Lot Essay
No figure looms larger over the Boer War than Alfred George Milner, the 1st Viscount Milner of St. James's London and Cape Town, [K.G.], [G.C.B.], [G.C.M.G.]. His extraordinary career embodies the origins of the struggle, the course of the War itself and the reconstruction of South Africa after peace through to the creation of the Union in 1910.