Clifford Walter Dupont (6 December 1905 – 28 June 1978) served in the internationally unrecognized positions as Officer Administrating the Government from 1965 until 1970 and President of Rhodesia from 1970 until 1975. Dupont, a close ally of Prime Minister Ian Smith, previously served as his Minister of External Affairs.
Dupont was educated at Bishop's Stortford College and Clare College, Cambridge where he read law. He qualified as a solicitor ...
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Clifford Walter Dupont (6 December 1905 – 28 June 1978) served in the internationally unrecognized positions as Officer Administrating the Government from 1965 until 1970 and President of Rhodesia from 1970 until 1975. Dupont, a close ally of Prime Minister Ian Smith, previously served as his Minister of External Affairs.
Dupont was educated at Bishop's Stortford College and Clare College, Cambridge where he read law. He qualified as a solicitor in 1929 and set up his own company in 1933. Having served in the Royal Artillery Officer Training Corps while at University, on the outbreak of World War II he was commissioned into the Artillery and served as an adjutant for a light anti-aircraft battalion. He served in North Africa and was on General Eisenhower's staff during the liberation of Europe in 1944; he ended the war as a War Office official.
In 1947 Dupont briefly visited Southern Rhodesia, returning in 1948. He bought land at Featherstone, south of Salisbury, which he turned into...
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