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4 unusual facts about Robert William Keate


Anglo-Zulu War

Questions were also raised as to the validity of the documents signed by the Zulus concerning the Utrecht strip; in 1869 the services of the lieutenant-governor of Natal, then Robert William Keate, were accepted by both parties as arbitrator, but the attempt then made to settle disagreements proved unsuccessful.

Keate

Robert William Keate (1814-1873), English cricketer and British colonial administrator

Robert William Keate

Keate later joined the colonial civil service upon, and was sent to the West Indies in 1857 as Governor of Trinidad, a position he held from 26 January 1857 to 1864.

Keate died at Cape Coast Castle in the Gold Coast on 17 March 1873, just ten days into his Governorship.



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