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The Viscount Malvern | |
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1st Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland | |
In office 7 September 1953 – 2 November 1956 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Governor General | Lord Llewellin |
Succeeded by | Sir Roy Welensky |
4th Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia | |
In office 12 September 1933 – 7 September 1953 | |
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Governor | |
Preceded by | George Mitchell |
Succeeded by | Garfield Todd |
Personal details | |
Born | Godfrey Martin Huggins 6 July 1883 Bexley, Kent, United Kingdom |
Died | 8 May 1971 Salisbury, Rhodesia | (aged 87)
Political party | |
Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern CH KCMG PC KStJ FRCS (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 October 1956, becoming the longest serving prime minister in British Commonwealth history, until 1961.[1]