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Cecil John Rhodes

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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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