George Holland Hartley

Colonel George Holland Hartley, GLM, ICD, OBE, ED (7 July 1912 – 17 January 1995) was a Rhodesian and Zimbabwean civil servant, Army officer, farmer, and politician.

Born in Bollington, Cheshire, England, the son of Charles Robert Hartley, he came to Southern Rhodesia in 1928.

From 1949 to 1959 he served as head of the native administration department for Salisbury.

During the Second World War, he fought with the 1st Battalion, Rhodesian African Rifles, for which he was mentioned in despatches.

As an MP, he claimed that the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, which were in his constituency, could not have been built by Africans, and demanded the censorship of a guidebook which suggested otherwise by the Minister of Internal Affairs.