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Humphrey Gibbs, Beleaguered Governor

Southern Rhodesia, 1929-69
Springer Verlag GmbH
ISBN/EAN: 9780333721582
Umbreit-Nr.: 9056373

Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: xxii, 241 S.
Format in cm:
Einband: gebundenes Buch

Erschienen am 01.03.1998
Auflage: 1/1998
€ 106,99
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  • Zusatztext
    • 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.
  • Kurztext
    • First account of UDI from viewpoint of Government HouseSources include papers of Sir Humphrey Gibbs and the comptroller, Sir John PestellUseful contrast to 'liberation struggle' literature on South AfricaPlate section, including many previously unpublished photographs of the Gibbs familyForeword by Robert Blake
  • Autorenportrait
    • 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.