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Lord and Lady Lugard Lugard married, on 10 June 1902, Flora Shaw , [ 59 ] daughter of Major-General George Shaw, and granddaughter of Sir Frederick Shaw, 3rd Baronet . She was a foreign correspondent for The Times and coined the place name Nigeria .
Dame Flora Louise Shaw, Lady Lugard DBE (born 19 December 1852 – 25 January 1929), was a British journalist and writer. [1] She is credited with having coined the name Nigeria . [ 2 ]
Sir Frederick Lugard (1858–1945) 1 January 1914: 8 August 1919: George V: Governors of Nigeria, 1919–1954. Portrait Name Took office Left office Sovereign
In 1899, Lord Lugard had proclaimed a British protectorate over much of the Sokoto Caliphate. With the failure of numerous diplomatic overtures to the Caliph, in 1900 a military campaign was launched to subdue the caliphate.
Lord Lugard was appointed the High Commissioner of the newly created Northern Nigeria Protectorate. Lokoja was the capital from 1900, but Zungeru became the headquarters for the protectorate in 1902 because it was the most northerly city accessible by river transport. [1]
Edward Lugard, British army officer. Sir Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, British colonial bureaucrat and military officer. Lugard Footbridge, in Kaduna, Nigeria, named after Baron Lugard. Lugard Road, one of many places in Hong Kong named after Baron Lugard. PS Lugard, a Uganda Railway paddle steamer named after Baron Lugard and built in 1927.
Wilson later joined Lugard's second expedition on 6 August 1890, embarking on the Sabaki trip. Lugard's caravan left the coast at Malindi and slowly moved up the Sabaki River. After crossing the Tsavo River, they encountered a Swahili caravan transporting slaves. The traders fled but were later caught by Lugard and placed on trial in Mombasa.
Lugard copied the numerous empires before his time who had created and developed the indirect rule system. According to Lugard, Indirect Rule was a political doctrine which held that the Europeans and Africans were culturally different to this extent. Which he interpreted it to mean that Africans had to be ruled through the Africans own ...