Arthur Raikes

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Arthur
Army Officer

Arthur Edward Harington

Sultans of Zanzibar. Serving in the Wiltshire Regiment Raikes took up a position as brigadier-general in Zanzibar's army and fought on the pro-British side in the Anglo-Zanzibar War. He also helped to negotiate the demarcation of the boundary between Zanzibari and British territory on the African mainland. Raikes
was awarded honours by several nations in the course of his work.

Early career and Anglo-Zanzibar War

Reverend Charles Hall Raikes and Charlotte d'Ende Arbuthnot.[1] Raikes was an officer in the Wiltshire Regiment, being commissioned a second lieutenant on 10 November 1888 and a lieutenant on 24 November 1890.[2]

Brigadier-General in the Sultan's army.[1][3] In 1896 he was involved in the Anglo-Zanzibar War, caused by the succession of a sultan unfavourable to the British, and led 900 pro-British Askaris during the bombardment of the Sultan's palace.[3] In return for his service he was appointed a First Class (Second Grade) member of the Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar on 24 September 1896, a First Class member of the Zanzibari Order of Hamondieh on 25 August 1897 and later promoted to Commander of the Zanzibar armies.[4][5]

Politician in Zanzibar

Raikes was acting prime minister of Zanzibar by 1898 when he was involved in a diplomatic incident with France. The Zanzibar police had caught a slave trader in the act of exporting slaves from Pemba and he had been arrested. However, despite claims he was a native of Pemba he claimed French nationality as a native of the Comoros islands and flew a French flag from his dhow. Raikes returned the flag to M. Laronce the French consul and, in court with the Arab caid, pronounced a sentence of one years imprisonment on the slaver. The British consul Arthur Henry Hardinge pronounced that the likelihood was that the slaver was born in Pemba and even if from the Comoros his birth would have preceded the declaration of the French protectorate.[6][7][8][9] In 1899 Raikes, on behalf of the Zanzibari sultan, accepted the line of demarcation proposed by Hardinge between British and Zanzibari possessions on the African mainland, this crossing the line of the Uganda Railway.[10]

By 1902

Order of Christ, awarded to him by the Carlos I of Portugal in return for valuable services.[12] On 12 July 1906 Raikes was appointed a First Class Member of the Order of El Aliyeh for services rendered to the Sultan of Zanzibar.[13]

Raikes served as Vizier to Zanzibar from 1906 until 1908 and was, at one stage, first minister to the country.[14][15] He married Geraldine Arbuthnot on 16 December 1899, with whom he had one son.[1] Raikes died on 3 March 1915 at number 28 Kensington Court Gardens, London.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b c Entry at The Peerage
  2. ^ "Hart's Army List 1894". Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  3. ^ a b Hernon 2003, p. 400.
  4. ^ "No. 26780". The London Gazette. 25 September 1896. p. 5320.
  5. ^ "No. 26886". The London Gazette. 27 August 1897. p. 4812.
  6. ^ "'File 35/85 III A 10 French Flag Question' [50r] (110/610)". Qatar Digital Library. 18 September 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  7. ^ "'Muscat Dhows Arbitration. In the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Grant of the French Flag to Muscat Dhows. The case on behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty.' [43v] (95/208)". Qatar Digital Library. 18 September 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  8. ^ "'Muscat Dhows Arbitration. In the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Grant of the French Flag to Muscat Dhows. The case on behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty.' [44r] (96/208)". Qatar Digital Library. 18 September 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  9. ^ "'Muscat Dhows Arbitration. In the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Grant of the French Flag to Muscat Dhows. The case on behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty.' [44v] (97/208)". Qatar Digital Library. 18 September 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  10. ^ Hertslet, Edward; Brant, R. W. (Richard William); Sherwood, H. L. (Harry Leslie) (1909). The map of Africa by treaty. London : Printed for H.M.S.O., by Harrison and Sons. p. 382.
  11. ^ a b "No. 27614". The London Gazette. 10 November 1903. p. 6853.
  12. ^ "No. 27822". The London Gazette. 28 July 1905. p. 5220.
  13. ^ "No. 27931". The London Gazette. 13 July 1906. p. 4805.
  14. ^ "East Africa Adventure Company page on Zanzibar". Archived from the original on 17 January 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2008.
  15. ^ a b "Domestic Announcements", South Africa Magazine, 6 March 1915

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