Benjamin Pine becomes Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Natal (1850–1855)

Sir Benjamin Pine, a career officer in the British Colonial Service, served as Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Natal from 1850 to 1855. The legacy row's claim of an appointment on 22 July 1873 in Pietermaritzburg is unsupported: the passages instead place Pine as Governor of Antigua until 1873. The Colony of Natal was proclaimed a British colony on 4 May 1843 and became a province of the Union of South Africa on 31 May 1910.

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Background. The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa, proclaimed on 4 May 1843 after the annexation of the Boer Republic of Natalia. Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine was a career officer in the British Colonial Service who served as administrator of various territories, including Natal, the Gold Coast, Antigua, the Leeward Islands, and Western Australia.

Appointment. Pine served as Lieutenant-Governor of the Natal Colony from 1850 to 1855. The legacy row's date of 22 July 1873 is incorrect; in 1873, Pine's title was Governor of Antigua until that year. The legacy row's location of Pietermaritzburg is not supported by the passages for Pine's appointment.

Legacy. The legacy row claims Pine became Lieutenant-Governor on 22 July 1873 in Pietermaritzburg. This is corrected to 1850–1855 based on the passages. The location Pietermaritzburg is not supported for Pine's appointment, though it was a site for trials in 1873.

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