John Kennedy
John Noble Kennedy was Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1947 to 1953.
Kennedy was a senior British Army officer who served as Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II.
He was born on 31 August 1893 in Scotland. He joined the Royal Navy in 1911 and then transferred to the Royal Artillery at the start of World War I in 1914 going on to see action in France, Flanders and Egypt. He was appointed Deputy Director of Military Operations at the War Office in 1938. He also served in World War II as Director of Plans at the War Office from 1939, Commander Royal Artillery for 52nd Division from early 1940 and as Director of Military Operations at the War Office from later that year. He went on to be Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff in October 1943 until February 1945.
He was Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1947 to 1953. He died in Scotland on 15 June 1970.