Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock (5 April 1906 – 29 January 1995[1]) was an English social worker who became a Zimbabwean nationalist and co-founder of Cold Comfort Farm in what was then Rhodesia.
He and Molly had a daughter named Sarah-Anne in 1942. The couple emigrated to Southern Rhodesia in 1949 as an agricultural demonstrator and missionary, turning St Faith's Mission into a famous pioneering non-racial community. He joined in founding the Southern Rhodesia African National Congress in 1957, and was largely responsible for its non-racial and Black/White partnership policies. As a member, he was detained without trial in 1959.[citation needed]
He and Molly were deported by the Rhodesian government led by Ian Smith in 1971. They found a home in Wales where the two of them would write letters.[1] They were the friends of four African presidents, Kenneth Kaunda (Zambia), Julius Nyerere (Tanzania), Hastings Banda (Malawi) and Seretse Khama (Botswana), as well as Robert Mugabe, who, as President of Zimbabwe, declared Clutton-Brock upon his death to be a National Hero of Zimbabwe, the only European to be accorded that honour. Clutton-Brock died at age 88 and was buried in Heroes Acre outside Harare.[7]
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^ abcJudith Todd (16 February 1995). "Obituary: Guy Clutton-Brock". The Independent. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
^"Brock, (Arthur) Guy Clutton- (1906-1995), agriculturist and political activist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/59788. ISBN978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Burke's Landed Gentry 14th edition, ed. A. Winton Thorpe, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1925, p. 238
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