Philip Colomb |
Commander, Royal Navy; captain of HMS Dryad |
Leopold Heath |
Captain, Royal Navy; commodore of the East Indies Station, Bombay |
Edward Meara |
Commander, Royal Navy; captain of HMS Nymphe |
George Sulivan |
Commander (later Captain), Royal Navy; captain of HMS Daphne |
Minor figures
Henry Churchill |
British consul, Zanzibar |
Sir Henry Bartle Frere |
Diplomat, head of the British mission to Zanzibar 1872 |
Dr John Kirk |
Acting British consul, Zanzibar |
David Livingstone |
Missionary explorer in East Africa |
Conolly Pakenham |
British consul, Madagascar |
Colonel Lewis Pelly |
Former British consul at Zanzibar, diplomat in charge of Persian Gulf matters, based in Persia |
Ranavalona II |
Queen of Madagascar and eventual Anglican convert |
Henry Rothery |
Lawyer in the ecclesiastical and Admiralty court in London; legal advisor to the Treasury on slave trade matters |
Majid bin Said |
Sultan of Zanzibar 1856–1870 |
Barghash bin Said |
Brother of Majid and Sultan of Zanzibar 1870–1888 |