Preferential tariff strongly advocated by C J. Rhodes, 63, 66
Protection, hard fight, 66; C. J. Rhodes’s speech against, 166–171; why Colonies approve, 168; his safeguard against, 167
Quebec, three scholarships for, 32
Queensland, three scholarships for, 32
Radziwill, Princess, forgeries of, 185
Raleigh, Sir W., at Oriel, 20; C. J. Rhodes on his imprisonment, 181
Reincarnation, C. J. Rhodes indifferent to, 88
Republics—British self-governing Colonies practically independent, 143
Residue of the Rhodes estate left to joint-heirs, 49
Review of Reviews founded in 1890, approved by C. J. Rhodes, 99
Rhodes, Captain Ernest, heir of Dalham Hall, 45
Rhodes, Colonel Frank, heir of Dalham Hall, 45
Rhodes, Cecil John:
Anecdotes of: Places Zimbabye stone hawk in Council Chamber, 16; tried to visit W. T. Stead in gaol, 81; attends indignation meeting in Exeter Hall, 81; and General Gordon, 142; on hearing of the burning of Groote Schuur, 180; Lord Grey’s stories of, 181
Appreciations of: by F. E. Garrett, 11; Herbert Baker, 16; W. T. Stead, 51; “Money King of Modern World,” 55; a mystic, 56; W. T. Stead’s first impressions of, 82; Roman Emperor plus Ironside plus Loyola, 83; “A Grey Archangel,” 139; by the Booths, 89–93, 177; Sir C. Warren, 117
Autograph of, 69, 116
Burial of, on Matoppos, 2, 182, 186, 190, 192
Characteristics of: “I find I am still human,” 68; reticent, 82; deeply religious conceptions, 82; no correspondent, 84; thinks only of a few things, 84; loyal friendship, 112; honesty in warning investors, 160–1; political consistency, 140; personal fascination, 142; “a great heart hungering for love,” 177; free from scandal, 185–7.
Conversations with Iwan Müller, 23, 46; Sidney Low, 73; W. T. Stead, 79–115, 190; with Gen. Gordon, 142
Correspondence of, with W. T. Stead, 64, 98, 99, 135; in the Times, 1885, 138; with Mr. Parnell, 120–130; with Mr. Schnadhorst, 130–7
Death of, at Muizenberg, March 26, 1902, 177; how precipitated, 187; his last word, 190
Personal history of: 1881, M.A., Oxford, 20; draws up draft of ideas, 1877, 58; first will, 1877, 61; second, 1882, 62; third, 1888, 62; fourth, 1891, 64; fifth, 1893, 104; sixth and last, 1899, 3–49; meets Gordon, 1882, 142; reader of Pall Mall Gazette, 1883–9, 80; meets W. T. Stead, 1889, 82 (q.v.); influenced by Aristotle, 84; meditates on object of life, 58, 85; dreams of entering Parliament, 117; visits Salvation Army, 89-93; conceives idea of scholarships, 105; Jameson Raid, 106; supports Milner, 108; as youngster learns that truth and no race distinctions axioms of Empire, 147
Political ideas of: his ideal, 56; first draft of, 1877, 58; English first of races, 58; its expansion ends all war, 58; annex all uncivilised world and make one Anglo-Saxon Empire, 59; on the loss of the United States (q.v.), 59; suggested method of action, 59; his patent, 68; his Political Will and Testament (q.v.), 64–76; his cardinal doctrines, 73; universal monarchy possible with local self-government, 74; Anglo-Saxons to control countries tried and found wanting, 74; summarised by W. T. Stead in 1889, 82; British ascendency gives place to English-speaking reunion, 102; on secret society and obedience, 105; on Dutch in South Africa, 113; on Home Rule Bill, 118; retention of Irish Members, 120, 133; willing to reduce their numbers, 120; remonstrates with Mr. Parnell, 129; on retention of Egypt, 130–8; “My ideas are Liberalism plus Empire,” 131; “The one thing I hate above everything, the policy of disintegrating and breaking up our Empire,” 134; what Empire meant to him, 140; his own definition, 143; on the flag, 143; his adhesion to Afrikander Bond, 144; as to Portuguese, 74, 163; and the Transvaal, 108, 164; demands free hand to impose differential duties on British goods, 166–171; future of England must be Liberal, perhaps to fight Socialism, 133
Political Will and Testament of C. J. Rhodes, 1891, addressed to W. T. Stead, 64; key to his ideas, Jesuit organisation, differential tariff and American Constitution, 64; English greatest race, but unaware of its greatness, 68; English labour dependent on outside markets, 68; to end all war and make one language universal, gradually absorb all wealth and higher minds to object 68; Anglo-American reunion, 73; Federal Parliament, sitting five years Washington, five years Westminster, 72; a secret society absorbing the wealth of the world, 73; appeal to young America, 74; to take over the government of the whole world, 74; Home Rule and the parish pump, 74; the three essentials, 76; a Free Trader who would fight for Free Trade, 76; would declare commercial war with United States, 76; eight hours day dependent on English-speaking reunion, 76
Portraits of: Downey’s, 3; by Tennyson Cole, 26; by Marchioness of Granby, 50; in the “Eighties,” 54; as a boy, 78; autograph portrait, 116; in the Matoppos, 138; at the Cape, 141; last taken in 1901, 176
