1. Charles Dunell Rudd was the main business associate of Cecil Rhodes.
14 Facts About Charles Rudd
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Charles Rudd was born at Hamworth Hall, Norfolk, the son of Henry Rudd and his first wife Mary Stanbridge.
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Charles Rudd's family had been in the shipbuilding and paint businesses.
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Charles Rudd left for Cape Colony in 1865 before completing his degree, according to himself under medical advice.
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Between 1873 and 1881, while Rhodes intermittently attended college in England, Charles Rudd managed their interests.
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Charles Rudd was one of the directors and held large interests in the main machinery supplier for the mining fields.
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Charles Rudd was structured to enormously favor Rudd and Rhodes, with its London board unaware of most of their activities in southern Africa.
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On 30 October 1888 Charles Rudd secured an agreement to the mineral rights of Matabeleland and Mashonaland from Lobengula, the King of Matabeleland.
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Rhodes and Charles Rudd had duped the British government and the investing public into believing that the concession was vested in the public company and made millions of pounds when the British South Africa Company bought the concession.
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Charles Rudd had disagreements with Rhodes, in 1895 proclaiming that he would no longer work with Rhodes, and perhaps was unaware of the Gold Fields' conspiracy which culminated in the disastrous Jameson raid.
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Still, Charles Rudd remained a friend of Rhodes and a director of Gold Fields until 1902, after which he retired to Scotland, "enjoying the life of an Edwardian plutocrat".
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Charles Rudd died in 1916 after an unsuccessful prostate operation in a nursing home in London.
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Percy's son, Bevil Charles Rudd was an Olympic champion 400-meter runner.
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Frances died in 1896 of influenza or tuberculosis, and in 1898 Charles Rudd married 24-year-old Corrie Maria Wallace, the daughter of his partner in the machinery company in Kimberley, with whom he had three more children.