1. William Schreiner was the tenth child of two missionaries Gottlob Schreiner and his wife, the former Rebecca Lyndall, and a younger brother of the writer Olive Schreiner.
13 Facts About William Schreiner
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William Schreiner was educated at Templeton High School, Bedford, the South African College in Cape Town, the University of the Cape of Good Hope, the University of London and Downing College, Cambridge.
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William Schreiner was admitted to the English bar in 1882, returned to Cape Town as an advocate of the Cape Supreme Court and established a thriving law practice.
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William Schreiner became a parliamentary draughtsman in 1885, and acted as legal adviser to the Governor of Cape Colony and High Commissioner for Southern Africa in 1887.
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William Schreiner was forced to resign from the premiership and from Parliament in June 1900.
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William Schreiner failed to win a seat in 1904, but returned in 1908 as the member for Queenstown.
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William Schreiner now adopted a liberal Bantu policy, influenced by a visit he had made in 1899 to the Transkei and the African leader John Tengo Jabavu.
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William Schreiner advocated integration and equal rights for all "civilised" men.
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William Schreiner felt that the Union Government and Parliament proposed for South Africa would not uphold the liberal Bantu policy of the Cape Colony, so he went to London to oppose the passage of the South Africa Act through the British Parliament in 1909.
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William Schreiner brought together a multiracial delegation of nine prominent Cape politicians to call for the Cape franchise which allowed all men of property to vote, irrespective of race, to be implemented in the whole of South Africa.
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William Schreiner led the group to London, but the delegation was unsuccessful in its appeal, despite receiving considerable support from the infant Labour Party and other liberal British organisations.
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William Schreiner was on holiday in England at the outbreak of the First World War and was asked by Gen.
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William Schreiner died in Llandrindod Wells, Wales, on 28 June 1919, the day the Treaty of Versailles was signed.