British Empire - People

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