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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir Raleigh Grey
KBE CMG CVO (24 March 1860 - 10 January 1936) was a pioneer British
coloniser of Southern Rhodesia who played an important part in the early
government of the colony. Grey, the great-grandson of 1st Earl Grey, was
educated at Durham School and Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1881 he
joined The Inniskillings (6th Dragoons) and saw service in the
Anglo-Zulu War. When the war ended he was in command of the Bechuanaland
Border police, and in the Matabeleland rebellion of 1893 he commanded a
column of the British army. From 1894 to 1897 his kinsman the 4th Earl
Grey was Administrator of Rhodesia, and Grey accompanied Leander Starr
Jameson on the Jameson Raid in 1895; in the aftermath of the raid, Grey
served five months' imprisonment.
