Zimbabwe

1896-1965 British rule


1896-1923

YEAR DATE EVENT GENERAL GOVERNOR
1896 december UK protectorate of Matabeleland Albert Henry George Grey, Earl Grey
1897 24 july Sir William Henry Milton
1914 2 november Sir Francis James Newton
1914 24 december Sir Francis Drummond Percy Chaplin (I)
1919 15 october Clarkson Tredgold
1919 14 december Sir Francis Drummond Percy Chaplin (II)
1920 10 september Ernest Montagu (I)
1920 10 december Sir Francis Drummond Percy Chaplin (III)
1922 15 november Ernest Montagu (II)
1923 10 may Sir Francis Drummond Percy Chaplin (IV)
1923 21 september Percy Donald Leslie Flynn

1923-1953

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GENERAL GOVERNOR
1923 1 october UK colony of Southern Rhodesia Charles Patrick John Goghlan Sir John Robert Chancellor
1927 2 september Howard Unwin Moffat
1928 15 june Murray Bisset
1928 24 november Sir Cecil Hunter Rodwell
1933 5 july George Mitchell
1933 12 september Sir Godfrey Martin Huggins
1934 1 may Sir Alexander Fraser Russell (I)
1935 8 january Sir Herbert James Stanley
1942 8 january Sir Alexander Fraser Russell (II)
1942 10 december Sir Evelyn Baring
1944 26 october Sir Robert James Hudson (I)
1945 20 february Sir William Eric Campbell Tait
1946 2 february Sir Alexander Fraser Russell (III)
1946 19 july Sir Robert James Hudson (II)
1947 14 january John Noble Kennedy

1953-1963

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GENERAL GOVERNOR
1953 1 august Federation of Rhodesia and Nyassiland Godfrey Martin Huggins, Viscount Malvern John Jestyn, Baron Llewellin of Upton
1956 2 november Sir Roy Welensky
1957 24 january Sir Robert Clarkson Tredgold
1957 febriary William Murphy
1957 8 october Simon Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie
1963 may Sir Humphrey Vicary Gibbs

1964-1968

YEAR DATE EVENT PRESIDENT PRIME MINISTER GENERAL GOVERNOR
1964 1 january UK Colony Ian Douglas Smith Sir Humphrey Vicary Gibbs


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