Guy Clutton-Brock

Who was Guy Clutton-Brock?

Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock was an English social worker, who became a Zimbabwean nationalist and co-founder of Cold Comfort Farm.

Having been educated at Rugby School and graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge, he had a career in the prison and probation services, youth and community work in the East End of London and in post-war Germany. During the Second World War he ran Oxford House, Bethnal Green with the assistance of John Raven.

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 Southern Rhodesia African National Congress.