Humphrey Gibbs, Beleaguered Governor: Southern Rhodesia, 1929-69

ISBN-13: 9780333721582 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 241 str.

Alan J. Megahey

Opis

This is a biography of Sir Humphrey Gibbs, an upper-class Englishman who settled in Southern Rhodesia soon after it became a self-governing colony. He was a leading farmer and churchman, an MP, and eventually Governor of the country. In 1964 the Rhodesian Front declared UDI, but he remained at his post in Government House for a further five years, and was a conduit for negotiations between the British Government and the rebel regime.

Spis treści

List of Plates Introdution; R.G.Mugabe Foreword; R.Blake Preface Acknowledgements A Note on Place-Names Map of Places Mentioned in the Text Chronology The Early Years Into Africa Farming in Peace and War Politics and Federation Southern Rhodesia in the Late Fifties First Years as Governor The End of Federation Prelude to UDI The Unilateral Declaration of Independence Tensions and Talks A Long Haul A State of Uncertainty Near the End of the Road Retirement at Bonisa Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

ALAN MEGAHEY read History at Cambridge, and was ordained in 1971. He has spent most of his career in independent schools, as Head of History and as a housemaster; he is currently Chaplain of Uppingham School. For ten years he was headmaster of Zimbabwe's leading independent school, Peterhouse, which was where he became acquainted with Sir Humphrey Gibbs. He gave the address at the funerals of both Sir Humphrey in 1990, in Zimbabwe, and Dame Molly Gibbs, in 1997 in Kent.