THE MAKING OF RHODESIA

Hole (Hugh Marshall)

405 pages.  Hardback, 1st edition.  Has been privately rebound in leather & boxed.   Contents are the original book, sans frontispiece of Rhodes.  Book and box cover are clean and tight, no damage,  Book contents are clean and with tight binding.  Some foxing and coloring to first few pages.  Narrative text with illustration and maps.  Very Good Condition.

THE MAKING OF RHODESIA

Published in 1926, this book seeks to clear some misconceptions of Southern and Northern Rhodesia at the time of the evolution of British colonies that bear the name of Rhodes, their founder. The author who lived there for twenty-three years, used official records and reports, original photographs and his friends and his own narrative to tell this story.

Marshall Hole was born in Tiverton in Devon, England. He was educated at Blundell's School and Balliol College.

Hole came to Cape Colony in 1889 and met the mine magnate and politician Cecil Rhodes in Kimberley. Rhodes offered him a job as the first clerk to the newly formed British South Africa Company. In 1891 Marshall Hole took up the position of private secretary to Sir Leander Starr Jameson in Mashonaland (who was shortly to be appointed Administrator of the company's territories).

Hole's other appointments included:

• Secretary for Matabeleland
• Civil Commissioner of Bulawayo
• Chief Secretary of Southern Rhodesia
• Chief Native Title Commissioner for Matabeleland
• Administrator of North West Rhodesia

Cecil Rhodes took a great liking to Marshall Hole and in 1901 had sent him on missions to Arabia to devise means for the introduction of Arab labour to Southern Rhodesia.  Hole also took charge of the arrangements for Rhodes' burial in the Matopo Hills in 1902.

Marshall Hole retired from Government service in 1913 and at the outbreak of World War I he joined The Norfolk Regiment, was mentioned in despatches and retired in 1919.

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