Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Albert Henry Hime, KCMG, PC (29 August 1842 – 13 September 1919) was an Irish Royal Engineers officer and later a prominent politician in the Colony of Natal.
Hime was born in Kilcoole, County Wicklow, on the Ballydonarea Loop, and educated at Trinity College Dublin.
When it was finished, Hime delivered a report to Governor Lefroy in front of some 6,000 residents (approximately half of the population), describing his accomplishment as "solid and substantial...without any attempt at ornament" which would have increased the project's cost (the cost of construction, £27,000, was £2,000 more than the colonial government raised in total revenues that year).
[2] The premiership included the years of the Second Boer War in the South African colonies between October 1899 and the Peace of Vereeniging in June 1902.
Commenting on the peace settlement, Hime in September 1902 stated that "there was naturally a little soreness against rebels who at the commencement of the war fought for the Boers; but he recognized the fact that both races had to live together ... he believed the Boers would settle down and become as peaceable and loyal as other subjects of the British Crown.″[3] As Premier, he attended the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra and the conference of Colonial Premiers in London in 1902.