Company rule in Rhodesia Africa. The Company's charter was duly revoked by Whitehall in 1923, and Southern Rhodesia became a self-governing colony of Britain in October that year. Northern Rhodesia became a directly-run British protectorate in April 1924. Amid the Scramble for Africa during the 1880s, the South African-based businessman and politician Cecil Rhodes envisioned the annexation to the British Empire of a bloc of territory connecting the Cape of Good Hope and Cairo—respectively at the southern and northern tips of Africa—and the concurrent construction of a line of rail linking the two. On geopolitical maps, British territories were generally marked in red or
Edward Packard (businessman, born 1819) Edward Packard (businessman, born 1819) Edward Packard, senior (1819–1899), was an English businessman who founded and developed a major artificial fertilizer industry near Ipswich, Suffolk in the mid-nineteenth century, and became a wealthy and prominent figure in the life of the Borough. His son, Sir Edward Packard, junior (28 September 1843 – 11 April 1932) developed "Packard and James Fison (Thetford) Limited" ('Fisons') into one of the largest fertiliser manufacturing businesses in the United Kingdom. Edward Packard senior, born at Hasketon near Woodbridge, Suffolk in 1819, built up the E. Packard & Co. business in artificial fertilizers at Bramford near