Cecil Rhodes
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| Born | Cecil John Rhodes 1853-07-05 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England |
| Died | 1902-03-26 (Age 48) Muizenberg, Cape Colony (Now South Africa) |
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| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Oriel College (Oxford) |
| Founder of | De Beers, Milner Group |
| Member of | Bullingdon Club, Milner Group, Milner Group/Society of the Elect, Milner's Kindergarten, The Pilgrims Society |
| Relatives | • Reverend • Francis William Rhodes • Louisa Peacock Rhodes |
Very wealthy and influential UK deep politician
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Cecil Rhodes was a hugely influential UK deep politician.
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| De Beers | “Cecil Rhodes and his first employer, Charles Rudd, found it easier to make money on side ventures, such as buying a steam-powered ice machine to sell refreshments to miners (Rhodes scooped the ice cream). But when colonial officials grudgingly decreed that diggers and miners could buy one another out and so concentrate holdings, Rhodes and Rudd founded a company to buy up claims in what had come to be known as the De Beers mine. The colony’s policy change reflected the diminishing viability of small-scale mining. Though the diamonds appeared inexhaustible, at deeper levels they were embedded in rock – the ‘blue ground’ – that required costly processing. Tottering over every claim was ‘reef’, friable rocks that often collapsed and buried the diamonds for months. Rhodes’s occasional trips to Britain reassured him that the demand for diamonds was buoyant enough to make it worthwhile to tackle these difficulties, but only if companies could supply capital and machinery, such as steam-powered pumps, at scale.” | Michael Ledger-Lomas |
| UK/Deep state | “Five principal players, Cecil Rhodes, William Stead, Lord Reginald Esher, Lord Nathaniel Rothschild and Alfred Milner were the founding fathers, but the secret society developed rapidly in numbers, power and presence in the years before 1914. Influential old aristocratic families that had long dominated Westminster were more deeply involved, as was King Edward VII, who operated within the inner core of the Secret Elite. Cecil Rhodes, a mining magnate who made millions in South Africa, had long talked about setting up a Jesuit-like secret society, pledged to take any action necessary to protect and promote the power of the British Empire. He sought to "bring the whole uncivilized world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for the making of the Anglo-Saxon race but one empire." * In essence the plan was as simple as that.” | Gerry Docherty Jim Macgregor |
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