# Rhodes Scholarship **Entity class:** International postgraduate scholarship and alumni network ## Definition The **Rhodes Scholarship** was established through Cecil Rhodes’s will in 1902 to bring selected students to Oxford. Its original design was entangled with Rhodes’s imperial vision and the cultivation of English-speaking leadership. Its later constituencies, demographics, and institutional mission expanded substantially. ## Relationships - **founder:** [[wiki/Cecil Rhodes|Cecil Rhodes]]. - **administrator:** [[wiki/Rhodes Trust|Rhodes Trust]]. - **host university:** [[wiki/University of Oxford|University of Oxford]]. - **scholar:** [[wiki/John Templeton|John Templeton]], Balliol College law degree, 1936. - **collection route:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Rhodes Trust — History](https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/scholarships/history-of-the-rhodes-scholarship/) - [Rhodes Trust — Who Was Rhodes?](https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/impact-legacy/legacy-equity-inclusion/who-was-rhodes/)