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==Life== | ==Life== | ||
[[File:Evelyn Hone RollsRoyce.jpg| | [[File:Evelyn Hone RollsRoyce.jpg|200px|thumbnail|left|1959: Sir Evelyn Hone's Rolls Royce parked outside [[Cabinet Office]].]] | ||
Hone was born in Salisbury (Harare), Southern Rhodesia, on 13 December 1911. After studying at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, Hone entered the Colonial Service and served in Tanganyika Territory, the Seychelles, Palestine, British Honduras and Aden. Chief secretary to the Governor of Northern Rhodesia from 1957 to 1959, he himself became Governor in 1959. Quickly beginning talks with African nationalists, he developed a good working | Hone was born in Salisbury (Harare), Southern Rhodesia, on 13 December 1911. After studying at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, Hone entered the Colonial Service and served in Tanganyika Territory, the Seychelles, Palestine, British Honduras and Aden. Chief secretary to the Governor of Northern Rhodesia from 1957 to 1959, he himself became Governor in 1959. Quickly beginning talks with African nationalists, he developed a good working | ||
[[File:Evelyn Hone College.jpg|thumbnail|right|[[Evelyn Hone College]] in [[Lusaka]]. Source: Zambia Advisor]] | [[File:Evelyn Hone College.jpg|thumbnail|right|[[Evelyn Hone College]] in [[Lusaka]]. Source: Zambia Advisor]] | ||
