Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer

Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, GCB, OM, GCMG, KCSI, CIE, PC, FRS (26 February 1841 - 29 January 1917, was a British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator.

He was British controller-general in Egypt during 1879 and later agent and consul-general in Egypt from 1883 to 1907. During this period, Egypt had just been occupied by the British after running into financial and political trouble; far from the centre of the Empire, Cromer ran the territory with great drive and his actions eventually precluded British wishes to withdraw from Egypt.

He was closely involved with Egyptian politics and was unpopular with Egyptian nationalists for this and many other reasons . Cromer was eventually forced to resign in the wake of protests over the punishments meted out to Egyptians following the 1906 Denshawai Incident, in which an altercation between Egyptian villagers and British officers resulted in several deaths.

In 1906, he was made a Member of the Order of Merit by King Edward VII.

In 1910, he published Ancient and Modern Imperialism, an influential study of the British and Roman Empires. In 1916, he was appointed to the Dardanelles Commission but died before the signing of the first report.

Family

Bibliography

• Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl of (1908). Modern Egypt, by the Earl of Cromer. New York, The Macmillan Company. . ISBN 1402183399 (2001 reprint, vol 1.) ISBN 1402178301 (vol 2.)
• Owen, Roger (2004). Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199253382.
• Meyer, Karl E. and Shareen Blair Brysac "Kingmakers: the Invention of the Modern Middle East." New York, London, W.W. Norton 2008. ISBN 978-0-393-06199-4

External links

• Works by Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer at Project Gutenberg
• Evelyn Baring Cromer (1908). Modern Egypt. The Macmillan company.
• Evelyn Baring Cromer (1903). Paraphrases and Translations from the Greek. Macmillan.