For 10 points, name this founder of De Beers, a diamond merchant and politician who set up a scholarship to study at Oxford.
In a biography of this man entitled The Founder evidence of his homosexual relationship with his friend Neville Pickering is offered, while his cruelty and brutal rule is the subject of much of the final five chapters of Twain's Following the Equator. His power was nearly complete after establishing a company headed by himself, the Duke of Abercorm, and Alfred Beit. This allowed him to reach the so-called Rudd Concession, in which he and partner Charles Rudd came to an agreement with Lobengula. After acquisition of the Pitsani Strip, he attempted to stir up the Uitlanders [ootlanders] and the resultant failure led to this downfall. Thus he stepped down as prime minister of Cape Colony following the disastrous Jameson Raid. For 10 points, name this founder of De Beers, a diamond merchant and politician who set up a scholarship to study at Oxford.
In a biography of this man entitled The Founder evidence of his homosexual relationship with his friend Neville Pickering is offered, while his cruelty and brutal rule is the subject of much of the final five chapters of Twain's Following the Equator.
Cecil Rhodes