Edward Garraway

Sir Edward Charles Frederick Garraway, KCMG (10 March 1865 – 27 June 1932) was an Irish-born doctor and British colonial administrator who served as British Resident Commissioner in Bechuanaland and Basutoland.

Life and career Garraway was the eldest son of Colonel Charles Sutton Garraway, of Rockshire, Waterford. He was educated at Waterford Diocesan School and at the medical school of Trinity College, Dublin. He then qualified as a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, before being appointed assistant district surgeon at Millwood, Cape Colony, in 1888. He was appointed district surgeon at Kuruman, British Bechuanaland in 1891, and in 1892 he became surgeon to the Bechuanaland Border Police, with whom he participated in the First Matabele War in 1893. In 1895 he volunteered for the ill-fated Jameson Raid, and was taken prisoner, keeping a journal during his captivity.

In 1908 Garraway was appointed Military Secretary to Lord Selborne, High Commissioner for Southern Africa, though he never served in the regular army. He became a close friend of Lord Selborne, who appreciated his wit and his "Irishness". He was appointed a CMG in 1911 and advanced to KCMG in 1922.

Family Garraway married Winifred Mary Harvey, eldest daughter of J. H. Harvey, JP, of Blackbrook Grove, Fareham, Hampshire, in 1905; they had two daughters.