Henry Bartle Frere

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The Right Honourable Sir Henry Bartle Frere Bt GCB GCSI PC
Commissioner of Sind
In office 1851–1859
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	Richard Keith Pringle
Succeeded by	Jonathan Duncan Inverarity
Governor of Bombay
In office 1862–1867
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	Sir George Russell Clerk
Succeeded by	William Vesey-FitzGerald
High Commissioner for Southern Africa
In office 1877–1880
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	Sir Henry Barkly
Succeeded by	Henry Hugh Clifford acting
Personal details
Born	29 March 1815 Clydach, Monmouthshire, Wales
Died	29 May 1884 (aged 69) Wimbledon, London, England
Citizenship	British
Alma mater	East India Company College

Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCSI, PC (29 March 1815 – 29 May 1884) was a British colonial administrator. He had a successful career in India, rising to become Governor of Bombay (1862–1867). However, as High Commissioner for Southern Africa (1877–1880), he implemented a set of policies which attempted to impose a British confederation on the region and which led to the overthrow of the Cape Colony's first elected government in 1878 and to a string of regional wars, culminating in the invasion of Zululand (1879) and the First Boer War (1880–1881). The British Prime Minister, Gladstone, recalled Frere to London to face charges of misconduct; Whitehall officially censured Frere for acting recklessly.