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Charles Abercrombie Smith, the Glossary

Sir Charles Abercrombie Smith (12 May 1834 – 1 May 1919) was a Cape Colony scientist, politician and civil servant.^[1]

26 relations: Cape Colony, Civil service, Diocesan College, Eastern Cape, Fynbos, Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, John Charles Molteno, John X. Merriman, Kincardineshire, Liberalism, Lord Kelvin, Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope, Patrick Goold, Politician, Prime minister, Qonce, Responsible government, Royal Society of South Africa, Saul Solomon, Scientist, Southern Africa, St Cyrus, Union of South Africa, University of Glasgow, University of the Cape of Good Hope, Wynberg, Cape Town.
People from St Cyrus
Scottish emigrants to South Africa
University of South Africa

Cape Colony

The Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope.

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The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.

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Diocesan College

The Diocesan College (commonly known as Bishops) is a private, English medium, boarding and day high school for boys situated in the suburb of Rondebosch in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape (iMpuma-Kapa; Oos-Kaap) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.

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Fynbos

Fynbos is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.

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Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon

Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, (24 June 1831 – 29 June 1890), known as Lord Porchester from 1833 to 1849, was a British politician and a leading member of the Conservative Party.

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John Charles Molteno

Sir John Charles Molteno (5 June 1814 – 1 September 1886) was a politician and businessman who served as the first Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1872 to 1878. Charles Abercrombie Smith and John Charles Molteno are Cape Colony people, Cape Colony politicians and members of the House of Assembly of the Cape Colony.

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John X. Merriman

John Xavier Merriman (15 March 1841 – 1 August 1926) was a South African politician who served as the eleventh Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1908 to 1910. Charles Abercrombie Smith and John X. Merriman are Cape Colony politicians and members of the House of Assembly of the Cape Colony.

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Kincardineshire

Kincardineshire or the County of Kincardine, also known as the Mearns (from the Scottish Gaelic A' Mhaoirne meaning "the Stewartry"), is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area on the coast of northeast Scotland.

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Liberalism

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.

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Lord Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 182417 December 1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast.

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Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope

The Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope functioned as the legislature of the Cape Colony, from its founding in 1853, until the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, when it was dissolved and the Parliament of South Africa was established.

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Patrick Goold

Patrick Goold MLA (1814 - 1886) was a prominent member of the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope. Charles Abercrombie Smith and Patrick Goold are Cape Colony people, Cape Colony politicians and members of the House of Assembly of the Cape Colony.

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Politician

A politician is a person who has political power in the government of a state, a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government.

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Prime minister

A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system.

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Qonce

Qonce, formerly known as King William's Town, is a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa along the banks of the Buffalo River.

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Responsible government

Responsible government is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability, the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.

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Royal Society of South Africa

The Royal Society of South Africa is a learned society composed of eminent South African scientists and academics.

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Saul Solomon

Saul Solomon (25 May 1817 – 16 October 1892) was an influential liberal politician of the Cape Colony, a British colony in what is now South Africa. Solomon was an important member of the movement for responsible government and an opponent of Lord Carnarvon's Confederation scheme. Charles Abercrombie Smith and Saul Solomon are Cape Colony politicians and members of the House of Assembly of the Cape Colony.

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Scientist

A scientist is a person who researches to advance knowledge in an area of the natural sciences.

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Southern Africa

Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa.

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St Cyrus

St Cyrus or Saint Cyrus (Saunt Ceerus), formerly Ecclesgreig (from Eaglais Chiric) is a village in the far south of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Union of South Africa

The Union of South Africa (Unie van Zuid-Afrika; Unie van Suid-Afrika) was the historical predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa.

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University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland.

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University of the Cape of Good Hope

The University of the Cape of Good Hope, renamed the University of South Africa in 1916, was created when the Molteno government passed Act 16 of 1873 in the Cape of Good Hope Parliament. Charles Abercrombie Smith and University of the Cape of Good Hope are university of South Africa.

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Wynberg, Cape Town

Wynberg is a southern suburb of the City of Cape Town in Western Cape, South Africa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Abercrombie_Smith

Also known as Abercrombie Smith, Charles Abercrombie-Smith, Sir Charles Abercrombie Smith.