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Captain Alfred James "Bulala" Taylor (1862–1941) was a soldier and farmer who fought and settled in Southern Rhodesia ==Early life== Alfred Taylor was born in Dublin on 14 November 1861, the son of William Taylor, a Dublin lawyer and Charlotte Bennett, the daughter of a Dublin auctioneer and land agent. His father died in Texas in 1877 and his mother in 1879 and at the age of 17 he had to make his own way in the world. According to his unpublished memoirs that are retained with the Pioneer Association in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, he was a ship's engineer that sailed to India, and on his second trip from India stopped in Cape Town, where he disembarked and disappeared. It is also reported that he arrived as a youth in South Africa in 1886, and took up a post assembling machinery at the goldmines in Tati, Bechuanaland. It is also reported that he preceded the Pioneer Column to Rhodesia where he befriended Lobengula, the son of Mzilikazi. In 1889, he witnessed the Rudd Concession signed between Lobengula and the British South Africa Company.
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