- Sir Evelyn Dennison Hone was the last Governor of Northern Rhodesia.
- He was governor from 1959 until Zambia’s independence in 1964.
- Hone was born on 13 December 1911.
- Evelyn was born into the Hone family in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.
- He was the son of Arthur Rickman Hone, the Chief Magistrate in Southern Rhodesia, and Olive Gertrude Fairbridge Scanlen, the daughter of Sir Thomas Scanlen.
- He was the nephew of Rt. Rev. Campbell Hone and the great-grandson of Ven. Richard Hone.
- After studying at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, Hone entered the Colonial Service and served in Tanganyika Territory.\
- Chief secretary to the Governor of Northern Rhodesia from 1957 to 1959, he himself became governor in 1959.
- The Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka was later named after him.
- He died in September 1979.
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