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
Mark Dixon (businessman) Mark Dixon (businessman) Mark Leslie James Dixon (born November 1959) is an Essex-born English billionaire businessman, best known as the founder of serviced office business Regus. Mark Leslie James Dixon was born in November 1959, the son of a Ford car mechanic, Dixon was educated at Rainsford comprehensive school (which subsequently became St Peter's College, which has been abandoned and left derelict since 2011 ). On noticing that a new housing estate needed nourishment for its gardens, he sold peat distributed by wheelbarrow. After leaving school at 16, Dixon founded sandwich making business Dial-a-Snack, which delivered locally on a butcher's