Humphrey Gibbs, Beleaguered Governor : Southern Rhodesia, 1929-69

This is a biography of Sir Humphrey Gibbs, an upper-class Englishman who settled in Southern Rhodesia soon after it became a self-governing colony.

He was a leading farmer and churchman, an MP, and eventually Governor of the country.

In 1964 the Rhodesian Front declared UDI, but he remained at his post in Government House for a further five years, and was a conduit for negotiations between the British Government and the rebel regime.