Harry Scott Thornicroft

Henry Scott Thornicroft, nicknamed "Dongolosi" (16 January 1868 – 19 March 1944) was a British Native Commissioner in Petauke, in North-Western Rhodesia and later Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) for 17 years and later a Justice of the Peace in Fort Jameson (now Chipata). the son of coal merchant Thomas Thornicroft and his wife, Matilda. In Rhodesia, Harry Thornicroft married a local woman and had 11 children, Thornicroft's Giraffe, a subspecies of giraffe endemic to the Luangwa Valley, is named after him, from a specimen which he had shot and sent to the Natural History Museum, London, where it was displayed.

He died in Northern Rhodesia.