Boutros Ghali
Boutros Ghali | |
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Muhammad Said Pasha | |
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Born | Kiman-al-'Arus, Beni Suef, Ottoman Empire | 12 May 1846
Died | 21 February 1910 Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt | (aged 63)
Boutros Ghali (12 May 1846 – 21 February 1910;
Early life
Boutros Ghali was born on 12 May 1846
Career
After graduation, Ghali became a teacher at the patriarchal school.
Ghali's first ministerial portfolio was the minister of finance in 1893.[4] Then he was made foreign minister in 1894.[4]
In 1901 he was decorated as the 650th Grand-Cross of the Royal Military Order of Our Lady of the Concepcion of Vila Viçosa of Portugal. The same year Ghali joined the freemason lodge of Egypt.[5]
He was appointed prime minister on 8 November 1908, replacing
Death
Ghali was accused of favouring the British in the Denshawai incident. On 20 February 1910, Ghali was shot by Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani, a twenty-three-year-old pharmacology graduate,[7] who had just returned from Britain.[8] Ghali was leaving the ministry of foreign affairs when Wardani fired five shots, three of which lodged in the premier's body.[9] Ghali died a day later, on 21 February.[9]
The assassin, who confessed to the killing of Ghali, had been educated in Lausanne, Paris, and London and was a member of Mustafa Kamil Pasha's Watani Party.[7] His father was a governor and his uncle was a Pasha.[7] Wardani was executed on 28 June 1910.[9]
The assassination of Ghali was the first of a series of assassinations that continued until 1915.[7] It was also the first public assassination of a senior statesman in Egypt in more than a century.[7]
Family
Ghali had "many sons",[10] the most notable being:
- Yusuf Butros Ghali
- Father of
- grandfather of internet entrepreneur Teymour Boutros-Ghali[13]
- grandfather of Youssef Boutros Ghali, Minister of Finance from 2004 to 2011[14]
- Wasif Butrus Pasha Ghali or Wasif Butrus Ghali Pasha (1878–1958), legislator and diplomat,[10] foreign minister.
- Najib Boutros Ghali, agriculture minister in 1921.[10]
- Mirrit Boutros-Ghali, writer, businessman, and lawyer[15]
Boutros Ghali's brother Amin Ghali (1865–1933) was a public prosecutor; Amin's son Ibrahim Amin Ghali was a diplomat who worked to rehabilitate his uncle's reputation.[10]
Honours
Egyptian national honours
Ribbon bar | Honour |
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Grand Cordon of the Order of Muhammad Ali | |
Grand Cordon of the Order of Ismail |
Foreign honors
Ribbon bar | Country | Honour |
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Ethiopian Empire | Grand Cordon of the Order of Solomon | |
Ottoman Empire | Grand Cordon of the Order of Osmanieh | |
Kingdom of Greece | Grand Commander of the Order of the Redeemer | |
Kingdom of Italy | Grand Officier of the Order of the Crown of Italy | |
United Kingdom | Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George | |
United Kingdom | Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order |
See also
References
Sources
- Goldschmidt, Arthur (1993). "The Butrus Ghali Family". Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. 30: 183–188. JSTOR 40000236.
Citations
- ^ "مجلة روز اليوسف - العائلة البطرسية : سيرة عائلة قبطية غيرت تاريخ مصر". Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d "B. Ghali". The Coptic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ JSTOR 4282624.
- ^ ISBN 978-1555872298.
- JSTOR 195148.
- ^ a b "Egypt Prime Ministers". World Statesmen. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ JSTOR 217848.
- ^ The Modern Middle East and North Africa by Aroian and Mitchell
- ^ a b c "Egyptian assassin hanged". The Day. Cairo. 28 June 1910. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ a b c d Goldschmidt 1993, p. 187
- ^ Schmeman, Serge (20 July 2000). "A Separate Peace". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ Goldschmidt 1993, pp. 183, 188
- ^ "Correction". The New York Times. 19 September 1999. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
- ^ Quinn, Ben (9 January 2012). "Anger over appearance of ex-Egyptian finance minister at LSE lecture". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
- ^ Goldschmidt 1993, p. 188