Sir Evelyn Dennison Hone, KCMG

Order of St Michael and St George

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 (1911-1979) was the last Governor of Northern Rhodesia

Governor of Northern Rhodesia

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, from 1959 until Zambia's independence in 1964.

Life

Hone was born in Salisbury

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, Southern Rhodesia

Southern Rhodesia

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, on 13 December 1911. After studying at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, Hone entered the Colonial Service

Colonial Service

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 and served in Tanganyika

Tanganyika

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, the Seychelles

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, Palestine

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, British Honduras

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 and Aden

Aden

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. Chief secretary to the Governor of Northern Rhodesia

Governor of Northern Rhodesia

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 from 1957, to 1959, he himself became Governor in 1959. Quickly beginning talks with African nationalists, he developed a good working relationship with Kenneth Kaunda

Kenneth Kaunda

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 and helped pave the way to Northern Rhodesia

Northern Rhodesia

Northern Rhodesia was a territory in south central Africa, formed in 1911. It became independent in 1964 as Zambia.It was initially administered under charter by the British South Africa Company and formed by it in 1911 by amalgamating North-Western Rhodesia and North-Eastern Rhodesia...

 gaining independence as Zambia in September 1964.

The Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka

Lusaka

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was later named after him. He died in September 1979.