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Cecil John Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. He and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia, which the company named after him in 1895. He also devoted much effort to realizing his vision of a Cape to Cairo Railway through British territory. Rhodes set…
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business · British mining magnate and politician (1853–1902) · entrepreneur · politician · economist · explorer · colonizer · patron of the arts · industrialist · businessperson · engineer · also Cecil John Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes, Rhodes
Born 5 July 1853 · Died 26 March 1902 · Q19825
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The world is nearly all parcelled out, and what there is left of it is being divided up, conquered and colonised. To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.
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2026· 3 entries
American Songwriter: 2 Years Ago Today, We Said Goodbye to the Rhodes Scholar, Movie Star, and Incomparable Wordsmith Behind a Janis Joplin Masterpiece
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The Tennessean: Jack Rhodes, No. 32 recruit and CPA catcher, commits to Vanderbilt baseball
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2016· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “A letter criticizing students at Oxford University for their desire to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes was penned by a school official.” False.
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Would lose about £100 million worth of gifts if they removed the statue
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2009· 1 entry
“The Story of Africa. BBC World Service. Retrieved on 2009-06-13.”
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2004· 1 entry
Rhodes was voted 56th in the SABC 3 television series Great South Africans
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2000· 1 entry
“William Simpson; Martin Desmond Jones (2000). Europe, 1783-1914. p. 237. Routledge. Retrieved on 2009-06-13.”
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1996· 2 entries
“Magubane, Bernard M. (1996). The Making of a Racist State: British Imperialism and the Union of South Africa, 1875–1910. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press. ISBN 978-0865432413.”
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BBC-TV made an eight-part television drama about Rhodes called Rhodes: The Life and Legend of Cecil Rhodes
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1981· 1 entry
After the country's independence the statue was removed to the centenary park at the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe
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1938· 1 entry
As the Rhodes Memorial Museum, now known as Bishops Stortford Museum
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1913· 2 entries
“Gordon Le Sueur, Cecil Rhodes the Man and His Work (1913: 2009), pg. 76”
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“Equal rights every white man south of the Zambesi”
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1910· 1 entry
“said by Rhodes to Lord Grey. Michell, Lewis (1910). The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes 1853-1902, Volume 2. New York and London: Mitchell Kennerly. p. 178.”
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1902· 21 entries
Died 1902-03-26.
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“You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.”
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His body was transported by train to Bulawayo
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Aged 48, at his seaside cottage in Muizenberg
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Rhodes bequeathed most of the estate to the nation, and this now forms the Nyanga National Park
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Colonel Frank Rhodes erected the village hall in the village of Dalham, near Bury St Edmunds, to commemorate the life of his brother, who had died before taking possession of the estate
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“The world is nearly all parcelled out, and what there is left of it is being divided up, conquered and colonised. To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.”
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“In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets. ... The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.”
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“Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.”
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“[Ultime parole] Così poco di fatto, e tanto da fare.”
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“Equal rights for all civilized men south of the Zambesi.”
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“So little done, so much to do.”
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“Igualdad de derechos para todos los hombres civilizados, al sur del Zambeze.”
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“Il colonialismo è filantropia più il 5 percento.”
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“Pensar en estas estrellas que se ven por encima de nuestras cabezas, en la noche, esos vastos mundos que nunca alcanzamos. Quisiera anexionar los planetas si pudiera; a menudo pienso en ello. Me entristece verlos tan claramente y, sin embargo, tan distantes.”
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“L'impero – io l'ho sempre detto – è una questione di stomaco. Se non si vuole la guerra civile, occorre diventare imperialisti.”
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“El mundo está repartido casi en su totalidad, y lo que queda de él está siendo dividido, conquistado y colonizado.”
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“Stracheys Version entspricht bis auf eine minimale Abweichung ("for settling" statt "to settle") der Version, in der die englische Ausgabe von Lenins Der Imperialismus als höchstes Stadium des Kapitalismus (Kap. VI deutsch) das Zitat wiedergibt: marxists.org.)”
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“I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. ... If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible.”
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“Often quoted in variant forms such as "To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.”
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“The native is to be treated as a child and denied franchise. We must adopt a system of despotism, such as works in India, in our relations with the barbarism of South Africa.”
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1901· 1 entry
Rhodes bought Dalham Hall, Suffolk
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1899· 1 entry
Rhodes was sued by a man named Burrows for falsely representing the purpose of the raid and thereby convincing him to participate in the raid
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1898· 1 entry
For the part south of the Zambezi, which later became Zimbabwe; and the designations North-Western and North-Eastern Rhodesia were used from 1895 for the territory which later became Northern Rhodesia, then Zambia
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1896· 2 entries
After the disastrous Jameson Raid, an unauthorised attack on Paul Kruger's South African Republic (or Transvaal)
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After consulting with Molteno, Rhodes began to pay more attention to export fruit farming and bought farms in Groot Drakenstein, Wellington and Stellenbosch
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1895· 1 entry
Believing he could use his influence to overthrow the Boer government, Rhodes supported the Jameson Raid, an unsuccessful attempt to create an uprising in the Transvaal that had the tacit approval of Secretary of State f
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1893· 2 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (1893–1896).
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“Le Sueur states that Rhodes originally said, c. 1893: "Equal rights every white man south of the Zambesi", as reported in the press, and he later "clarified" it.”
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1892· 3 entries
“that in future nine-tenths of them will have to spend their lives in manual labour, and the sooner that is brought home to them the better.”
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Rhodes's Franchise and Ballot Act raised the property requirements from a relatively low £25 to a significantly higher £75 which had a disproportionate effect on the previously growing number of enfranchised black people
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Rhodes financed The Pioneer Fruit Growing Company at Nooitgedacht, a venture created by Harry Pickstone, an Englishman with growing fruit in California
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1891· 1 entry
Advised Secretary of State for the Colonies Viscount Knutsford to consider revoking the concession, but no action was taken
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1890· 6 entries
Their monopoly over the world's diamond supply would be sealed through a strategic partnership with the London-based Diamond Syndicate; all parties agreed to maintain high prices
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (1890–1893).
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“britischer Politiker, Premierminister der Kapkolonie (1890-96)”
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Rhodes became Prime Minister of the Cape Colony
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And soon after sold the Rudd Concession to the Chartered Company for 1,000,000 shares
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Which was similar to the Rudd Concession); and in the Lake Mweru area (Alfred Sharpe's 1890 Kazembe concession)
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1889· 1 entry
Rhodes obtained a charter from the British Government for his British South Africa Company (BSAC) to rule, police, and make new treaties and concessions from the Limpopo River to the great lakes of Central Africa
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1888· 1 entry
Founded the diamond company De Beers, which retains its prominence into the 21st century
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1880· 1 entry
Rhodes decided to enter public life at the Cape
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1877· 5 entries
While a student at Oxford, Rhodes said of the English, "I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race
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Before he had accumulated his wealth, Rhodes wanted to create a secret society that would bring the whole world under British rule
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The area had obtained six seats in the Cape House of Assembly
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“I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. I contend that every acre added to our territory means the birth of more of the English race who otherwise would not be brought into existence.”
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“1877 will, quoted in Cecil Rhodes by John Flint”
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1874· 1 entry
And 1875, the diamond fields fell into depression, but Rhodes and Rudd were among those who stayed to consolidate their interests
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1872· 1 entry
His health again deteriorated with heart and lung problems, to the extent that his doctor, Sir Morell Mackenzie, believed he would survive only six months
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1871· 1 entry
And with funding from Rothschild & Co, began to systematically buy out and consolidate diamond mines
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1853· 2 entries
Born 1853-07-05.
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In Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, the fourth son and sixth child of the Reverend Francis William Rhodes (1807–1878) and his wife, Louisa Peacock
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1839· 1 entry
From David Danser, a Koranna chief in the area, David Stephanus Fourie, the predecessor to Claudine Fourie-Grosvenor, had allowed the de Beers and various other Afrikaner families to cultivate the land
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1833· 1 entry
But she died in 1835, giving birth to their daughter Elizabeth
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