# Rhodes Trust **Entity class:** Scholarship trust and transnational alumni network ## Definition The **Rhodes Trust** administers the [[wiki/Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholarships]] at the University of Oxford. Established through Cecil Rhodes’s will, the scholarship was designed to select high-capability students, educate them at Oxford, and bind them into a durable international network. The Trust now publicly confronts parts of its founder’s colonial legacy while presenting public service and global leadership as its contemporary mission. ## Templeton loop [[wiki/John Templeton|John Templeton]] was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol. In 2016, Templeton World Charity Foundation awarded the Rhodes Trust **$215,000** for a Character, Service & Leadership Programme, explicitly citing the institutional connection to Templeton and describing a shared interest in character development among globally networked high-achieving adults. ## Relationships - **founder:** [[wiki/Cecil Rhodes|Cecil Rhodes]]. - **program:** [[wiki/Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholarship]]. - **university:** [[wiki/University of Oxford|University of Oxford]] and [[wiki/Balliol College|Balliol College]]. - **Templeton grantee:** Character, Service & Leadership Programme. - **collection route:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Rhodes Trust — History of the Scholarship](https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/scholarships/history-of-the-rhodes-scholarship/) - [Templeton World Charity Foundation — Character, Service & Leadership Programme](https://www.templetonworldcharity.org/projects-resources/project-database/0183)