CROMER, EVELYN BARING, 1ST EARL OF, VISCOUNT ...

born Feb. 26, 1841, Cromer Hall, Norfolk, Eng. died Jan. 29, 1917, London also called (188392) Sir Evelyn Baring British administrator and diplomat whose 24-year rule in Egypt as British agent and consul general (18831907) profoundly influenced Egypt's development as a modern state. Additional reading Lawrence Dundas, Marquess of Zetland, Lord Cromer (1932), is his official biography. Afaf Lutfi Sayyid-Marsot, Egypt and Cromer (1968), presents a modern Egyptian view of Cromer's work in Egypt. John Marlowe, Cromer in Egypt (1970), provides a modern British view of Cromer's life.