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]
For other uses, see Rhodes House (disambiguation).Queen Elizabeth II
Zambian human rights activist ; her portrait, unveiled in 2015, was the first of a woman Rhodes Scholar ever displayed in Rhodes House.[12]
Lucy Banda-Sichone
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
the founding Organizing Secretary of the Rhodes Trust
George Robert Parkin
Canadian neuroscientist
Wilder Penfield
Former Australian Prime Minister
Bob Hawke
Neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize winner,
Sir John Eccles
Pharmacologist and Nobel Prize winner,
Sir Howard Florey
Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Chrystia Freeland
Former Chairs of the , including Sir Kenneth Wheare, Robert Blake, Baron Blake, and Lord Waldegrave of North Hill
Rhodes Trust
Former Wardens of Rhodes House – Sir , Sir Carleton Allen, Sir Edgar Williams, Dr Robin Fletcher, Sir Anthony Kenny, Dr John Rowett, Sir Colin Lucas, and Professor Donald Markwell.
Francis Wylie
Former South African President , who joined his name with Cecil Rhodes in the Mandela Rhodes Foundation
Nelson Mandela
Rhodes House houses a significant collection of paintings and photographic portraits and busts, including of:
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)
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)
(Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford)
Kate O'Regan
Mr Chris Oechsli – President and CEO of The
Atlantic Philanthropies
– Co-founder of Sun Pharmaceuticals
Dilip Shanghvi
Judge Karen Stevenson (United States Magistrate and Judge)
Dr Peter Stamos (California & Worcester 1981) – Founder, Chief Executive Officer of Stamos Capital Partners
(New Zealand & Worcester College, 1976), Chairman (since 2011)
Sir John Hood
(Alberta & Magdalen College, 1975) (since 2002)
Professor John Bell
(New Zealand & Balliol College, 1987) (since 2009)
Professor Ngaire Woods
(British Columbia & Brasenose College, 1984) (since 2010)
Dominic Barton
Don Gogel (New Jersey & Balliol College, 1971) (since 2010)
(since 2010)
Professor Margaret MacMillan
(Quebec & Wadham College, 1980) (since 2010)
John McCall MacBain
Karen Stevenson (Maryland & Magdalen College, 1979) (since 2010)
(Queensland & Balliol College, 1983) (since 2010)
John Wylie
Glen James (since 2014)
Andrew Banks (Florida & St Edmund Hall, 1976) (since 2014)
(since 2015)
Professor Dame Carol Robinson
(since 2015)
Nicholas Oppenheimer
(South Africa-at-Large and St John's College, 1985) (since 2016)
Professor Elleke Boehmer
(since 2017)
Dilip Shanghvi
Mike Fitzpatrick (Western Australia & St John's College, 1975) (since 2018)
Peter Stamos (California & Worcester College, 1981) (since 2018)
. Legacy: Cecil Rhodes, the Rhodes Trust and Rhodes Scholarships (Yale University Press, 2008); 388 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-11835-3.
Philip Ziegler
. Look Back in Laughter: Oxford's Postwar Golden Age (Threshold Press, 2015); 260 pp. 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.
R.W. Johnson
Books and articles by former Wardens of Rhodes House, Oxford: