Henry Everard
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Henry Breedon Everard DSO (February 21, 1897 – August 7, 1980) was a railway engineer and executive who became for a brief time the Acting President of Rhodesia during the U.D.I. period.
Everard was born in Barnet and educated at Marlborough College and Cambridge University. During the First World War he served in France, and was wounded in combat. He worked as a railway engineer from 1922, but enlisted again on the outbreak of the Second World War; he was taken prisoner by German forces, and awarded the Distinguished Service Order. When repatriated after the war he became an executive of British Railways.
In 1953 Everard moved to Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia to become General Manager of Rhodesia Railways, which he remained for five years before retiring. He supported the Rhodesian Front and stood in for Clifford Dupont (who had been made "Officer Administering the Government") in 1968-69. Following the proclamation of a Republic, Everard was Acting President on several occasions.
