Rhodes House
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Rhodes House is part of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on the south of South Parks Road in central Oxford, and was built in memory of Cecil Rhodes, an alumnus of the University and a major benefactor. The building was designed by Sir Herbert Baker in a colonial style and was completed in 1928.
The Rhodes Trust is based at Rhodes House. The Rhodes Trust, established in 1902 under the terms and conditions of the will of Cecil Rhodes, is an educational charity whose principal activity is to support scholars selected from the citizens of 14 specified geographic constituencies in order to study at the University of Oxford. Rhodes Scholarships for a duration of one, two, or three years have been awarded annually since 1904.[1]
The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House (aka the Rhodes House Library) is part of the main Bodleian Library in Oxford.
During 1931, Albert Einstein delivered a series of three lectures at Rhodes House. Edmund Bowen, a chemistry don at the University, saved the blackboard used in the second lecture (on 16 May). This can still be seen at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford, formally presented by Sir Francis Wylie, the Warden of Rhodes House at the time.
