Gordon Le Sueur

Gordon Le Sueur, born in 1874, is chiefly remembered for Cecil Rhodes; the Man and His Work and Germany's Vanishing Colonies. Library and public-domain catalog records consistently identify him as an author active in the early 1900s, and Cecil Rhodes was presented as the work of one of Rhodes's private and confidential secretaries.

That connection helps explain the tone and value of his writing: Le Sueur wrote from close observation, with an insider's view of British imperial politics in southern Africa. For listeners interested in historical memoir, colonial history, or the personalities around Rhodes, his work is useful both as narrative and as a revealing document of its era.

Reliable biographical detail about his wider life appears to be limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to keep the focus on the books themselves and his documented association with Rhodes. I couldn't confirm a suitable portrait image from the sources available, so no profile image is included.