| Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack | |
|---|---|
| File:Sir Oliver Lee Stack.jpg | |
| Governor-General of Sudan | |
In office 1917 – 19 November 1924 | |
| Preceded by | Reginald Wingate |
| Succeeded by | Geoffrey Francis Archer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1868 |
| Died | November 19, 1924 Cairo, Egypt |
Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack GBE, CMG (1868 – 19 November 1924) was a British army officer and Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.[1] On 19 November 1924, he was shot and assassinated while driving through Cairo.[2]
The British responded with anger, demanding of the Egyptian government a public apology, an inquiry, suppression of demonstrations and payment of a large fine. Further, they demanded withdrawal of all Egyptian officers and Egyptian army units from the Sudan, an increase to the scope of an irrigation scheme in Gezira and laws to protect foreign investors in Egypt.[3]
Sir Geoffrey Archer, formerly Governor of Uganda, took over as Governor-General of the Sudan in January 1925, the first time a civilian had held this office.[4]
References[]
- ↑ Daly, M.W. (September 2004). "‘Stack, Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice (1868–1924)’". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Digital object identifier:10.1093/ref:odnb/36230. http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101036230/. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
- ↑ Chamberlain, Austen; Robert C. Self (1995). The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Correspondence of Sir Austen Chamberlain with His Sisters Hilda and Ida, 1916-1937. Cambridge University Press. p. 300. ISBN 0-521-55157-9.
- ↑ "EGYPT: Shots and Repercussions". Time Magazine. 1 December 1924. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,728107-2,00.html. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
- ↑ Ibrahim, Hassan Ahmed (2004). Sayyid ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mahdī: a study of neo-Mahdīsm in the Sudan, 1899-1956. BRILL. p. 92. ISBN 90-04-13854-4.
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