The Rhodes Colossus. Cecil Rhodes stands astride Africa after he announced plans for a telegraph line from Cape Town to Cairo in 1892. Cartoon published in Punch.

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I found out the other week my Great Grandmother's cousin was good friends with Rhodes, moved to South Africa, named his son after Rhodes who then moved to Hollywood and became an actor.

They were the the respectable side of the family obviously. My Great Grandmother herself had to get married at 18 when she was 7 months pregnant and lived in social housing her whole life.