Rhodes House

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.

The square rubble walls were designed to be consistent with the Western European 17th century architecture of the Oxford University campus.

Einstein's Blackboard, now an iconic object, can still be seen at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford,[8] formally presented by Sir Francis Wylie, the Warden of Rhodes House at the time.

When Rhodes House was completed all the material relating to the British Empire and U.S. were transferred from the Bodleian Library.

The Rhodes Trust, established in 1902 under the terms and conditions of the will of Cecil Rhodes, and by subsequent Acts of Parliament, is an educational charity[21] whose principal activity is to support scholars selected from the citizens of 14 specified geographic constituencies to study at the University of Oxford.

[22] The goals of Cecil Rhodes in creating the Scholarships were to promote civic-minded leadership among young people with (in the words of his 1899 Will) "moral force of character and instincts to lead", and (in the words of a 1901 codicil to his Will) to help "render war impossible" through promoting understanding between the great powers.

Funding for this project allowed the Trust to expand the total number of Rhodes Scholars and to offer scholarships to students from Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, China, and West Africa.