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) 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,