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Eldon Gorst

Sir John Eldon Gorst GCMG KCB (born John Lowndes Gorst; 25 June 1861 – 12 July 1911) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. He was British Consul-General in Egypt from 1907 to 1911.

Sir Eldon Gorst
GCMG KCB

Abbas II

Lord Cromer

The Viscount Kitchener

John Eldon Gorst

25 June 1861
New Zealand

12 July 1911 (1911-07-13) (aged 50)

Liberal Party

Trinity College, Cambridge

Lawyer, Diplomat

. The Empire and the century. London: John Murray. 1905. pp. 760–772.

"Lord Cromer in Egypt" 

Arthur Goldschmidt Jr., Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000.

Sir Archie Hunter. Power and Passion in Egypt: A Life of Sir Eldon Gorst London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. ( via GoogleBooks)

extracts available

Peter Mellini, Sir Eldon Gorst: The Overshadowed Proconsul Stanford, CA, Hoover Institution Press, 1977.