Frederic Cardew

Colonel Sir Frederic Cardew, KCMG (27 September 1839 – 6 July 1921) was a British Army officer and colonial governor. He was Governor of Sierra Leone from 1894 to 1900.[1] The hut tax that he introduced led to the Hut Tax War of 1898.[2]

References

1. "Sir Frederic Cardew". The Times. 7 July 1921. p. 15.
2. Abraham, Arthur (1974). "Bai Bureh, The British, and the Hut Tax War". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 7 (1): 99–106.

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