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
Michael English (politician) interviewed in 2012 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project. He married Carol Christine Owen on 11 September 1976 at Burton Coggles in south Lincolnshire. They have a daughter, born in 1978, and a son, born in 1980. They met in 1969 in Chelsea, London, where they both lived. In 1978 they moved to the London Borough of Lambeth. Michael English (politician) Michael English (born 24 December 1930) is a British Labour Party politician. English was educated at King George V Grammar School, Southport and Liverpool University. He was a councillor on Rochdale Borough Council 1953-65. English