Cecil Rhodes Cecil Rhodes Cecil John Rhodes PC (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in southern 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
Edward Packard (businessman, born 1843) active in negotiating arrangements for Nina Layard to conduct extensive excavations and to have curatorship of her collections at Christchurch Mansion in 1906-07, under very trying circumstances. He served as High Steward of Ipswich, 1916-1932; Chairman of the Harwich Harbour Board; President of the Suffolk Chamber of Agriculture; Chairman of the Ipswich Museum & Free Library Committee, and Chairman of the Ipswich School of Arts. He was knighted in 1922 and died at his home in Bramford in 1932. Edward Packard (businessman, born 1843) (Sir) Edward Packard, junior (1843-1932), was an English businessman who developed a major artificial fertilizer industry