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Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, GCMG, GCVO, CH, CBE, PC (12 October 1920 – 16 September 1987) was a British Conservative politician who served as a European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia.
In the historiography of British imperialism, the role of the ‘man on the spot’ has been identified as an important impulse to the imperial project, and as a key instigator of decision making. Equa...
- Sue Onslow
- 2013
Soames has been characterized as a drunken buffoon in the ‘Rhodesiana’ literature, or as unsympathetic and fundamentally out of touch.5 Similarly, his personal contribution has been relatively overlooked in the secondary literature on the history of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.6 In contrast, memoir literature presents a hagiographic picture with ringing p...
- Sue Onslow
Christopher Soames was not a typical ambassador. Winston Churchill’s son-in-law, a former Member of Parliament and a former Conservative Cabinet minister, he had little diplomatic experience, but a great deal of political savoir faire.
- Daniel Furby, N. Piers Ludlow
- 2013
23 de dez. de 2019 · At a time of extreme tension, the newly appointed governor-general Christopher Soames, supported by a small detachment of British troops, achieved the disarmament of the rival armies and...
7 de jul. de 2015 · Learn about the life and career of Christopher Soames, a British Conservative politician and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia. He also served as a minister, an ambassador and a European Commissioner.
Christopher Soames was a former Conservative minister and Churchill's son-in-law, appointed by Labour to improve Anglo–French relations and secure EEC membership. He faced the Soames affair, de Gaulle's fall and Pompidou's rise in his four years in Paris.
