Evelyn Hone
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Evelyn Dennison Hone
)
Evelyn Dennison Hone | |
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| Governor of Northern Rhodesia | |
| In office 22 April 1959 – 24 October 1964 | |
| Preceded by | Sir Arthur Benson |
| Succeeded by | Kenneth Kaunda as President of Zambia |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Evelyn Dennison Hone 13 December 1911 Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia |
| Died | 18 September 1979 (aged 67) Lusaka, Zambia |
Sir Evelyn Dennison Hone , from 1959 until it gained its independence as Zambia in 1964.
Early life
Hone was born into the
Career
After studying at
Rhodes Scholar, Hone entered the Colonial Service. He served in the Tanganyika Territory, Seychelles, Palestine, British Honduras, and Aden. He was chief secretary to the Governor of Northern Rhodesia from 1957 to 1959, became governor himself in 1959. Quickly beginning talks with African nationalists, he developed a good working relationship with Kenneth Kaunda and helped pave the way for Northern Rhodesia to gain independence as Zambia in October 1964.[5]
The Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka was later named after him.[6] He died in September 1979.[7]
References
- ^ "South African Who's who". 1957.
- better source needed]
- ^ Lundy, The Peerage.
- ^ Lundy, The Peerage.
- ISBN 978-0-8108-5305-8.
- ^ Evelyn Hone College Closed[permanent dead link]
- ^ African Affairs, January 1980
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