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1874–1967
Best remembered for an extraordinary trek from Cape Town to Cairo, this bold explorer turned a private challenge into one of the most talked-about journeys of his age. His later life in East Africa made him an influential and often controversial figure in Kenya's colonial history.

by Ewart Scott Grogan, Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Sharp
Born in London in 1874, Ewart Scott Grogan was educated at Winchester and Jesus College, Cambridge. He became famous after crossing Africa on foot from south to north, a journey he began in the late 1890s and completed after roughly two and a half years.
What started as a dramatic effort to prove himself before marriage became the adventure that defined his reputation. He later served in the Second Boer War and the First World War, and went on to build a life in British East Africa as a farmer, businessman, and political figure.
Grogan died in 1967 in Cape Town. He is remembered both for the sheer stamina of his African crossing and for the larger-than-life role he played in the settler society of colonial Kenya.