Husayn Fahri Pasha

Hussein Fakhry Pasha (1843-1920) was the Prime Minister of Egypt for three days during the Khedivate of Egypt.[1] He was Prime Minister from January 15, 1893 to January 18, 1893.[1] He had previously served as a cabinet minister.[2] He was Minister of Public Works during the building of the Aswan Low Dam[3] and was appointed an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in December 1902.[4]

Personal life

He was of Turkish origin.[5] His son, Mahmoud Fakhry, served as the minister of finance and minister of foreign affairs during the 1920s.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Former Prime Ministers". Cabinet of Ministers. Archived from the original on 14 December 2010. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  2. Harrison, Thomas Skelton (1917). The homely diary of a diplomat in the East, 1897-1899. Houghton Mifflin. pp. 351. Hossein Fakhri Pasha.
  3. de Guerville, A. B. (1905). New Egypt. Heinemann. pp. 227–228.
  4. "No. 27503". The London Gazette. 12 December 1902. p. 8589.
  5. Reid, Donald Malcolm (2015), Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser, The American University in Cairo Press, p. 175, ISBN 978-9774166891, Husayn Fakhri, the long-serving Turkish minister of education...
  6. "Fuad l, 1922-1936, Mint State, Complete". NGC Registry. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
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