Cecil John Rhodes Statue March 1902) was a British businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa. An ardent believer in British colonialism, Rhodes was the founder of the southern African territory of Rhodesia, which was named after him in 1895. South Africa's Rhodes University is also named after Rhodes. He set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate. Cecil John Rhodes Statue The Cecil John Rhodes Statue is a monument erected at Company's Garden in Cape Town. The statue was erected in 1908. It features a full body replica of Rhodes wearing a three-piece suit, standing with
Edward Packard (businessman, born 1843) Edward Packard (businessman, born 1843) (Sir) Edward Packard, junior (1843-1932), was an English businessman who developed a major artificial fertilizer industry near Ipswich, Suffolk. Edward Packard was born in 1843 at Saxmundham in Suffolk, the son of Edward Packard senior. He was educated at King's College, London and the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester. He joined his father in business as a dispensing chemist at Bramford in 1866, and was an active member of Dr. John Taylor's Ipswich Science-Gossip Society from the late 1860s. He received, accompanied and led the Society's inspection of the works in 1872. In that year,