C Scully 29 October 1855 25 August 1943 is one of South Africas best known authors although little known outside South Africa In addition to his work as an author his paid work was principally as a magistrate in Springfontein South Africa as well as in Namaqualand and the Transkei His last position before retirement was as Chief Magistrate of Port Elizabeth one of South Africas larger cities He organised the building of New Brighton a township for aboriginal African people in Port Elizabeth At the time it was regarded as very progressive a pleasant place to live. C Scully 29 October 1855 25 August 1943 is one of South Africa s best known authors although little known outside South Africa In addition to his work as an author his paid work was principally as a magistrate in Springfontein South Africa as well as in Namaqualand and the Transkei His last position before retirement was as Chief Magistrate of Port Elizabeth one of South Africa s larger cities He organised the building of New Brighton a township for aboriginal African people in Port Elizabeth At the time it was regarded as very progressive a pleasant place to live. Scully was born in Dublin Ireland raised in Cashel County Tipperary and then emigrated to southern Africa with his parents in 1867 During 1871 he prospected for diamonds with Cecil Rhodes in Africa His daughter Miriam Power b 1893 married Dr John A. His novel Daniel Vananda describes the violence engendered by the ethnic legislation of the time Similarly Kafir Stories contains stories that are generally sympathetic with the aboriginal African peoples of South Africa. After the Boer War Scully was appointed Chair of a commission to investigate war crimes by the British forces in the Cape Province The main war crimes were of course committed in the Transvaal and the Free State After this he wrote The Harrow fictional but based on cases the commission had investigated He supplied the publishers with a key to every incident in the book but with the proviso that this should never be published Years later he regretted writing the book site_link William Charles Scully 1855 1943 is one of South Africa s greatest writers diarists and poets although little known outside South Africa In addition to his work as an author and literary figure his paid work was principally as a magistrate in Springfontein South Africa as well as in Namaqualand and the Transkei His novel Daniel Vananda 1923 was pioneering in the way that it dealt with the racial issues that have been the source of so much anguish in South African history with its portrayal of the terrible violence engendered by the anti African legislation of the time Similarly Kafir Stories 1896 contains stories that are generally sympathetic to the perspective of aboriginal African peoples of South Africa The South African writer Herman Charles Bosman is said to have hailed William Charles Scully as one of the few South African writers at that time that were worthy of reading His works include The Wreck of the Grosvenor and Other South African Poems 1886 Poems 1892 The White Hecatomb and Other Stories 1897 Between Sun and Sand 1898 and A Vendetta of the Desert 1898 Kafir StoriesI love this book it is a collection of seven short stories Each dealing a different subject in a very charming way it is really very passionate sensational and exotic like Africans themselves English .

, Scully was born in Dublin Ireland raised in Cashel County Tipperary and then emigrated to southern Africa with his parents in 1867 During 1871 he prospecte W: Ryle their children included Sir Martin Ryle Nobel laureate and Astronomer Royal from 1972 to 1982 W. Scully died in Umbogintwini on Natal s coast in 1943 the same year as his wife Nora died[1]

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