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Makers and Shapers
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Dr. Daniel McK. Malcolm

  • Person
  • 1885 - 13 November 1962

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using African Studies, 1963, Volume 22, Issue 1: Dr. Daniel "Danny" McK. Malcolm was chief inspector of Bantu education from 1920 to 1944, following which, he became the first lecturer in Zulu at the University of Natal, a position he held until his death. He was a leading authority on Zulu literature. He published "A Zulu Manual for Beginners" in 1947, and translated into English two volumes of verse by Zulu poet D.B. Vilakazi. At the time of his death, he was involved in translating and annotating James Stuart's collection of Zulu praise poems.]

Dr. Everitt George Dunne Murray

  • Person
  • 1890 - 6 July 1964

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA , 2017, using the Obituary Notice for Murray written in the Journal of General Microbiology, 1967 Vol. 46, and the McGill University Department of Microbiology and Immunology website, 2017: Dr. Everitt G.D. Murray, known as 'Jo'burg' to his friends and colleagues, was born in Johannesburg in 1890. At age 15 he was sent to Downside School in England, and then went on to study at the University of Cambridge, where he developed a particular interest in zoology. He later underwent medical training at Bart's. In 1916 he qualified as a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. In the same year, he was sent Mesopotamia to work on dysentery, until he fell ill and was sent to India to recover. After India, he returned to Johannesburg to see his father, and worked as Medical Officer in charge of troopships on both the east and west coasts of Africa. He married Winifred Woods in December 1917. In 1919 Murray was appointed Demonstrator in Pathology at Bart’s and in 1920 he became an M.R.C. Research Bacteriologist, at first working in the Field Laboratories in Milton Road, Cambridge. Murray became the first chairman of the Department of Bacteriology at McGill University in 1931. In addition to his various academic posts, Murray actively served McGill’s teaching hospitals. Until 1955 he was Bacteriologist-in-Chief of the Royal Victoria Hospital including the closely affiliated Montreal Maternity Hospital and the Montreal Neurological Institute, and an Honorary Consultant to the Royal Victoria, Montreal General, Children’s Memorial, Jewish General, and Royal Edward Laurentian Hospitals. He was also Honorary Consultant to the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada and a member of the Board of Governors of the Alexandra Hospital. Murray collected ethnographic and biological material from southern Africa, some of which is housed in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.]

Dunjwa ka Mabedhla

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Dunjwa kaMabedhla. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1912.]

Elize Becker

  • Person
  • [19-?] - present

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using Elize Becker's LinkedIn account: Elize Becker is a South African archaeologist and anthropologist who worked as a Heritage Officer at Amafa KZN Heritage between 2005 and 2007.]

Ernest Balfour Haddon

  • Person
  • 1882 - 1976

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using "Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume 2" by John Vern, published in 1947; as well as using MAA and CUL materials, 2017: Ernest Balfour Haddon was the son of Alfred Cort Haddon. He was Assistant District Commissioner in Gondokoro in the southern Sudan, then worked in Uganda. During WWI he was an Honourable Captain in the Uganda Carrier Corps. He worked as the Postal Censor in Uganda from 1935-1945. Some of the items of anthropological importance collected by E.B. Haddon are housed in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.] 

Falaza

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Falaza. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1898.]

Frans Roodt

  • Person
  • 24 April 1954 - present

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using Frans Roodt's online CV: Frans Roodt was born in April 1954. He is an archaeologist and heritage practitioner, who currently works at the University of Limpopo as a lecturer. He received his master's degree in archaeology at the University of Pretoria in 1993. He was in charge of the archaeological research and Site Museum reconstruction and development of the uMgungundlovu site. He worked as the curator of the Polokwane Museums & Heritage in Limpopo from 1996 to 2005.]

Frederick F. J. Wootton Isaacson

  • Person
  • 3 January 1858 - 3 February 1948

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using The Complete Peerage by George Edward Cokayne; the St Mary's Slindon website (www.stmarysslindon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Beaumont-Lady-Violet.doc); and the Slindon Village website, 2017: Frederick F. J. Wootton Isaacson was the son of MP for Stepney, Frederick Wootton Isaacson, and Elizabeth Isaacson, well-known milliner who operated under the trade-name 'Madame Elise', and the brother of Lady Violet Beaumont. Frederick F. J. Wootton Isaacson lived in Slindon with his sister, living in Slindon House as Lord of the Manor. In 1917, Slindon House became a Convalescent Hospital, overseen by Lady Beaumont. Post war the house was cleared, and Lady Beaumont and Wootton Isaacson were able to resume normal life. Lady Beaumont donated material collected by her brother to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. This material was accessioned in 1948.]

Frida Kunene

  • Person
  • c.1890 - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using The Collection of Father Franz Mayr Zulu Recordings 1908, CD booklet: Frida Kunene was from Noodsberg, Natal and was a prospective schoolteacher. Her father was from Swaziland and her mother was from Tongaland. She was recorded by Father Franz Mayr in around 1908. She was about 18 years old when she was recorded by Mayr.]

Fynn, Henry F

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Henry F. Fynn. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1906.]

Gama, John

  • Person
  • c.1841 - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: John Gama, of the Giba regiment, who was educated at Edendale in Natal, was interviewed by James Stuart in 1898. He was roughly or 57 years at the time of being interviewed. According to Stuart Gama was about 2 years older than Theophilus 'Offy' Shepstone, who was born in 1843, which would place his date of birth circa 1841.]

Gedhle

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Gedhle, of the Baca people, Ixopo. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1898 and 1899.]

Giba ka Sobuza

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Giba kaSobuza. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1898.]

Gija Mahlalela

  • Person
  • [19-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Gija Mahlalela. He was interviewed by Philip Bonner in the Lomahasha area of Swaziland in 1970.]

Gilson, CH

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about C. H. Gilson. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1901.]

Ginga

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Ginga. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1899. He was interviewed at Umzinto where he was a policeman.]

Ginindza

  • Person
  • [19-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Ginindza. He was interviewed by Philip Bonner in Swaziland in 1970.]

Guzana Mncina

  • Person
  • [19-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Guzana Mncina. He was interviewed by Philip Bonner in the Silothwane area of Swaziland in 1970.]

Gxubu ka Luduzo

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Gxuba kaLuduzo. His father was of the Izimpohlo regiment, and lived in Pietermaritzburg. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1912.]

Harry Camp Lugg

  • Person
  • 9 May 1882 - November 1978

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using materials from the Campbell Collections at the University of KwaZulu-Natal: Harry Camp Lugg was born on 9th May 1882 at Knox's Hotel, Umzinto. As a child, he learnt to speak Zulu fluently. In 1895, Henry Lugg was appointed district adjutant and the family moved to Greytown. On 5 December 1899 Harry Lugg joined the Natal Civil Service as an acting clerk and Zulu interpreter in the Polela magistracy, and in 1903 was transferred to the Native Affairs Department. He was welfare officer at King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban for 12 years. He died in November 1978.]

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