Glimpse On Flora Shaw The Woman That Coined The Name Nigeria
Profile: Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard (the woman that coined the name Nigeria)
Flora Louise Shaw, DBE (born 19 December 1852 – 25 January 1929) was a British journalist and writer. She is credited with having coined the name "Nigeria"...
Shaw was friendly to the three men who most epitomised empire in Africa: Cecil Rhodes, George Goldie and Frederick Lugard.
She married on 10 June 1902, the colonial administrator Sir Frederick Lugard, who in 1928 was created Baron Lugard. She accompanied him when he served as Governor of Hong Kong (1907–1912) and Governor-General of Nigeria (1914–1919). They had no children.
In 1905 Shaw wrote about the definitive history of Western Sudan and the modern settlement of Northern Nigeria, A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Soudan, With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria (London: Nisbet, 1905).
While living in Hong Kong she helped her husband to establish the University of Hong Kong. During the First World War, she was rfenowned in the foundation of the War Refugees Committee, which handled problem of the Belgian refugees, and established the Lady Lugard Hospitality Committee. In the 1918 New Year Honours, she got appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
She died of pneumonia ailment on 25 January 1929, at 76 years, in Surrey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Shaw,_Lady_Lugard
Flora Louise Shaw, DBE (born 19 December 1852 – 25 January 1929) was a British journalist and writer. She is credited with having coined the name "Nigeria"...
Shaw was friendly to the three men who most epitomised empire in Africa: Cecil Rhodes, George Goldie and Frederick Lugard.
She married on 10 June 1902, the colonial administrator Sir Frederick Lugard, who in 1928 was created Baron Lugard. She accompanied him when he served as Governor of Hong Kong (1907–1912) and Governor-General of Nigeria (1914–1919). They had no children.
In 1905 Shaw wrote about the definitive history of Western Sudan and the modern settlement of Northern Nigeria, A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Soudan, With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria (London: Nisbet, 1905).
While living in Hong Kong she helped her husband to establish the University of Hong Kong. During the First World War, she was rfenowned in the foundation of the War Refugees Committee, which handled problem of the Belgian refugees, and established the Lady Lugard Hospitality Committee. In the 1918 New Year Honours, she got appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
She died of pneumonia ailment on 25 January 1929, at 76 years, in Surrey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Shaw,_Lady_Lugard
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