Which businessman, born in 1853, made his fortune in Kimberley, South Africa?
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Kimberley, Northern Cape Kimberley is the capital and largest city of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. It is located approximately 110 km east of the confluence of the Vaal and Orange Rivers. The city has considerable historical significance due to its diamond mining past and the siege during the Second Boer War. British businessmen Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnato made their fortunes in Kimberley, and the roots of the De Beers company can also be traced to the early days of the mining town.
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Cecil Rhodes Cecil John Rhodes PC (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa, who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which the company named after him in 1895. South Africa's Rhodes University is also named after him. Rhodes set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate, and put much effort towards his vision of a Cape to Cairo Railway through British territory.
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Benjamin Wickham MacDonald Benjamin Wickham MacDonald (1853-1920) was a company manager and shipping executive in Queensland, Australia.
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E. H. Bakewell Edward Howard Bakewell (6 July 1859 – 31 March 1944) was a South Australian pastoralist, businessman and administrator.
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Frederick Banbury, 1st Baron Banbury of Southam Frederick George Banbury, 1st Baron Banbury of Southam PC (2 December 1850 – 13 August 1936), known as Sir Frederick Banbury, 1st Baronet, from 1903 to 1924, was a British businessman and Conservative Member of Parliament.
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John Finlay Duff John Finlay Duff (1 April 1799 – 18 May 1868) was a ship's captain and businessman in the Colony of South Australia.
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John Barker (businessman) John Barker (1847 – 21 May 1925) was a South Australian businessman and sportsman, noted for his long chairmanship of the South Australian Jockey Club.
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Peter Van Herrewege Peter Alexander Van Herrewege, (born December 1953) is a businessman.
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John McKenzie (philanthropist) Sir John Robert Hugh McKenzie (5 August 1876 – 26 August 1955) was a New Zealand businessman and philanthropist. He was born in Yarrawalla, Victoria, Australia on 5 August 1876. In the 1950 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) for public and philanthropic services.
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James Robin James Robin (pronounced ROE-bin) (14 November 1817 – 23 July 1894) was a prominent businessman in the early days of colonial South Australia. Several of his descendants were significant, in the Methodist Church and other fields. Also worthy of mention are his brothers Charles (c. 1826 – 27 November 1872) and Theophilus Robin (c. 1830 – 19 September 1874).
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Walter Stanford Sir Walter Ernest Mortimer Stanford {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (2 August 1850 – 9 September 1933) was a South African civil servant and politician.
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Herman Garmann Herman Garmann (27 March 1787 – 23 June 1853) was a Norwegian businessman and merchant.
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Robert Antrobus Robert Crawfurd Antrobus (21 March 1830 – 12 February 1911) was an English businessman, politician and cricketer. He was born in London and died in Westminster.
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Edward Hardman Edward Townley Hardman (6 April 1845 – 30 April 1887) was a geologist who played a key role in the discovery of Western Australia's Kimberley goldfields.
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Byron Reed Byron Reed (March 12, 1829 – June 6, 1891) was an American pioneer real estate businessman and local politician in Omaha, Nebraska. He founded the first real estate office in the Nebraska Territory and became the foremost agent after Nebraska achieved statehood.
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Samuel Stocks Samuel Stocks (ca.1786 – 8 March 1863) and his son Samuel Stocks, jun (ca.1812 – 3 February 1850) were businessmen in the early days of the Colony of South Australia.
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John Drughorn Sir John Frederick Drughorn, 1st Baronet (1 August 1862 – 23 February 1943) was a Dutch-born English shipowner and benefactor.
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Othman Benjelloun Othman Benjelloun (Arabic: عثمان بن جلون‎ ‎ ; born 1931 in Fez, Morocco) is a Moroccan businessman who is worth $2.2 billion as of October 2015, making him richest man in his country, and the 13th richest in Africa.
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Charles de Chavannes Fortuné Charles de Chavannes, born 19 May 1853 in Lyon and died 7 February 1940 in Antibes, was a French colonial administrator. He accompanied Savorgnan de Brazza on the Mission de l'Ouest africain from 1883 to 1886, and participated in the exploration and establishment of French Congo.
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Charles Cawthorne Charles Witto-witto Cawthorne (1 July 1854 – 26 June 1925) was a businessman who, with his father founded Cawthorne and Co, music publishers and retailers in Adelaide, South Australia. He was a proficient musician and important in the history of orchestral music of Adelaide.
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John Murray Forbes John Murray Forbes (February 23, 1813 – October 12, 1898) was an American railroad magnate, merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist. He was president of both the Michigan Central railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the 1850s. He kept doing business with Russell & Company.
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Charles James Kershaw Charles James Kershaw was a businessman born in Burnley, Lancashire, England, in 1832. He came to America in 1841, and received his education at the Derby Line Academy, in Derby Line, Orleans County, Vermont. He came West in 1853, and engaged in a general trade in provisions, grain and flour, both in Milwaukee and Chicago, and made Milwaukee his permanent home in 1861.