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General First nameSir Basil Shillito
LastnameCave
GenderMale
CountryEngland
Date of birth1865-11-14
Place of birthMill Hill, Sussex, England
Date of death1931-10-09
Place of deathTunbridge Wells, Kent, England


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From The Times, 10 October 1931:

Obituary – Sir Basil S. Cave

Sir Basil Shillito Cave, late Consul General at Zanzibar and Algiers, died at Tunbridge Wells yesterday in his sixty-sixth year. He had retired in 1924 after 33 years of valuable service for British interests in Africa. The son of the late Thomas Cave, M.P. for Barnstaple, Sir Basil Cave was born on November 14, 1865, and educated at Merchant Taylors’ School and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.

He began his career in the service as Vice Consul in British East Africa, being promoted four years later to Consul at Zanzibar. In 1896 the then Sultan of Zanzibar, Sayyid Hamed bin Thwain, died, and his cousin, Sayyid Khalid, proclaimed himself Sultan and seized the palace. The British Government disapproved of this action, and to compel Sayyid Khalid’s submission the palace was bombarded. For his services in connexion with this incident Sir Basil Cave was made C.B.

In 1903 he was appointed Consul-General at, Zanzibar and in the next year Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar, and Consul-General for German East Africa. In that year the East Africa Protectorate (Kenya Colony), which had until then been administered by the British Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar, was first put under separate administration.

Sir Basil remained in East Africa five years longer and was then transferred as Consul-General to Algiers, from which post he retired with the decoration of K.C.M.G. in 1924. He married in 1892 Mary, daughter of the late Reverend John B. McClellan, Principal of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, and leaves a son and a daughter.

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