British Empire - People

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  1. 5. baptist minister, martyr and freedom fighter who is featured on the Malawi bank notes
  2. 6. Viceroy of India who is ridiculed as a 'very superior person' for his love of magnificent uniforms
  3. 7. Local tribe in Kenia that had to leave their land for the British
  4. 8. Name of the General who walked into Jerusalem on foot in 1917
  5. 9. First black captain in the West Indies cricket team (2)
  6. 11. Old colonial in South Africa and author of bestseller adventures (3)
  7. 12. Young Scottish lawyer who emigrated to Canada in 1832 and founded a town (2)
  8. 13. Missionary and explorer who first crossed the continent of Africa and wanted to build a world in Africa based on Christianity and free trade (2)
  9. 15. Trader who first saw Singapore's potential as the crossroads of East and West (2)
  10. 16. Arctic explorer who frooze to death in 1848 searching for the Northwest Passage (2)
  11. 18. Nickname of the Director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens who came up with a new way of tapping latex (2)
  12. 24. Name of the journalist who presented the series of 'Empire' (2)
  13. 25. British resident in Delhi who took the evening air with his 13 Indian wives on their elephants (3)
  14. 26. Leader of the Indian Independence Movement whose symbol was the spinning wheel (2)
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  1. 1. Consul-General of Egypt for over 20 years (3)
  2. 2. Nickname of the romantic hero in WWI who inspired the Arabs into a desert revolt (3)
  3. 3. General also called the Machine of Sudan who fought a bloody battle in 1887
  4. 4. Hugely popular general who became an imperial martyr who was killed during a siege in the Sudan (2)
  5. 10. Founder of the Boy Scouts in 1907 to prepare ordinary British boy for service in the empire (2)
  6. 14. 18th c trader in India who became Governor of Bengal (2)
  7. 15. American journalist and explorer who was sent out to find a lost explorer in Africa
  8. 17. 19th C charismatic explorer who spoke 29 languages and travelled through the interior of Africa (2)
  9. 19. British imperialist and founder of what is now Zimbabwe
  10. 20. Pirate who became sugar trader and Governor of Jamaica (2)
  11. 21. Explorer who discovered Australia but was killed in Hawai in 1779 (2)
  12. 22. Nickname of the East India Company trader who encouraged the Europeans to adopt Indian customs (2)
  13. 23. The Expected One, religious leader in Sudan who had sworn to end British rule