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Lieutenant Colonel '''Sir Stewart Gore-Browne''', DSO, (May 3, 1883 – August 4, 1967), called '''Chipembele''' by Africans, was a soldier, pioneer white settler, builder, politician and supporter of [[independence]] in [[Northern Rhodesia]] (now [[Zambia]]). | |||
== Early life == | == Early life == | ||
Gore-Browne was born in | Gore-Browne was born in London, England. His father was Francis Gore Browne,{{sfn|Rotberg|1977|p=6}} a lawyer and writer on company law,<ref name="Gore-BrowneBoyle2004">{{cite book|last1=Gore-Browne|first1=Sir Francis |last2=Boyle|first2=A. J. |last3=Sykes|first3=Richard |title=Gore-Browne on Companies, Forty-second Edition: Second supplement updated to 30th September 1974|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Kt0vPwAACAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Jordan|isbn=978-0-85308-028-2}}</ref> 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 School|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 1902–1904 he did survey work in [[Colony of Natal|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. | He was educated at [[Wixenford School|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 1902–1904 he did survey work in [[Colony of Natal|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. | ||
