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
Robert Johnson (English politician) Robert Johnson (English politician) Robert Johnson (c 1537 – 1622) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1597 to 1614. Johnson was the eldest son of William Johnson of Crawley, Buckinghamshire. He was a surveyor and succeeded to the properties at Crawley on the death of his father in 1558. He was Keeper of Gawle, Forest of Dean in 1591. In 1597, he was elected Member of Parliament for Monmouth Boroughs where he was named to committees on weights and measures and pawnbrokers . He was re-elected MP for Monmouth in 1601 and took a