Origin

Born: 24 May 1857
Died: 11 September 1950

Location: Bovenplaats, near Malmesbury, in the Cape Colony

Father: Ernest Oppenheimer

Mother: unknown

Wife: Isie Krige

Son: Nicholas

Religion: Calvinist

Education

Primary: Riebeek West

College: Victoria College, Stellenbosch

Graduate: Christ's College, Cambridge: Law

Business

1895: Cecil Rhodes, Personal Legal Advisor

Politics

1919 September 3 – 1924 June 30: Prime Minister of South Africa

1939 September 5 – 1948 June 4: Prime Minister of south Africa

War

1899 - 1902: Anglo-Boer War - General Jan Smuts

British War Ministry

1941 28 May: Appointed a Field Marshal of the British Army; second in command to Winston Churchill