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Guy Clutton-Brock came up to Magdalene in 1924. After a distinguished career in the prison and probation services, youth and community work in the East End of London and in post-war Germany, he went out to Southern Rhodesia in 1949 as an agricultural demonstrator and missionary, turning St Faiths Mission into a famous pioneering non-racial community. This led to his detention without trial in 1959 as a member of the African National Congress.

After similar ventures in Bechuanaland and Nyasaland, he returned to Rhodesia to run the Cold Comfort Farm near Salisbury, from which he was deported by the illegal Smith regime in 1971. By now, though, he was the friend of four African presidents (Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi and Botswana), as well as Robert Mugabe who, as President of independent Zimbabwe, declared Clutton-Brock upon his death to be a National Hero of Zimbabwe.