Stewart Gore - Browne 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 . Gore - Browne was born in London , England . 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 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 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 . When he heard in 1914 that the British South Africa Company which administered Northern Rhodesia was selling land very cheaply to white settlers in the north - east of the country , he travelled there looking for a site which he found at Lake Ishiba Ng ' andu . His development of this estate is covered in the linked article . Settles at Shiwa Ngandu . During the First World War , Gore - Browne was sent to the Western Front , where he reached the rank of Lt . - Colonel and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ) . In 1920 he retired from the army and returned to Northern Rhodesia to settle at Shiwa Ngandu and build his estate . At his new home Gore - Browne cultivated a military bearing and wore a monocle . He often frightened his workers with an explosive anger ; the Bemba people called him Chipembere ( Rhinoceros ' , alternative spelling Chipembele ) , a name which had originally been given to him when he shot a rhinoceros at Shiwa Ngandu , but later they used it to refer to his temper . As a young man Gore Browne courted Lorna Bosworth Smith for three years , but she married another . She and her husband died young , and in England in 1927 , Gore Browne met their orphaned daughter Lorna Goldmann ( 1908 – 2002 ) . Despite the quarter - century difference in their ages , they were married that year and went to live at Shiwa Ngandu . They had two daughters , Lorna ( the younger ) and Angela . However , from 1934 the couple spent much time apart . Lorna , Lady Gore - Browne did not share her husband ' s dreams for the estate and they became divorced in 1950 . She moved to London where she called herself ' Mrs Browne ' . Political career . Gore - Browne ' s political career began in 1935 , when he was elected to Northern Rhodesia ' s Legislative Council . Gore - Browne represented one of seven constituencies of voters . He disagreed with British colonial ‘ trusteeship ’ and , instead , looked to a future ‘ partnership ’ . He thought settlers ought to have a larger share in government , but also argued for the interdependence of " white and black " prosperity . Unlike other white politicians , such as his friend Roy Welensky , a trade union leader , Gore - Browne felt no threat from African social and educational advance , and the consequent addition of qualified voters to the electoral roll . These political views can be seen as relating to his management and development of the Shiwa Ngandu estate , where he was completely dependent on the African people and isolated from white settler society by hundreds of kilometres . He realised the need to educate and train local people in the skills his estate required , and realised that it would also benefit from a properous local community . To an extent he was paternalistic but was also capable of friendships and good working relationships with many Africans . From 1938 to 1951 he was nominated to represent African interests in the legislative council , for which he was knight ed in 1945 . In the Legislative Council , Gore - Browne soon became a power in the land . He helped set the stage for Northern Rhodesia . He was more closely attuned to African thinking than the administration was and “ [ h ] e always enjoyed the respect and trust of Africans . . . [ h ] e was an eloquent speaker and his speeches were the most statesman like that had ever been heard in Northern Rhodesia . He was a man of outstanding calibre , forceful and courageous ” , said Welensky . When African mineworkers went on strike in 1940 , Gore - Browne counseled limiting the use of force . He also sought out African opinion and denounced various forms of the color bar ( a form of racial segregation ) . He welcomed the growth of African welfare societies and trade unions , and managed to get the white government to set up African representative councils . In Britain , he made contact with Dr . Hastings Kamuzu Banda ( the future president of Malawi ) and his faith in African abilities was strengthened by visits to Uganda and West Africa in 1946 – 47 . However , by 1946 Roy Welensky had begun campaigning for the amalgamation of Northern Rhodesia with Southern Rhodesia , where white settlers enjoyed self - government . Gore - Browne was opposed to Welensky ' s push for amalgamation and resigned in protest from the leadership of the elected members of the legislative council . Instead , he devised a scheme intended to appeal to both white and black people , calling for ‘ responsible government ’ . However , he mishandled the scheme ' s presentation in 1948 and alienated his African supporters . By 1950 he felt that he no longer had a role in politics and resigned from the legislative council in 1951 and retired to devote his energies to Shiwa . He continued to advise first the African National Congress under his early protégé , Harry Nkumbula and later , after the break away , the United National Independence party , under his close friend , Kenneth Kaunda . By the late 1950s Shiwa Ng ' andu epitomized everything Sir Stewart represented - orderly , neat , precise . For years it had been an oasis for travellers on the Great North Road , a place where hospitality had never been refused ; and this little bit of England in Africa never ceased to impress its visitors . Family in Africa . In 1962 after a failed attempt to come back into politics , he went to live quietly at Shiwa with his daughter and son - in - law , Lorna and John Harvey ( who managed the estate ) , and his four grand children , Penelope , Charles , Mark and David . Lady Gore - Browne , still living in England made occasional long visits to Shiwa . Their second daughter , Angela , married with two daughters , Karen and Miranda , had moved to Kenya where she lectured at the Royal College in Nairobi . His constant companion was his chauffeur of more than 30 years , Henry Mulenga . Together they had toured much of Africa and , in ‘ seven seas tours ’ , most of Europe ; between them there was a strong bond of friendship . “ Sir Stewart has bought me a farm of my own 15 miles from Shiwa ” , Henry once revealed . “ My family live there and I visit them on weekends . When my services are no longer required at Shiwa , I shall retire there to become a full - time farmer ” . Semi - retirement . Gore - Browne spent most of his later years at Shiwa Ngandu , where he replaced citrus crops with cattle . However , he remained actively interested in politics . When , in 1953 , the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was imposed against the wishes of some local settlers and urban Africans , Gore - Browne opposed it because he felt that it was based on the discredited the idea of ‘ partnership ’ . By 1960 he was committed to African majority rule , and was friendly with Kenneth Kaunda , leader of the United National Independence Party . In the general election of 1962 , Gore - Browne stood for that party . However , he failed to win enough white votes to qualify . In 1964 he was an honored guest at Zambia ' s independence ceremonies in Lusaka . He died from pneumonia at Kasama Hospital , Zambia , on 4 August 1967 . He was buried at Shiwa Ngandu two days later in Zambia ' s only to date state funeral for a white person . Kenneth Kaunda , then President of Zambia , gave the eulogy . Lady Lorna Gore - Browne died in London in 2002 at the age of 93 . Skills . An avid reader who possessed an extensive library , his knowledge of Greek and Latin was always fresh , and he spoke fluent French . To drive home the point , he fluently quoted from the classics . In debate he was a good listener , and his analytical mind enabled him to seize on any weak link in a chain of logic .