article_snippet: Cecil Rhodes (pictured) made Cecil Rhodes (pictured) fortune with Cecil Rhodes (pictured) De Beers mining company .
article_snippet: Cecil Rhodes (pictured) was born in Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire and went on to became one of Britain's most successful colonialists.
article_snippet: Cecil Rhodes (pictured) was sent to southern Africa in the late nineteenth century when Cecil Rhodes (pictured) suffered bad health as a teenager.
article_snippet: Within four decades Cecil Rhodes (pictured) had established political control of Britain's Cape Colony, expanded the territory north to found Rhodesia and taken ownership of the world's richest diamond mining company De Beers.
article_snippet: Cecil Rhodes (pictured) expansionist plans were fired by a dream of securing a British corridor of power stretching from Cape Town to Cairo.
article_snippet: But Cecil Rhodes (pictured) short life was blighted by bad health and Cecil Rhodes
article_snippet: Following Cecil Rhodes
article_snippet: death Cecil Rhodes (pictured) remains were transported by train from Cape Town to Bulawayo and laid to rest in the Matopo Hills south of the city, Cecil Rhodes (pictured) favourite spot in the vast empire Cecil Rhodes (pictured) had helped secure for Britain in southern Africa.
article_snippet: Rhodes, famous for dreaming of a Cape-to-Cairo railway, made Cecil Rhodes (pictured) fortune with Cecil Rhodes
article_snippet: (pictured) De Beers mining company during the Kimberley diamond rush, and went on to grow Cecil Rhodes (pictured) wealth during the ensuing gold rush around modern-day Johannesburg.