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He had an unspecified role in the 1895 Jameson Raid, a botched attempt by British Colonials to gain the Transvaal.

Maverick MP who made a very English scandal years before grandson; 'Hellfire Jack'- grandfather of JeremyThorpe - lived fast but died by his own hand

Dr Harris' political career started in South Africa, where he became a member of the Cape Province House of Assembly, but it was marred by the Jameson Raid controversy - under the instruction of businessman Cecil Rhodes, he sent a message to the Times newspaper falsely suggesting Jameson was responding to an immediate request for help.

Despite the synergy it's surprising so few doctors switch to politics; Doctors have a long tradition of representing Wales in rugby internationals, but only a handful have become politicians, as a new book reveals

Quiz of the Day ANSWERS: 1 Mark Taylor; 2 The dingo; 3 Surfing; 4 Michelangelo; 5 Ayrton Senna; 6 Pepper water; 7 The Jameson Raid; 8 Derek Jacobi; 9 Oberon; 10 Liverpool FC.

Quiz of the Day

Birmingham bands Voodoo Johnson, Raven Vandelle and Jameson Raid also appear tomorrow.

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Rhodes proceeded to help on God's purpose of bringing "peace, liberty and justice" through the Matabele wars, the Jameson Raid, the Boer War, the subjection, first of the northern negroes and then of the Boers, to British domination, and the creation of a vast system of political corruption both in England and in South Africa.

A bad man in Africa: as Zimbabwe celebrated 30 years of independence on 18 April, it was hard to remember that modern Zimbabwe started as a fiefdom of one man, Cecil Rhodes, and a few colleagues, who tricked king Lobengula out of his domain. Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher, mathematician and historian, tells the story even better in freedom and organisation, published by Routledge

The invasion and rule of Egypt (1882-1954), ostensibly to straighten out a bankrupt administration and protect the Suez Canal; the Jameson Raid (1895), conspiratorially devised to aid the "oppressed" British incomers to Boer territory and shift control of the Transvaal from the Dutch to the British; the rule of Nigeria (1900) to protect British trade all of these proved to be laboratories for perfecting the techniques of domination.

Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

The immediate context of Anglo-German tensions for Dracula involves the events surrounding the 'Jameson Raid' of 1895-96.

Dracula's world-system and gothic periodicity

The Fort started its life as a jail but was converted to a defensive structure at the time of the Jameson raid at the end of 1895.

Centre court: South Africa's Constitutional Court is the highest judicial body in the land. A young practice won the competition to build an icon for the free republic

They had expected to be deployed as scouts for the British army, not as garrison troops for Rhodes and his Company, the same gang who had launched the Jameson raid. Methuen informed Roberts, with some exaggeration, that all bushmen `look with the utmost disfavour on the Jameson Raid and Rhodes', and that Kenneth Mackay, commanding the largest bushmen contingent, had protested at finding himself under the command of Raleigh Grey, one of Rhodes' lieutenants.

Australians in the Unconventional Conventional War in South Africa, November 1899 to June 1900

The angle of the book is intriguing and makes a refreshing change from yet another rehash of Rhodes versus Kruger, Chamberlain and the Jameson Raid, Milner versus the Boer republics, Black Week, Mafeking and all the rest.

Managing the South African War, 1899-1902