Charles Craufurd Hay | |
Birth Date: | 1809 |
Death Date: | 1873 |
Death Place: | Isle of Wight |
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Lieutenant-General Charles Craufurd Hay (1809–1873) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope.
Hay was commissioned as an ensign in the 19th Regiment of Foot on 27 June 1824. He became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope in December 1868, in which capacity he briefly acted as Governor of Cape Colony in 1870, before retiring in September 1873.[1] As acting governor he was sympathetic to the claims of the Griqua Chief, Nicolaas Waterboer, against the Government of the Orange Free State.[2]
He was also colonel of the 58th Regiment of Foot and then of the 93rd Regiment of Foot.
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