Christopher Soames
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Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, was a British Conservative politician who served as a European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia. He was previously Member of Parlia
Soames in 1966
Christopher and Mary Soames in Lenzerheide, February 1947
Christopher and Mary Soames' grave at St Martin's Church, Bladon, in 2015
Southern Rhodesia
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Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked, self-governing colony of the British Empire in what is today the country of Zimbabwe. The colony's territory was initially conquered and administered by the British
Christopher Soames
…1980. From 1979 to 1981, he was Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords under Margaret Thatcher, concurrent with his duties in Southern Rhodesia. Soames served as president of the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 1973, and was a non-executive director of N.M. Rothschild and Sons Ltd from…
White settlers in Southern Rhodesia, 1922
A postage stamp commemorating the royal visit of 1947
Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902), Founding chairman of the board of directors of De Beers Mining Company, funded by Nathaniel, 1st Lord Rothschild