Who was Cecil Rhodes?
Cecil Rhodes (July 5, 1853 – March 26, 1902) was a British administrator, financier and philanthropist who left 6,000,000 to public service and endowed 170 Oxford scholarships. He wrote six wills over his lifetime. In the first, written at the age of 23–sometime after his doctor had warned him that he had but six months to live–he proposed to “form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire.” This was written on June 2, 1877. By the time he wrote his final will, his thinking had evolved to the establishment of a scholarship trust fund. The trustees for the Rhodes Scholarships in 1902, were Lord Alfred Milner (1854-1925), Lord Rosebery, Lord Grey, Alfred Beit, L. L. Michell, B. F. Hawksley, and Dr. Starr Jameson. The scholarships were to be given without regard to race or creed.
Cecil Rhodes (July 5, 1853 – March 26, 1902) was a British administrator, financier and philanthropist who left 6,000,000 to public service and endowed 170 Oxford scholarships. He wrote six wills over his lifetime. In the first, written at the age of 23–sometime after his doctor had warned him that he had but six months to live–he proposed to “form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire.” This was written on June 2, 1877. By the time he wrote his final will, his thinking had evolved to the establishment of a scholarship trust fund. The trustees for the Rhodes Scholarships in 1902, were Lord Alfred Milner (1854-1925), Lord Rosebery, Lord Grey, Alfred Beit, L. L. Michell, B. F. Hawksley, and Dr. Starr Jameson. The scholarships were to be given without regard to race or creed. Conspiracy theoris
