Francis Ernest (Frank) Colenso
1852–1910
Barrister and campaigner for Zulu rights. Younger son of John William Colenso. BA, Cambridge, 1874. Admitted to the Inner Temple, 1874; called to the bar, 1877. Practised as a barrister in Natal, 1877–9. Assistant secretary and assistant actuary to the Norwich Union, Norwich, from 1879; actuary and secretary to the English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association, London, 1886–94; Eagle Insurance Company, London, 1894. Supported his father’s campaign for the rights of the African populations of Natal and Zululand.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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