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The Right Honourable
Cecil Rhodes
DCL
6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony
In office
17 July 1890 – 12 January 1896
Monarch Victoria
Governor Henry Loch
William Gordon Cameron
Hercules Robinson
Preceded by John Gordon Sprigg
Succeeded by John Gordon Sprigg
Personal details
Born 5 July 1853(1853-07-05)
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Died 26 March 1902(1902-03-26) (aged 48)
Muizenberg, Cape Colony
(now South Africa)
Resting place "World's View",
Matopos Hills, Southern Rhodesia
(now Zimbabwe)
20°25′S 28°28′E? / ?20.417°S 28.467°E? / -20.417; 28.467Coordinates: 20°25′S 28°28′E? / ?20.417°S 28.467°E? / -20.417; 28.467
Nationality British
Spouse(s) Never married
Relations Reverend Francis William Rhodes (Father)
Louisa Peacock Rhodes(Mother)
Francis William Rhodes(Brother)
Children None
Alma mater Bishop's Stortford Grammar School
Oriel College, Oxford
Occupation Businessman
Politician
Cecil John Rhodes PC, DCL (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was an English-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today markets 40% of the world's rough diamonds and at one time marketed 90%. An ardent believer in British colonial imperialism, he was the founder of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him. In 1964, Northern Rhodesia became the independent state of Zambia and Southern Rhodesia was thereafter known as simply as Rhodesia. In 1980, Rhodesia, which had been de-facto independent since 1965, was granted independence by Britain and was renamed Zimbabwe. South Africa's Rhodes University is also named after Rhodes. He set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate.
Historian Richard A. McFarlane views Rhodes "as integral a participant in southern African and British imperial history as George Washington or Abraham Lincoln are in their respective eras in United States history... most histories of South Africa covering the last decades of the nineteenth century are contributions to the historiography of Cecil Rhodes."
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