Rhodes House is a building part of the

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in England. It is located on

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in central

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, and was built in memory of

Cecil Rhodes Cecil John Rhodes (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. An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his Br ...

, an alumnus of the university and a major benefactor. It is listed Grade II* on the

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History

The will of Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902) created scholarships that became known as

Rhodes Scholarship The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...

s, administered by the

Rhodes Trust Rhodes House is a building part of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on South Parks Road in central Oxford, and was built in memory of Cecil Rhodes, an alumnus of the university and a major benefactor. It is listed Grade II* on ...

. Construction of Rhodes House began in 1926 after the Rhodes Trust purchased the two-acre plot from

Wadham College Wadham College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is located in the centre of Oxford, at the intersection of Broad Street and Parks Road. Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy W ...

the previous year. The mansion was designed by architect

Sir Herbert Baker Sir Herbert Baker (9 June 1862 – 4 February 1946) was an English architect remembered as the dominant force in South African architecture for two decades, and a major designer of some of New Delhi's most notable government structures. He wa ...

and modelled on the

Cape Dutch Cape Dutch, also commonly known as Cape Afrikaners, were a historic socioeconomic class of Afrikaners who lived in the Western Cape during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The terms have been evoked to describe an affluent, apolitical se ...

farmhouse design and traditional English Country mansions. This is reflected in the large beams, trans-domed windows and its Tetra-style

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

. The square rubble walls were designed to be consistent with the Western European 17th century architecture of the

Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

campus. Other features include the open-well staircase constructed from oak, featuring shaped balusters and carved eagle finials. Construction was completed in 1928 and the building and its library were handed over to Oxford University. Rhodes House was commissioned by the Rhodes Trust as a memorial to Cecil Rhodes, to act as a centre for research for the "British Empire and Commonwealth, of African and the United States of America", and to be the headquarters of the Rhodes Scholarship system and Rhodes Trust. Sir Herbert Baker, described as "Cecil Rhodes' own architect", was the sole-architect of Rhodes House. Architectural sculpture was provided by Charles Wheeler, who also worked on other inter-war colonial buildings including:

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and the Neuve Chapelle Indian Memorial. Rhodes House features a series of public rooms included a library, reading room, lecture hall and seminar rooms, a hall in which the Rhodes Scholars hold their annual dinner and the residence for the Rhodes Trust Oxford Secretary or Warden. During 1931,

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...

delivered a series of three lectures at Rhodes House.

Edmund Bowen Edmund ("Ted") John Bowen FRS (29 April 1898 – 19 November 1980) was a British physical chemist. Life Born in Worcester, England, E. J. Bowen attended the Royal Grammar School Worcester. He won the Brackenbury Scholarship in 1915 and 1916 ...

, a chemistry don at the university, saved the blackboard used in the second lecture (on 16 May).

Einstein's Blackboard Einstein's Blackboard is a blackboard which physicist Albert Einstein (1879–1955) used on 16 May 1931 during his lectures while visiting the University of Oxford in England. The blackboard is in the collection of the Museum of the History of ...

, now an iconic object, can still be seen at the

Museum of the History of Science The History of Science Museum in Broad Street, Oxford, England, holds a leading collection of scientific instruments from Middle Ages to the 19th century. The museum building is also known as the Old Ashmolean Building to distinguish it from th ...

in Oxford, formally presented by Sir Francis Wylie, the Warden of Rhodes House at the time.

Rhodes House Library

When Rhodes House was completed all the material relating to the British Empire and U.S. were transferred from the

Bodleian Library The Bodleian Library () is the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. It derives its name from its founder, Sir Thomas Bodley. With over 13 million printed items, it is the second- ...

. Also known as the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth & African Studies at Rhodes House. In 1990 the library held more 330,000 books and the archives relating to USA and other former colonies and dominions of the British Empire. The Library was a key research centre in the UK. In 2014 the Library moved to the

Weston Library The Weston Library is part of the Bodleian Library, the main research library of the University of Oxford, reopened within the former New Bodleian Library building on the corner of Broad Street, Oxford, Broad Street and Parks Road in central Ox ...

. The Library is now known as the Commonwealth and African Studies Collections.

Portraits at Rhodes House

Rhodes House houses a significant collection of paintings and photographic portraits and busts, including of: *

Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, her death in 2022. She was queen ...

, the Founder of the

Rhodes Scholarships The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...

* John McCall MacBain, philanthropist *Zambian human rights activist

Lucy Banda-Sichone Lucy Banda-Sichone (1954–1998) was a Zambian civil rights activist who played a pivotal role in representing the Zambian people who had their rights violated by the State at the time. Born and raised in Zambia's second largest city, Kitwe, she bec ...

; her portrait, unveiled in 2015, was the first of a woman Rhodes Scholar ever displayed in Rhodes House. *Human rights activist and constitutional lawyer, Dr

Menaka Guruswamy Menaka Guruswamy (born 27 November 1974) is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. She was the B.R. Ambedkar Research Scholar and Lecturer at Columbia Law School, New York from 2017 to 2019. Guruswamy has been visiting faculty at Yale L ...

. *Former US President

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*Former US President

Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician, actor, and union leader who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He also served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 ...

*Philosopher and first African-American Rhodes Scholar

Alain Locke Alain LeRoy Locke (September 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954) was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. Distinguished in 1907 as the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, Locke became known as the philosophical architect ...

*Former Jamaican Prime Minister

Norman Manley Norman Washington Manley (4 July 1893 – 2 September 1969) was a Jamaican statesman who served as the first and only Premier of Jamaica. A Rhodes Scholar, Manley became one of Jamaica's leading lawyers in the 1920s. Manley was an advocate ...

*Jamaican cultural icon

Rex Nettleford Ralston Milton "Rex" Nettleford, OM, FIJ, OCC (3 February 1933 – 2 February 2010), was a Jamaican scholar, social critic, choreographer, and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), the leading research university ...

George Robert Parkin Sir George Robert Parkin (February 8, 1846 – June 25, 1922) was a Canadians, Canadian educator, imperialist, and author. Life and career Born at Parkindale, New Brunswick, Parkindale near Salisbury, New Brunswick, he was a graduate from ...

, the founding Organizing Secretary of the Rhodes Trust * Busts of early Rhodes Trustees

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and

Otto Beit Sir Otto John Beit, 1st Baronet, KCMG, FRS (7 December 1865 – 7 December 1930) was a German-born British financier, philanthropist and art connoisseur. Life history and career Beit was born in Hamburg, Germany, the younger brother of Alfre ...

* Canadian neuroscientist

Wilder Penfield Wilder Graves Penfield (January 26, 1891April 5, 1976) was an American Canadians, American-Physicians in Canada, Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of th ...

*Former Australian Prime Minister

Bob Hawke Robert James Lee Hawke (9 December 1929 – 16 May 2019) was an Australian politician and union organiser who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991, holding office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (A ...

*President

Wasim Sajjad Wasim Sajjad ( ur, ; born 30 March 1941) is a Pakistani conservative politician and lawyer who served as the acting president of Pakistan for two non-consecutive terms and as the Chairman of the Senate between 1988 and 1999. Born in Ja ...

(

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) *Former Prime Minister

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(

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) *Former Prime Minister

Dominic Mintoff Dominic Mintoff, ( mt, Duminku Mintoff, ; often called ''il-Perit'', "the Architect"; 6 August 1916 – 20 August 2012) was a Maltese Socialist politician, architect, and civil engineer who was leader of the Labour Party (Malta), Labour P ...

(

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) *Neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize winner,

Sir John Eccles Sir John Carew Eccles (27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Llo ...

*Pharmacologist and Nobel Prize winner, Sir Howard Florey *Former United States national security advisor,

Susan Rice Susan Elizabeth Rice (born November 17, 1964) is an American diplomat, policy advisor, and public official serving as Director of the United States Domestic Policy Council since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Rice served as the 27th ...

*Anti-Apartheid activist,

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*Former United States health secretary,

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*Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs,

Chrystia Freeland Christina Alexandra Freeland (born August 2, 1968) is a Canadian politician serving as the tenth and current deputy prime minister of Canada since 2019 and the Minister of Finance (Canada), minister of finance since 2020. A member of the Libe ...

*Philanthropist,

Chuck Feeney Charles Francis Feeney (born April 23, 1931) is an Irish-American businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune as a co-founder of the Hong Kong based Duty Free Shoppers Group. He is the founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies, one of the ...

*Economist and Nobel Prize winner, Professor

Michael Spence Andrew Michael Spence (born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate. Spence is the William R. Berkley Professor in Economics and Business at the Stern School of Business at New York University, and the Philip H. Kn ...

* Former Chairs of the

, including Sir

Kenneth Wheare Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare, CMG (26 March 1907 – 7 September 1979) was an Australian academic, who spent most of his career at Oxford University in England. He was an expert on the constitutions of the British Commonwealth. He advised constitut ...

Robert Blake, Baron Blake Robert Norman William Blake, Baron Blake, (23 December 1916 – 20 September 2003), was an English historian and peer. He is best known for his 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli, and for ''The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill'', wh ...

, and Lord Waldegrave of North Hill * Former Wardens of Rhodes House – Sir

Francis Wylie Sir Francis James Wylie (18 October 1865 – 29 October 1952) was a British university academic and administrator. He was the first Warden of Rhodes House at the University of Oxford, England. Francis Wylie was educated at St Edward's School, Ox ...

, Sir

Carleton Allen Sir Carleton Kemp Allen (7 September 1887 – 11 December 1966) was an Australian-born professor and Warden of Rhodes House, University of Oxford. Entry by his successor as Warden of Rhodes House, E.T. Williams, in ''Oxford Dictionary of Nat ...

, Sir

Edgar Williams Brigadier Sir Edgar Trevor Williams (20 November 1912 – 26 June 1995) was a British historian and Army military intelligence officer who played a significant role in the Second Battle of El Alamein in World War II. He was one of the few off ...

, Dr Robin Fletcher, Sir

Anthony Kenny Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny (born 16 March 1931) is a British philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein of whose literary esta ...

, Dr

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, Sir

Colin Lucas Sir Colin Renshaw Lucas, (born 25 August 1940) is a British historian and university administrator. From 1997 to 2004, he was the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. In May 2006, he was appointed Chair of the Board of the British Library for ...

, and Professor

Donald Markwell Donald John Markwell (born 19 April 1959) is an Australian social scientist, who has been described as a "renowned Australian educational reformer". He was appointed Head of St Mark's College, Adelaide, from November 2019. He was Senior Adviser ...

. *Former South African President

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, who joined his name with Cecil Rhodes in the

Mandela Rhodes Foundation A Mandela Rhodes Scholarship provides full funding for up to a maximum of two years of postgraduate study for an African citizen under 30 years of age. The award is open to all African citizens under the age of 30 years and recipients must study t ...

The Rhodes Trust

The Rhodes Trust is based at Rhodes House. The Rhodes Trust, established in 1902 under the terms and conditions of the will of

, and by subsequent Acts of Parliament, is an educational charity whose principal activity is to support scholars selected from the citizens of 14 specified geographic constituencies to study at the University of Oxford.

for up to three years have been awarded annually since 1903. The goals of Cecil Rhodes in creating the Scholarships were to promote civic-minded leadership among young people with (in the words of his 1899 Will) "moral force of character and instincts to lead", and (in the words of a 1901 codicil to his Will) to help "render war impossible" through promoting understanding between the great powers. In 2002, in partnership with

, the Rhodes Trust established the

Mandela Rhodes Scholarship A Mandela Rhodes Scholarship provides full funding for up to a maximum of two years of postgraduate study for an African citizen under 30 years of age. The award is open to all African citizens under the age of 30 years and recipients must study t ...

. The Rhodes Trust provides the Rhodes Scholarships in partnership with the Second Century Founders, John McCall MacBain O.C., the

Atlantic Philanthropies The Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) was a private foundation created in 1982 by Irish-American businessman Chuck Feeney. The Atlantic Philanthropies focused its giving on health, social, and politically left-leaning public policy causes in Australia ...

, and other benefactors. In 2016 the Trust announced a partnership with Atlantic Philanthropies to create an Atlantic Institute, which has offices at Rhodes House. Funding for this project allowed the Trust to expand the total number of Rhodes Scholars and to offer scholarships to students from Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, China, and West Africa. In 2017, the

Schmidt Science Fellows Schmidt Science Fellows is a STEM postdoctoral fellowship awarded annually since 2018 by Schmidt Futures, in partnership with the Rhodes Trust. Former Google chairman and chief executive officer Eric Schmidt, and his wife Wendy Schmidt Wendy ...

programme was launched as a partnership between

Schmidt Futures Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic venture founded by Eric Schmidt and Wendy Schmidt in 2017. The philanthropy funds science and technology research and talent networking programs. The organization's grants include large-scale "moonshots". Schmidt ...

and the Rhodes Trust. The programme was established to facilitate cross-discipline research that could lead to scientific breakthroughs. The Rhodes Trust is governed by a Board of Trustees, and the Warden of Rhodes House acts as Secretary to the Trust.

Current trustees

The following are trustees: * Dapo Akande (professor of public international law at the

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) * Mr Andrew Banks (Florida & St Edmund Hall 1976) - Co-Founder, ABRY Partners * Ms Neeti Bhalla (Kenya & Templeton 1998) - Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for Liberty Mutual Insurance Group * Mr Mike Fitzpatrick (Chairman of Pacific Current Group) * Dame Helen Ghosh - Master of

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*Mr Don Gogel (New Jersey & Balliol 1971) - Chairman and CEO of

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Clayton, Dubilier & Rice is an American private equity company. It is one of the oldest private equity investment firms in the world. Founded in 1978, CD&R has managed the investment of more than $30 billion in approximately 90 businesses, repre ...

*Mr Glen James former partner of

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*Dr Tariro Makadzange (Zimbabwe & Balliol 1999) - Director of Biology at Gilead Sciences *Ms Swati Mylavarapu (Florida & Wolfson 2005) - Founder of Incite.org, a values-based investor and co-founder of Arena *Professor Karen O'Brien (Head of Humanities Division and Professor of English Literature) *

Kate O'Regan Catherine "Kate" O'Regan (born 17 September 1957) is a former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Constitutional Court of South Africa. From 2013 to 2014 she was a commissioner of the Khayelitsha Commission and is now the inaugura ...

(Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford) *Mr Chris Oechsli - President and CEO of The

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- Co-founder of Sun Pharmaceuticals *Judge Karen Stevenson (United States Magistrate and Judge) *Dr Peter Stamos (California & Worcester 1981) - Founder, Chief Executive Officer of Stamos Capital Partners *Mr

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(California & Worcester 1992) Senior Partner at

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* Sir John Hood (New Zealand & Worcester College, 1976), Chairman ''(since 2011)'' * Professor John Bell (Alberta & Magdalen College, 1975) ''(since 2002)'' * Professor Ngaire Woods (New Zealand & Balliol College, 1987) ''(since 2009)'' *

Dominic Barton Dominic Barton (born 1962), known as Bao Damin ( zh, 鲍达民) in China, is a Ugandan-born Canadian business executive, author, and diplomat. He is the current chairman of the private investment firm LeapFrog Investments as well as the chancellor ...

(British Columbia & Brasenose College, 1984) ''(since 2010)'' *Don Gogel (New Jersey & Balliol College, 1971) ''(since 2010)'' * Professor Margaret MacMillan ''(since 2010)'' * John McCall MacBain (Quebec & Wadham College, 1980) ''(since 2010)'' *Karen Stevenson (Maryland & Magdalen College, 1979) ''(since 2010)'' * John Wylie (Queensland & Balliol College, 1983) ''(since 2010)'' *Glen James ''(since 2014)'' *Andrew Banks (Florida & St Edmund Hall, 1976) ''(since 2014)'' * Professor Dame Carol Robinson ''(since 2015)'' * Nicholas Oppenheimer ''(since 2015)'' * Professor Elleke Boehmer (South Africa-at-Large and St John's College, 1985) ''(since 2016)'' *

''(since 2017)'' *Mike Fitzpatrick (Western Australia & St John's College, 1975) ''(since 2018)'' *Peter Stamos (California & Worcester College, 1981) ''(since 2018)''

Emeritus trustees

* Julian Thompson (Diocesan College, Rondebosch and Worcester College, 1953) ''(trustee since 2002, emeritus since 2015)'' * Michael McCaffery (Pennsylvania & Merton College, 1975) ''(trustee since 2007, emeritus since 2018)''

Notable former trustees

* Lord Butler of Brockwell *

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Viscount Hailsham Viscount Hailsham, of Hailsham in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1929 for the lawyer and Conservative politician Douglas Hogg, 1st Baron Hailsham, who twice served as Lord High Chancello ...

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List of chairmen of the Trust

Earl of Rosebery Earl of Rosebery is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created in 1703 for Archibald Primrose, 1st Viscount of Rosebery, with remainder to his issue male and female successively. Its name comes from Roseberry Topping, a hill near Archibald's wif ...

1902–1917 *

1917–1925 * Sir Otto Beit 1925–1930 *

Lord Lovat Lord Lovat ( gd, Mac Shimidh) is a title of the rank Lord of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1458 for Hugh Fraser, 1st Lord Lovat, Hugh Fraser by summoning him to the Scottish Parliament as Lord Fraser of Lovat, altho ...

1930–1933 * Rt Hon. L. S. Amery 1933–1955 * Sir Edward Peacock 1955–1962 * Sir Kenneth Wheare 1962–1969 * Sir George Abell 1969–1974 *

Viscount Harcourt Viscount Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt in the County of Oxford, was a title created twice for members of the Harcourt family, once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was first created in the Peera ...

1974–1979 * Sir William Paton 1979–1982 *

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1983–1987 * Sir John Baring, later Lord Ashburton 1987–1999 * Sir Richard Southwood 1999–2002 * Lord Waldegrave of North Hill 2002–2011 * Sir John Hood 2011–Present

List of wardens

* Sir Francis Wylie 1903–1931 * Professor Sir Carleton Allen 1931–1952 * Brigadier Sir Edgar Williams 1952–1980 * Dr Robin Fletcher 1980–1989 * Sir Anthony Kenny 1989–1999 * Dr John Rowett 1999–2004 * Sir Colin Lucas 2004–2009 * Professor Don Markwell 2009–2012 * Dr Andrew Graham Acting Warden 2012–2013 *

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2013–2018 * Dr Elizabeth Kiss August 2018

List of Rhodes Scholars

References

External links

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History

Rhodes House Library

Portraits at Rhodes House

The Rhodes Trust

Current trustees

Emeritus trustees

Notable former trustees

List of chairmen of the Trust

List of wardens

List of Rhodes Scholars

References

Further reading

External links