Gordon Sprigg
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Sir John Gordon Sprigg was a British colonial administrator and politician who served as prime minister of the Cape Colony on four occasions.
Sir John Gordon Sprigg
An early cartoon of John Gordon Sprigg holding the national budget. Sprigg's terms in office were often characterised by a notoriously unsustainable fiscal policy.
Drawing of John Gordon Sprigg as Prime Minister in September 1897
Cecil Rhodes
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Cecil John Rhodes was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. He and his British South Africa Company founded the
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…land-owners from voting and thus effectively disenfranchised a large proportion of the Cape's Black African citizens. (His successor as prime minister, Cecil John Rhodes, was to take these changes even further, by raising the franchise requirements in the Cape Colony and thus further countering the growing preponderance…
Rhodes c. 1890
Rhodes's birthplace, now part of Bishop's Stortford Museum; the bedroom in which he was born is marked by a plaque.
Rhodes as a boy
Rhodes at the age of sixteen