Sherif Sabri Pasha
Photograph taken in 1939
Born1895
Cairo

Sherif Sabri Pasha (Arabic: شريف صبري باشا, Turkish: Şerif Sabri Paşa), born in Cairo in 1895, was the brother of Nazli Sabri, Queen consort of Egypt. He was thus the maternal uncle of Nazli's son King Farouk I, and served on the three-member Regency Council that was formed in 1936-37 during the latter's minority. Sherif Pasha Sabri was 41 years old at the time, and had previously held the post of Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs.[1]

Biography

He was educated at Khedivial School of Law, in Cairo.

He was born in 1895, in Cairo. His other sister was Amina Sabri.

On 30 September 1946, Sherif Sabri Pasha was asked to become Prime Minister and head a new cabinet.[2] However, he never became premier and Ismail Sidqi Pasha remained Prime Minister until 9 December 1946.

Sherif Sabri Pasha headed the Royal Egyptian Geographic Society from May 1946 till March 1955.[3] Like his sisters Nazli and Amina, he was a grandson of Egypt's three-time prime minister Mohamed Sherif Pasha who was of Turkish origin,[4] as well as a great-grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte's colonel Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi.[5]

In 1922 he married Naila Khanum (1895-1933), only daughter of Adly Yeghen Pasha by his wife, Zainab Khanum. They had one son and two daughters.

Positions

  • Director-General of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1925-1929).
  • Under-Secretary of State (1929-1933).
  • Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (1933-1936).
  • Member of the Regency Council (1936-1937).
  • President of the Royal Egyptian Geographic Society (1946-1955).
  • President of the Supreme Council of the Arab Museum.
  • President of Egyptian Shipping Company.
  • President of Egyptian Construction and Engineering Company.
  • President of Nile Insurance Company.

See also

References

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  1. ↑ "Wafd Up". Time. 18 May 1936. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2008.
  2. ↑ "Sabry Asked to Head Egypt's New Cabinet". The New York Times: 8. 1 October 1946. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
  3. ↑ "The Presidents of the Society". Egyptian Geographic Society. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2008.
  4. ↑ Goldschmidt, Arthur (2000). Biographical dictionary of modern Egypt. Lynne Rienner Publishers. p. 191. ISBN 1-55587-229-8.
  5. ↑ "Genealogy of Sheri Sabri Pasha". Retrieved 27 July 2008.


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