Government House, Natal

The Old Government House, located in Pietermaritzburg, was the official residence of the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, South Africa, Benjamin Pine, who arrived in Natal in 1851. Government House is the name given to some of the residences of Governors-General, Governors and Lieutenant-Governors in the Commonwealth and the Pietermaritzburg is the capital and second largest city of the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. A Lieutenant Governor is a high officer of state whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine (1809–1891 was at various times administrator of Natal, the Gold Coast, Antigua, the Leeward Islands 1851 ( MDCCCLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year The building was completed in the late 1860s and the Natal Government later bought it from Pine and established it as Government House.

"Driving up to Government House one is struck by its very homely English appearance: in its outward form there has been not striving after giving it the resemblance of a palace: it is after a cottage type, and reminds me of many a vicarage at home: … (The South African diaries of Sir Garnet Wolseley; 1875, first published 1971)

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