbabwe, offers education from Form 1 up to A-Level. Jameson High School was named after Sir Leander Starr Jameson...
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    Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895 as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. It is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. The poem, first...
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  • lawyer and Wisconsin Attorney General Leander Haußmann (born 1959), German theatre and film director Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917), British colonial statesman...
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    summit of Malindidizumu, together with Sir Charles Coghlan, Sir Leander Starr Jameson, Allan Wilson and several other white settlers.[citation needed]...
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    in 1894 it became the site of a military outpost established by Leander Starr Jameson. In 1914 it attained municipal status, and in 1971 it became a city...
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    on repelling the Jameson Raid, a botched raid against the Republic carried out by British colonial administrator Leander Starr Jameson. The raid, conducted...
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    (1918) Dr Jameson. London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., Paternoster House, E.C. – Biography of Sir Leander Starr Jameson, which notes that Starr's '...chief...
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    allies. Cecil Rhodes, who was Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, and Leander Starr Jameson, the Administrator of Mashonaland, also tried to avoid war to prevent...
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  • was Leander Starr Jameson. He was created a Baronet after the Union of South Africa came into existence and was thereafter known as Sir Leander Starr Jameson...
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  • to be seen as Major Forbes) and that of Stuart Brown playing Dr Leander Starr Jameson. The film then cuts to a glorious sunset shot of Southern Rhodesia...
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  • Mpumalanga. Doornkop is the spot where Dr Leander Starr Jameson was defeated on 2 January 1896 following the Jameson Raid. The Doornkop area is also linked...
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    Matabeleland, Leander Starr Jameson, had sent most of his troops and armaments to fight the Transvaal Republic in the ill-fated Jameson Raid. This left...
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  • Middleton Alexander Jameson (1851–1919) was a Scottish artist, born in Edinburgh. One of the older brothers of Sir Leander Starr Jameson, British South African...
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    local wildlife. Cecil Rhodes and other early white colonists like Leander Starr Jameson are buried in these hills at World's View. There are many successful...
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    about 500 marshalled on the Bechuanaland–Transvaal frontier under Leander Starr Jameson, the Chartered Company's administrator in Matabeleland. On 29 December...
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    the opposition to the ensuing exclusively-British government of Leander Starr Jameson in the lead up to the crucial national elections of January 1908...
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    after the Jameson Raid on the Transvaal. As the Administrator of Southern Rhodesia, Sir Leander Starr Jameson, was disgraced by the Jameson Raid, the...
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    of South Africa was formed, in May 1910, under the leadership of Leander Starr Jameson (a former Prime Minister of Cape Colony), by the merger of the three...
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  • Rhodesia Herald and later still the Zimbabwe Herald 18 September – Leander Starr Jameson becomes the first Administrator of Mashonaland 22 December – The...
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  • viewing public. Since then he has appeared in such varied roles as Dr Jameson in Rhodes (1996), Jack Green in the children's serial The Magician's House...
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    politicians of the Cape Colony, including Rhodes, Sir Alfred Milner, and Leander Starr Jameson. Kipling cultivated their friendship and came to admire the men...
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    John X. Merriman defeated the governing Progressive Party under Leander Starr Jameson. These elections would be the last for the Cape Colony, with the...
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    was the father of Sir Leander Starr Jameson, South African statesman and prime minister, and the nephew of Professor Robert Jameson of the University of...
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    heads of the British South Africa Company (BSAC), Cecil Rhodes and Leander Starr Jameson, decided to respond to a Ndebele Kingdom raid with force. A BSAC...
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  • Kyle Jameson (born 1998), English footballer Kylie Jameson (born 1976), New Zealand sailor Larry Jameson (born 1953), American football player Leander Starr...
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    Victoria Cross Ryan Hardie, footballer Emma Harper, MSP Leander Starr Jameson, leader of the Jameson Raid, a precursor of the Second Boer War, and Prime Minister...
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  • de Moçambique (1893), and the trial of Leander Starr Jameson and his compatriots for their actions in the Jameson Raid in 1895-1896. A President of the...
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    Ndebele warriors were not equipped to match the British machine guns. Leander Starr Jameson sent his troops to Bulawayo to try to capture Lobengula, but the...
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