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Hercules Crosse Jarvis
Hercules Crosse Jarvis (18 June 1802 – 8 February 1889) MLC, MLA, was a mayor of Cape Town and a powerful merchant of the Cape Colony.〔R. Kent Rasmussen: Dictionary of African historical biography. University of California Press, 1989. ISBN 0-520-06611-1〕
==Childhood and family==
Born in Plymouth, England on 18 June 1802,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Baptism recorded on 29 August 1802 at St George the Martyr church, Holborn (image) )〕 he was a close relative of John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, the admiral who fought Napoleon. His father, also named John Jervis, was an army captain from Staffordshire who died young, leaving his wife and six children.
Coming from an intensely military family, the 14-year-old Hercules Crosse was offered a commission in the army by his relative the Admiral of St Vincent, but he had other plans and turned the offer down. He was also of a very gentle and sensitive nature, and the idea of war deeply repelled him.
After briefly visiting the Cape in 1816, he decided to move to the colony permanently, and arrived in Cape Town in 1821 with the intention of settling and making his fortune.
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