Home > Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern

After practicing medicine in London, England, Huggins emigrated to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia in 1911. He entered politics in 1923 and was elected to the Legislative Council of the colony upon its creation. He became Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia in 1933 when his United Rhodesia Party won that year's general election. Huggins won successive elections and was knighted in 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St by King George VIKing of the United Kingdom ( 1936- 52), King of Ireland ( 1936- 1949), Emperor of India ( 1936- 1947) George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George) ( December 14, 1895 February 6, 1952) was the third British monarch of the House of Windsor, reigning from ( D.

Southern Rhodesia and its neighbours were crown colonies of BritainThe word Britain is used to refer to the United Kingdom (UK): i. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (from 1927), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1801- 1927) or the United Kingdom of Great Britain ( 1707- 1801).. Huggins became an advocate of federating several of the colonies so that they would become an independent state within the British EmpireThe British Empire in the early decades of the 20th century, held sway over a population of 400 500 million people (roughly a quarter of the world's population), and covered nearly 30 million square kilometres, (roughly two-fifths of the world's land area while maintaining white minority rule with only a small number of educated BlackThis article is about the color black; for other uses, see Black (disambiguation). Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning. Color or light Black can be defined as the visual impression experienced in directions from which no visible lis having the vote in addition to white settlers. As a result of his effort the Federation of Rhodesia and NyasalandThe Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was a short lived state in southern Africa which existed from 1953 to the end of 1963, composed of the former British colonies of Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, and the Nyasaland Protectorate. It was also kn was created in 1953 uniting Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland with Huggins as the federation's first prime minister after his new United Federal Party won the federation's first general election. Huggins remained in office until 1958 and was elevated to the British peerage as Viscount Malvern prior to his retirement.

He was succeeded as prime minister by Sir Roy Welensky.