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Hussein Fakhry Pasha

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Hussein Fakhry
8th Prime Minister of Egypt
In office
15 January 1893 – 17 January 1893
MonarchAbbas II
Preceded byMustafa Fahmi Pasha
Succeeded byRiyad Pasha
Personal details
Born1843
Died1920

Hussein Fakhry Pasha KCMG (1843-1920) was the Prime Minister of Egypt for two days during the Khedivate of Egypt.[1] He was Prime Minister from January 15, 1893 to January 17, 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

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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

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  1. ^ a b "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.
Political offices
Preceded by Prime Minister of Egypt
1893–1893
Succeeded by