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BRAND, SIR JOHN HENRY (1823-1888)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 420 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BRAND, SIR JOHN HENRY (1823-1888) , president of the Orange Free State, was the son of Sir Christoffel Brand,
speaker
  of the
House
  of Assembly of the Cape Colony. He was born at Cape Town on the 6th of December 1823, and was educated at the
South
 
African
  College in that city. Continuing his studies at Leiden, he took the degree of D.C.L. in 1845. He was called to the English bar from the Inner Temple in 1849, and practised as an
advocate
 
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in the supreme
court
  of the Cape of Good
Hope
  from that year until 1863. In 1858 he was appointed professor of law in the
South
 
African
  College. He was elected president of the Orange Free State in 1863, and subsequently re-elected for five years in 1869, 1874, 1879 and 1884. In 1864 he resisted the pressure of the Basuto on the Free State boundary, and after vainly endeavouring to induce Moshesh, the Basuto
chief
 , to keep his people within hounds, he took up arms against them in 1865. This first war ended in the treaty of Thaba Bosigo, signed on the 3rd of April 1866; and a second war, caused by the treachery of the Basuto, ended in the treaty of Aliwal North, concluded on the 12th of February 1869. In 1871 Brand was solicited by a large party to become president of the Transvaal, and thus unite the two Dutch republics of South Africa; but as the project was hostile to
Great
  Britain he declined to do so, and maintained his constant policy of friendship towards England, where his merits were recognized in 1882 by the honour of the G.C.M.G. He died on the 14th of July 1888. (See ORANGE FREE STATE: History.)


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