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SIR JOHN HENRY BRAND (1823-1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 420 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JOHN See also:HENRY See also:BRAND (1823-1888)  , See also:president of the See also:Orange See also:Free See also:State, was the son of See also:Sir Christoffel See also:Brand, See also:speaker of the See also:House of See also:Assembly of the Cape See also:Colony . He was See also:born at Cape See also:Town on the 6th of See also:December 1823, and was educated at the See also:South See also:African See also:College in that See also:city . Continuing his studies at See also:Leiden, he took the degree of D.C.L. in 1845 . He was called to the See also:English See also:bar from the Inner See also:Temple in 1849, and practised as an See also:advocate in the supreme See also:court of the Cape of See also:Good See also:Hope from that See also:year until 1863 . In 1858 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:law in the South African College . He was elected president of the Orange Free State in 1863, and subsequently re-elected for five years in 1869, 1874, 1879 and 1884 . In 1864 he resisted the pressure of the Basuto on the Free State boundary, and after vainly endeavouring to induce Moshesh, the Basuto See also:chief, to keep his See also:people within hounds, he took up arms against them in 1865 . This first See also:war ended in the treaty of Thaba Bosigo, signed on the 3rd of See also:April 1866; and a second war, caused by the treachery of the Basuto, ended in the treaty of See also:Aliwal See also:North, concluded on the 12th of See also:February 1869 . In 1871 Brand was solicited by a large party to become president of the See also:Transvaal, and thus unite the two Dutch republics of South See also:Africa; but as the project was hostile to See also:Great See also:Britain he declined to do so, and maintained his See also:constant policy of friendship towards See also:England, where his merits were recognized in 1882 by the See also:honour of the G.C.M.G . He died on the 14th of See also:July 1888 .

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