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Hussein Kemal Pasha

Prince, Sultan of Egypt, under the British protectorate. Born about 1850, he was educated in Paris, being intimate with the family of Napoleon III. Leaving France in 1870, he held the positions of Inspector of Upper and Lower Egypt, Minister of Public Instruction, of Public Works, of the Interior, of War and Finance. His nephew, Abbas Hilmi, sided with Turkey in the European War and was deposed as Khedive by the British, who replaced HUTCHINSON him with Hussein Kemal, giving the latter the title of Sultan. He succeeded to the position in December, 1914.