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David Glynne Fox
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:17 pm |
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I have just purchased my copy of Ron Lock's and Peter Quantrill's Zulu Vanquished. As I have only just purchased it, I have not had the time to read it in full, but already, it has proven it's weight in gold to me.
Earlier this year, Tim Day and Ian Woodason of the Keynsham Light Horse (KLH) (see website) furnished me with details to try and locate the grave of Captain Norman Magnus MacLeod, Zulu War participant. No, I'd never heard of him either, but the KLH are quite something when it comes to researching participants of this fascinating campaign. Suffice it to say that after an arduous search of the small cemetery at Kilmuir, near Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye, western Scotland, I eventually discovered his grave, marked by a Celtic cross inside the ruined church.
Now, my point is, since my return from this venture, I had been unable to find out anything about MacLeod. The information board in the church grounds states that he was 26th clan chief of the MacLeod's, so I expected to find out something about his Zulu War activity from my extensive Zulu War library. Nothing doing. I can also find nothing concerning his South Africa Campaign Medal entitlement from the medal roll. He doesn't seem to be mentioned. I have checked the Scottish regiments and the staff records in the roll carefully, but he doesn't appear to be there. True, I could have missed him, but the best news so far is the purchase of the aforementioned book, where MacLeod is mentioned several times and a picture of him in his wonderful clan regalia is published in the photo section. I also learned that it was he who negotiated Prince Hamu kaMpande's defection to the British side. He was also a politacal officer working with No. 4 Column under Evelyn Wood VC. There are other snippets and sections printed from Letters written by MacLeod to no lesser personage than Sir Bartle Frere himself.
It is not often that a new book on this campaign exposes hitherto unknown (to me anyway) facts such as this.
Thank you Ron and Peter, you have been most helpful. Now, to sit down and digest the rest of the book..............
Regards
David
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Melanie
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:20 pm |
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Just found this as well,
Norman Magnus was born on 27th July 1839 and was educated at Harrow. Adopting the Army as a career, he obtained a Commission in the 74th Highlanders in 1858 and joined his Regiment in India. He served as aide de camp to General Sir Hope Grant, Commander in Chief in the Presidency of Madras from 1862 to 1865. Retiring from the Army as Captain in 1872, he went to Natal where he held various appointments and at this time made a trip into the interior of Africa, in the course of which he paid a visit to the Victoria Falls and took part in big game hunting, trophies of which adorn the Hall at Dunvegan Castle. On the outbreak of the Zulu War in 1878, he was appointed Political Agent on the Transvaal border and, in the following year, accepted the command of the Zulu Army, numbering 8,000 men, and so distinguished himself in that post that he was awarded the Zulu War Medal and the honour of the C.M.G. Norman Magnus returned home in 1880. On his accession to the Chiefship, he interested himself in the economic welfare of his own Clansmen and of the people of the Highlands and Islands, co-operating with the Government in the settlement of the people on the land. In 1920 he sold, with the consent of the heirs of entail, 60,000 acres of land to the Government for this purpose. As a Chief and Laird, Norman Magnus was greatly beloved. He married on 27th April 1881 Emily Caroline (b. 1857, d. 1943) second daughter of Sir Charles Isham, 10th Baronet of Lamport Hall, Northampton, with issue. Norman Magnus MacLeod, the 26th Chief, died on 5th November 1929 and was succeeded by his brother.
link to this is
http://www.macleodgenealogy.org/ACMS/D0038/I44.html
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