John Moore Caldicott

Sir John Moore Caldicott (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. 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.

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.

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. and appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1964 New Year Honours. 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.