Cecil Mason of Hartford, Conn., was best man for his brother, and groomsmen were Rhodes S. Baker 3, of Houston, Dr. James Carter of Houston and Conrad McEachern of New Orleans, La..

In 1888, British colonialist Cecil Rhodes obtained a concession for mining rights from King Lobengula of the Ndebele peoples.

Cecil Rhodes presented this concession to persuade the government of the United Kingdom to grant a royal charter to his British South Africa Company ( BSAC ) over Matabeleland, and its subject states such as Mashonaland.

In accordance with the terms of aforementioned concessions and treaties, Cecil Rhodes promoted the colonisation of the region's land, with British control over labour as well as precious metals and other mineral resources.

In 1895 the BSAC adopted the name ' Rhodesia ' for the territory of Zambesia, in honour of Cecil Rhodes.

The Shona staged unsuccessful revolts ( known as Chimurenga ) against encroachment upon their lands, by clients of BSAC and Cecil Rhodes in 1896 and 1897.

Cecil Rhodes: Cape-Cairo railway project.

* 1853 – Cecil Rhodes, English-South African businessman and politician, founded De Beers ( d. 1902 )

For example, the British South Africa Company ( founded by the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes ) still retained commercial assets and mineral rights that it had acquired from a concession signed with the Litunga of Bulozi in 1890.

In creating the Rhodes Scholarships for outstanding students from the United States, Germany and much of the British Empire, Cecil Rhodes wrote in 1901 that ' the object is that an understanding between the three great powers will render war impossible and educational relations make the strongest tie '.

The state was originally christened after Cecil Rhodes, whose British South Africa Company acquired the land in the late 19th century.

In 1895, Cape Premier Cecil Rhodes planned to support an uitlander coup d ' état against the Transvaal government.

Cecil Rhodes.

In 1888, Cecil Rhodes, spearheading British commercial and political interests in Central Africa, obtained a mineral rights concession from local chiefs.

At independence in 1964, Zambia's economy grew the British South Africa Company ( BSAC, originally setup by the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes ) retained commercial assets and mineral rights that it acquired from a concession signed with the Litunga of Barotseland in 1892 ( the Lochner Concession ).

The discovery of copper is owed partly to Frederick Russell Burnham, the famous American scout who worked for Cecil Rhodes.

* March 26 – Cecil Rhodes, British imperialist ( b. 1853 )

* July 5 – Cecil Rhodes, English businessman ( d. 1902 )

British expansionist ideas ( notably propagated by Cecil Rhodes ) as well as disputes over uitlander political and economic rights resulted in the failed Jameson Raid of 1895.

At the time the Prime Minister of the Cape Colony was Cecil Rhodes, a man driven by a vision of a British controlled Africa extending from Cape to Cairo.

In 1895, a plan was hatched with the connivance of the Cape Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes, Johannesburg gold magnate Alfred Beit, and Sir Alfred Milner ( British High Commissioner for South Africa and Lieutenant Governor of the Cape ) to liberate Johannesburg from the control of the Transvaal government.

A column of 600 armed men ( mainly made up of his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen ) was led by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson ( the Administrator in Rhodesia of the British South Africa Company ( or " Chartered Company ") of which Cecil Rhodes was the Chairman ) over the border from Bechuanaland towards Johannesburg.

In the baggage of the raiding column, to the great embarrassment of the British, the Boers found telegrams from Cecil Rhodes and the other plotters in Johannesburg.

The four leaders were sentenced to death by hanging, but this sentence was next day commuted to 15 years ' imprisonment ; and in June 1896, the other members of the Committee were released on payment of £ 2, 000 each in fines, all of which were paid by Cecil Rhodes.

Since Elizabeth would never name her successor, Cecil was obliged to proceed in secret.

The name Simpson Desert was coined by Cecil Madigan, after Alfred Allen Simpson, an Australian philanthropist, geographer, and president of the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia.

These figures included Cape Colony Governor Sir Alfred Milner, Cape Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes, British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, and mining syndicate owners or Randlords ( nicknamed the gold bugs ), such as Alfred Beit, Barney Barnato, and Lionel Phillips.

This memorial is erected by Alfred Mosely in recognition of the great services rendered by Cecil Rhodes to his country.

He starred alongside actors such as Sean Connery, Alfred Lynch, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway and Eric Barker.

Another event of considerable commercial importance to the Cape Colony, and indeed to all of South Africa, was the amalgamation of the diamond-mining companies which was chiefly brought about by Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Beit and " Barney " Barnato in 1889.

In 1890 acting for Cecil Rhodes and the British South Africa Company ( BSAC ), Johnston sent Alfred Sharpe ( who would become his successor in Nyasaland ) to obtain a treaty with Msiri, King of Garanganze in Katanga.

The Sorcerer opened on 17 November 1877 at the Opera Comique, preceded by Dora's Dream, a curtain-raiser composed by Sullivan's assistant Alfred Cellier, with words by Arthur Cecil, a friend of both Gilbert's and Sullivan's.

Her parents separated and she moved with her mother and two younger brothers, Maurice Edward Alfred and Cecil William Aldred Rowden, to southern France when she was still a young girl.

* Second Lieutenant Alfred Cecil Herring VC.

When the first revival was at its height in the first decade of the 20th century, George Gardiner and Alice Gillington both collected songs in Hampshire, Lucy Broadwood in Surrey, Hampshire and Oxfordshire, Alfred Williams in Oxfordshire and Berkshire and Cecil Sharp in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Kent.

The first Viscount Rothermere was the younger brother of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and the elder brother of Cecil Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth, Sir Leicester Harmsworth, 1st Baronet, and Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth, 1st Baronet.

* Australian Men's Singles Championship – James Cecil Parke ( GC ) defeats Alfred Beamish ( GB ) 3 – 6 6 – 3 1 – 6 6 – 1 7 – 5

Sir Alfred Cecil Walker ( 17 December 1924-3 January 2007 ) was an Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast from 1983 to 2001.

During this period, Carte also presented various companion pieces with the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, including the 1877 revival of Dora's Dream by Arthur Cecil and Alfred Cellier ; The Spectre Knight ( 1878 ); revivals of Trial by Jury ; several pieces by George Grossmith beginning in 1878: Beauties on the Beach, A Silver Wedding, Five Hamlets, and Cups and Saucers ; revivals of Gilbert's After All!

Those who took part also included Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Francis Thompson, Richard Le Gallienne, John Gray, John Davidson, Edwin J. Ellis, Victor Plarr, Selwyn Image, Lord Alfred Douglas, Arthur Cecil Hillier, John Todhunter, G. A.

Moore, Raymond C., Lalicker, Cecil G., & Fischer, Alfred G. 1952.

* Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn ( 1824 – 1902 ), British geologist who surveyed parts of Australia and Canada

Major Alfred Cecil Herring VC ( 26 October 1888 – 10 August 1966 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

He appeared in Cecil B. de Mille's The Squaw Man, and played opposite Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Guardsman ( both 1931 ).

Its Master of fox hounds, Cecil Aldin, ran a Remount Depot there in World War I, employing his friend and fellow artist, Alfred Munnings as a horse doctor.

In his book The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to Cliveden, written in 1949 but published posthumously in 1981, Quigley purports to trace the history of a secret society founded in 1891 by Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Milner.