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Legion Of Merit (Rhodesia)
The Legion of Merit was a Rhodesian order of merit awarded to both civilian and military recipients for service to Rhodesia. Institution The award was instituted in 1970 by Presidential Warrant, the first awards being made the same year. The last awards were made in June 1980. The civil class was suspended from a green and gold ribbon. The military class differed by featuring a red stripe on the green and gold ribbon. Classes There were five classes of the order: *Grand Commander (GCLM) *Grand Officer (GLM) *Commander (CLM) *Officer (OLM) *Member (MLM) The incumbent President of Rhodesia served as Grand Master of the Legion of Merit. Recipients of the order were entitled to the post-nominal letters indicated above. It was retained by the government of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia as well, the President of that state also serving as Grand Master. Zimbabwe The Legion of Merit was superseded in April 1981''Zimbabwe Government Statutory Instrument No. 197A of 1981'', 17 April 1981. by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Josiah Zion Gumede
Josiah Zion Gumede (19 September 191928 March 1989) was the first and only president of the self-proclaimed, and internationally unrecognised, state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia during 1979, before Rhodesia briefly reverted to British rule until the country's independence as Zimbabwe in 1980. Biography Josiah Gumede was born in Bembesi, in the Bubi District (now in Matabeleland North) of Southern Rhodesia. He was educated at the David Livingstone Memorial Mission and Matopo Mission before matriculating in the Cape Province (South Africa) in 1946. He taught at various mission and government schools and ended his teaching career as a headmaster. He was the assistant information and education attache for the Government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland at Rhodesia House in London between 1960 and 1962, before being appointed First Secretary in the office of the Commissioner for Rhodesia and Nyasaland in Nairobi. He then joined the Ministry of External Affairs (1963–1965). He was at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Thomas Arnoldus Theron Bosman
Thomas Arnoldus Theron Bosman, Legion of Merit (Rhodesia), GLM, Independence Decoration, ID, Queen's Counsel, QC (born 20 February 1912) was a Rhodesia, Rhodesian civil servant. He served as Solicitor general, Solicitor-General, Attorney-General from 1962, and chairman of the Public Services Board. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Edgar Anthony Tweedie Smith
Edgar is a commonly used masculine English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name ''Edgar'' (composed of '' ead'' "rich, prosperous" and ''gar'' "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the Late Middle Ages; it was, however, revived in the 18th century, and was popularised by its use for a character in Sir Walter Scott's ''The Bride of Lammermoor'' (1819). The name was more common in the United States than elsewhere in the Anglosphere during the 19th century. It has been a particularly fashionable name in Latin American countries since the 20th century. People with the given name * Edgar the Peaceful (942–975), king of England * Edgar the Ætheling (c. 1051 – c. 1126), last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England * Edgar of Scotland (1074–1107), king of Scotland * Edgar Alaffita (born 1996), Mexican footballer * Edgar Allan (other), multiple people * Edgar Allen (other), multiple people * Edgar Angara (1934–2018), Filipino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Douglas Lilford
Douglas Collard 'Boss' Lilford, GLM (1908–1985) was a South African-born Rhodesian and Zimbabwean politician and farmer. A close friend and ally of Ian Smith, he was one of the founders of the Rhodesian Front in 1962. Biography Born in Grahamstown, South Africa, Lilford came to Southern Rhodesia with his father as toddler in 1908. He was educated at the Plumtree School, and became a farmer and rancher. A founder of the Rhodesian Front along with Ian Smith and Winston Field, Lilford was one of the RF's vice-presidents for some years, and was a key funder for the party. Lilford was murdered by unknown assailants at his farm near Harare Harare ( ), formerly Salisbury, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of , a population of 1,849,600 as of the 2022 Zimbabwe census, 2022 census and an estimated 2,487,209 people in its metrop ... in November 1985. The attackers had bound his hands with wire and beaten him before shooting h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Desmond Lardner-Burke
Desmond William Lardner-Burke (17 October 19091984) was a Rhodesian lawyer and politician. Early years Desmond Lardner-Burke was born in Kimberley in the Cape of Good Hope on 17 October 1909, and was educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. Lardner-Burke became a lawyer. He became a leading member of the Dominion Party, and in 1957 was a founder member of the Southern Rhodesian Association, of which he soon became leader. In 1962, this merged with Ian Smith's United Group and other organisations to found the Rhodesian Front, of which he was a prominent member. Lardner-Burke was a supporter of white supremacy, and claimed to support the views of Cecil Rhodes. In 1971, he preached a sermon from the pulpit of the Cathedral of St Mary and All Saints, Salisbury, in which he claimed that Christ had never declared that everyone was equal, nor that everyone was entitled to equal treatment. He attempted to illustrate how Christian theology could be shown to support apartheid. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
David Young (civil Servant)
David or Dave Young may refer to: Entertainment and art * David Young (poet) (1936–2025), American poet, translator, editor, literary critic and professor * David Young (Canadian playwright) (born 1946), Canadian playwright and novelist * David Young (novelist) (born 1958), British novelist * David Young (judge), daytime court television show judge in Miami * ''Judge David Young'', daytime court television show * David Young (TV producer), British game show producer * David Young (Neighbours), fictional character on Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'' * David Young, founding editor of the ''Farmers' Almanac'', 1818 * David Young, writer and actor for CollegeHumor web site Music * David Young (saxophonist, 1912-1992), American jazz tenor saxophonist * Dave Young (bassist) (born 1940), Canadian jazz double bassist * David Young (guitarist) (1949–2022), English musician, record producer and sound engineer * Dave Young (musician) (born 1982), Canadian rock musician * David Young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lance Smith (politician)
Lancelot Bales Smith (17 January 19104 May 2000), was an English-born Rhodesian farmer and politician. Elected to Parliament in the 1950s, he was a founding member of the Rhodesian Front in 1962. He was minister without portfolio in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ian Smith at the time of Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965. In 1968, after serving as Deputy Minister of Agriculture, he was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs, a position he held until 1974, when he exited politics. Early life and education Smith was born on 17 January 1910, in Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, the son of a tailor. Career Early career Smith emigrated to Rhodesia at age 25, intending to join the police force. Instead, he became a successful farmer, and was later elected chairman of the Rhodesian Farmers' Association. Smith was elected to the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly in the 1950s as a member of the United Federal Party, and was known as a mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Leo Cardwell Ross
Leo Cardwell Ross (24 July 19101975) served as Secretary for Information, Immigration and Tourism in the Rhodesian Government from 1965 through to 1972 when he retired due to ill health. Overview Ross was one of the trusted senior advisors to Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith attending the talks with the British Government in Gibraltar aboard in 1969. He was one of the two primary drafters of the Rhodesian Proclamation of Independence (Unilateral Declaration of Independence) and in recognition was granted one of fourteen copies which were countersigned by the original signatories. Notably copies for Leo Ross and Mr David William ICD, (Deputy Director of Information) were not signed by Minister William Harper who was later dismissed when he was discovered to be a mole for the British Government (Harper was the only signatory to the Proclamation not to be awarded the Independence Decoration). As Secretary of Information Ross was responsible for implementing and maintaining press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jack Howman
John Hartley "Jack" Howman (August 11, 1919 – 2 February 2002) was a Rhodesian politician, under the Rhodesian Front, and a signatory of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, and served in the Rhodesian Cabinet. Jack Howman served in various cabinet positions, even holding three ministerial positions in 1963, in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Local Government, and African Education. While serving as the Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs he debated in the Southern Rhodesian Parliament on several bills, such as the Land Apportionment Bill on the 18th August 1963. He was considered one of Ian Smith's closest friends, and accompanied him to the Gibraltar Gibraltar ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory and British overseas cities, city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the A ... Conferences in 1966 and 1968. Howman also served as the Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Noel Bruce
Noel Hugh Botha Bruce, ID (born 13 November 1921) was a South African and Rhodesian banker and businessman. He was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Rhodesia from 1964 to 1976. Bruce was born on 13 November 1921 in Fauresmith. He graduated from the University of South Africa. Bruce worked with the South African Reserve Bank from 1938 to 1955. In 1956, he emigrated to Southern Rhodesia. He was chief cashier of the Bank of Rhodesia and Nyasaland from 1959. Following his term as Governor of the Reserve Bank of Rhodesia The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe ( RBZ) is the central bank of Zimbabwe and is headquartered in the country’s capital Harare. History The bank traces its history to the Reserve Bank of Rhodesia, founded on 22 May 1964, but which succeeded the Ba ..., he was a director of Central Merchant Bank in South Africa from 1976 to 1990. He was director of Mutual Life Assurance Society since 1987. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bruce, Noel 1921 births Governors of the Rese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rubidge Stumbles
Albert Rubidge Washington Stumbles, (20 January 19042 August 1978) was a Southern Rhodesian lawyer and politician. After serving as a minister under Garfield Todd and Edgar Whitehead, Stumbles became the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Southern Rhodesia (House of Assembly from 1970) in 1964, a post he held until 1972. As Speaker, Stumbles is best remembered for his acceptance of Southern Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965. Biography Stumbles was born in Fort Beaufort, Cape Colony, the son of Robert Washington Stumbles, a bank manager and a distant relative of George Washington. In 1913, he moved with his family from Bloemfontein to Southern Rhodesia, where they settled in Bulawayo. He was educated at the Milton High School in Bulawayo and St. Andrew's School, Bloemfontein. After a short spell in the Southern Rhodesian civil service as a clerk, Stumbles was admitted to practice law in Southern Rhodesia in 1926. He moved with his parents to Sali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
