Stewart Gore-Browne
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Sir Stewart Gore-Browne DSO |
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| Born |
3 May 1883 London, England |
| Died | 4 August 1967 (aged 84) Kasama Hospital, Zambia |
| Buried | Shiwa Ngandu |
| Rank | Lieutenant Colonel |
| Battles/wars | World War I |
| Awards | Distinguished Service Order |
| Relations |
Sir Thomas Gore Browne (grandfather) The Rt Rev'd Wilfrid Gore Browne, Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman (uncle) |
| Other work | Farming and politics |
Sir Thomas Gore Browne (grandfather)
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Stewart Gore-Browne, DSO, (3 May 1883 – 4 August 1967), called Chipembele by Zambians, was a soldier, pioneer white settler, builder, politician and supporter of independence in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).
Gore-Browne was born in London, England. His father was Francis Gore Browne, a lawyer and writer on company law, his paternal grandfather was Sir Thomas Gore Browne, who had been governor of New Zealand and Tasmania. His paternal aunt was Ethel Locke King.
He was educated at Wixenford Preparatory School for five years and Harrow School for a further three. He passed into the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in 1900 and was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery. From 1902 to 1904 he did survey work in Natal before returning to England to take up motor racing at Brooklands. He went to Northern Rhodesia in 1911 as part of an Anglo-Belgian boundary commission, laying out the border between the Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia. From his boyhood, Gore-Browne had an ambition to own an estate but though comparatively wealthy, knew that he could not afford much land in Britain.
When he heard in 1914 that the British South Africa Company which administered Northern Rhodesia was selling land very cheaply to white settlers in the north-east of the country, he travelled there looking for a site which he found at Lake Ishiba Ng'andu. His development of this estate is covered in the linked article.
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