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Early History of Fort Beaufort: 18 August 1964 by Mr Dorrington

An archived audio recording of a talk presented by Mr Dorrington to a meeting of the Border Historical Society in East London, South Africa, on 18 August 1964. Mr Hilton Henry Driffield introduced Mr Dorrington to the audience. The talk was titled 'THE EARLY HISTORY OF FORT BEAUFORT' and was based on the diary of his great-great-grandmother Marianne Dorrington (née Kerr) wife of Rev. John Dorrington, the Minister at Fort Beaufort, and dated October 1873 to December 1884. Click on the blue time-stamp to go to any of the separate sub-sections. 0:00:00 Start and introduction by HH Driffield 0:00:22 Introduction to the Dorrington Diary 0:02:00 Peculiar habits of some people 0:02:55 Author of Diary: Marianne Dorrington 0:04:10 Tamworth, England 0:05:53 London Missionary Society 0:07:15 Manse in Fort Beaufort 0:07:54 Teaching in Fort Beaufort 0:08:45 School Fees 0:09:00 Start of the War of the Axe 0:09:25 Officers' Mess (later Museum) 0:09:34 Water furrows + walnut shell boats 0:10:23 Uncle Charles + possible commission 0:11:20 Marching of British Regiments from Port Elizabeth 0:12:00 Band playing martial music 0:12:30 Diseases 0:13:05 Inscription of grave stone 0:13:26 Shell from Alabama - picked up on beach 0:14:20 Extracts from Diary 0:14:35 John Adamson - recuperate and depart 0:15:20 Death of John Adamson on 1 January 1874 0:15:26 Alcoholism in Fort Beaufort 0:15:40 Queenstown + Nugent 0:17:05 Floods 0:18:15 Death of Rev Dorrington 0:18:56 Arrival of 300 soldiers 0:19:35 Mr Young of Lovedale 0:20:13 Death Notice 0:20:39 Visit to Manse + sugar jar 0:21:22 Thanks Mr. Dorrington notes that the first part of the diary had unfortunately been destroyed by his Aunt Fanny Dorrington. Rev. John Dorrington was born in 1806 and died in 1876. Marianne Dorrington (née Kerr) was born in 1816 and died in 1896. A white marble headstone marks their combined grave in the Fort Beaufort Main Cemetery - see EGGSA site for photograph. The Dorrington's had twelve children of whom three died (d.) in childhood. Their names were: John, Marianne (d.), Mathilda (d.), Emily, Fanny, Selena, Charlie, Lucy (d.), Nugent, Miriam, Effie and William. -------------------------- A photocopy of the surviving portion of the Dorrington diary is apparently held in the Special Collections (Manuscripts and Archives) at University of Cape Town Library in Cape Town, South Africa. --------------------------- If you find the talk interesting, please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE --------------------------- Dorrington's talk was preceded by a talk by Mr M. T. Flemmer titled EARLY HISTORY OF EAST LONDON 1899 -1910 which is also available on this channel:    • Early History of East London : 1899 -1910 ...   -------------------------------------------------- The original BASF Magnetophonband reel-to-reel tape recording was digitized for the Border Historical Society by Paul Wiggins of East London, in May 2021. The talk was loaded on YouTube by William Martinson in August 2023 for the Border Historical Society. The Border Historical Society acknowledges with thanks the assistance of Pablo Battiss in converting the audio recording to a video format suitable for loading on YouTube. The YouTube generated sub-titles were edited and corrected by William Martinson in December 2023 and further refined in June 2025.