Rhodes House
Rhodes House is a building part of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on South Parks Road in central Oxford, and was built in memory of Cecil Rhodes, an alumnus of the university and a major benefactor. It is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England.[1]
History
The will of Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902) created scholarships that became known as Rhodes Scholarships, administered by the Rhodes Trust.[2]
Construction of Rhodes House began in 1926 after the Rhodes Trust purchased the two-acre plot from
Rhodes House was commissioned by the Rhodes Trust as a memorial to Cecil Rhodes, to act as a centre for research for the "British Empire and Commonwealth, of African and the United States of America", and to be the headquarters of the Rhodes Scholarship system and Rhodes Trust.
Sir Herbert Baker, described as "Cecil Rhodes' own architect",
During 1931,
Rhodes House Library
When Rhodes House was completed all the material relating to the British Empire and U.S. were transferred from the Bodleian Library.[5] Also known as the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth & African Studies at Rhodes House. In 1990 the library held more 330,000 books and the archives relating to US and other former colonies and dominions of the British Empire. The Library was a key research centre in the UK.[9]
In 2014 the Library moved to the Weston Library.[10] The Library is now known as the Commonwealth and African Studies Collections.
Portraits at Rhodes House
Rhodes House houses a significant collection of paintings and photographic portraits and busts, including of:
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Rhodes Scholarships
- John McCall MacBain, philanthropist[11]
- Zambian human rights activist Lucy Banda-Sichone; her portrait, unveiled in 2015, was the first of a woman Rhodes Scholar ever displayed in Rhodes House.[12]
- Human rights activist and constitutional lawyer, Dr Menaka Guruswamy.[13]
- Former US President Bill Clinton
- Former US President Ronald Reagan
- Philosopher and first African-American Rhodes Scholar Alain Locke
- Former Jamaican Prime Minister Norman Manley
- Jamaican cultural icon Rex Nettleford
- George Robert Parkin, the founding Organizing Secretary of the Rhodes Trust
- Busts of early Rhodes Trustees Viscount Milner and Otto Beit
- Canadian neuroscientist Wilder Penfield
- Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke
- President Wasim Sajjad (Pakistan)[14]
- Former Prime Minister John Turner (Canada)[15]
- Former Prime Minister
- Neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize winner, Sir John Eccles
- Pharmacologist and Nobel Prize winner, Sir Howard Florey
- Former United States national security advisor, Susan Rice[17]
- Anti-Apartheid activist, Bram Fischer[18]
- Former United States health secretary, Sylvia Burwell[19]
- Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland
- Philanthropist, Chuck Feeney[19]
- Economist and Nobel Prize winner, Professor Michael Spence[20]
- Former Chairs of the Lord Waldegrave of North Hill
- Former Wardens of Rhodes House – Sir Francis Wylie, Sir Carleton Allen, Sir Edgar Williams, Dr Robin Fletcher, Sir Anthony Kenny, Dr John Rowett, Sir Colin Lucas, and Professor Donald Markwell.
- Former South African President Mandela Rhodes Foundation
The Rhodes Trust
The Rhodes Trust is based at Rhodes House. The Rhodes Trust, established in 1902 under the terms and conditions of the will of
In 2002, in partnership with
In 2017, the Schmidt Science Fellows programme was launched as a partnership between Schmidt Futures and the Rhodes Trust.[26] The programme was established to facilitate cross-discipline research that could lead to scientific breakthroughs.[27][28]
The Rhodes Trust is governed by a Board of Trustees,[29] and the Warden of Rhodes House acts as Secretary to the Trust.[30]
Current trustees
The following are trustees:[29]
- Dapo Akande (professor of public international law at the University of Oxford)[31]
- Mr Andrew Banks (Florida & St Edmund Hall 1976) - Co-Founder, ABRY Partners
- Ms Neeti Bhalla (Kenya & Templeton 1998) - Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for Liberty Mutual Insurance Group
- Mr Mike Fitzpatrick (Chairman of Pacific Current Group)
- Dame Helen Ghosh - Master of Balliol College, Oxford
- Mr Don Gogel (New Jersey & Balliol 1971) - Chairman and CEO of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
- Mr Glen James former partner of Slaughter and May
- Dr Tariro Makadzange (Zimbabwe & Balliol 1999) - Director of Biology at Gilead Sciences
- Ms Swati Mylavarapu (Florida & Wolfson 2005) - Founder of Incite.org, a values-based investor and co-founder of Arena
- Professor Karen O'Brien (Head of Humanities Division and Professor of English Literature)
- Kate O'Regan (Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford)
- Mr Chris Oechsli - President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies
- Dilip Shanghvi - Co-founder of Sun Pharmaceuticals
- Judge Karen Stevenson (United States Magistrate and Judge)
- Dr Peter Stamos (California & Worcester 1981) - Founder, Chief Executive Officer of Stamos Capital Partners
- Mr Bob Sternfels (California & Worcester 1992) Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company
- Sir John Hood (New Zealand & Worcester College, 1976), Chairman (since 2011)
- Professor John Bell (Alberta & Magdalen College, 1975) (since 2002)
- Professor Ngaire Woods (New Zealand & Balliol College, 1987) (since 2009)
- Dominic Barton (British Columbia & Brasenose College, 1984) (since 2010)
- Don Gogel (New Jersey & Balliol College, 1971) (since 2010)
- Professor Margaret MacMillan (since 2010)
- John McCall MacBain(Quebec & Wadham College, 1980) (since 2010)
- Karen Stevenson (Maryland & Magdalen College, 1979) (since 2010)
- John Wylie (Queensland & Balliol College, 1983) (since 2010)
- Glen James (since 2014)
- Andrew Banks (Florida & St Edmund Hall, 1976) (since 2014)
- Professor Dame Carol Robinson(since 2015)
- Nicholas Oppenheimer (since 2015)
- Professor Elleke Boehmer (South Africa-at-Large and St John's College, 1985) (since 2016)
- Dilip Shanghvi (since 2017)
- Mike Fitzpatrick (Western Australia & St John's College, 1975) (since 2018)
- Peter Stamos (California & Worcester College, 1981) (since 2018)
Emeritus trustees
- Julian Thompson (Diocesan College, Rondebosch and Worcester College, 1953) (trustee since 2002, emeritus since 2015)
- Michael McCaffery (Pennsylvania & Merton College, 1975) (trustee since 2007, emeritus since 2018)
Notable former trustees
List of chairmen of the Trust
- Earl of Rosebery 1902–1917
- Viscount Milner 1917–1925
- Sir Otto Beit 1925–1930
- Lord Lovat 1930–1933
- Rt Hon. L. S. Amery 1933–1955
- Sir Edward Peacock 1955–1962
- Sir Kenneth Wheare 1962–1969
- Sir George Abell 1969–1974
- Viscount Harcourt 1974–1979
- Sir William Paton1979–1982
- Lord Blake 1983–1987
- Sir John Baring, later Lord Ashburton 1987–1999
- Sir Richard Southwood 1999–2002
- Lord Waldegrave of North Hill 2002–2011
- Sir John Hood 2011–Present
List of wardens
- Sir Francis Wylie 1903–1931
- Professor Sir Carleton Allen 1931–1952
- Brigadier Sir Edgar Williams 1952–1980
- Dr Robin Fletcher 1980–1989
- Sir Anthony Kenny 1989–1999
- Dr John Rowett 1999–2004
- Sir Colin Lucas 2004–2009
- Professor Don Markwell 2009–2012
- Dr Andrew GrahamActing Warden 2012–2013
- Charles R. Conn 2013–2018
- Dr Elizabeth Kiss August 2018[32]
List of Rhodes Scholars
References
- ^ a b c Historic England, "Rhodes House (1076964)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 8 June 2020
- ^ History Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, The Rhodes Trust, Oxford, UK.
- ^ JSTOR 3518705.
- ^ Howard, Jeanne. "The library of Rhodes House Oxford". Library Review. 39–2.
- ^ ISBN 9780714623948.
- ISBN 9780719064975.
- ^ Albert Einstein — Honours, prizes and awards: Oxford University Archived 2 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Albert Einstein in the World Wide Web, Germany.
- Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, UK.
- ISBN 9780864866844.
- ^ "Bodleian Libraries | UPDATED Moves of Special Collections". www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
- ^ "Philanthropist John McCall MacBain O.C. receives the University of Oxford's highest award - Oxford Thinking - University of Oxford". www.campaign.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
- ^ "Zambian activist Lucy Banda becomes first female Rhodes scholar to have portrait displayed at Oxford University," The Independent, 9 December 2015; "Somervillian becomes the first female Rhodes Scholar to have portrait displayed at Rhodes House". Somerville College, Oxford. 14 December 2015.
- ^ Bench, Bar & (19 September 2017). "Portrait of Menaka Guruswamy unveiled at Rhodes House, Oxford University". Bar & Bench. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
- ^ "Wasim Sajjad honoured; Rhodes Trust portrait - The Royal Society of Portrait Painters". The Royal Society of Portrait Painters. 22 September 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
- ^ "True Grit". Retrieved 31 July 2018.
- ^ Patterson, Moira (21 August 2012). "Dom Mintoff obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
- ^ "For The First Time, An Indian Woman Scholar's Portrait Hangs At Rhodes House In Oxford". HuffPost India. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
- ^ "Bram Fischer Memorial Lecture 2017: Can South Africa's Constitutional Democracy be Sustained? | African Studies Centre". www.africanstudies.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
- ^ a b "Alastair Adams portrait painter". ALASTAIR ADAMS portraits. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
- ^ "A. Michael Spence - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
- ^ "RHODES TRUST - PUBLIC PURPOSES FUND, registered charity no. 232492". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
- ^ The Rhodes Trust, Rhodes House, Oxford, UK.
- ^ See, e.g., "To 'render war impossible': the Rhodes Scholarships, educational relations between countries, and peace" in Donald Markwell, "Instincts to Lead": On Leadership, Peace, and Education (Connor Court Publishing, 2013)
- ^ Mandela Rhodes Foundation (2010) The Mandela Rhodes Scholarships Archived 19 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 1 October 2012
- ^ Bothwell, Ellie (1 June 2016). "Rhodes Trust to launch new institute and expand scholarships". Times Higher Education (THE). Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ^ Muslimin, Anis. "Former Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Announces New Science Fellows". Forbes. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ^ "Eric and Wendy Schmidt seek to build the next generation of scientific leaders". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ^ "Eric and Wendy Schmidt Launch Science Fellows Program". Philanthropy News Digest (PND). Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Trustees". Rhodes House. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ "Warden" (PDF). rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
- ^ "Dapo Akande". Oxford Law Faculty. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- ^ "Dr Elizabeth Kiss selected as next Warden of Rhodes House". Oxford University. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
Further reading
- ISBN 978-0-300-11835-3.
- ISBN 978-1-903152-35-5. Has a critical account of the decline of the Rhodes Trust under Warden John Rowett, and commends recovery under Wardens Donald Markwell and Charles R. Conn.
Books and articles by former Wardens of Rhodes House, Oxford:
- Anthony Kenny, The History of the Rhodes Trust. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Donald Markwell, "Instincts to Lead": On Leadership, Peace, and Education, 2013.
- Charles R. Conn, Thinking About Historical Legacies: Looking for Just Principles and Processes: IHJR, 2018.
External links
- Official website
- Virtual tour of Rhodes House Archived 17 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
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