Editing Cecil Rhodes (section)

=== England and Jersey ===
[[File:Cecil Rhodes as a boy.jpg|thumb|Rhodes as a boy]]
[[File:Rhodes Arts Complex and Bishop's Stortford Museum - geograph.org.uk - 592543.jpg|thumb|Rhodes' birthplace, now part of [[Rhodes Arts Complex|Bishop's Stortford Museum]]; the bedroom in which he was born is marked by a plaque.]]
Rhodes attended the [[Bishop's Stortford]] [[Grammar School]] from the age of nine, but, as a sickly, [[asthmatic]] adolescent, he was taken out of grammar school in 1869 and, according to [[Basil Williams (historian)|Basil Williams]],{{sfn|Williams|1921|p=}}{{page needed|date=February 2016}} "continued his studies under his father's eye ..."

At age seven, he was recorded in the 1861 census as boarding with his aunt, Sophia Peacock, at a boarding house in [[Jersey]], where the climate was perceived to provide a respite for those with conditions such as [[asthma]].<ref>{{Cite journal|date=13 September 2018|title=Doctors, dentists and dancers – the inhabitants of bustling David Place|url=https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=7e167572-56ec-4878-bdf0-e542f200dd61|journal=Jersey Evening Post|page=17|url-access=subscription}}</ref> His health was weak and there were fears that he might be [[Tuberculosis|consumptive]] (have tuberculosis), a disease of which several of the family showed symptoms. His father decided to send him abroad for what were believed the good effects of a sea voyage and a better climate in South Africa.