Oxford and the Rhodes ScholarshipsScholz, R. F. (Richard Frederick)
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Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships
Scholz, R. F. (Richard Frederick)
Rhodes scholarships
The Will is arranged in forty-two clauses, followed by four codicils. As
it is the intention here to deal only with those provisions which bear
directly upon the Rhodes Scholarships or Oxford, it would seem natural
to omit all other articles; but, for the sake of giving a comprehensive
view of this remarkable document, it has seemed preferable to follow the
regular order of the clauses, inserting summaries of those which are
irrelevant to our subject.
The quotations in the following pages are made from a copy (in the
Bodleian Library, Oxford) of the full text of the Will as published by
Hollams, Sons, Coward and Hawksley.
Thick Clarendon type has been used to indicate exact quotation of
the text, while the use of ordinary type enclosed in [ ]s indicates
summarizing or abridgement.
The designation of the clauses or articles by Arabic numerals is exactly
as they occur in the text. The Roman numerals have been arbitrarily
inserted to indicate topical divisions.[8]
WILL AND CODICILS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CECIL JOHN RHODES.
Will dated 1st July, 1899.
Codicils of January, 1901.
Codicil of 11th October, 1901.
Codicil of January 18th, 1902.
Codicil of 12th March, 1902.
Testator died 26th March, 1902.
Hollams, Sons, Coward and Hawksley
30, Mincing Lane, E.C.
(London).
[THE WILL.]
I the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes of Cape Town in the Colony
of the Cape of Good Hope hereby revoke all testamentary dispositions
heretofore made by me and declare this to be my last Will which I make
this 1st day of July 1899.
I.
1. I am a natural-born British subject and I now declare that I have
adopted and acquired and hereby adopt and acquire and intend to retain
Rhodesia as my domicile.
2. I appoint the Right Honourable Archibald Philip Earl of Rosebery K.G.
K.T. the Right Honourable Henry George Earl Grey Alfred Beit[9] (...)
William Thomas Stead[9] (...) Lewis Lloyd Michell[9] (...) and Bourchier
Francis Hawksley[9] (...) to be my Executors and the Trustees of my Will
and they and the survivors of them or other the Trustees for the time
being of my Will and hereinafter my Trustees.
Articles 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
[give directions and instructions for the burial of Rhodes’s body at
Matoppos in Rhodesia; the disposal of certain small legacies; the
erection of a monument to the men who fell in the first Matabele War
at Shangani in Rhodesia; the disposition of certain properties in
Rhodesia; the disposition of certain moneys to provide for the Matoppos,
the Bulawayo, and the Inyanga ‘Funds’, experimental farming and the
establishment and maintenance of an Agricultural College, and the
management of certain estates.]
II.
[BEQUESTS TO ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD.]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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