Randlords (Afrikaans: randhere) were the capitalists who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa from the 1870s up to World...
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alphabetical order based on last name. Barney Barnato (1851–1897), British Randlord and diamond magnate Alfred Beit (1853–1906), Anglo-German gold and diamond...
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Barney Barnato (category Randlords)
Barnato (born Barnet Isaacs; 21 February 1851 – 14 June 1897) was a British Randlord and diamond magnate who was one of the entrepreneurs who gained control...
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Julius Wernher (category Randlords)
Charles Wernher, 1st Baronet (9 April 1850 – 21 May 1912) was a German-born Randlord, diamond magnate, and art collector who became part of the English establishment...
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Pilgrim's Rest in 1873 Barberton in 1881 Kaapsehoop in 1882 Ferreirasdorp in 1886 (in the Witwatersrand Basin, Witwatersrand) Randlord Witwatersrand Gold Rush...
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sea, near the island of Madeira Barnato was a British entrepreneur and Randlord who disappeared at sea after mysteriously falling overboard, and was later...
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standardisation processes Rand formula, formula in Canadian labour law Randlord, term used to denote the entrepreneurs who controlled the diamond and gold...
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French Victorian style in 1881 by a Capt. John Spence. It was bought by the Randlord Sir J.B. Robinson in 1891 and was where he lived until his death in 1927...
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Cecil Rhodes (category Randlords)
Cecil John Rhodes (/ˈsɛsəl ˈroʊdz/ SES-əl ROHDZ; 5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was an English mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served...
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Westcliff, Melville and Richmond to the West. Originally established by the Randlords in the 1890s, Parktown is now home to many businesses, hospitals, schools...
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created a super-wealthy class of miners and industrialists known as Randlords. Many Randlords built large estates and mansions on the Parktown Ridge. The Witwatersrand...
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death is debated and remains unsolved. Barney Barnato (46), an English Randlord and entrepreneur who was a prominent rival to Cecil Rhodes, was found dead...
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Thomas Cullinan (diamond magnate) (category Randlords)
prospecting. In 1897 he moved to Parktown, the up-and-coming suburb of the Randlords and had The View, his home, built. He discovered the Premier diamond fields...
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Neumann (Anglicized name Sigmund) (1857 – 1916) was a mining magnate (Randlord) and financier on the Witwatersrand. Neumann was born in Fürth, Kingdom...
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Whitechapel park in 1978 Barney Barnato, diamond mining industrialist and Randlord, 1851–1897 Richard Brandon (? – 20 June 1649), the reputed executioner...
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our prestige only. Chamberlain seized upon the fact that some of the Randlords were Jewish to argue in his letters to Cosima Wagner that the war was...
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The 5th Baron Rossmore and wife of Sir Abe Bailey, the South African 'Randlord'. Barry McGuigan, world Boxing Champion 1985. Born in Clones 28 February...
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Dutch Revival style. In 1902, Baker was brought to Johannesburg by the Randlords following the British victory in the Anglo-Boer War and included the Cape...
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Smallholdings. One of these farms was owned by Sir George Herbert Farrar, a randlord who played a prominent role in planning the infamous Jameson Raid, one...
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and design. He was the only son of Sir Max Michaelis, a South African randlord. Cecil Michaelis was born in Cabourg, France, in 1913, the son of Sir Max...
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ruling. Arnold Rothstein, Businessman from New York . Barney Barnato, Randlord Gina Bellman, actress Raphael Benjamin, rabbi in Australia and America...
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the United Kingdom. It was created on 2 August 1905 for the German-born Randlord and art collector Julius Wernher. His younger son, the third Baronet (who...
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Gustav Imroth (29 June 1862 – 10 October 1946) was a minor Randlord who played a role in the development of the South African diamond-mining industry and...
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Yehuda Porges; 1839, Vienna - 1921), Austria-born Paris-based financier and Randlord Nathan Porges (1848, Prostějov, Moravia - 1924), Czech-German rabbi Moritz...
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mining millionaire. The large 1897 stone mansion, originally built for the Randlord Barnato, would not be used as he died before the completion of the mansion...
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for revolt floundered, partly because not all of the mine-owners (or "Randlords") were supportive, and by 31 December the conspirators had raised a makeshift...
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won 21 seats, twenty on the Witwatersrand and one in Pretoria with five Randlords winning seats.: 174 Other parties included the Nationalists (old Transvaal...
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Down, Bath, Somerset, and have two children, Abigail and Gabriel. The Randlords (1985) Absent Friends (1989) The Controversy of Zion (1996) The Strange...
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The Randlord's (mine owners') exploitive employment of Chinese labor contributed to the Liberal Party victory in the 1906 elections. (Punch magazine, 1903)...
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Sir Joseph Robinson, 1st Baronet (category Randlords)
October 1929) was a South African gold and diamond mining magnate and Randlord. Mayor of Kimberley, Northern Cape in 1880, which he represented in the...
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