Garfield Todd

Sir Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd (July 13, 1908 – October 13, 2002) was a reformist Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1953 to 1958 and later became an opponent of white minority rule in Rhodesia. He was born in Invercargill, New Zealand. Todd was born in Invercargill, New Zealand, in 1908. He was educated at Otago University, Glen Leith Theological College, New Zealand, and University of the Witwatersrand. He married Jean Grace Wilson in 1932 with whom he had three daughters. Todd emigrated to Southern Rhodesia from New Zealand in 1934 as a Protestant missionary and ran the Dadaya New Zealand Churches of Christ Mission school. One of the primary school teachers in his charge was Robert Mugabe. Though he had no formal medical...