Harry Scott Thornicroft
Henry Scott Thornicroft, nicknamed "Dongolosi" was a British Native Commissioner in Petauke, in North-Western Rhodesia and later Northern Rhodesia for 17 years and later a Justice of the Peace in Fort Jameson.
Thornicroft was born in St Pancras, London, the son of coal merchant Thomas Thornicroft and his wife, Matilda. In Rhodesia, Harry Thornicroft married a local woman and had 11 children, including Gaston Thornicroft, later a leader of the coloured community. 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.
He died in Northern Rhodesia.
