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| Question | Answer |
| Cecil Rhodes | Kimberly diamond millionaire and 6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony |
| Paul Kruger | President of the Transvaal from 1883 |
| Alfred Milner | British High Commissioner from 1897 |
| Alfred Beit | One of the richest Rand mine owners |
| Rudyard Kipling | Empire writer/poet e.g. (Absent minded beggar) |
| Robert Baden-Powell | Hero at the Siege of Mafeking. Also established the boy scouts upon his return from the war. |
| Field Marshall Lord Roberts | Arrived as overall British commander on February 27th 1900 |
| Sir Redvers Buller | British commander in South Africa at the start of the war. He was replaced by Lord Roberts in February 1900 |
| Winston Churchill | War correspondent for The Morning Post on a salary of £250 a month |
| David Lloyd George | Most famous anti-war liberal and Prime Minister from 1916 |
| Kier Hardie | Argued imperialism was the product of capitalism |
| Emily Hobhouse | Visited Bloemfontain concentration camp in 1901. Also the producer of the Hobhouse report which revealed information about the conditions in concentration camps. |
| Millicent Fawcett | Led the concentration camp committee of enquiry in July 1901. Her findings corroborated what Hobhouse had said about conditions. |
| Louis Botha | Elected Prime Minister of the Transvaal in 1907 |
| Lord Esher | Responsible for the 1904 report on army reform. |
| Richard Haldane | Reforming War Minister 1906-1912. Responsible for the Haldane Reforms. |
| Herbert Asquith | Liberal imperialist. Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916 |
| Alfred Harmsworth | Established the Daily Mail in 1896 |
| George Cadbury | Quaker who strongly opposed the war. |
| J.A Hobson | Argued imperialism was the product of capitalism |
| Tommy Atkins | Nickname of British Infantry soliders |
| Jan Smuts | Boer Prime Minister of South Africa, influential in WWII |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman | June 1901 'Deliberate methods of barbarism' speech. |
| Sir George White | Defeated at Spion Kop, then relieved Ladysmith. |
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