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196 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

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