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Inscribed and Signed by Author. DESCRIPTION: Large paperback edition. Illustrated with drawings and photographs Language: English. Book Condition: Fair: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends.3cm tear to front cover fore edge. Large crease to front cover. Inscription to first page. Clean unmarked pages DJ Condition: Na. Pages 306. Size: 8vo 25cm by 18cm. PROVENANCE: Inscription: Toby [Sir Tobias Clarke] see page iv thanking him for his help with the book. Sir Charles Mansfield Tobias Clarke, 6th Bt. (1939 - 2019). Son of Sir Humphrey Orme Clarke, 5th Bt. and Elisabeth Cook. Married Charlotte Walter, daughter of Roderick Walter in 1971 and later married Teresa Lorraine Aphrodite de Chair, daughter of Somerset Struben de Chair and Margaret Patricia FieldHart, in 1984. Named Charles Mansfield Clarke at birth he changed his name to Charles Mansfield Tobias Clarke in 1962. Educated at Eton, Christ Church, Sorbonne and Graduate Business School, New York University. He succeeded as the 6th Baronet Clarke, of Dunham Lodge in 1973. Offices held: Vice-president of the London branch of Bankers Trust Company of New York, editor and founder of The Baronets Journal, Associate director of the Swiss Bank Corporation London and chairman of the Standing Council of the Baronetage. Through his grandmother, Elfrida Roosevelt (Lady Clarke, wife of Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, Bt. CBE) he was related to U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt was his first cousin, three times removed. He was also the second cousin, three times removed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Children of Sir Charles Mansfield Tobias Clarke, 6th Bt. and Teresa Lorraine Aphrodite de Chair. Sir Humphrey Orme Clarke, 5th Bt. (1906 - 1949). Son of Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, 4th Bt. and Elfrida Roosevelt. Married, Frances Mary Powys Sketchley, daughter of Major Frederick Powys Sketchley, in 1931 (divorced in 1936). Married, Elisabeth Cook, daughter of Dr. William Alexander Cook, in 1938. Married Constance Elizabeth Gibbs, daughter of Herbert Gray Gibbs, 1947 (divorced in 1953). Educated at Eton and Christ Church. Served with the British Embassy to Washington between 1941 and 1944 and the Foreign Office between 1944 and 1946. Succeeded as the 5th Baronet Clarke, of Dunham Lodge1949. Elisabeth Cook ( - 1967) was the daughter of Dr. William Alexander Cook. 1 Married Colin Leiter Campbell and subsequently Sir Humphrey Orme Clarke, 5th Bt. , son of Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, 4th Bt. and Elfrida Roosevelt, in 1938. BOOK RESUME: Surrounded by South Africa lies the small, independent kingdom of Lesotho, and this book explores how the Basotho people came to preserve this autonomy from powerful neighbours in the Gun War of 1880-81. One of several wars in southern Africa at the time, the Gun War was different in one, allimportant respect: the whites were humiliatingly defeated, or at least decisively held at bay. Presenting oral traditions and archival sources with meticulous care, this history lays bare the narrower interests and conflicting perspectives among the Basotho chiefs and the local officials as well as the larger forces at work in the region. Compelling and absorbing, this study of the Gun War will interest historians and academics alike.
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