Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard

The Right Honourable
Lady Lugard
DBE
Lord and Lady Lugard.
Spouse of the Governor of Hong Kong
In office
29 July 1907 – 16 March 1912
GovernorSir Frederick Lugard
Preceded byEdith Blake
Succeeded byHelena May
Personal details
Born
Flora Louise Shaw

(1852-12-19)19 December 1852
Woolwich, England
Died25 January 1929(1929-01-25) (aged 76)
Surrey, England
Spouse
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(m. 1902)​
OccupationJournalist, novelist

Dame Flora Louise Shaw, Lady Lugard DBE (born 19 December 1852 – 25 January 1929), was a British journalist and writer.[1] She is credited with having coined the name Nigeria.[2]

Early life

She was born at 2 Dundas Terrace, Woolwich, South London, the fourth of fourteen children, the daughter of an English father, Captain (later Major General) George Shaw, Royal Artillery, and a French mother, Marie Adrienne Josephine (née Desfontaines; 1826–1871), daughter of French governor of Mauritius.[1] [3] She had nine sisters, the first and the last dying in infancy, and four brothers.

Her paternal grandfather was Sir Frederick Shaw, third baronet (1799–1876), of Bushy Park, Dublin, and a member of parliament from 1830 to 1848, regarded as the leader of the Irish Conservatives. Her paternal grandmother, Thomasine Emily, was the sixth daughter of the Hon. George Jocelyn, and granddaughter of Robert Jocelyn, first Earl of Roden.[4]

Writing for children

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From 1878 to 1886, Shaw wrote five novels, four for children and one for young adults. In her books, young girls are encouraged to be resourceful and brave but in a traditional framework, acting in support of "gentlemanly" fathers and prospective husbands, rather than on their own behalf. Shaw's writing has been interpreted by one academic as sexually conservative and imperialist.[5] She also wrote a history of Australia for children.

Her first novel, Castle Blair, was translated into several languages and continued to be extremely popular in the UK and the U.S. well into the 20th century. It was based on her own Anglo-Irish childhood experiences. Charlotte Mary Yonge recommended it along with works of "some of the most respected and loved authors available in late Victorian England" as "wild... attractive and exciting".[5] The critic John Ruskin called Castle Blair "good, and lovely, and true".[6]

Journalism

Shaw first took advantage of a journalistic opportunity while she was staying with family friends in Gibraltar in 1886. Over four months, she visited Zebehr Pasha, a slaver and former governor of Sudan, who had been removed from office and was incarcerated there. Her reports purportedly led to his release.[7][8]

Upon her return to England, she wrote for The Pall Mall Gazette and the Manchester Guardian.[9] She was sent by the latter to cover the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference 1889–90, where she was the only woman reporter. She became Colonial Editor for The Times, which made her the highest paid woman journalist of the time.[9][10] At The Times, she was sent as a special correspondent to Southern Africa in 1892; Australia in 1901; and New Zealand in 1892, partly to study the question of Kanaka labour in the sugar plantations of Queensland. Penneshaw, South Australia is partly named after her.[11] She also made two journeys to Canada, in 1893 and 1898, the second including a journey to the gold diggings of Klondike.[12][13]

Her belief in the positive benefits of the British Empire infused her writing. As a correspondent for The Times, Shaw sent back "Letters" in 1892 and 1893 from her travels in South Africa and Australia, later published in book form as Letters from South Africa (1893) and Letters from Queensland (1893). [3] Writing for the educated governing circles, she focused on the prospects of economic growth and the political consolidation of self-governing colonies within an increasingly-united empire, with a vision largely blinkered to the force of colonial nationalisms and local self-identities.[10]

The lengthy articles in a leading daily newspaper reveal a late-Victorian metropolitan imagery of colonial space and time. Shaw projected vast empty spaces awaiting energetic English settlers and economic enterprise.[14][10] When she first started writing for The Times, she wrote under the name of "F. Shaw" to try to disguise that she was a woman. Later, she was so highly regarded that she wrote openly as Flora Shaw. Her pseudonym is now little-known, and she was regarded as one of the greatest journalists of her time, specialising in politics and economics.

Shaw was required to testify before the House of Commons Select Committee on British South Africa during the controversy on the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal on 29 December 1895. The prominent journalist had corresponded frequently with those involved or suspected of involvement, including Cecil Rhodes, Leander Starr Jameson, Colonel Francis Rhodes, and Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain. She was exonerated from all charges.[15]

Naming Nigeria

In an essay that first appeared in The Times on 8 January 1897, by "Miss Shaw", she suggested the name "Nigeria" for the British Protectorate on the Niger River.[2] In her essay, Shaw made the case for a shorter term that would be used for the "agglomeration of pagan and Mahomedan States" to replace the official title, "Royal Niger Company Territories". She thought that the term "Royal Niger Company Territories" was too long to be used as a name of a real estate property, under the trading company in that part of Africa. She was in search of a new name, and she coined "Nigeria", in preference to terms such as "Central Sudan", which were associated with the area by some geographers and travellers.

She thought that the term "Sudan" was associated with a territory in the Nile basin. In The Times on 8 January 1897, she wrote: "The name Nigeria applying to no other part of Africa may without offence to any neighbours be accepted as co-extensive with the territories over which the Royal Niger Company has extended British influence, and may serve to differentiate them equally from the colonies of Lagos and the Niger Protectorate on the coast and from the French territories of the Upper Niger."[16][17][18] (Upper Senegal and Niger and the Colony of Niger).

Lady Lugard

Shaw was close to the three men who most epitomised the British Empire in Africa: Cecil Rhodes, George Taubman Goldie and Sir Frederick Lugard.[10] On 10 June 1902,[19] she married Lugard. She accompanied him when he served as Governor of Hong Kong (1907–1912) and Governor-General of Nigeria (1914–1919). In 1928, he was named baron, and she became Lady Lugard. They had no children.[13]

While they lived in Hong Kong, she helped her husband establish the University of Hong Kong. During the First World War, she was prominent in the founding of the War Refugees Committee, which dealt with the problem of the refugees from Belgium, and she founded the Lady Lugard Hospitality Committee. In the 1918 New Year Honours, she was appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[13] She died of pneumonia on 25 January 1929, aged 76, in Surrey.[20]

Legacy

In her obituary, The Times foreign editor described her as “the finest flower of modern womanhood, a womanly woman, who at the same time possessed the reasoning capacity of a man”. Her biography was written in 1947 by Enid Moberly Bell, daughter of and assistant to Charles Frederic Moberly Bell, managing director of The Times.

In 2019, in the wake of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, The Times published an essay "How The Times helped Cecil Rhodes in his conquest of Africa" by columnist Ben Macintyre, reckoning with Shaw's role in Britain's colonial history. The essay concluded: "...Flora must not fall. Instead, she should stay right where she is, but with a new plaque attached: 'Flora Shaw, 1852-1929; pioneer journalist, fanatical imperialist, passionate, principled and wrong.'"[21]

Works

In 1905, Shaw wrote what remains the definitive history of western Sudan and the modern settlement of Northern Nigeria, A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Soudan, With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria.

  • Castle Blair: A story of youthful days (First published London, 1877)[22]
  • Hector, a story (First serialized in Aunt Judy's Magazine, 1880–1881)[22]
  • Phyllis Browne (First serialized in Aunt Judy's Magazine, 1881–1882)[22]
  • A Sea Change (First published London, 1885)[22]
  • Colonel Cheswick's Campaign (Boston, 1886).[23]
  • The story of Australia (London: Horace Marshall, 1897), as part of the Story of the Empire series.
  • Letters from Queensland/ by the Times special correspondent (London, 1893)[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Helly, Dorothy O.; Callaway, Helen (2004). Lugard, Dame Flora Louise, Lady Lugard (1852–1929) (May 2006 ed.). Oxford: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  2. ^ a b Omoruyi, Omo (2002). "The origin of Nigeria: God of justice not associated with an unjust political order". ReworkNigeria.
  3. ^ a b c Clarke, Patricia. 'Flora Shaw: A ‘Lady from London’ in 1890s Queensland' Celebrating Independent Thought. ISAA twenty years on: 2015 Conference Proceedings, Independent Scholars Association of Australia, 2016 pp 33-50
  4. ^ Bell, E. Moberly (Enid Moberly) (1947). Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard, D.B.E. London: Constable.
  5. ^ a b Carrington, Bridget (2009). Paths of virtue? The development of fiction for young adult girls. Roehampton University. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  6. ^ "Roberts Bros' New Books". The Evolution. A Weekly Review of Politics, Religion, Science, Literature and Art. December 1878. p. 208. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  7. ^ Meyer, Karl E.; Brysac, Shareen Blair (2008). Kingmakers : the invention of the modern Middle East (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0-393-06199-4.
  8. ^ "Zebehr Pasha's story" (PDF). The New York Times. 16 October 1887. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  9. ^ a b "Flora (née Shaw), Lady Lugard (1852-1929), Author and journalist; wife of Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  10. ^ a b c d Meyer, Karl E.; Brysac, Shareen Blair (2008). Kingmakers : the invention of the modern Middle East (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0-393-06199-4.
  11. ^ Rodney Cockburn (1908) What's in a name? Nomenclature of South Australia: Fergusson Publications ISBN 0-9592519-1-X
  12. ^ Usherwood, Stephen. "From Our Own Correspondent: Flora Shaw on the Klondike". History Today. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  13. ^ a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Lugard, Sir Frederick John Dealtry s.v. Flora Louise Shaw" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 31 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 810.
  14. ^ Codell, Julie F., ed. (2003). Imperial co-histories : national identities and the British and colonial press. Madison (N.J.): Fairleigh Dickinson university press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0838639733.
  15. ^ "Catalogue of the papers of Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard". Bodleian Library. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 17 August 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  16. ^ Shaw, Flora (8 January 1897). "Letter". The Times of London. p. 6.
  17. ^ Correspondent, Special (2008). "Flora Shaw gives the name Nigeria" (PDF). Hogarth Blake. Retrieved 13 October 2014. {{cite web}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  18. ^ Kwarteng, Kwasi (2012). Ghosts of Empire : Britain's Legacies in the Modern World (1st ed.). New York: Perseus Books Group. ISBN 978-1-61039-120-7.
  19. ^ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 36792. London. 12 June 1902. p. 12.
  20. ^ "Flora Shaw". The Orlando Project. Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  21. ^ Macintyre, Ben (28 January 2024). "How The Times helped Cecil Rhodes in his conquest of Africa". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  22. ^ a b c d Carrington, Bridget (2009). Paths of virtue? The development of fiction for young adult girls. Roehampton University. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  23. ^ Carrington, Bridget (April 2010). "Many leagues behind: Researching the history of fiction for YA girls" (PDF). Write4Children. 1 (2). Winchester University Press. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
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