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- 1901 - 1958 (Production)
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Brigadier the Hon. Ernest Thomas Stubbs, C.B.E., was born 1878 in the Queenstown district into a family of pioneers and early English settlers. He fought in the Anglo-Boer War, later served for the Department of Native Affairs in the Northern Transvaal from 1902-1913. He was an Assistant Magistrate ad Native Commissioner at Louis Trichardt in 1907. By 1913 he was Senior Magistrate, and in 1924 Magistrate and Native Commissioner in the Rustenburg district. During the First World War he was involved in the suppression of the rebellion in the Northern Transvaal in 1914. He was Senator representing the Dominion Party but later resigned from the Dominion Party in 1948 because of its anti-Native policies. During the Second World War he served as Director in the Non-European Army Services, and received the Grant of Dignity as a Commander of the Most Escellent Order of the British Empire. He died in January 1959.
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The papers contain correspondence, reports, press clippings and printed items on his work as a magistrate in the Eastern Transvaal and Rustenburg, with particular reference to tribal jurisdiction, agriculture and farm labour and the suppression of the rebellion in the Northern Transvaal in 1914. Later papers reflect on his political career as a member of the Dominion Party in parliament 1940-1948 and his service as Director-General of Non-European Army Services 1940-1947. Also included are auto-biographical notes on his childhood and participation in the South African War 1899-1902, and genealogical accounts of 1820 Settler families such as Stubbs, Lanham and Roby.
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Copyright Historical Papers Research Archive, The Library, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Alternate title: Stubbs, Brigadier Ernest Thomas