SHERIF See also:

• PASHA

PASHA (1818-1887)  , See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian statesman, was a Circassian who filled numerous administrative posts under Said and See also:

• ISMAIL (1830-1895)

Ismail pashas . He was of better See also:

• EDUCATION

education than most of his contemporaries, and had married a daughter of See also:

• COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

Colonel Seves the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French non-commissioned officer who became Soliman See also:

• PASHA

Pasha under Mehemet See also:

• ALI

Ali . As See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign affairs he was useful to Ismail, who used Sherif's See also:

• BLUFF (a word of uncertain origin; possibly connected with an obsolete Dutch word, blaf, broad)

bluff bonhomie to See also:

• VEIL (O.Fr. veile, mod. voile, from Lat. velum, cloth, awning, sail)

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
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• MELBOURNE
• MELBOURNE, WILLIAM LAMB, 2ND VISCOUNT (1779-1848)

Melbourne, whose policy was to leave every-thing alone . His favourite See also:

• ARGUMENT

argument against any reform was to See also:

• APPEAL

appeal to the Pyramids as an immutable See also:

• PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof of the solidity of See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt financially and politically . His fatal optimism rendered him largely responsible for the collapse of Egyptian See also:

• CREDIT (Lat. credere, to believe)

credit which brought about the fall of Ismail . Upon the military insurrection of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1881, Sherif was summoned by the See also:

• KHEDIVE

khedive Tewfik to See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a new See also:

• MINISTRY

ministry . The impossibility of reconciling the See also:

• FINANCIAL

financial requirements of the See also:

• NATIONAL

national party with the demands of the See also:

• BRITISH

British and French controllers of the public See also:

• DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

debt, compelled him to resign in the following See also:

• FEBRUARY

February . After the suppression of the Arabi See also:

• REBELLION

rebellion he was again installed in See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office (September 1882) by Tewfik, but in See also:

• JANUARY

January 1884 he resigned rather than See also:

• SANCTION (Lat. sanctia, from sancire, to decree or ordain)

sanction the evacuation of the See also:

• SUDAN (Arabic Bilad-es-Sudan, country of the blacks)

Sudan . As to the strength of the mandist See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement he had then no conception . When urged by See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• EVELYN, JOHN (1620-1706)

Evelyn See also:

• BARING

Baring (Lord See also:

• CROMER
• CROMER, EVELYN BARING, 1ST EARL (1841– )

Cromer) See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early in 1883 to abandon some of the more distant parts of the Sudan, he replied with characteristic See also:

• LIGHT

light-heartedness: " Nous en causerons plus tard; d'abord nous allons donner une bonne raclee a ce See also:

• MONSIEUR (Fr., formed from men, my, and sieur, lord)

monsieur " (i.e. the See also:

• MANDI

mandi) . See also:

• HICKS, ELIAS (1748-1830)
• HICKS, HENRY (1837-1899)
• HICKS, WILLIAM (1830-1883)

Hicks Pasha's expedition was at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time preparing to See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

march on El Obeid .

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

• APRIL

April 1887 .