Scully, William Charles 'W. C.'

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Poets in the News
Poet Name
Scully, William Charles 'W. C.'
Given Name
William Charles
Last Name
Scully
Date of Birth
29 October 1855
Biography
William Charles Scully was born in Ireland but emigrated to South Africa with his family in 1867. He wrote works considered sympathetic to the aboriginal peoples of South Africa, and organised the building of "New Brighton," a township for aboriginal African people in Port Elizabeth. Following the Boer War, Scully investigated war crimes by the British forces in the Cape Province.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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Fallaw, Lance
Gibbon, Perceval
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Thomson, William Rodger
Watermeyer, E. B.
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Selwyn, W.
Runcie, John
Slater, Francis Carey 'F. C.'
Fairlie, A. C.
Place of Birth
Ireland, Dublin
Spatial Coverage
Dublin
Region
Southern Africa