Rhodesia (region) was first used to refer to the region by white settlers in the 1890s who informally named their new home after Cecil Rhodes, the Company's founder and managing director. It was used in newspapers from 1891 and was made official by the Company in 1895. To confuse matters, Southern Rhodesia, which became a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom in 1923, referred to itself simply as "Rhodesia" from 1964 to 1979, and in 1965 unilaterally declared independence under that name. It thereafter briefly renamed itself "Zimbabwe Rhodesia" in 1979. The usage of the term Rhodesia to refer to the historical
Andrew Johnston (English politician) Andrew Johnston (English politician) Andrew Johnston (23 May 1835 – 28 February 1922) was a Liberal Party politician in England. Johnston was the son of the abolitionist Priscilla (born Buxton) and Andrew Johnston, MP of Holton Halesworth, Sussex, Member of Parliament for Anstruther Easter and St Andrews Burghs. He was educated at Rugby School and University College Oxford. Andrew junior was elected at the 1868 general election as a member of parliament (MP) for the Southern division of Essex, one of two Liberals elected unopposed in the first election after the county had been restructured by the Representation of the