 During his tour of Southern Rhodesia the following year, Amery appeared to give support to its claims to neighbouring territories.But by 1928, after Coghlan's death, both the Dominions Office and the Colonial Office were for maintaining Northern Rhodesia's territory intact, and favoured its association with the East African dependencies of Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda.Sir Charles Coghlan died on Sunday 28 August 1927, at the age of 64, of a cerebral haemorrhage.