Cecil Rhodes

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Cecil Rhodes was a British imperialist, businessman, and politician in southern Africa whose wealth and will established the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford.

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instanceOf businessperson
colonialist
human
imperialist
politician
burialPlace Matobo Hills
Zimbabwe
causeOfDeath heart failure
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1853-07-05
dateOfDeath 1902-03-26
educatedAt Oriel College, Oxford NERFINISHED
University of Oxford NERFINISHED
employer British South Africa Company
De Beers
endTime 1896 (Prime Minister of the Cape Colony)
ethnicGroup English
familyName Rhodes
fieldOfWork colonial politics
imperial expansion
mining
founded British South Africa Company
De Beers
Rhodes Scholarship
fullName Cecil John Rhodes
givenName Cecil
knownFor British imperialism in southern Africa
control of diamond mining in southern Africa
founding Rhodesia
languageSpoken English
namesake Northern Rhodesia
Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia
notableWork founding of the Rhodes Scholarship
occupation businessman
imperialist
mining magnate
politician
placeOfBirth Bishop’s Stortford
England
Hertfordshire NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Cape Colony
Muizenberg
present-day South Africa
positionHeld Prime Minister of the Cape Colony
religion Anglicanism
residence Cape Colony
Cape Town
Kimberley
sexOrGender male
startTime 1890 (Prime Minister of the Cape Colony)


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