{{Short description|British-Rhodesian politician (1900–1986)}} {{Use British English|date=May 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = Sir John Moore Caldicott | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE|CMG}} | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | order = | office = Federal Minister of Finance | term_start = 3 September 1962 | term_end = 31 December 1963 | prime_minister = Sir Roy Welensky | predecessor = Donald MacIntyre | successor = ''Federation dissolved'' | office3 = Federal Minister of Defence | prime_minister3 = Sir Roy Welensky | term_start3 = 12 June 1959 | term_end3 = 7 May 1962 | predecessor3 = Sir Roy Welensky | successor3 = Sir Malcolm Barrow | office4 = Federal Minister of Agriculture<br/>Minister of Health | term_start4 = 18 December 1953 | term_end4 = 11 December 1958 | prime_minister4 = Sir Godfrey Huggins<br/>Sir Roy Welensky | successor4 = John Cranmer Graylin (Agriculture)<br/>Benjamin Disraeli Goldberg (Health) | office5 = Minister of Agriculture and Lands | prime_minister5 = Sir Godfrey Huggins<br/>Garfield Todd | term_start5 = 8 March 1951 | term_end5 = 5 February 1954 | predecessor5 = Patrick Bissett Fletcher | successor5 = Patrick Bissett Fletcher | office6 = Member of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly for Mazoe | term_start6 = 15 September 1948 | term_end6 = 27 January 1954 | predecessor6 = Edward Noaks | successor6 = Herbert Jack Quinton | office7 = Member of the Rhodesia and Nyasaland Federal Assembly for Darwin | term_start7 = 15 December 1953 | term_end7 = 31 December 1963 | predecessor7 = ''New seat'' | successor7 = ''Federation dissolved'' | birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|02|12|df=yes}} | birth_place = Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1986|01|31|1900|02|12|df=yes}} | death_place = Parirenyatwa Hospital, Harare, Zimbabwe | resting_place = Warren Hills Cemetery | resting_place_coordinates = | birth_name = | citizenship = | party = United Party | other_party = Federal Party | spouse = Evelyn McArthur | relations = John William Caldicott (grandfather) | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = <!--Military service--> | allegiance = {{UK}} | branch = Royal Air Force | service_years = 1918–1919 | rank = Second lieutenant | unit = | battles = | awards = }}
'''Sir John Moore Caldicott''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE|CMG}} (12 February 1900 – 31 January 1986) was a Rhodesian government minister.
==Early life== John Moore Caldicott was born in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, on 12 February 1900 the son of solicitor John Croydon Moore Caldicott and Lilian Caldicott. His paternal grandfather was John William Caldicott, the Rector and Dean of Shipston-on-Stour and the headmaster of Bristol Grammar School.<ref name="medals"/> Caldicott was education first at Malvern Preparatory School in Worcestershire and then at Shrewsbury School. After coming of age, Caldicott enlisted as a Private (Cadet) in the Royal Air Force on 22 April 1918 and undertook his training during the final months of the war, before being placed on the reserve on 11 March 1919. He was granted an honorary commission as a 2nd Lieutenant on 4 February 1919.<ref name="medals"/>
==Emigration to Africa== Following the end of his war service, on 4 March 1921 Caldicott, at the age of 21, sailed from London aboard the British India steamship SS ''Nevasa'' for Mombasa, Kenya Colony. However, by 1925 he had returned to England, and on 2 October 1925 departed Southampton aboard the Union-Castle steamship RMS ''Briton'' for Cape Town, to settle as a tobacco farmer in the Umvukwes District of Southern Rhodesia.<ref name="medals">{{cite web |title=Orders & Decorations of Sir John Moore Caldicott (auction) |url=https://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/424260913/Orders_Decorations_of_Sir_John_Moore_Caldicott.html |website=bidorbuy.co.za |access-date=6 September 2021 |date=26 July 2019}}</ref> In 1943–1945 Caldicott served as the President of the Rhodesia Tobacco Association. In 1945 he married Evelyn Macarthur, who had two existing children, and they had a son together, Michael John Caldicott. In 1946 he was elected President of the Rhodesian National Farmers' Union until 1948, which gave him a prominent platform for elected office.<ref name="medals"/>
==Southern Rhodesia Legislative Assembly== 350px|thumb|left|Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly, 1948. Caldicott is second from the right, second row. Caldicott stood as a candidate for Sir Godfrey Huggins' United Party at the general election of 1948 for the Legislative Assembly of Southern Rhodesia and was subsequently elected MP for Mazoe.<ref name="rhodesian_offices_1924_1964">{{cite web|url=http://ir.uz.ac.zw/jspui/bitstream/10646/3684/1/Willson_Holders_of_Administrative_and_Ministerial_office_1894_1964.pdf|title=Holders of Administrative and Ministerial Office 1894-1964|author=F. M. G. Willson and G. C. Passmore|website=University of Zimbabwe Library|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801222611/http://ir.uz.ac.zw/jspui/bitstream/10646/3684/1/Willson_Holders_of_Administrative_and_Ministerial_office_1894_1964.pdf|archive-date=1 August 2020}}</ref>
==Federation Assembly and minister== In the first election of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Caldicott took 69% of the vote to win the seat of Darwin for the Federal Party.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Qnt0DwAAQBAJ Guide to Government Ministers: The British Empire and Successor States 1900-1972]</ref>
With the end of the Federation in 1963, Caldicott retired from politics and returned to farming until 1970 when he took up residence in the Salisbury suburb of Greendale. In 1980, upon independence he opted to remain in the country and took up Zimbabwean citizenship. On 31 January 1986 at the age of 86 he died at the Parirenyatwa Hospital and was buried at Warren Hills Cemetery.<ref name="medals"/>
==Honours== Caldicott was made Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1955 Birthday Honours<ref name=London1955>{{London Gazette|date=3 June 1955|issue=40497|page=3260|supp=y}}</ref> and appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1964 New Year Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=43207 | date=31 December 1963 |page=52|supp=y}}</ref> In 1953, as a member of parliament he received the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal. He was also granted retention of the title "The Honourable" on 31 December 1963, for having served for more than three years as a Minister of the Federal Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=43258|date=28 February 1964|page=1856}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{S-start}} {{s-par|srh-la}} {{s-bef|before=Edward Noaks}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament for Mazoe|years=1948{{spaced ndash}}1954}} {{s-aft|after=Herbert Jack Quinton}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before=Patrick Bissett Fletcher}} {{s-ttl|title=Minister of Agriculture and Lands|years=1951{{spaced ndash}}1954}} {{s-aft|after=Patrick Bissett Fletcher}} {{s-par|frn}} {{s-new|constituency}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of Federal Parliament for Darwin|years=1953{{spaced ndash}}1963}} {{s-non|reason=Federation dissolved}} {{s-off}} {{s-new}} {{s-ttl|title=Minister of Agriculture|years=1953{{spaced ndash}}1958}} {{s-aft|after=John Cranmer Graylin}} {{s-new}} {{s-ttl|title=Minister of Health|years=1953{{spaced ndash}}1958}} {{s-aft|after=Benjamin Disraeli Goldberg}} {{s-new}} {{s-ttl|title=Minister of Public Service|years=1956{{spaced ndash}}1962}} {{s-aft|after=John Duncan}} {{s-new}} {{s-ttl|title=Minister of Economic Affairs|years=1958{{spaced ndash}}1962}} {{s-aft|rows=2|after=Sir Malcolm Barrow}} {{s-bef|before=Sir Roy Welensky}} {{s-ttl|title=Minister of Defence|years=1959{{spaced ndash}}1962}} {{s-bef|before=Donald Macintyre}} {{s-ttl|title=Minister of Finance|years=1962{{spaced ndash}}1963}} {{s-non|reason=Federation dissolved}} {{s-end}}
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