Entries for the tag ‘Cronwright, Samuel Cron (1863-1936)’
South African public figure, farmer, lawyer, businessman, politician and biographer of his first wife, Olive Schreiner, whose surname he used from their marriage in February 1894 until four years after her death in 1920. 
- 12 March 1900: The South African speaker Samuel Cronwright meets Marion Rowntree among other anti-Boer War activists waiting to run the gauntlet of a riotous Tory mob at Scarborough
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