Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Breedon Everard GLM ICD DSO TD (21 February 1897 – 7 August 1980) was a railway engineer and executive who briefly became the Acting President of Rhodesia on three occasions between 1975 and 1979.

[1] During the First World War he served in France with the Rifle Brigade, where he was wounded in combat and reached the rank of captain.

He worked as a railway engineer from 1922, but was commissioned again on the outbreak of the Second World War, this time in the Sherwood Foresters; he was taken prisoner by German forces, awarded the Distinguished Service Order, and reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

He supported the Rhodesian Front and stood in for Clifford Dupont (who had been made "Officer Administering the Government") in 1968–69.

[3] His maternal first cousin was the eminent scientist and professor Naomi Datta; their maternal grandfather's first cousins were architect Henry Goddard and Mormon pioneer George Goddard.