Author: Faure, D.P.
Title: My Life and Times. Late Minister of the Free Protestant Church, Cape Town.
Description: Juta. Cape Town 1907. Gilt title on maroon textured boards. 232 pp illustrated b/w photographic plates. 8vo. No inscriptions, spine discoloured, ff tanned, else a Good sound copy. An autobiography. A chapter deals with the birth of the Free Protestant Church, another critically with the Anglo-Boer war. Deals with his ancestry, childhood, school days, student life, his employments such as an interpreter (including a chapter on same for Lord Derby, Secretary for the Colonies under Gladstone), journalist, examiner, with forays into Freemasonry & spiritualism. Various appendices include a Melodrama in two acts, Pro Ratia The South African Problem, Phylloxera, and some verse.

Keywords: boer war south southern africa african phylloxera freemasonry huguenot


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