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INDEX.

Africa, East, Company based on suppression of slave trade and cultivation of cocoanut, 172

Africa, South, cannot be governed without goodwill of Dutch, 111, 113; C. J. Rhodes on future of United States of, 142; to be governed by South Africans, 144, 148; and by them alone, 145; race distinctions fatal to Empire in 147; customs union of future, to be dominated by British goods clause in Rhodesian constitution, 167

Afrikander Bond: C. J. Rhodes a supporter of, 144; speech in defence cf, 144–5

America, North. See United States

America, South, Republics of, to be controlled by Anglo-Saxons, 74

American scholarships, why given, 27; how to be awarded, 35; character of students at Oxford, 31, 35

Aristotle, influence of, on C. J. Rhodes, 84, 98

Athletics insisted on by C. J. Rhodes, 36

Australia, South, scholarships for, 32; Western, scholarships for, 32

Australasia, twenty-one scholarships for, 32; representation in Parliament desired for, 124-5


Baker, Herbert, on artistic sense of C. J. Rhodes, 16

Bechuanaland: C. J. Rhodes opposed to Rev. T. Mackenzie, 80, 145; defends his policy in the Times, 1885, 138; proposal to exclude Dutch from, condemned, 147; Chartered Company’s land in, 153

Beers. See De Beers

Beit, Alfred, joint heir, 49, 108; portrait of, 65

Bermudas, three scholarships for, 32

Black, W. G., on German veto on English in Heligoland, 36

Bond. See Afrikander

Booth, General, interviews with C. J. Rhodes, 89; W. Bramwell, impressions, 91–3, 177

Boyd, Charles, portrait of, 123; “C. B.” letter in Spectator, 130

Bulawayo, park for, 7; railway to Westacre, 9; value of land in, 1895, 154; funeral procession passing through, 182, 192


Cambridge, scholarships not to be tenable at, 108

Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, 131

Canada, six scholarships for, 32

Cape Colony, twelve scholarships for, 32; the first Rhodes scholars from, 29

Cape Colony, C. J. Rhodes’s desire to secure Bechuanaland for, 80, 138; devotion to its paramountcy, 145, 148

Chamberlain, Joseph, screened by C. J. Rhodes about Jameson Conspiracy, 107, 178; and devolution quoted by C. J. Rhodes, 124; screened by South African Committee, 130

Charter, the British South African, not thought of when subscription given to C. S. Parnell, 120

Chartered Company: Address to shareholders, 1895, 149-173; financial position in 1895, 153-162; the justification and necessity for, 171

Christ Church, Oxford, Bursar of, on £300 scholarships, 30

Codicils to will of C. J. Rhodes, Dalham Hall, 45; German scholarships, 35; Lord Milner, 49; W. T. Stead, 49; Dr. Jameson, 49

Cole, Tennyson, portrait of C. J. Rhodes, 26; of Lord Milner, 57

Colonial Secretary heir to C. J. Rhodes in first will, 61; why dropped, 62

Colonial self-government defined by C. J. Rhodes; practically independent Republics, 143; protected but not controlled by Downing Street, 145

Colonies, direct representation in Parliament advocated by C. J. Rhodes, 117, 124-5; suggested financial basis of representation, 125; accepted by Mr. Parnell, 126. See Federation

Colonies, scholarships for, 23; list of Colonies included, 32; list of Colonies omitted, 33; character of students from, 31; first idea of founding, 105

Country landlords “the strength of England,” 46

Crown Colony objected to by C. J. Rhodes, 144-9

Customs union of South Africa anticipated by C. J. Rhodes, 168