Jack Howman
GLM ID
Personal details
Born
John Hartley Howman

(1919-08-11)11 August 1919
Selukwe, Southern Rhodesia
Died2 February 2000(2000-02-02) (aged 80)
Johannesburg, South Africa
Political partyRhodesian Front
SpouseMoira Maidman

John Hartley Howman GLM ID (8 November 1919 – 2 February 2002) served as a Rhodesian Front Member of Parliament in Salisbury and the Minister of Tourism and Information in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ian Smith.[1] He became Rhodesian minister of external affairs and defence in September 1968.[2]

He was one of the signatories to the Unilateral Declaration of Independence on 11 November 1965.[3] He was also Minister of African Education until 1963. Howman was one of Smith's closest confidants and friends in his cabinet and accompanied him to the Gibraltar Conferences in 1966 and 1968.[4]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Terrorists' losses 160". The Windsor Star. 26 December 1968. p. 6. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  2. ↑ https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79-00891A000700060001-0.pdf
  3. ↑ White, Matthew C. (1978). Smith of Rhodesia: A Pictorial Biography. Cape Town: Don Nelson. p. 45. ISBN 978-0909238360.
  4. ↑ "Plumtree School – Jack Howman Biography". oldprunitian.rhodesiana.com. Retrieved 5 March 2018.


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