N A T A L - HISTORIANS and WRITERS

JC Chase (1795-1877) - Origins of the Great Trek

J Sanderson (1820-81) - Byrne settler, editor, artist, and litterateur

Robert Russell (1843-1910) - Historian and educationist

H Rider Haggard (1856-1925) - Wrote romantic and adventure fiction with Natal setting

AT Bryant (1865-1933) - Zulu philology and tribal history

Roy Campbell (1901-57) - Celebrated Natal-born English poet and writer

HG Mackeurtan (1884-1924) - Dealt with very early Natal history and the 1824 settlement

AF Hattersley (b. 1893) - Natal settler-hirstorian and recorder of the Colony's social history

GS Nienaber (b. 1903) - Historian of Afrikaans in Natal, philologist, writer

Rev HF Schoon (1851-1930) - Edited diary of Erasmus Smit, Voortrekker period

John Bird (1815-96) - Compiled a documentary history of Natal 1795-1845

GS Preller (1875-1943) - Historian of Natal Voortrekker events and personalities