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Auction: 14035 - Postal History, Autographs and Historical Documents
Lot: 3121

Historical Documents
Egypt
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
1896 (9 March) folio letter from the Government Office in Cairo, to Sir John Rogers Pasha (Director General of the Sanitary Department) and signed "Cromer"; a routine letter about appointments of surgeon officer in the Egyptian government; with Arabic translation. Fine

Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841 – 1917).
A British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator. He was British controller-general in Egypt during 1879, part of the international Control which oversaw Egyptian finances after the Khedives' mismanagement, and during the British occupation prompted by the Urabi revolt, agent and consul-general in Egypt from 1883 to 1907. Far from the centre of the Empire, Cromer ran the territory with great drive and his effective governance balked British wishes to withdraw from Egypt.

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Estimate
£250 to £300