Leander Starr Jameson
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Sir Leander Starr Jameson, 1st Baronet,, also known as Starr Jameson, was a British colonial politician, who was best known for his involvement in the ill-fated Jameson Raid.
Sir Leander Starr Jameson
Caricature of Jameson from 1896 issue of Vanity Fair
Arrest of Jameson after the raid – Petit Parisien 1896
Leander Starr Jameson
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
Leander Starr Jameson
…reputation as a medical man, and, besides numbering President Kruger and the Matabele chief Lobengula among his patients, came much into contact with Cecil Rhodes. Jameson was for some time the inDuna of the Matabele king's favourite regiment, the Imbeza. Lobengula expressed his delight with Jameson's successful…
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