F. Cardew, Esq.
(1839-1921)
14 November 1861

Volume 5, page 237, sitting number 6442, 

[The sitter is identified as 'F. Cardew in the Silvy daybooks. An inked inscription verso in a fine period hand identifies him as 'F. Cardew / Bengal Army / Plymouth, 1-1-62.']

His very short Wikipedia entry reads, in its entirety: 

'Colonel Sir Frederic Cardew, KCMG (27 September 1839 – 6 July 1921) was a British Army officer and colonial governor. He was Governor of Sierra Leone from 1894 to 1900. The hut tax that he introduced led to the Hut Tax War of 1898.

He died on 6 July 1921 at Tudor Cottage, Whitchurch, Oxfordshire. He left an estate valued at £9303. 

According to his obituary in The Times (7 July 1921): 'Colonel Sir Frederic Cardew, KCMG, who had a distinguished career as a soldier and Colonial Governor, died on Wednesday at his residence at Whitchurch, Oxon. He was in his 82nd year, having been born on September 27, 1839. The son of Frederic Cardew. of the Hon. East India Company's service, Cardew entered the Bengal Army from Sandhurst in 1858, the year after the Mutiny, and remained in the Army until 1890. He served on the North-West Frontier in the campaign of 1863, and in the Zulu War of 1879, where he gained the brevet rank of major. In the Boer War of 1880-81 he was Assistant Adjutant and QMG to the Natal Field Force. Cardew was afterwards employed at Aldershot and as Assistant Military Secretary at Peking but his career was chiefly in South and West Africa. 

'After the conquest of Zululand he became first a Sub-Commissioner there and later Resident Commissioner, a post which he held from 1890 to 1894, when he was appointed Governor of Sierra Leone. It was a period of acute rivalry between the French and the British for possession of the hinterland of West Africa, but so far as Sierra Leone was concerned a settlement was reached in 1895, and in the following year Colonel Cardew issued a proclamation taking over what is now the Protectorate of Sierra Leone. His governorship was marked by considerable development both in the colony and the protectorate. 

'Sir Frederick Cardew, who was created KCMG in 1897, retired in 1900, but retained a lively interest in African affairs. He was twice married, first, in 1865, to Miss Clara Newton, who died in 1881, and secondly (1887) to Katharine, widow of Colonel Kent Jones.'