Cecil Rhodes
Cecil Rhodes was born in Bishop's Stortford, England, United Kingdom on July 5th, 1853 and is the Politician. At the age of 48, Cecil Rhodes biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 48 years old, Cecil Rhodes physical status not available right now. We will update Cecil Rhodes's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.
Cecil John Rhodes, born in 1853, died on March 26th, 1902, a British businessman, mining magnate, and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
Rhodes and his British South Africa Company established Rhodesia, which has since been named after him in 1895.
Rhodes University in South Africa has also been named after him.
Rhodes devised the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate.
Rhodes, the son of a prosperous pioneer, grew up in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and was also a sickly child.
When he was 17 years old, his family was sent to South Africa in the hopes that the climate could improve his health.
When he was 18 years old, he joined Kimberley in the diamond trade, and the world diamond market saw near-total dominance in the first two decades.
His De Beers diamond firm, which was established in 1888, has maintained its importance into the 21st century.
Rhodes became Prime Minister in 1880 at the age of 27 and a decade later became Prime Minister.
He was forced to resign as Prime Minister in 1896 after the disastrous Jameson Raid, an unauthorised assault on Paul Kruger's South African Republic (or Transvaal). The Anglo-Saxon race, according to his will, was "the first race in the world."
"The more of the planet we live in, the better it is for the human race," he wrote about vigorous settler colonialism and eventually a reconstruction of the British Empire so that each component will be self-governing and represented in a single parliament in London.
Ambitions like these, juxtaposed with his Cape Colony's indigenous black population, have characterized Rhodes' political involvement as "a central player in southern African and British imperial history" and has characterized him as "an architect of apartheid"; historian Richard A. McFarlane has compared him to a "subject race" and was at the forefront of attempts to marginalize them politically. He was buried in the Matopos Hills in Zimbabwe after Rhodes' death in 1902 at the age of 48.
Education
Rhodes left his farm field in the custody of his business partner, Rudd, in 1873 and sailed for England to study at university. He was admitted to Oriel College, Oxford, but he stayed for just one term in 1874. He returned to South Africa and did not return for his second term at Oxford until 1876. He was greatly inspired by John Ruskin's inaugural lecture at Oxford, which emphasized his own commitment to British imperialism.
James Rochfort Maguire, later a fellow of All Souls College and the head of the British South Africa Company, and Charles Metcalfe were among his Oxford associates. Rhodes adored the Oxford "system" because of his university work. "Wherever you turn your gaze—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree," he says.
Rhodes became a Freemason in the Apollo University Lodge while attending Oriel College. Though he initially did not approve of the company, he continued to be a South African Freemason until his death in 1902. In his view, the Freemasons' inability prompted him to imagine his own shadow society with the intention of bringing the entire world under British rule.
Personal life
Rhodes never married, pleading, "I have too much work on my hands" and announcing that he would not be a dutiful husband. Robin Brown wrote in The Secret Society: Rhodes was a homosexual who was in love with his private secretary, Neville Pickering, and that he created "a homosexual hegemony" [and] continued to influence, if not control, British politics at the start of the twentieth century. In a review for The Conversation, Paul Maylam of Rhodes University slammed the book as "based heavily on speculation and assertion" and lacking "referenced source material to back up its assertions," as well as being plagued with common misconceptions.
Rhodes was stalked by Polish princess Catherine Radziwi, born Rzewuska, who had married into the noble Polish family Radziwi in the last years of his life. The princess mistook her engagement to Rhodes and that they were having an affair. She begged him to marry her, but Rhodes declined. In reaction, she accused him of loan fraud. He had to go to trial and testify against her accusation. Cecil Rhodes: Man and Empire Maker, a book by the author Cecil Rhodes. Her allegations were eventually found to be untrue.