' Sir Edgar Vincent, b. 1857, K.C.M.G., formerly Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards. Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government, and Governor of the Imperial Ottoman Bank at Constantinople.
* Mary, daughter of Edward Coxe the historian's brother (1793- 1883), married John Clayton Freeling, son of Sir Francis Freeling of the Post Office.
' Robert William Hamilton, 1833-1883, Grenadier Guards. Grandson of W. R. Hamilton. See Note 9 to Crimean Letters.
» Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, b. 1838, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., etc. etc. etc. Constable of the Tower of London 191 1.
"Evelyn Baring, Earl of Cromer, b. 1841, P.C, G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., etc. etc. Agent, Consul-General, and Minister Plenipotentiary in Egypt 188 3-1907.
" Nubar Pasha, 1 825-1 899, of Armenian parentage and educated by the Jesuits. Carried through the negotiations for the completion of the Suez Canal under Ismail Pasha. Minister of Foreign Affairs 1866. Held office under Lord Cromer 1884-88 and 1894-96.
"Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bart., 1 843-191 1. Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1881. President Local Government Board 1882-85.
^» General George Hay Moncrieff, Scots Guards. Son of General Moncrieff referred to in the letters from China.
1' Captain Moncrieff, R.N. British Consul at Jeddah. Accompanied expedition sent to reUeve Tokar; killed in action with 160 Egyptian officers and men.
i^WiUiam Hicks (Hicks Pasha), 1830-1883. Staff officer in the Rohilkund Expedition, served in the Abyssinian War 1867-68.
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Anglo-Egyptian General. Defeated and killed at the battle of Kash-gil 1883.
" Outrages k la Piferre. I have searched in vain for some explanation of these words. — H. A. P.
"General WiUiam Earle, C.B., C.S.L, 1833-1885, Grenadier Guards. Military Secretary to Lord Northbrook, Viceroy of India, 1872-76. Killed at the battle of Kirbekan, in the Soudan.
" Emily Anne, youngest daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B., married 1862 the 8th and last Viscount Strangford.
" General Valentine Baker (Baker Pasha), 1827-1887. Brother of Sir Samuel White Baker the traveller. Served in the Kaffir War 1852-53, in India and the Crimea. Major-General in the Turkish Army 1877.
^* CliflEord Lloyd was sent to Egypt in 1883 to reorganise the Department of the Interior. Owing to continued friction with Nubar Pasha and a certain unfitness for working with Orientals, he resigned his post in 1884.
» Sir Colin Campbell Scott-Moncrieff, K.C.S.I., K.C.M.G., etc., b. 1836. Served in the Oudh campaign 1858-59. Under-Secretary Public Works Ministry of Egypt 1883.
" Charles George Gordon, 1 833-1 885. Crimea 1855, China i860, and in command of a Chinese force put down the Taiping rebels. Governor of Egyptian Equatorial Provinces 1873. ^^' fended Khartoum for some months in 1884, but was treacherously killed two days before the relieving force reached him.
*" Sir Herbert Stewart, son of the Rev. John Stewart, rector of Sparshott, in Hampshire. Was wounded at the battle of Abu Klea, and subsequently died from the effects of his wounds 1885.
"Early in May 1884 Great Britain invited the other Great Powers of Europe to a Conference to consider the government of Egypt and its financial position. After some hesitation and delay, the invitation was accepted in June, and on the 28th of that month the Conference met for the first time in London under the Presidency of Lord Granville. It dragged on without definite result, and on August 4, Mr. Gladstone as Prime Minister had to announce to the House of Commons that it had broken down.
** Garnet, Joseph, Viscount Wolseley, 1833-1913. Field- Marshal, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army 1895-1900.
•* George, Duke of Cambridge, 18 19-1904.
" General Sir Edmund Whitmore, Military Secretary at the Horse Guards at that date.
" Sir Thomas George Baring, Earl of Northbrook, G.C.S.I., P.C, D.C.L., etc. etc., 1826-1904. Secretary of State for War 1883. Viceroy of India 1872-76.
" General Sir Arthur James Fremantle, K.C.M.G., Coldstream Guards, b. 1835. Governor of Malta.
» A note from the recipient of this letter says, • ' John — Sparshott
— no, he was not," referring of course to the omitted Christian name, the living, and the canonry.
'o Osman Digna. Slave dealer and leader of Soudan Dervishes. Made Governor of the Soudan by the Mahdi in 1883. Victorious at Sinkat and El Deb. Defeated by Anglo-Egyptian troops under General Graham 1884.
" Right Hon, Sir Henry Brackenbury, K.C.B., etc. etc., b. 1837, Indian Mutiny 1857-58. Soudan 1884-85.