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Cecil John Rhodes

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Cecil John Rhodes , 1853-1902, British imperialist and business magnate. Business Career The son of a Hertfordshire clergyman, he first went to South Africa in 1870, joining his oldest brother, Herbert, on a cotton plantation in Natal. In 1871 the brothers staked a claim in the newly opened Kimberley diamond fields, where Cecil was to make most of his fortune. He returned to England in 1873 and entered Oxford, but his studies were repeatedly interrupted by visits to South Africa and he did not receive his degree until 1881. His power in the diamond-mining industry developed until, in 1880,... Read more

Cecil John Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes The English imperialist, financier, and mining magnate Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902) founded and controlled...Lewis Michell, The Life of the Rt. Hon. Cecil John Rhodes, 1853-1902 (2 vols., 1910), comprehensive... Read more

Rhodes, Cecil John
Rhodes, Cecil John (1853–1902) South African statesman, b. Britain. Rhodes emigrated to Natal in 1870...protectorate over Bechuanaland. Rhodes founded (1889) the British...Matabeleland, thus forming Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe... Read more

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	Cecil Rhodes - The Rhodes Scholarships a giant step for white world domination ; ...heroes and leaders. A study of Cecil Rhodes is an exercise in many things. One...influences of imperialist Europe, Rhodes brought the fever of conquest to...South Afrika and called the land Rhodesia, after himself. His ultimate scheme...simple. TO COLONIZE THE ENTIRE WORLD. Rhodes wrote his ... Read more
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	Redemption by bequest; Rhodes scholarships.(Legacy: Cecil Rhodes, the Rhodes Trust and Rhodes Scholarships)(Book review) ; ...Kimberley. Barely 16 years later, Cecil Rhodes had become a towering figure in finance...to attend his old university. The Rhodes scholarships are perhaps the world...opprobrium he earned during his life. Rhodes believed that the Anglo-Saxons were...they would be very different from Rhodes ... Read more
	A BAD MAN IN AFRICA The evil that men do lives after them - and rarely more miserably than in the case of Cecil Rhodes, who died 100 years ago this month. Matthew Sweet considers the fluctuating reputation of a national hero who became a national embarrassment ; ...Western media rarely invoke the name of Cecil John Rhodes: nearly a century after his death...town has a Rhodes arts centre, a Rhodes junior theatre group, and a small Rhodes Museum - currently closed - which...statue adorns Oriel College, while Rhodes House, in which the ... Read more
	Cecil Rhodes stays at Matopos...for the meantime ; ...the Matopos in Rhodesia, and therefore...the remains of Cecil John Rhodes', and accordingly...in the will of Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) ensured...like acorns. Cecil Rhodes loved beauty...money and see it? Cecil Rhodes was our Hitler... Read more
	PBS HAS COMPELLING LOOK AT RACIST EXPLOITER CECIL RHODES.(Television) ; ...PBS ``Masterpiece Theatre'' miniseries ``Rhodes'' takes a full two hours of meandering...southern Africa at the turn of the century. Cecil Rhodes may have had his redeeming social or moral...Nikita even without the cloak and dagger. - John Levesque Read more
	Was our friendly ghost in Rhodes' cottage Cecil J himself?(News) ; ...wife and I spent two nights in Rhodes' cottage on the Boschendal...second evening I joked about Cecil John keeping watch over us in the...indeed someone there, but was it Rhodes himself? He had barely spent...That wouldn't have pleased Rhodes, who was something of a misogynist... Read more

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