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• Doyle, Arthur Conan
  British writer and physician in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Doyle is most well known as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, but he was also involved in, and wrote about, the British Empire and imperial politics. Doyle served as a volunteer physician in Bloemfontein between March and June 1900 during the Second Boer War (1899-1902), and wrote about the war in The Great Boer War (1900) and The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct (1902). In 1909, he wrote The Crime of the Congo in support of E.D. Morel and Roger Casement's campaign for the reform of the Congo Free State. Doyle's fictional works also touch on imperial themes. The famous character of Dr. Watson, for instance, was written as a veteran of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880), while the science fiction novel The Lost World (1912) depicts an imaginary expedition to South America.
• Drake, Francis
  English sailor, privateer and slave-trader in the sixteenth century.
• Dresser, Madge
  British historian with research interests in the history of Atlantic Slavery, of ethnic minorities in Britain, slavery and memory, gender history and pubic history. She has worked for the University of West England and the University of Bristol, and as consultant for museums and public bodies such as the National Archives.
• Drivier, Léon-Ernest
  Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, trained in Auguste Rodin's studio. In 1918, he was commissioned to create the official bust of "Victorious France". He was also responsible for "La France (Athéna) bringing peace and prosperity to the colonies", a statue placed on the steps of the Palais des Colonies during the Exposition Coloniale Internationale in Vincennes, then installed in the square leading to the palace. Elected member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1943.
• Drury, Alfred
  English sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Duckett the Elder, Thomas
  English sculptor in the nineteenth century.
• Duguay-Trouin, René
  French naval officer and slave trader in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
• Dumont, Jacques-Edme
  French neoclassical sculptor active from the 1770s to the 1840s.
• Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville
  Eighteenth-century Scottish politician who played key roles in shaping domestic and international policy. Dundas was instrumental in slowing down the full abolition of slavery through amendments introduced to Parliamentary legislation. He was the President of the Board of Control, or the Parliamentary Committee that supervised the affairs of the British East India Company, especially its political and military activities in India.
• Dundas, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville
  British politician in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Dundas was President of the Board of Control (1807-1809; 1809-1812), Chief Secretary for Ireland (1809), and First Lord of the Admiralty (1812-1827; 1828-1830).
• Dunn, Albert Edward
  British politician in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dunn was Mayor of Exeter (1900-1901) and Member of Parliament for Camborne (1906-1910). As Chairman of the Buller Memorial Committee, Dunn spearheaded the campaign to build a statue of Redvers Buller in Exeter from 1901 to 1905.
• Durham, Joseph
  English sculptor in the nineteenth century.
• Earle, Thomas
  English sculptor in the nineteenth century.
• Earle, William
  British soldier (1833-1885) who fought in the Crimean War and East Africa. Earle came from a Liverpool family with deep ties to slave-ownership and slave-trading. Earle married Mary Codrington, who also came from a family closely involved in British slavery.
• Eboué, Félix
  Administrateur des colonies d'origine guyanaise. Petit-fils d’esclave, il est diplômé de l’Ecole coloniale de Paris et fait une carrière d’administrateur, puis de gouverneur colonial. Il est gouverneur de la Guadeloupe de 1936 à 1938. En poste au Tchad en juillet 1940, il se rallie à Charles de Gaulle. Il meurt en 1944 au Caire. Il entre au Panthéon en 1949, en même temps que Victor Schoelcher.
• Edward VI
  King of England (1547-1553)
• Edward VII
  King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India from 1901 to 1910
• Edward, the Black Prince
  Eldest son and heir apparent of King Edward III of England. Although Edward obviously predates the British Empire, his nickname "The Black Prince" (an appellation whose origins are uncertain) raises interesting questions about the meanings of blackness in fourteenth century Europe, or indeed how ideas of blackness have been reconfigured in the present. His equestrian statue in Leeds was also dedicated as a tribute to Edward VII, who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 1901 until 1910.
• Edwardes, Herbert Benjamin
  British colonial administrator and soldier in India in the nineteenth century.
• Edwards, Bryan
  English politician, historian, and major slave-owner of several estates in Jamaica in the eighteenth century. Edwards was one of the leading opponents against the abolition of the slave-trade in Britain. As Secretary of the African Association, Edwards helped to edit and publish Mungo Park's narrative of his 1795-1797 expedition to West Africa
• Edwards, Henry
  British Liberal politician and linseed merchant in the nineteenth century. His life showcases the inevitable imperial connections of the British elite of the Victorian period. He participated in the Crimean war; was present in the coronation of Russian Czars; was among the first to sail through the Suez canal, whose financing and later debt-servicing landed Egypt into a semi-colonial state; he also rode the newly Northern Pacific Railway, which served as a powerful tool of settler expansionism and disrupted Native American Communities. In Parliament, however, Edwards's interventions were principally around local concerns.
• Elder, Isabella
  Scottish philanthropist in the nineteenth century, whose wealth largely derived from imperial shipbuilding. Her husband was the shipbuilder John Elder (1824-1869), whose firm was was actively involved in supporting Britain's naval empire and imperial commerce. Some of the company's clients included the African Mail Company and the African Steamship Company. Isabella briefly took over management of the company upon John's death in 1869, before selling the company to her brother John Francis Ure (1820-1883), J. L. K. Jamieson (1826-1883) and William Pearce (1833-1888).
• Elder, John
  Scottish shipbuilder in the nineteenth century. In 1852, John Elder joined the firm of Randolph, Elliott, & Co., which was initially involved in building ship engines before expanding to constructing actual ships from the 1860s. Elder became the sole partner in the company from 1868 and renamed the firm John Elder & Co the following year. His wife Isabella Elder (1828-1905) then briefly took over management of the company upon John's death in 1869. The Elders' shipbuilding firm was actively involved in supporting Britain's naval empire and imperial commerce throughout the nineteenth century. Some of the company's clients included the African Mail Company and the African Steamship Company, the latter of which was absorbed into Elder, Dempster and Co. in 1891.
• Eliott, George Augustus
  British army officer in the eighteenth century. Eliott served as Governor of Londonderry (1774-1775) and Governor of Gibraltar (1777-1790).
• Elizabeth II
  Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 1952 to 2022.
• Elphick, Nick
  Sculptor in the twenty-first century.
• Epstein, Jacob
  American-born British sculptor active in the twentieth century
• Eve, Harry Trelawney
  Member of Parliament for Ashburton (1904-1907) and the son of a Jamaican merchant.
• Fagel, Léon
  French sculptor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Fagon, Alfred
  Black British poet, playwright and actor in the twentieth century.
• Farrell, Terrence
  Irish sculptor active in the nineteenth century.
• Fawcett, Millicent
  English suffragist and writer in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During the Second Boer War, Fawcett headed the Fawcett Commission, alongside Anne Knox, Jane Waterston, Ella Scarlet, Katherine Brereton and Lucy Deane, which was sent by the government on a four-month tour in the summer of 1901 to investigate the conditions of British concentration camps in South Africa, in response to a prior independent investigation carried out by Emily Hobhouse which had been highly critical of the camps.
• Fehr, Henry Charles
  British sculptor active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Feuchère, Jean-Jacques
  French sculptor in the nineteenth century.
• Fichet, Fred
  French sculptor based in New Caledonia/Kanaky
• Flaxman, John
  British sculptor in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Flaxman produced several colonial statues in his lifetime, including a statue of Lt. Gen. Sir John Moore in Glasgow and two statues of Warren Hastings for Whitehall and India. Some of his most notable works, however, were funerary monuments, many of which were produced for individuals involved in transatlantic slavery and colonialism. Examples include the monument to Sir Simon Clarke in Hanover Parish Church, Jamaica, the monument to William Miles in Ledbury Church, Herefordshire, and two monuments to John Brathwaite in St Martin's Church, Epsom and St Michael’s Parish Church, Barbados.
• Foch, Ferdinand
  French general, Marshal of France, and Supreme Allied Commander from 1918 until 1920.
• Foley, John Henry
  Irish sculptor in the nineteenth century. Some of his notable colonial works include the equestrian statue of James Outram in Kolkata, the statue of Colin Campbell in Glasgow, and the equestrian statue of Henry Hardinge, which was originally installed in Kolkata but was later repatriated to the UK.
• Ford, Edward Onslow
  British sculptor in the late nineteenth century. Some of his notable colonial works include the statue of Chamarajendra Wadiyar X in Mysore, India, the statue of Lakshmeshwar Singh in Kolkata, India, and two statues of Charles Gordon, one of which was sent to Khartoum, Sudan but later repatriated to the UK.
• Forster, Frank
  British sculptor
• Forster, William Edward
  Chief Secretary for Ireland (1880-1882).
• Fortescue, Hugh, 4th Earl Fortescue
  British politician in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Fortescue was Member of Parliament for Tiverton (1881-1885) and Tavistock (1885-1892), as well as Lord Lieutenant of Devon (1904–1928).
• Fortescue, John William
  Historian of the British Army and brother of Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue (1853-1932)
• Forwood, Arthur Bower
  English merchant, shipowner, and politician. Forwood was Member of Parliament for Ormskirk (1885-1898) and Mayor of the Borough of Liverpool (1877-1878). Working with his brother William Bower Forwood (1840-1928), Forwood made much of his wealth from blockade running during the American Civil War (1861-1865) in support of the Confederate States of America , which was fighting to preserve the institution of slavery in the United States.
• Fountain, Desmond
  Bermudian sculptor.
• Fox, Charles James
  British Whig politician and statesman in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Fox was Foreign Secretary in 1782, 1783 and 1806. His nephew was the politician and absentee Jamaican slave-owner Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (1773-1840).
• Frampton, George
  British sculptor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some of his notable colonial works include the statue of Queen Victoria in Kolkata, the statue of Antony MacDonnell in Lucknow, and the memorial to Alfred Lewis Jones in Liverpool.
• Franklin, John
  British naval officer, explorer and colonial administrator. Franklin was Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) from 1839 to 1843. Franklin's lost expedition to the Canadian Arctic in 1845 resulted in considerable efforts to try to locate the remains of their two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and their crews. In 1854, the Scottish explorer John Rae (1813-1893) collected testimony in from the Inuit people about the fate of the expedition, which included suggestions that some crew members had been forced to resort to cannibalism to survive. The testimony provided by the Inuits was met with considerable racist outcry from sections of Victorian society, including Charles Dickens (1812-1870), which effectively tarnished Rae's reputation.
• Frederick, Prince of Wales
  Eldest son and heir apparent of King George II.
• Frere, Henry Bartle
  British colonial administrator. Frere served as Commissioner of Sind (1851-1859), Governor of Bombay (1862-1867), and High Commissioner for Southern Africa (1877-1880).