| Title |
Egypt: Papers |
| Reference |
GLLD 14 |
| Covering Dates |
1919–1929 |
| Extent and Medium |
5 boxes [24 files] |
|
| Content and context |
Cabinet papers on the Middle East, diary of Lloyd's tour of Sudan and subject files on Egypt. |
| Index Terms |
| Egypt |
| Foreign Policy |
| Sudan |
| Churchill/GLLD 14 contains: |
|
1
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Letters of appointment. Two letters: letter granting Lloyd full powers to act for the British Government in negotiating and settling financial questions under discussion between British and Egyptian governments [06 Mar 1929], signed by Sir Austen Chamberlain [Foreign Secretary]; letter granting Lloyd full powers in treating with the King of Egypt [Fuad I] in discussions concerning Treaty of Friendship and Alliance between Great Britain and Egypt, signed by King George V [22 Nov 1927].
1 file [2 items]. |
1927–1929 |
|
2
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Cabinet Papers: Middle East. Lloyd's copies of Cabinet Papers.
1 file. |
May 1919-Jan 1920 |
|
3
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Cabinet Papers: Middle East. Lloyd's copies of Cabinet Papers.
1 file. |
Feb 1920-May 1920 |
|
4
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Cabinet Papers: Middle East, Egypt, and Sudan. Lloyd's copies of Cabinet Papers.
1 file. |
June 1920 |
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5
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Cabinet Papers: Middle East, Egypt, and Sudan. Lloyd's copies of Cabinet Papers.
1 file. |
July 1920 |
|
6
|
Cabinet Papers: Egypt and Sudan. Lloyd's copies of Cabinet Papers. Including financial memoranda of the Sudan Government; letter and agreement between the Sudan Government and the Sudan Plantations Syndicate, Limited, and 'Report on the general situation in Egypt for the period from June 16th to June 30th, 1925, inclusive'.
1 file. |
1924–1925 |
|
7
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Cabinet Papers: Lloyd on the Capitulations. Despatch number 302, from Lloyd to Sir Austen Chamberlain, expressing his views on the policy to be followed by the British Government in response to recent agitation in Egypt in favour of the modification of the Capitulations [rights given to foreigners in Egypt].
1 file [1 item]. |
23 May 1927 |
|
8
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Cabinet Papers: Report on Egypt for the years 1925 and 1926. 91-page report, prepared by Lloyd for the Foreign Office.
1 file. |
09 July 1928 |
|
9
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Cabinet Papers: Report on Egypt for the years 1927 and 1928. 146-page report, prepared by Lloyd for the Foreign Office.
1 file. |
26 Aug 1929 |
|
10
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Tour of Sudan: Programme for Lloyd's tour as High Commissioner. 2 copies. One copy also includes a poem, apparently to Lloyd after the visit, and list of gifts [both loose inside the front cover].
1 file. |
Jan 1929-Feb 1929 |
|
11
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Tour of Sudan: Diary of Lloyd's tour. Includes itinerary of tour and narrative description of elements of it. Also includes lists of wild birds and animals seen. 2 copies.
2 files. |
Jan 1929-Mar 1929 |
|
12
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Tour of Sudan: Miscellaneous notes and draft diary. Containing: list of officials met in Syria; typed itinerary and account of of tour to Siwa [Siwah, Egpyt] [07-13 June 1929], and handwritten draft notes of diary.
1 file. |
June 1929 |
|
13
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Subject files: The Political Relation between Egypt and Great Britain, by A Alexander. 151-page typescript document.
1 file. |
c 1923 |
|
14
|
Subject files: Historical Notes on the Red Sea Province. Covering the years 1883 - 1896. With accounts of events and fighting in Egypt and Sudan.
1 file. |
|
|
15
|
Subject files: 'Backwardness of Government Education'. Two one-page documents with cover sheets.
1 file. |
1891–1895 |
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16
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Subject files: 'Anglo-Egyptian Negotiations and Conversations, 1919-1924'. Arranged into the following sections: British troops; Sudan; judicial control and protection of foreigners; financial control; Suez Canal; cable and wireless rights; non-British officials.
1 file. |
c 1924 |
|
17
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Subject files: appointments to staff. Correspondence concerning appointments to Lloyd's staff, including letters of recommendation and letters from persons seeking employment. Includes photographs of applicants K. Chavooshian and Wilfred Drysdale.
1 file. |
1925 |
|
18
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Subject files: Egyptian Army. Communications between Lloyd and British officials, both government and military, regarding the Egyptian Army. With correspondents including the Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin]; the Foreign Secretary [Sir Austen Chamberlain]; Sir William Tyrrell, and the Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Station [Admiral Sir Roger Keyes].
1 file. |
1927 |
|
19
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Subject files: [Abdel Khaliq] Sarwat Pasha [Prime Minister of Egypt]. Correspondence and documents relating to discussions with Sarwat Pasha, in particular over issues concerning the army and over the employment of British officials in Egypt. Including correspondence between Lloyd and Sir Austen Chamberlain [Foreign Secretary] and memoranda by Chamberlain and another Foreign Office official [initials 'W.S.'] reporting meetings with Sarwat Pasha. Also includes aide-memoire by Lloyd for Chamberlain on the issues involved.
1 file. |
1927 |
|
20
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Subject files: New British Schools, Alexandria. Correspondence and papers concerning scheme to establish new British schools in Alexandria [Egypt]. Including letter of endorsement by Lloyd to help persuade businesses to donate money, and text of speech by him on the subject given to the British community at a meeting at Victoria College. Includes correspondence with C. E. Heathcote-Smith [British Consul-General] and correspondence with and about individual donors or potential donors. Includes lists of donors and receipts for donations.
1 file. |
1928 |
|
21
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Subject files: Egypt, general. Correspondence and papers, including copies of correspondence between third parties, sent to Lloyd. On subjects including: the training of naval cadets; aviation; the award of honours in the Sudan; employment of staff; requests for assistance or compensation, including from former British government employees and military personnel; and the fate of natural history specimens collected by British officers to be presented to the British Museum. Includes draft paper entitled 'The German Firm of Junkers, and aviation in Egypt'. From correspondents including: Captain Maxwell B. Sayer; Sir Geoffrey Archer; Thomas Kalo Mugerditchian, former British government employee now resident in the USA; William Percy, enclosing correspondence with Stanley Flower; 1st Viscount Allenby [Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby]; and 'C. H. A.', enclosing correspondence with Wesey Sterry and Sterry's proposals for administrative changes in the Sudan, with copy of letter from Sterry to Sir Geoffrey Archer.
1 file. |
1924–1925 |
|
22
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Subject files: Egypt, general. Correspondence and papers, on subjects including staffing, Cairo Residency financial accounts, and proposal to station a unit of the RAF [Royal Air Force] permanently in the Sudan. With correspondents including W. E. Peyton and Sir Geoffrey Archer [Governor-General of the Sudan]. Also includes copy of letter from Princess Alexandra de Avierino Wiszniewska to the Foreign Office, with letter to Lloyd warning him against her [suspected of involvement in attempted murder of Zaghloul Pasha].
1 file. |
1925 |
|
23
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Subject files: Memoranda, correspondence, lists. Includes copies of memoranda addressed to persons other than Lloyd. On subjects including: the situation in Egypt in 1924 [memorandum sent from Headquarters, British Troops in Egypt]; the 'Dead Sea Concession'; meeting with [Jacopo] Gasparini, Governor General of Eritrea, about the Baraka waters [1928]; visit of Yves Lamontagne to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce; customs policy of Egyptian government; the situation in Sudan in 1929; government cooperation with missionaries in Southern Sudan, and distribution of work amongst British officials. Also includes: 'A Reminiscence of the Residency, Cairo, in 1928'; 'List of Leading British Residents in Cairo'; annotated draft of speech to Anglo-Egyptian officials, and document entitled 'Evidences showing that the British Occupation in Egypt was at the request, and with the consent of, the Egyptians, both before and after the Occupation', with inscription by Lloyd that these evidences show recognition by Turkey of Britain's 'privileged position' in Egypt.
1 file. |
1924–1929 |
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