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The Blantyre Raid was an attack carried out by the rebel leader John Chilembwe and his followers on the African Lakes Company depot in Blantyre on 24...

large raid (named Operation Swinford) at Blantyre House caused controversy amongst the press and politicians. Prison authorities claimed the raid was needed...

three white settlers. A largely unsuccessful attack on a weapons store in Blantyre followed during the night. By the morning of 24 January, the colonial authorities...

in the area. A mission and small trading settlement was established at Blantyre in 1876 and a British consul took up residence there in 1883. Concessionaires...

Malawi, in 1876 as a lay member of the missionary party that established Blantyre Mission. Buchanan came to Central Africa as an ambitious artisan: his character...

estimated at 561,600 males and 664,400 females, a total of 1,226,000. Blantyre, the chief town, had some 300 European residents. The number of resident...

Jane" (Laws Q23) 1013. "Father Tom O'Neale" (Laws Q25) 1014. "The High Blantyre Explosion" 1015. "The Miner's Doom" (Laws Q36) 1016. "The London Prentice"...

serving at the unique rehabilitation prison HMP Grendon and moving to HMP Blantyre House, prior to being released on 12 May 2010. Smith was born in London...

Chartered company. This ambition was strongly opposed by missionaries based in Blantyre, south of Lake Malawi and Hawes, the Consul to the Lake Region, but initially...

massif at 3,002 m, is the highest point in Malawi. It lies 65 km east of Blantyre,: 2  rising sharply from the surrounding plains of Phalombe and the Mulanje...

of Malawi: A supplement to Newman's Birds of Southern Africa (1 ed.). Blantyre, Malawi: The Wildlife Society of Malawi. pp. 60–61. ISBN 99908-31-009....

(12 April 1860–3 April 1939), late Head of Church of Scotland Mission, Blantyre, Nyasaland". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007. doi:10...

for faking abduction. He has criticized the naming of a road connecting Blantyre to Mozambique after Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, calling him "an...

entourage included, Captain James Stewart, Captain Crawford, Walter Stewart of Blantyre, the Master of Cathcart, James Anstruther, Roger Aston, Patrick Hume of...

criticised the Scottish-run churches, especially the Church of Scotland's Blantyre Mission, which had educated many of Chilembwe's principal followers, for...

outposts and the Administrator of North-Eastern Rhodesia was resident in Blantyre in the British Central Africa Protectorate until Fort Jameson was founded...

Yatuta Chisiza (born 1926 – died October 1967, near Blantyre, Malawi) was a Malawi minister of home affairs who led a brief guerrilla incursion into the...

of the white men. Later that month, the Ngoni raided various areas, but spared the region between Blantyre and Bangwe, thanks to the intervention of John...

Duke of Argyll; Lady Evelyn Gower (1825–1869), who married the 12th Lord Blantyre; Lady Caroline Gower (1827–1887), who married the 4th Duke of Leinster;...

"troubles", because it had been a difficult pregnancy. He was educated at Blantyre Secondary School, which also produced his later ministerial colleagues...