Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer

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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 unpopular with Egyptian nationalists because of his close involvement in Egyptian politics^{[citation needed]}, and he was eventually forced to resign in the wake of protests over the Dinshaway Incident in 1906 when two Egyptian peasants were hanged, two sentenced to penal servitude for life (later released) and twenty-six others received floggings because they set upon five British officers with sticks and stones.^{[citation needed]} The officers were on a shooting expedition, had shot some pigeons belonging to a villager and then shot and wounded the villager's wife.^{[citation needed]}

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.

[edit] Family

Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale was his son.

[edit] Bibliography

• Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl of (1908). Modern Egypt, by the Earl of Cromer. New York, The Macmillan Company. ASIN B000NPPRR8. 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

[edit] External links

• Works by Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer at Project Gutenberg
• Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring
• Paraphrases and Translations from the Greek By Evelyn Baring Cromer

Political offices
Preceded by none	British Consul-General in Egypt 1883–1907	Succeeded by Sir John Eldon Gorst
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New creation	Earl of Cromer	Succeeded by Rowland Baring