1. Details of Glover's early life and the ‘imperial’ careers of other members of his family are to be found in the Life (cited above) which Lady Glover compiled after his death, partly from an autobiographical fragment which Glover had commenced. The manuscript of this is now among the Glover Papers in the library of the Royal Commonwealth Society (consulted by courtesy of the librarian). Lady Glover was assisted by Sir Richard Temple. Although the Glover Papers have some valuable material on the Ashanti War, they consist in the main of Blue Books and file copies of Glover's official correspondence to the Foreign and Colonial Offices. There is no important new evidence in them on his Lagos career, although there are a few private letters from friends at Lagos after Glover's removal in 1872 indicating that they greatly regret that the ‘chief’ had gone.
2. Evidence that Glover volunteered is in Baikie to Foreign Office, 21.ii.1857. Foreign Office files in the Public Record Office: Consular Correspondence, Africa, F.O. 2/23, p. 90.
3. Carter, 8.iv.1896,
4. Forster and Smith to Secretary of State, 3.viii.1872. Colonial Office files in the Public Record Office: Gold Coast Correspondence, C.O. 96/95.