who is/was lord rhodes?

Answer 1

I also don't know if he was a lord. He was certainly a British imperialist in the 19th century. His dream was to connect British colonies from north to south in Africa, from Egypt to the Cape Colony. The Brits were already in the south, and then the Boers (?) crossed the Vaal river, creating the Transvaal, and then Rhodes went further north, creating Southern and then Northern Rhodesia. His money, I think, came from the diamond mines in South Africa, and he's probably linked to the beginnings of the de Beers diamond monopoly.

It was later that he started the Rhodes scholarship. Although he had lots of money to endow it, I think it was blood money.

Answer 2

Cecil John Rhodes was born on July 5th, 1853, in Bishop's Stortford, England.

He died on March 26th, 1902, in Muizenburg, South Africa...



And on the pedestal these words appear,
'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Ozymandias, Shelley


'You might hate him, you might loathe all he did, you might even think meanly of his actual achievements, but you could not ignore him any more than you could ignore a flash of lightning that suddenly blazes across a murky night.'
Basil Williams

'From Cape Town to the Zambezi, it is all Rhodes. When I asked who built that... I get one reply... "Rhodes".'
Lord Bryce

1870 - Rhodes joins his brother Herbert in Natal, South Africa
1871 - Rhodes joins his brother Herbert in Kimberley, South Africa
1880 - Rhodes founds the De Beers Mining Company and elected MP for Cape Town Parliament
1881 - Enters Parliament
1884 - Rhodes becomes Treasurer of the Cape
1886 - Gold discovered on the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg founded.
1887 - Rhodes founds the Goldfields Company
1889 - British South Africa Company created and Rhodes granted mining, trading and administrative rights over Lobengula's lands
1890 - Rhodes becomes Prime Minister of the Cape, pioneer column reaches Mashonaland
1893 - Matabeleland taken
1894 - Rhodes passes Glen Grey Act
1895 - Rhodes made a Privy Councillor, Jameson Raid into Transvaal
1896 - Rhodes resigns both as Prime Minister and as Managing Director of the Chartered Company. Matabele rise, and Rhodes makes peace.
1898 - Becomes Managing Director of the Chartered Company once more
1899 - Rhodes offers equal rights to Natives
1901 - Transvaal and Orange Free State become British
1902 - Rhodes dies on March 26th

Answer 3

This may or may not help:
Cecil Rhodes is famous for having founded the Rhodes Scholarship. He wasn't a lord, though (I don't think).

Answer 4

Cecil John Rhodes helped create the British Empire in Africa. He emigrated to South Africa in the 1870s and grew rich from claims in the diamond mines near Kimberley. In his travels, he developed a vision of a British Empire in Africa stretching "from Cape to Cairo," and he almost succeeded.

As a Member of Parliament at the Cape and later as Prime Minister, he promoted England's interests at the expense of Africans and of Afrikaners. He helped push the boundaries of British control northward and, by swindling Lobengula out of his own kingdom, established a colony named after himself in what is now (since 1979) Zimbabwe.

Rhodes was a rapacious businessman who consolidated ownership of the South African diamond mines and who seized African territory through tricky treaties, small wars, and official, if ill-informed, imperial concessions.

He contributed directly to the expansion of British control over parts of South Africa, Lesotho (Basutoland), Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), and Zambia (Northern Rhodesia). None of these countries is prosperous today, though South Africa especially produces a great deal of mineral wealth.

Rhodes' legacies include the English control over South Africa, which is of dubious merit, the mining superpower De Beers, and the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University, his alma mater.

I do not think he was ever knighted.

Answer 5

He was an aristocrat who founded the country of Rhodesia on the African continent. There is a huge statue of him in the capital. He was very rich.

Answer 6

he was the founder of rhodesia.south africa