OBITUARY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7851, 13 July 1911, Page 7

OBITUARY

SIR- ELDON GORST. By Telegraph—Pro® Association —Copyright. (Received July 13, 0.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 12. Sir Eldon Gorst, who lately resigned the position of British representative in Egypt, and who had for a considerable time been lying ill at his father’s residence, Castle Combe, Wiltshire, died to-day.

The late Sir BWon Gorst was a Now Zealander hy birth, aud was a tew days over titty years of affe, having been bum on Juno 25th, 1861, while hie father. Sir John Gorst, was civil commissioner in the Waikato country. H© was educated at Eton and a-t Trinity College, , Cambridge, where lie .gained his AI.A. degree, iHe entered the British diplomatic service as an attache in 1885, and had a distinguished career, principally in Egypt,, to which country h© v-ent - in 1826. In 1892 he was appointed controller of direct taxes to the Egyptian 'Government. Two years later he hcaamc Undor-Secrotary for. Finance,, and in 189'1 ho became adviser to the Minister of the Interior From 1898 to 1904 he held the post of financial adviser to the Egyptian Government In the latter year he returned to England and became Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He held that office till 1907, when he succeeded Ix>rd Cromer as British Agent and Consm-General in Egypt. Sir Eldon Gorst was trade a C.B. in 1900, and K. 0.8. in 1902. Ho also received two Turkish decorations. the Grand Gordon of the Mcjidieh, in 1897, and the Grand Cordon of the Osmanieh, in 1903.