Career
His diary covers the period from 1824 to 1836 and is the story of the first white settler in Natal, the earliest account of life in Natal. lieutenant provides the best contemporary account of Shaka, and the nation and the kingdom of the Zulu in South Africa that he founded. He was played by Robert Powell in the 1986 television drama Shaka Zulu.
Fynn"s son, also Henry Francis attended Saint Andrew"s College, Grahamstown in 1858 and 1859.