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The Right Honourable
The Viscount Malvern
CH KCMG PC KStJ FRCS
Huggins in 1936
1st Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
In office 7 September 1953 – 2 November 1956
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Governor General
Lord Llewellin
Succeeded by
Sir Roy Welensky
4th Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia
In office 12 September 1933 – 7 September 1953
Monarchs
George V
Edward VIII
George VI
Elizabeth II
Governor
Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell
Sir Evelyn Baring
Sir Campbell Tait
Sir John Kennedy
Preceded by
George Mitchell
Succeeded by
Garfield Todd
Personal details
Born
Godfrey Martin Huggins
(1883-07-06)6 July 1883 Bexley, Kent, United Kingdom
Died
8 May 1971(1971-05-08) (aged 87) Salisbury, Rhodesia
Political party
Reform Party
United Federal Party
United Rhodesia Party
Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount MalvernCH KCMG PC KStJ FRCS (6 July 1883 – 8 May 1971), was a Rhodesian politician and physician. He served as the fourth Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1933 to 1953 and remained in office as the first Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland until October 1956, becoming the longest serving prime minister in British Commonwealth history, until 1961.[1]
^Statesman and Surgeon. British Medical Journal, 20 November 1971, pp. 497.
Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern CH KCMG PC KStJ FRCS (6 July 1883 – 8 May 1971), was a Rhodesian politician and physician. He served as the...
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insistence and reassurances of the Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister, Sir GodfreyHuggins, a little more than 25,000 white Southern Rhodesians voted in the referendum...
Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known as the Central African Federation. GodfreyHuggins served as Federal Prime Minister from 1953 to 1956, then Roy Welensky...
succeeded Sir Godfrey Martin Huggins as leader of the United Rhodesia Party and Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia in 1953 when Huggins became the inaugural...
admiration for its leading figures—he considered the Prime Minister GodfreyHuggins "a man of the calibre I think of Rhodes". The Southern Rhodesian electoral...
the Prime Minister GodfreyHuggins opted not to stand again for his party's leadership at their September 1956 conference. Huggins resigned in October...
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citizens were on the electoral roll. The colony's Prime Minister was GodfreyHuggins, a physician and veteran of World War I (1914–18) who had emigrated...
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following pressure from Europeans in both the Rhodesias, particularly from GodfreyHuggins, who had been the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia since 1933, the...
GodfreyHuggins, formed the United Party as a merger of the conservative section of his Reform Party and the former governing Rhodesia Party. Huggins...
Minister GodfreyHuggins' United Party government were re-elected in a landslide. The elections were called slightly earlier than the deadline as Huggins feared...
for black settlement during the United Federal Party government of GodfreyHuggins. Highfield was primarily set up by the colonial government to provide...
Vichy France. For his actions he was promoted to full General Sir GodfreyHuggins was prime minister of the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia...
Finance in 1933. Orthodox in his economic policies, Smit resigned from GodfreyHuggins' government in 1942 and later formed the right-wing Liberal Party....
were excluded on every level. The Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia GodfreyHuggins was in absolute opposition to blacks serving in a governmental position...
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister GodfreyHuggins (1933–53) recognised an opportunity not just to aid Britain and the...
GodfreyHuggins, visited Harris in May 1944, Southern Rhodesia asked the UK government to appoint Harris as Governor at the end of the year, Huggins being...
dominated the colony. The election of the Reform Party government led by GodfreyHuggins in 1933 had a great deal in common with the RF win in 1962. It has...
They saw Prime Minister GodfreyHuggins regain the overall majority he had lost in the previous elections in 1946. Huggins' United Party won a landslide...