Cecil John Rhodes had a country named after him. Two, in fact. Not many businessmen can claim that honour! Furthermore a South African university (in Grahamstown) bears his name, as does a scholarship at Oxford. Indeed Oxford has a Rhodes House, designed, aptly, by Sir Herbert Baker, who designed Rhodes’s house in Cape Town. Rhodes was sent out to Natal by his vicar father who thought the warm weather might improve Cecil’s weak health. He was expected to help his brother Herbert on his cotton farm but, instead, founded De Beers, was Prime Minister of Cape Colony and almost succeeded in building a railway from Cape Town to Cairo. I imagine Francis and Louisa Rhodes were proud of their son’s achievement, despite the fact that he didn’t stay in cotton as they had hoped.