Godfrey Huggins
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Malvern CH KCMG PC |
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Huggins in the 1950s
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| Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland | |
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In office 7 September 1953 – 2 November 1956 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | New Creation |
| Succeeded by | Roy Welensky |
| Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia | |
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In office 12 September 1933 – 7 September 1953 |
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| Monarch |
George V Edward VIII George VI Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | George Mitchell |
| Succeeded by | Garfield Todd |
| Minister of External Affairs of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland | |
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In office 7 September 1953 – 2 November 1956 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | New creation |
| Succeeded by | Roy Welensky |
| Minister of Defence of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland | |
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In office 7 September 1953 – 2 November 1956 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | New creation |
| Succeeded by | Roy Welensky |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 July 1883 Bexley, South East London, United Kingdom |
| Died | 8 May 1971 (aged 87) Salisbury, Rhodesia |
| Political party |
Reform Party United Federal Party United Rhodesia Party |
Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern CH KCMG PC (6 July 1883 – 8 May 1971) was a Rhodesian politician and physician. He served as the fourth Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1933 to 1953 and remained in office as the first Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland until 1956, becoming the longest serving prime minister in British Commonwealth history.
Huggins was born at 'Dane Cottage', Knoll Road, Bexley in north Kent, England (now a borough of London), the second child, but eldest son of a stockbroker. The family later moved to a property his father built, 'Shore House' in Sevenoaks, a town about 27 miles from London. He was educated at Brunswick House, a preparatory school in Hove and then moved to Sutherland House, a similar school in Folkestone.
He suffered a severe infection of the left middle ear at the age of 11, which left him deaf on that side and delayed his move to Malvern College in 1898, a school from which he later took part of his title. From there he moved on to study medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital, London after some difficulty obtaining the necessary entrance examinations.
After practising medicine and training as a surgeon in London, spending some time as a Resident Superintendent at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Huggins travelled to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia in 1911, initially to act as a locum to some doctors there, but eventually deciding to stay on.
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