Frederic Cardew

{{Short description|British Army officer and Governor of Sierra Leone}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} Colonel '''Sir Frederic Cardew''', KCMG (27 September 1839 – 6 July 1921) was a British Army officer and colonial governor. He was Governor of Sierra Leone from 1894 to 1900.<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 July 1921 |title=Sir Frederic Cardew |work=The Times |pages=15}}</ref> The hut tax that he introduced led to the Hut Tax War of 1898.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Abraham |first=Arthur |date=1974 |title=Bai Bureh, The British, and the Hut Tax War |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/216556 |journal=The International Journal of African Historical Studies |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=99–106|doi=10.2307/216556 |jstor=216556 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

== References == <references /> * [https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-194412 ukwhoswho.com]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cardew, Frederic}} Category:1839 births Category:1921 deaths Category:Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Category:Governors of Sierra Leone