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SHERIF PASHA (1818-1887)

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PASHA (1818-1887) , See also:Egyptian statesman, was a Circassian who filled numerous administrative posts under Said and See also:Ismail pashas. He was of better See also:education than most of his contemporaries, and had married a daughter of See also:Colonel Seves the See also:French non-commissioned officer who became Soliman Pasha under Mehemet See also:Ali. As See also:minister of See also:foreign affairs he was useful to Ismail, who used Sherif's See also:bluff bonhomie to See also:veil many of his most insidious proposals. Of singularly lazy disposition, he yet possessed considerable tact—he was in fact an Egyptian See also:Lord See also:Melbourne, whose policy was to leave every-thing alone. His favourite See also:argument against any reform was to See also:appeal to the Pyramids as an immutable See also:proof of the solidity of See also:Egypt financially and politically. His fatal optimism rendered him largely responsible for the collapse of Egyptian See also:credit which brought about the fall of Ismail. Upon the military insurrection of See also:September 1881, Sherif was summoned by the See also:khedive Tewfik to See also:form a new See also:ministry. The impossibility of reconciling the See also:financial requirements of the See also:national party with the demands of the See also:British and French controllers of the public See also:debt, compelled him to resign in the following See also:February. After the suppression of the Arabi See also:rebellion he was again installed in See also:office (September 1882) by Tewfik, but in See also:January 1884 he resigned rather than See also:sanction the evacuation of the See also:Sudan. As to the strength of the mandist See also:movement he had then no conception. When urged by See also:Sir See also:Evelyn See also:Baring (Lord See also:Cromer) See also:early in 1883 to abandon some of the more distant parts of the Sudan, he replied with characteristic See also:light-heartedness: " Nous en causerons plus tard; d'abord nous allons donner une bonne raclee a ce See also:monsieur " (i.e. the See also:mandi). See also:Hicks Pasha's expedition was at the See also:time preparing to See also:march on El Obeid.

(Vide Egypt No. 1 (1907), p. 115). Sherif died at Gratz, on the loth of See also:

April 1887.

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