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(Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1982) 0798113103. 8vo; original purple boards; dustwrapper; pp. 113, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper a little sunned on spine panel. Very good condition. 'Die teregstelling van die Engelsman Charles Leo Cox deur die Vrystaatse Regering in 1856 vanwee die moord op sy vrou en kinders het dwarsdeur Suid-Afrika 'n sensasie veroorsaak. Aan die hand van die dokumentasie oor hierdie opspraakwekkende saak wat bewaar gebly het, het Karel Schoeman die lewe en dood van Cox gerekonstrueer, en daarmee op lewendige en leesbare wyse aan die vroeë jare van die Vrystaatse geskiedenis gestalte gegee.' 'Cox, Charles Leo (London, Eng., 13.12.1815 (?) - Bloemfontein, 1.11.1856) was executed as a murderer. Nothing is known about his early life, except that he came of a good family. A cousin of his was the wife of Sir Henry Barkly, later High Commissioner and Governor at the Cape. [
] On 20.1.1853 Cox married the sixteen-year-old Maria Magdalena Bouwer,…
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- Title Die Dood van 'n Engelsman
- Author Schoeman, Karel
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition F 1st Edition
- Publisher Human & Rousseau
- Date 1982
- ISBN 9780798113106
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Die dood van 'n Engelsman: die Cox-moorde van 1856 en die vroeë jare van die Oranje-Vrystaat.
by Schoeman, Karel
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