Jules Ellenberger

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Jules Ellenberger (1871 – 1972) was an Imperial civil servant.

He was born to an old South African pioneer family in what is now Lesotho, and was educated at the Lovedale missionary school and in France.

Ellenberger held a variey of posts in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, as the equivalent of a district commissioner at Gaberone, Ngamiland, and Mafeking. Ellenberger served as Resident Commissioner of the Bechuanaland Protectorate from 1923-1927, replacing his brother-in-law James MacGregor. Anxious to protect what he perceived to be the Protectorate's economic interests, he denied the existence of agricultural slavery in the colony. Only in the 1930s did Ellenberger's successor Charles Rey expose this Imperial scandal.