Henry Scott Thornicroft, nicknamed "Dongolosi"[1](16 January 1868[2] – 19 March 1944)[3] was a British Native Commissioner in Petauke, in North-Western Rhodesia and later Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) for 17 years[1][4] and later a Justice of the Peace in Fort Jameson (now Chipata).[3]
Thornicroft was born in St Pancras, London,[5] the son of coal merchant Thomas Thornicroft and his wife, Matilda.[6] In Rhodesia, Harry Thornicroft married a local woman and had 11 children,[4] including Gaston Thornicroft, later a leader of the coloured community.[7] Thornicroft's Giraffe, a subspecies of giraffe endemic to the Luangwa Valley, is named after him, from a specimen which he had shot and sent to the Natural History Museum, London, where it was displayed.[1][4][8]
He died in Northern Rhodesia.[9]
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- ^ Chituta, Diana (1985). "Giraffa camelopardalis thornicrofti". Black Lechwe (9). Wild Life Conservation Society of Zambia: 29–35.
- ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995