Harry Scott Thornicroft

Henry Scott Thornicroft, nicknamed "Dongolosi"[1](16 January 1868[2] – 19 March 1944)[3] was a British Native Commissioner in Petauke, in North-Western Rhodesia and later Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) for 17 years[1][4] and later a Justice of the Peace in Fort Jameson (now Chipata).

[3] Thornicroft was born in St Pancras, London,[5] the son of coal merchant Thomas Thornicroft and his wife, Matilda.

[6] In Rhodesia, Harry Thornicroft married a local woman and had 11 children,[4] including Gaston Thornicroft, later a leader of the coloured community.

[7] Thornicroft's Giraffe, a subspecies of giraffe endemic to the Luangwa Valley, is named after him, from a specimen which he had shot and sent to the Natural History Museum, London, where it was displayed.

[1][4][8] He died in Northern Rhodesia.