The Last Will and Testament of Cecil Rhodes/Index

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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


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


Jamaica, three scholarships for, 32

Jameson, Dr., trustee, 49; portrait of, 75, 123; beloved by C. J. Rhodes, 177; his name last word uttered by C. J. Rhodes, 190

Jameson Raid, the, and C. J. Rhodes, 106–107, 130, 178

Johnston, Sir H. H., portrait of, 129


Kimberley. “Bath” described, 16; 600 miles by waggon to, 157; siege of, 173–5


Landlords, country, C. J. Rhodes on, 46

Liberal Party, C. J. Rhodes’s relations to, 117–138; thinks of standing as Liberal candidate in 1886, 117; subscribes to Home Rule, 120–130; to Liberal Election Fund, 130-9; “My ideas—Liberalism plus Empire,” 131; ruining itself by Little Englandism, 131; future of England must be Liberal, 133

Life “three days at the seaside,” 88; work, the essence of a proper, 45; speculations by C. J. Rhodes on a future, 189

Lindsay, Rev. Dr., suggests voting for scholarships, 109

“Loafer,” a, hated by C. J. Rhodes, 45

Low, Sidney, his summary of C. J. Rhodes’s conversations, 73

Loxley, Rev. A. P., on C. J. Rhodes and religious education, 94

Loyola, Ignatius, and C. J. Rhodes, 63, 66, 83


Mackenzie, Rev. John, opposed to policy of C. J. Rhodes, 80

“Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon,” Rhodes upon, 81

Malima river feeds Westacre dam, 7

“Malindidzimo,” name of C J. Rhodes’s burial place, 4

Manicaland, C. J. Rhodes’s estate in, 9

Marcus Aurelius constantly read by C. J. Rhodes, 184–185

Markets, open, essential to England, 66, 68, 73, 134, 165–168

Matabele War, C. J. Rhodes’s defence of, 150

Matoppos, picture of, 2; description of, 4; burial place of C. J. Rhodes and Umzilikazi, 4; fund for maintaining, 5; visited by C. J. Rhodes and Mr. Wyndham, 5; excavating grave on, 186

McNeill, Swift, arranges C. J. Rhodes’s subscription to Irish National Fund, 118, 120

Michell, Lewis L., joint heir, 49, 108; portrait of, 67

Military service insisted on by C. J. Rhodes, 47

Mills, Sir Charles, brings C. J. Rhodes and W. T. Stead together, 80–81

Milner, Lord, joint heir, 49, 108; portrait of, 57; supported by C. J. Rhodes, 108–105

Mitford, Bertram, description of Matoppos, 4

Moral qualities, to be regarded in selecting scholars, 3644

Morley, John: speech about Egypt horrifies C J. Rhodes, 133; importance of, minimised by F. Schnadhorst, 136

“Mosterts” property bequeathed with Groote Schuur, 13

Muizenberg, near Cape Town, where C. J. Rhodes died, 179

Müller, Iwan, reports to C. J. Rhodes on new University education, 23; on country gentlemen, 46


Napoleon and his dirty linen, 74; C. J. Rhodes on his dream of Universal Monarchy, 74

Natal, three scholarships for, 32

Native policy of C. J. Rhodes in Africa: “We must be lords over them,” 149

Newfoundland, three scholarships for, 32

New South Wales, three scholarships for, 32

New Zealand, three scholarships for, 32

Nyassaland, cost of administration borne by Chartered Company for four years, 151


Ontario, three scholarships for, 32

Oriel College, Oxford, C. J. Rhodes, M.A., 1881, 20; history of, 20; Sir W. Raleigh at, 20; other Oriel men, 21, 30; income of, 20; bequests to, 20–21; and St. Mary Hall, 21; views of a senior member of, 22; story of Keble when don of, 22; view of, 31

Oxford, scholarships to be tenable at, 23, 108; why, 23-24; Medical School, 27


Pall Mall Gazette, C. J. Rhodes and, 79; exponent of his ideas, 80–81

Parnell, C. S., correspondence between, and C. J. Rhodes, 120–130; subscription to, 125; regrets and withdraws Navan speech, 129

“Patent,” C. J. Rhodes’s political, 68; financial, 161

Peace, C. J. Rhodes’s idea of how it might be attained, 59, 61, 66; Conference at Hague, 108–109

Persia, part of Anglo-Saxon sphere, 74

Pickering, N. E., heir to C. J. Rhodes in second will, 62

Portugal to come under Anglo-Saxon control, 74

Portuguese, C. J. Rhodes speaks well of, 163

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

Religious ideas of: ideal of Secular Church for extension of British Empire, 59; a political Society of Jesus, 63; Agnostic, 84; on the Bible, 84; on broadening influence of travel and Nature, 86; on church-going, 86; on churches, 88; a Darwinian, 88; on life and death, 88; is there a God? 88; what does He want me to do? 89; testimony of the Booths, 89–93; Divine area of action, 94; Divine method, 94; Divine instrument, 95; Divine ideal, 96; his threefold test, 97; his conclusion, 98; his policy as to education, 94; his idea in essence, 98; fond of theological discussion, 184; and Marcus Aurelius, 184; “This one thing I do,” 184; his colloquy with the Infinite, 188–9; not an atheist, 189; on the future life, 189

Sayings of: on Matoppos, “Homes—that is what I work for,” 5; on university education, 23; on “smug,” “brutality,” and “unctuous rectitude,” 44; on loafers, 45; the essence of a proper life, 45; on country landlords, 46; “Do you ever feel mad?” etc. “I do, at pig-headed statesmen of George III.,” 59; “Leave the local pump to the parish beadle,” 74; “Don’t despise money,” 83; “Life—three days at the seaside,” 88; a fifty-per-cent. chance there is a God, 89; “I am trying to make new countries—you are trying to make new men,” 93; Justice, Liberty, Peace, the highest things, 97; “You cannot govern South Africa by trampling on the Dutch,” 113; Gladstonian Home Rule makes Ireland a taxed republic, 118; “My idea—Liberalism plus Empire,” 131; “No use to have big ideas without cash,” 142; “The whole of your politics lie in your trade,” 169; “Your trade is the world and your life is the world,” 170; East Africa based on the suppression of slave trade and cultiation of cocoanut, 172; “The best commercial asset in the world,” 174–5; “Always do the comparative.” 181; “So much to do, so little done,” 184; “I would annex the planets if I could,” 190

Speeches of: at laying foundation stone Presbyterian Chapel, 86; at Salvation Army inciting at Mansion House, 90-1; at prize-giving at Bulawayo school, 94; published by Chapman and Hall, 1900, 139; on United States of South Africa, 1883, 142; on the Flag question, 1890, 143, 173; on the Afrikander Bond, 1891, 144; on the Dutch, 145, 147; against race distinctions, 147; against Crown Colony, 148; on native legislation, 1888, 148; address to the shareholders of the Chartered Company, 1895, 149–175; on the British flag as a commercial asset, 173–5

Wills: first of Cecil J. Rhodes’s, 1877, 61; second, 1882, 62; third, 1888, 62; fourth, 1891, 64; fifth, 1893, 104; sixth and last, 1899, 3; why altered, 103–4

Will, last, and Testament of: domicile declared in Rhodesia, 3; burial place in the Matoppos (q.v.), why chosen, 3; inscription on tomb, 4; the Shangani monument, 4; conditions for future burials, 5; fund for beautifying burial place, 7; bequeaths Bulawayo and Inyanga estates for instruction of people, 5; forms Matoppos and Bulawayo fund for burial place, 7; provides for planting Sauerdale (q.v.) Park, 7; for completing Westacre (q.v.) dam, 7–9; for constructing railway to Westacre for week-enders, 9; founds Inyanga (q.v.) fund, 9; for irrigation, 11; for experimental farming, forestry, gardening, and Agricultural College, 11; leaves Groote Schuur (q.v.) as residence for Prime Minister of federated South Africa, 13; till then as park for people, 16; founds Groote Schuur fund, 17; bequeaths £100,000 to Oriel (q.v.) College, Oxford, 20; for new buildings, 21; for resident fellowships, 21; for the High Table, 22; directions to trustees, 23; founds scholarships at Oxford, 23; suggests extension of medical school, 24; states his object as union of English-speaking race, 24; the sixty Colonial scholarships, 32; one hundred American scholarships, 33; fifteen German scholarships, 35; rules for selecting scholars, 36; apportionment of marks, 38; conditions of residence, 40; of payment, 43; of distribution, 43; of discipline, 44; annual dinner, 44; settles Dalham Hall estate on Col. F. Rhodes and Capt. Ernest Rhodes, 45; conditions in the codicil, 45; no incumbrances to be created, 45-6; ten years’ work, 47; service in Militia or Volunteers, 47; forfeiture of title, 47; leaves residue (q.v.) of estate to joint tenants who are also named executors and trustees, 49

Rhodesia, nine scholarships for, 32; called after C. J. Rhodes, 68; its extent north of the Zambesi, 150; Matabele and Mashonaland, 151; extent of, 152; material development of, 154, 157; cost of administering in 1895, 154-5; railway making to, 157; a white man’s country, 158; profits of, from minerals, 159; Hays Hammond, report on, 159

Rosebery, Earl of, joint heir of residue, 49, 108; quoted by C. J. Rhodes in favour of reduction of Irish Members, 121; saves Egypt by joining Gladstone’s Ministry, 132; saves Uganda and Egypt, 169

Rudd, C. E., portrait of, 119


Salvation Army, C. J. Rhodes on, 90–93

Sauerdale property to be planted as park, 7

Schnadhorst, F., Liberal Whip, correspondence with, 130–7; meets C. J. Rhodes in Africa, 131; asks for subscription to Liberal fund, 131; £5,000 given on conditions, 133; his defence, 136–7

Scholarships, first founded by C. J. Rhodes, for Rondebosch College, 29; in his last will, 60 were founded for Colonies, 30–1; 100 for United States, 34; 15 for Germany, 35; how to be selected, 36; allotment of marks, 38; discussion on, 38–44; annual dinner, 44–5, 52; first idea of, 105

Secret Society, C. J. Rhodes’s first suggestion of, 55; the key to his idea, 64, 66; to absorb the wealth of the world, 73; success anticipated in 200 years, 76; his idea in essence, 98; difficulty of obedience, 109; prospects of, 114

Shangani, monument to those who fell at, 4; bas-reliefs, 28

Shippard, Sidney G. A., the first of C. J. Rhodes’s heirs, 61

Socialism, England must be Liberal, perhaps to fight, 133

South African College School, three scholarships for, 32

Spain to be controlled by Anglo-Saxons, 74

Spectator, absurd misconception about the Schnadhorst subscription, 130

St. Andrew’s College School, Cape Colony, three scholarships for, 32

Stelienbosch College School, three scholarships for, 32

Stead, W. T., discusses with C. J. Rhodes qualifications for scholarship, 38–43, 109; portrait of, 42; joint heir of residue, 49; name removed from executors, 49, 111; appreciations of C. J. Rhodes, 51–56, 81, 83, 135; custodian of first will of C. J. Rhodes, 61; left heir with “X” in a fourth will (1891), 64, 104; entrusted with political will and testament, 64; on the Rhodesian ideal, 77; confidential conversation with, 79; origin of friendship, 79; his Gospel of the P.M.G. 79; first meets C. J. Rhodes (1889), 79; through Sir C. Mills, 81; first impressions, 81–2; C. J. Rhodes attracted by the imprisonment of, 82; conversation with C. J. Rhodes published in 1899, 83–98; letter of, to C. J. Rhodes, 98; letters to, from C. J. Rhodes, 64, 99; founds the Review of Reviews, 99; Manifesto “To all English-speaking Peoples,” 99–102; approved by C. J. Rhodes, 99; “Our Ideas,” 102; commissioned to communicate C. J. Rhodes’s secret to the others, 103; joint heir in fifth will with “X” and B. F. Hawksley, 104; discusses with C. J. Rhodes methods of propaganda, 104; told about the scholarships, 105; action in re Jameson Raid, 107; last interview with C. J. Rhodes before the war, 107; made joint heir in last will, 108; suggests American scholarships, 108; other suggestions rejected, 109; his responsibility from 1891–9, 109; first interview with C. J. Rhodes after war broke out, 105; “insubordination” of, 109; his defence, 111; B. F. Hawksley on, 111; friendship unimpaired, 112; last interviews with C. J. Rhodes, 112–13; on the secret society, 114–15; forwards letter from C. J. Rhodes to F. Schnadhorst, 135

Stevenson, Mr., of Exeter College, on American and Colonial students, 31, 35


Tariff war advocated by C. J. Rhodes, 66, 73, 76, 167

Tasmania, three scholarships for, 32

Transvaal, C. J. Rhodes’s sympathy with flag, 143; “I look to no political difficulty from the” (1895), 164; ultimatum unexpected by C. J. Rhodes, 108

Trustees under last will, 49

Tweed, Jno., sculptor of Shangani monument, 4


Uganda saved by Lord Rosebery, 165

Umzilikazi, chief of Matabele, buried in Matoppos, 4

United States, scholarships for, 27; why granted, 27; C. J. Rhodes on “recovery of,” 59; on the loss of, 59; restoration of Anglo-Saxon unity, 61; widening of his views on, 62; constitution of his text-book, 63–66; boycotts English goods, 66; commercial war with, 66, 76; fascinated with idea of world-wide dominion, 74; McKinley tariff, 76; C. J. Rhodes’s ideas on, broadened, 62, 102; takes precautions for future tariff war with, 167; tariff cripples English trade, 169

University education, why esteemed by C. J. Rhodes, 23; must be residential, 24


Victoria, three scholarships for, 32

“View, the, of the World,” 2

“Vindex” edits C. J. Rhodes’s speeches, 120, 139


War, how to end all, C. J. Rhodes’s “patent,” 59, 61, 66; South African, C. J. Rhodes did not anticipate, 108

Warren, Sir Charles, on C. J. Rhodes, 1884, 117

Wealth, C. J. Rhodes’s use of, 51; millionaires and their money, 66, 73; the seizure of the world’s, 76; “Don’t despise money,” 83; acquisition of, not good enough, 85; his subscription to Mr. Parnell, 120–130; secures conversion of Home Rule from separation to federation, 120; not due to anxiety for Charter, 120; subscription to Mr. Schnadhorst, 131–138; indispensable to big ideas, 142; without imagination, 173-4

Westacre dam and park, 7

Western Australia, three scholarships for, 32

Will, the so-called political will and testament, 1891, 64-76

Women, C. J. Rhodes refuses to .admit them to his scholarships, 108-9

Work essential to proper life, 45

Wyndham, George, reports saying of C. J. Rhodes, 5


“X” heir to C. J. Rhodes in third, fourth and fifth will, 62; why not left sole heir, 103



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