Dug for diamonds with his father and brother in Kimberley, 1871. His journals of an expedition to the Victoria falls in 1875 and another to Matebeleland in 1877-8 have been published by the Rhodes Livingstone Museum, under the title 'Zambezia and Matabeleland in the Seventies'. This trip was made by ox-wagon through Bechuanaland via the Makarikari Pan to Pandematenga where, owing to tsetse fly, they left the wagon and completed the remaing 60 miles on foot. Fred was a painter of landscapes and antelopes. With his brother was a co-founder of the town of Barberton in Transvaal in 1884. Immigrated to Kenya and is buried at Eldoret.
quoted from Men of our Times 1905.