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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, 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