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godfrey martin huggins, 1st viscount malvern - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com (250 words) |
 | Huggins won successive elections and was knighted in 1941 by King George VI. |
| Huggins became an advocate of federating several of the colonies so that they would become an independent state within the British Empire while maintaining white minority rule with only a small number of educated Blacks having the vote in addition to white settlers. |
| Huggins remained in office until 1958 and was elevated to the British peerage as Viscount Malvern prior to his retirement. |
| Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (3495 words) |
| Sir Godfrey Martin Huggins was prime minister from 1953 to 1956 followed by Sir Roy Welensky from 1956 to the Federation's dissolution. |
| The dominant role played by the Southern Rhodesian European settler population within the CAF is well reflected in that played by its first leader, Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, prime minister of the Federation for its first three years, and prior to that, prime minister of Southern Rhodesia for an uninterrupted 23 years. |
| For Huggins, it was convenient to have all three existing territories brought into the orbit of the British empire by Cecil Rhodes under one constitutional roof. |
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