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Cecil Rhodes

Cecil Rhodes
Cecil Rhodes accumulated great wealth from mining diamonds in Africa. In 1902, under the terms of Rhodes’s will, much of his fortune went to the University of Oxford to establish the Rhodes scholarships.
Hulton Deutsch
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Africa; Rhodes Scholarship; United Kingdom; Rhodes, Cecil John
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