Terence Miller was a British academic and professor

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 of geology

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. He was appointed Principal

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 of the University of Rhodesia in 1967. During this period, his political views brought him hate mail

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 and he rapidly came into conflict with the government. When in 1969 Rhodesia

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 declared itself a republic

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, with a racist

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 constitution, Prof. Miller resigned his position and returned to the UK, joining the University of Reading

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 as visiting professor, before being appointed Director of the newly formed Polytechnic of North London in 1971.