SIR ELDON GORST.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 20, 23 July 1910, Page 10

SIR ELDON GORST.

» HIS WORK IN EGYPT. Sir Eldon Gorst, X.C.8., was appointed British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, in succession to Lord Cromer, in May 1907. He is forty-nine years of age, and was called tc the Bat in 1884. Entering the Diplomatic Service as an Attache in tiie following year, he was appointed to Cairo in September 1886. Promoted isuccessively to the rank of a Third Secretary (1887), a Second Secretary (1892), and a Secretary of Legation (1901), he .served under the Egyptian Government as Advisor to the Ministry of the Interior (1894), and as Financial Adviser (1398), whife m 1804 ho acted as Assistant Under-Secretary of State- for Foreign Affairs. The British Agent is the son of Sir John Gcrst, and is rather shorfa in stature, with slightly stooping shoulders'. He is compelled by short sight to wear eye-glasses on almost all occasions. He married, at the age of forty-two, Miss Evelyn Rudd, daughter of Mr. Charles Rudd, a South African financier. He took up his great position in Egypt under the most favourable auspices. His administration has, however, been most vigorously criticised. Nor have his critics been of one party only, Blackwood and the Saturday Review, Mr. Wilfrid Blunt, and the- "Nationali&t" Press and politicians in Egypt have alike found cause for complaint. "Nationalist" attacks, it is admitted, were inevitable whatever the British Agent might do.