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George Russell Clerk
Sir George Russell Clerk was a British administrator who spent most of his career in India, twice serving as governor of Bombay. In 1853–1854 he was special commissioner for the Orange River Sovereignty, sent to end British rule there, and on 23 February 1854 he signed the Bloemfontein Convention, which recognised the independence of the Orange Free State.
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