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Egypt's English Pharaoh Andrew Roberts wonders why an enlightened imperialist is so despised in modern Egypt Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul by Roger Owen Oxford, pounds 25, 436 pp pounds 25 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
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SIR EVELYN BARING , 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917) can lay claim
to being the greatest of all the British imperial administrators, not
excluding Lord Curzon himself. He ruled Egypt from almost the moment
he stepped ashore at Alexandria as the Queen's agent, consul-general
and plenipotentiary in September 1883 until his resignation nearly a
quarter of a century later, in 1907.
Yet despite all the multifarious benefits he bestowed during his
time there, he is cordially loathed in Egypt today; as recently as
1998 a group of Egyptian students asked the local archivist in the
small Norfolk town ...
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