Person
Cecil Rhodes
Mining businessman; first chair of De Beers Consolidated Mines.
- chair of De Beers, according to De Beers 12 Mar 1888 – 1902
Connections 3
founded
chair of
- De Beers 12 Mar 1888 – 1902 According to De Beers Self-published 2
involved in
- Kimberley diamond rush arrived in the diggings and sold goods and services to miners Scholarship & press 3
Timeline 2 dates
- 12 Mar 1888 Cecil Rhodes founded De Beers
- 12 Mar 1888 – 1902 Cecil Rhodes chair of De Beers According to De Beers
Proof 3 sources
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The Diamond Mines of South Africa: Some Account of Their Rise and Development, Gardner F. Williams, general manager of De Beers Consolidated Mines (scan on Internet Archive), 1902.
Scholarship & press
On the 12th of March, 1888, a seemingly unpretentious joint stock company was formed and established at Kimberley
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Our History & Heritage Since 1888, De Beers Group.
Self-published
Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnato, who were running competing diamond operations, join forces. De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited is established on 12 March 1888.
Rhodes is named Chair and continues in this role until 1902.
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Why a Diamond Means Forever: The Creation of the Diamond Engagement Ring Tradition in the United States, 1939-1996, Jennifer Lynn Pequignot, doctoral dissertation, Auburn University (drawing on the N. W. Ayer records at the Smithsonian), 2019.
Scholarship & press
Rhodes recognized an opportunity to make money providing goods and services to the more than fifty thousand miners encamped at Kimberley.
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