Article: Starr's ill-starred raid; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

QUESTION Is the Leander Starr Jameson buried near Cecil Rhodes in the Matopo Hills near Bulawayo, in Zimbabwe, the hero of the ill-starred Jameson Raid?

AS A young man, Dr Leander Starr Jameson (1853-1917), who studied medicine at University College London, was a house physician and demonstrator of anatomy. But his health broke down in 1878, and he went out to South Africa where he became a close friend and colleague of Cecil Rhodes.

When Rhodes's British South Africa Company occupied Mashonaland in 1890, Jameson became the first Administrator of the territory. It was the first step in the colonisation of what was later Southern Rhodesia.

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