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	Rhodes, Cecil John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		One of his chief benefactions was the Rhodes Scholarships to Oxford, administered by the Rhodes Trust.
		Rhodes became the prime minister, and virtual dictator, of Cape Colony in 1890.
		Although Rhodes did not approve the timing of the raid, he was so clearly implicated that he was forced to resign as prime minister in 1896.
	www.bartleby.com /65/rh/Rhodes-C.html (509 words)

	Cecil John Rhodes
		Cecil John Rhodes, a colossus of his age, was born on the 5
		As previously mentioned, in 1890 Cecil John Rhodes became Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, however, he was implicated in the Jameson Raid of 1896, in which Dr Starr Jameson, a friend of Rhodes, attempted to overthrow the Afrikaaner Republic of the Transvaal.
		The raid failed in its aims and although Rhodes was acquitted of any responsibility for the raid, he was forced to resign his position as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony.
	rhodesian.server101.com /cecil_john_rhodes.htm (503 words)

	Cecil Rhodes - MSN Encarta
		Cecil John Rhodes was born July 5, 1853, in Bishop's Stortford, England.
		Rhodes was largely responsible for the annexation to the British Empire of Bechuanaland (now Botswana) in 1885.
		Rhodes was acquitted of responsibility for the invasion, known as Jameson's Raid, but he was censured for his role in the plot against the government of the South African Republic and was forced to resign his premiership the following month.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566082/Cecil_Rhodes.html (452 words)

	South Africa Holiday: Cecil John Rhodes (information for British Tourists in South Africa)
		Rhodes' other activities during this period included the construction of a railway line from Kimberley northwards to Vryburg in Bechuanaland (North West Province), part of his proposed "Cape to Cairo" railroad.
		Rhodes wanted his burial ground to be called "View of the World," for the incredible panorama of the Matopos rocks, boulders, and scrubland that stretches as far as the eye can see.
		One of South Africa's Rhodes Scholars was to be the communist and ANC activist, Bram Fischer, who defended Ahmed Kathrada, Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Andrew Mlangeni, Elias Motsoaledi and Walter Sisulu at the Rivonia Trial in 1964.
	www.southafricaholiday.org.uk /history/le_cecil_rhodes.htm (1918 words)

	Cecil John Rhodes - Encyclopedia.com
		CECIL JOHN RHODES, born the son of a...
		Rotberg on "The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of...
		Rhodes scholarships were established at the turn of the century by the estate of Cecil...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Rhodes-C.html (1384 words)

	Cecil Rhodes Scholarships historical biography
		Rhodes' interest in expansionism led to his appointment in 1884 as resident deputy commissioner in Bechuanaland a territory to the north that Rhodes hoped to see attached to Cape Colony.
		Rhodes was severely censured by the British government for his involvement and forced to resign his premiership of the Cape in early 1896.
		Rhodes was in Kimberley at the time and was trapped there during a four month siege of the town by 5,000 Boer commandos.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /historical/biography/cecil_rhodes.html (1534 words)

	Cecil John Rhodes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cecil John Rhodes was the fifth son of Francis William Rhodes and his second wife, Louisa Peacock.
		The journey inspired a love of the country in Rhodes and marked the beginning of his interest in the road to the north and the northern interior itself.
		His university career engendered in Rhodes his admiration for the Oxford 'system' which was eventually to mature in his scholarship scheme: 'Wherever you turn your eye - except in science - an Oxford man is at the top of the tree'.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/rhodes-cj.htm (1007 words)

	Cecil Rhodes - Bishop's Stortford and Thorley - A History and Guide
		Cecil John Rhodes was born 5 July 1853 at Netteswell House, a three-storey semi-detached Georgian property in South Street.
		A Rhodes Memorial stands on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, alongside Table Mountain in Cape Town, and his image is remembered by two statues; one in Zimbabwe and one in Harare – the latter being damaged.
		Cecil Rhodes's fortune was vast and in his will he left over £3 million to Oxford University to establish the *Rhodes scholarship trusts; enabling overseas students to attend the university and so promote ‘the union of the English-speaking people throughout the world’.
	www.stortfordhistory.co.uk /guide13/cecil_rhodes.html (2388 words)

	Cecil John Rhodes - Funeral, Matopos hills, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe :::: Bulawayo1872.com
		The hill on which Cecil Rhodes is buried is called Malindidzimu, the legendary place of benevolent spirits, and here he used to rest and dream of his beloved Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and its development, and of further expansion to the north of Africa.
		This was done after several days’ search, to Cecil Rhodes’ great relief, and he was constantly to be found here admiring the view and meditating on the vast amount of work yet to be done.
		The funeral of Cecil John Rhodes at Matopos, Zimbabwe
	www.bulawayo1872.com /history/rhodescjBurial.htm (516 words)

	Cecil John Rhodes - The University of Sydney
		Cecil John Rhodes - The University of Sydney
		Cecil Rhodes was a financier and statesman whose personal ambitions were a close second to those he had for British imperialism.
		Born in July 1853, Cecil Rhodes was one of six sons of a vicar.
	www.usyd.edu.au /registrar/rhodes/cecil.shtml (519 words)

	Biography of Cecil John Rhodes - biography, autobiography & memoir resources
		Known as one of the staunchest British Imperialists of his era, Cecil John Rhodes would work his way to become one of the richest men in the world.
		Born to a parish vicar meant that Cecil’s family was on a fixed income in Hertfordshire.
		Cecil Rhodes and the Cape Afrikaners by M. Tamarkin (Sep 1996)
	www.biographyshelf.com /cecil_john_rhodes_biography.html (557 words)

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		Cecil John Rhodes was born on July 5, 1853 in Hertfordshire, England.
		Rhodes who made his first will in 1877, when he was 24 years old, and already a wealthy man, although by no means as rich as he was to become later.
		Rhodes' initial bequest was close to £3 million, and the original scholarships were worth £300, quite a sum of money in 1904, when the first round of scholarships were awarded.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~newc1660/OXFORDWEB/CECIL.htm (1453 words)

	Cecil Rhodes Home
		Cecil Rhodes was a shrewd businessman and a great force in shaping the history of South Africa and the world.
		Rhodes was born to Francis William Rhodes and Louisa Peacock Rhodes on July 5, 1853, in Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire, as one of Louisa Peacock’s seven surviving sons and two daughters.
		Cecil Rhodes was the epitome of entrepreneurial spirit and British imperialism.
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/Africa/05/browning (1182 words)

	Prominent People - Rhodes, Cecil John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cecil John Rhodes, son of a Hertfordshire clergyman, and one of Great Britain’s main empire builders, was born in Bishop's Stortford, England on 5 July 1853.
		Jameson failed, and Rhodes was implicated and forced to resign as prime minister and as director of the British South Africa Company.
		Rhodes scholars are selected from the Commonwealth, Germany, and the United States.
	www.prominentpeople.co.za /people/48.php (546 words)

	Southern African Rhodes Scholarships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cecil John Rhodes was born in England in 1853, the son of a preacher in the Anglican church.
		Rhodes was also active in the politics of the Cape Colony, where he was Prime Minister for six years until he was forced to resign in 1896 for secretly encouraging support for the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal Republic.
		The Rhodes Trust responded by instituting legal proceedings to remove the Scholarships from SACS and Paul Roos, but these were eventually overtaken by the momentous events in South Africa in the early 1990s, which led to democratic elections and the abandonment of the law that prevented SACS and Paul Roos from admitting fl students.
	www.rhodestrust.org.za /history/history.html (1708 words)

	cecil rhodes
		It was Rhodes, too, who in 1887 told the House of Assembly in Cape Town that "the native is to be treated as a child and denied the franchise.
		Rhodes was born in the summer of 1853, the fifth son of a parson who prided himself on never having preached a sermon longer than 10 minutes.
		Rhodes imprinted his personality on the region with monarchical energy: dams, railway engines, towns and anti-dandruff tonics were all named after him.
	www.ipoaa.com /cecil_rhodes.htm (1894 words)

	Cecil John Rhodes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rhodes was born in 1853 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.
		Rhodes decreed in his will that he was to be buried in Matobo Hills, so when he died in the Cape in 1902 his body came up by train and wagon to Bulawayo.
		Rhodes is buried along side both Leander Starr Jameson and the 34 white soldiers killed in the Shangani Patrol.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cecil_Rhodes (2409 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Rhodes, Cecil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cecil Rhodes, one of nineteenth-century Britain's most ambitious imperialists, made an immense fortune through mining operations in southern Africa and also played an important but controversial role in the politics of the region.
		Cecil John Rhodes, born July 5, 1853 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, was the fifth of the nine sons of vicar Francis William Rhodes and Louisa Peacock Rhodes.
		Rhodes was chosen prime minister of the Cape in 1890.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/rhodes_c.html (829 words)

	Geographical Association - Images of Southern Africa - Cecil Rhodes' statue
		Cecil John Rhodes was born on 5 July 1853 in Bishop's Stortford, England.
		Cecil was not a healthy child and his doctor advised that he join his brother in South Africa.
		Rhodes is buried where he wished: in the Matopos Hills at his favourite ‘View of the world’ a few kilometres south of Bulawayo in present day Zimbabwe.
	www.geography.org.uk /events/studytours/imagesofsafrica/rhodes (523 words)

	Africa Stage: Monica Dispatch - June 30, 1999
		Cecil John Rhodes was born in England on July 5, 1853.
		Active in local politics, by 1881 Rhodes was elected to the Cape Parliament, and by 1890 became Prime Minister.
		In 1888, Rhodes met with Lobengula, Ndebele leader and son of Mzilikazi.
	www.worldtrek.org /odyssey/africa/063099/063099monicarhodes.html (1035 words)

	Cecil John Rhodes Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Cecil Rhodes was born on July 5, 1853, at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, one of nine sons of the parish vicar.
		By this time Rhodes controlled the politics of Cape Colony; in July 1890 he became premier of the Cape with the support of the English-speaking white and non-white voters and the Afrikaners of the "Bond" (among whom 25,000 shares in the British South Africa Company had been distributed).
		Rhodes left £6 million, most of which went to Oxford University to establish the Rhodes scholarships to provide places at Oxford for students from the United States, the British colonies, and Germany.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/cecil-john-rhodes (704 words)

	The British South Africa Company Historical Catalogue & Souvenir of Rhodesia, Empire Exhibition, Johannesburg, ...
		The object which Cecil Rhodes had set before himself was threefold: To establish British ascendancy in South Central Africa, to develop the potential wealth of that part of the world, and to raise the lot of its native inhabitants.
		Rhodes, who had tried to stop the raid, but was implicated in the intrigues which led up to it, lost his position in the Cape and many valued friendships.
		Rhodes, out of his private purse, is said to have distributed £40,000 to help the survivors among the settlers to get a fresh start, but the setback to the country was not to be discounted, especially in the mining community.
	www.bsac.greatnorthroad.org /bsac_catalogue.htm (16233 words)

	Michael Swanwick's Periodic Table of Science Fiction
		Cecil Rhodes is remembered today as a statesman, an industrialist, and a leader of men.
		Cecil John Rhodes was 17 when he arrived in South Africa.
		Rhodes and his private army marched northwards, making their own laws and declaring their own government.
	www.scifi.com /scifiction/elements/rhodium.html (288 words)

	Armoria academica - Rhodes University
		The arms of Rhodes University were granted by the College of Arms in 1913.
		The movement culminated in the establishment in Grahamstown on 31 May 1904 of the Rhodes University College, named for Cecil John Rhodes, diamond and gold magnate, imperialist, sometime Prime Minister of the Cape Colony and founder of the British South Africa Company which colonised Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe and Zambia).
		On 10 March 1951 Rhodes became an independent university, to which the University of Fort Hare (founded in 1916) was affiliated until 1959.
	www.geocities.com /bona_spes/RhodesU.html (878 words)

	Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town - South Africa
		Cecil John Rhodes arrived in South Africa in 1870, to join his brother Herbert on a cotton farm, but moved to Kimberley at the end of 1871, where he began working as a speculative digger on the diamond fields.
		Rhodes served as a Cape parliamentarian from 1880 until his death in 1902.
		Rhodes Memorial is open to the public during Winter (May - Sept) from 08h00 - 18h00 and Summer (Oct - Apr) from 07h30 - 19h00.
	home.intekom.com /getweb/rondebosch/rhodes.htm (333 words)

	Rhodes Memorial Restaurant
		The magnificent floodlit memorial to Cecil John Rhodes, stands on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, on the Northern flank of Table Mountain.
		The Rhodes Memorial was Financed by public subscription raised from the estimated 30 000 citizens of Cape Town in deference for all that Rhodes had accomplished, and the very considerable contribution he had made to the development and increasing prosperity of Southern Africa, (seldom realized these days), during his dynamic 32 years in this Country.
		Incorporating Doric columns, the classical architecture so revered by CJR, the eight lions, were cast “in situ” by J.W Swan, modeled upon those protecting Nelson column in Trafalgar Square, London, and are a Tribute to Rhodes’ wish to have real lions roaming his ‘African Wildlife Garden’ for all the citizens to enjoy.
	www.rhodesmemorial.co.za /memorial.html (428 words)

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