Kingsley Fairbridge
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Kingsley Ogilvie Fairbridge was the founder of a child emigration scheme from Britain to its colonies as well as the Fairbridge Schools.
Kingsley Fairbridge
Memorial to Kingsley Fairbridge at the Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Fairbridge
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
Kingsley Fairbridge
…In December 1911, Fairbridge married former nurse Ruby Ethel Whitmore. Fairbridge knew and greatly admired Cecil Rhodes, and named his eldest son Rhodes. Rhodes Fairbridge (1914–2006) was an eminent geologist and climate scientist. Fairbridge suffered considerably from…
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