Dalham Hall Estate, left to Colonel and Captain Rhodes, 45
Dalston, Rhodes family property in, 117
Darwin, influence of, on C. J. Rhodes 88, 95
De Beers Company, address to shareholders of, in 1900, 173–4; resources of, used to defend Kimberley, 174–5; shareholders unimaginative, 173; and French, 175
Dutch goodwill essential to British Empire in South Africa, 111, 113; must not be trampled on, 113; compared to Irish Nationalists by C. J. Rhodes, 122; loyalty to Empire of, 122, 144–8; native policy of, approved by C. J. Rhodes, 148; C. J. Rhodes hardly knew how to choose between Dutch and British, 145. See Afrikander Bond
Edinburgh Medical School, 24
Egypt: C. J. Rhodes subscribes £5,000 to Liberal fund on understanding “no evacuation,” 132; endangered by Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Morley, 132, 133–4; saved by Lord Rosebery, 132, 169
Empire, retention of unity of British, 23; furtherance of, 50; C. J. Rhodes opposes severance of, 61, 62; disintegration hated, 135; its meanmg to C. J. Rhodes, 140, 143
Encumbered estates, evil of, 46
English people first race in the world, 58; increase of their numbers desired, 58; do not know their greatness, 68; waste their energies on local matters, 68; a conservative people, 124; a very practical people, like expansion for practical business, 150, 165; will govern themselves, 164; eminently practical, 172
“English-speaking Men, To all,” Manifesto in Review of Reviews, 99–102
English-speaking peoples, union of, C. J. Rhodes on, 27, 59, 61, 66, 73, 76
Executors of last will, 49
Exeter Hall, C. J. Rhodes’s first and last visit to, 82; opposed to its native policy, 148
Expansion, effect of, on number of English in the world, 58; British industry, 165; secure open markets, 166–171
Federation indispensable, 61, 73, 74, 118; C. J. Rhodes’s devotion to, 118; C. J. Rhodes’s ideas on, 124; Mr. Parnell’s assent to, 126; in South Africa, 143
Financial “patent” of C. J. Rhodes in Rhodesia, 50 per cent. on gold, 161
Flag, devotion of C. J. Rhodes to, 143; but would accept Stars and Stripes, 62, 102; sympathises with Kruger’s devotion to Vierkleur, 143
Fort, Seymour, describes Inyanga, 9
Free Trade, C. J. Rhodes on, 66, 73, 76, 166-9
Garrett, F. E., describes Groote Schuur, 11; portrait of, 110; his authority invoked by C. J. Rhodes, 109
Germany, fifteen scholarships for, 35; approached by Kaiser, 36
Gladstone, Mr., his Home Rule Bill disliked by C. J. Rhodes, 121, 131–2; objects to retention of Irish members, 118; concedes their retention, 129; but insists on reduction, 129; Newcastle speech on Egypt alarms C. J. Rhodes, 132; regarded by C. J. Rhodes as the Liberal Party, 132; worked on by J. Morley, 136; ignorant of C. J. Rhodes’s views on Egypt, 135
God, on the existence of, 89, 189; on His will towards us, 89; C. J. Rhodes’s meditations on, 89 and onwards; deathbed colloquy of C. J. Rhodes, 188–9
Gordon, Gen., and C. J. Rhodes, 80, 142
Grey, Earl, joint heir, 49, 108; portrait of, 60; anecdotes of C. J. Rhodes, 178–183
Greswell, Rev. W., letter of, 29
Groote Schuur, view from hill behind, 10; bequeathed to public as residence of First Federal Premier, 13; described by F. E. Garrett, 11; approach to, 12; the dining-room, 14; the drawing-room, 15; fund for maintenance of, 17; the hall, 18; the library, 18; the billiard-room, 19; the panelled room, 19; marble bathroom, 25; Mr. Rhodes’s bedroom, 25; summer-house at, 37
Hague, Peace Conference at, 109
Hammond, John Hays, portrait of, 156; report on Rhodesia, 159
Harris, Dr. Rutherfoord, portrait of, 146
Harrison, President, dimly discerns American expansion, 74
Hawksley, B. F., discusses qualifications for scholarships, 38–44; portrait of, 41; joint heir of residue, 49; why made joint heir in 1892, 104; letter from, concerning W. T. Stead, 111
Heirs (joint) under last will, 49
Heligoland, teaching of English forbidden, 36
Hofmeyr, Jan H., grave of, 17
Home Rule, the key to Empire, 74, 113, 114, 118; C. J. Rhodes’s correspondence with C. S. Parnell, 118-130
Imagination, C. J. Rhodes on the lack of, 173-4
Inyanga, view of farm at, 8; fund how to be applied, 9-11
Ireland: C. J. Rhodes subscribes to national fund, 118–130; to convert Home Rule Bill into Federalism, 120; Cape experience as a guide, 122
