History of Rhodesia - Ernest Lucas Guest, Northern Rhodesia, Colonial History of Southern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia African National Congr (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Ernest Lucas Guest, Northern Rhodesia, Colonial history of Southern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia African National Congress, Rhodesia Regiment, Nyasaland, Leonard Ray Morgan, Gonakudzingwa Restriction Camp, Beira Patrol, Zimbabwe United People's Organisation, United National Federal Party. Excerpt: Sir Ernest Lucas Guest KBE, CMG, CVO, LLD (20 August 1882 - 20 September 1972) was a Rhodesian statesman, lawyer and soldier. His grandfather moved from Kidderminster, England to South Africa, where he was born in Grahamstown. At the outbreak of the Second Boer War, although he was underage, he enlisted and saw active service. In the First World War, he again joined up and was slightly injured in France. His legal career began in Southern Rhodesia between these two wars and was given a leg up when he fought a case against Sir Charles Coghlan, at the time Premier of the colony, and won. Coghlan invited him to become a partner in his firm, which became known as Coghlan, Welsh & Guest. On his return from the First World War, Guest took responsibility for the Salisbury practice. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1928 as a member of Coghlan's Rhodesia party, representing the constituency of Charter, which he held until 1946. At the 1946 elections he stood for Salisbury Gardens and held the seat until his retirement from office in 1948. He first became a cabinet minister in Godfrey Huggins' Government, appointed Minister of Mines and Public Works in June 1938. During the Second World War, Guest was Minister for Air and administered the Rhodesia Air Training Group. After the war he was also Minister of Defence, Minster of Finance and Leader of the House. He married Edith May Jones and had two daughters and twin sons, both of whom were killed in action during the Second World War. At his death, both the High Court and P...