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Rhodes House, circa 1964 Rhodes College
Rhodes House Rhodes College
In January 1926 it was announced that the Rhodes Trustees have purchased a site from Wadham College, fronting on Parks Road and South Parks Road on which they will erect a building, to be lnown as Rhodes House, to contain a hall for the annual dinners of the Trust, and English-speaking Library and the residence of the Oxford Secretary, from designs prepared by Mr. Herbert Baker. [Source: Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette - Friday 01 January 1926]

On June 17th 1926 to compliment Rhodes House a new Oxford Lectureship was announced by Sir Otto Beit at the annual Rhodes dinner. The value was to be of about £500 and to be known as the Rhodes Memorial Lectureship. The Lectureship will be unlike most lectureships in that it will be awarded by a joint committee of Rhodes trustees and Representatives of the University to a man or woman of pre-eminent distinction in public life, or business, in science, scholarship or letters. The condition of the lectureship is that the recipient should reside in Oxford for one term, and deliver not less than two lectures. The main purpose of tho foundation is to bring to Oxford persons of distinction from other countries, and especially from the new world, so that their special learning or experience may be made available to the University. [Source: Daily News (London) - Thursday 17 June 1926 and Birmingham Daily Gazette - Thursday 17 June 1926]

On July 9th 1926 it was annonounced that the important contract for the erection of the new Rhodes Memorial House at Oxford, amounting to about £90,000, been secured by Messrs. Henry Martin of Northampton. The new building is to be erected on the northern part of the Warden’s Garden at Wadham. [Source: Northampton Mercury - Friday 09 July 1926]
Rhodes House
[Source: THE BUILDER, May 6th 1927, p. 725]