Frederick Carrington
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Order of the Bath
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, KCMG (23 August 1844, Cheltenham
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- 22 March 1913, Cheltenham), was a British
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soldier and friend of Cecil John Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes
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. He acquired fame by crushing the 1896 Matabele rebellion
Second Matabele War
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He was educated at Cheltenham College
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and joined the 24th Regiment of Foot in 1864.
In 1875 he arrived in South Africa, where he raised and commanded the Mounted Infantry in the Griqualand West
Griqualand West
Griqualand West is an area of central South Africa with an area of 40,000 km² that now forms part of the Northern Cape Province. It was inhabited by the Griqua people - a semi-nomadic, Afrikaans-speaking nation of mixed-race origin, who established several states outside the expanding frontier...
expedition and the Frontier Light Horse
Frontier Light Horse
The Frontier Light Horse, a mounted unit, was raised at King William's Town, Eastern Cape Colony in 1877 by Lieutenant Frederick Carrington. It is often referred to as the Cape Frontier Light Horse.-Military service:...
in the Ninth Frontier War
Xhosa wars
The Xhosa Wars, also known as the Cape Frontier Wars, were a series of nine wars between the Xhosa people and European settlers, from 1779 to 1879 in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa....
in 1877.
He commanded the Transvaal Volunteer Force against Sekhukhune
Sekhukhune
Sekhukhune , was king of the Marota , in the current Mpumalanga province, Limpopo province, Gauteng province of South Africa. He became king upon his father's death in September 1861, and lived at a mountain, now known as Thaba Ya Sekhukhune, which he fortified.The Marota lived in the land between...
in 1878-79 and the Cape Mounted Riflemen
Cape Mounted Riflemen
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in the Basuto Gun War of 1881. He was severely wounded in this campaign.
In 1885 he accompanied Sir Charles Warren
Charles Warren
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's expedition to Bechuanaland in command of the 2nd Mounted Infantry, which soon became known as 'Carrington's Horse'.
He commanded the Bechuanaland Police beginning in 1888. He was appointed military adviser to the High Commissioner
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in the First Matabele War
First Matabele War
The First Matabele War was fought in 1893-1894 between the British South Africa Company military forces and the Ndebele people. Lobengula, king of the Ndebele, avoided outright war with the British settlers because he and his advisors were mindful of the destructive power of the European weapons...
. He commanded the British force in the Matabele Rebellion
Second Matabele War
The Second Matabele War, also known as the Matabeleland Rebellion and in Zimbabwe as the First Chimurenga, was fought in 1896–97 between the British troops and the Ndebele people....
in 1896 and the Rhodesia
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n Field Force
Field Force
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during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
He was the father-in-law of World War I fighter ace
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William Mayes Fry
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and the father of the writer Dorothy Carrington
Dorothy Carrington
Frederica Dorothy Violet Carrington was an expatriate British writer domiciled for over half her life in Corsica...
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Carrington was created a KCMG in 1887 and a KCB
Order of the Bath
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in 1897, and retired with the rank of major-general.