<P> Of the 90,000 applicants, about 4,000 were approved, so that many 1820 Settlers initially arrived in the Cape in around 60 different parties between April and June 1820 . The 1820 Settlers were granted farms near the village of Bathurst and supplied equipment and food against their deposits, but their lack of agricultural experience led many of them to abandon agriculture and withdraw to Bathurst and other settlements like Grahamstown, East London and Port Elizabeth, where they typically reverted to their trades . </P> <P> A group of the 1820 Settlers continued on to Natal, then a part of Zululand, home of the Zulu people . At the time, King Shaka ruled the territory with highly trained warriors . Leaders of the Natal settlers requested permission from Shaka to stay on the land . When the king witnessed the settlers' technological advances, permission was granted in return for access to firearm technology . According to genealogist Shelagh O'Byrne Spencer, among 1820 Settlers who moved to Natal were "John Bailie, the founder of East London, and Charles Kestell, after whose son, the Revd John Daniel Kestell of Anglo - Boer War fame, the Free State town of Kestell is named". </P> <P> They are commemorated in Grahamstown by the 1820 Settlers National Monument, which opened in 1974 . A living monument, it hosts plays, musical performances and cultural events, and is supported by the 1820 Settlers Association which was founded in 1920 by Sir Walter Stanford and other descendants . </P> <Ul> <Li> William Guybon Atherstone </Li> <Li> John Burnet Biddulph </Li> <Li> Alexander Biggar </Li> <Li> Henry Hare Dugmore </Li> <Li> George Henry Ford </Li> <Li> Robert Godlonton </Li> <Li> Richard Gush </Li> <Li> Dick King </Li> <Li> Emperor Norton </Li> <Li> Thomas Pringle </Li> <Li> Thomas Shone </Li> </Ul>

A memorial commemorating the landing of the 1820 settlers