MILNER, last of the empire-builders

380pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2022

Alfred Milner (1854-1925) was High Commissioner for Southern Africa and Governor of the Cape Colony from 1897 to 1905. He later served as Secretary for War in Lloyd George's War Cabinet (1916–19) and as Colonial Secretary (1919–21).

Richard Steyn is the author of Louis Botha, a man apart, Jan Smuts: unafraid of greatness and Churchill and Smuts: the friendship.