Cecil Rhodes (5 July 1853 to 26 March 1902) was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. He founded De Beers Consolidated Mines and gained near-monopoly control of the world diamond market, and through the British South Africa Company he established the territory that became known as Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe and Zambia. Rhodes also promoted a Cape to Cairo railway and created the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University, described as the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Cecil Rhodes founded De Beers Consolidated Mines and built a near-monopoly on the world diamond market, a standard entrepreneurship reference on nineteenth century resource-industry consolidation.
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Cecil John Rhodes ( SES-əl ROHDZ; 5 July 1853 - 26 March 1902) was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
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